TCM Underground


TCM Underground was an American weekly late-night cult film showcase airing on Turner Classic Movies. Developed by former TCM marketing director Eric Weber, it was originally hosted by industrial rock/heavy metal musician and independent filmmaker Rob Zombie. The films were programmed by Eric Weber until 2007, when TCM programmer Millie De Chirico took over the role. The block ended on February 24, 2023, following layoffs in December that included De Chirico.
The series was launched in an attempt to attract more young viewers to Turner's older-skewing audience. TCM began airing a new program titled Friday Night Spotlight and, in effect, TCM Underground was moved from its Friday time slot to Saturdays beginning April 6, 2013 ; however, on March 10, 2018, the series returned to its original Friday night time slot. Promotional bumper material and opening credit sequences were created by Raygun. The series was periodically preempted by special month-long or seasonal scheduling themes, such as February's "31 Days of Oscar" film series and the month-long "Summer Under the Stars". When it did not conflict with a special theme, TCM Underground aired in its usual slot early on Saturday morning.
The cult films featured in TCM Underground belonged to a number of genres, including but not limited to blaxploitation films, horror, slasher, and giallo films, and counterculture films. On October 13, 2006, Plan 9 from Outer Space was the block's first film broadcast, paired with Bride of the Monster; it was also the block's final film when it closed on February 24, 2023, paired with various drug education short films.
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List of feature films in the TCM Underground block

13 Frightened Girls 13 Ghosts The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Abar, the First Black Superman ABBA: The Movie Absolute Beginners Across 110th Street After Hours Alex in Wonderland Alice, Sweet Alice Alien from L.A. All About Alice All Night Long ...All the Marbles Alligator Alligator II: The Mutation Alone in the Dark Alphabet City An American Hippie in Israel American Ninja American Pop Anatomy of a Psycho Another Son of Sam The Apple Assault on Precinct 13 Attack of the Crab Monsters The Awful Dr. Orloff Babo 73 The Baby Baby Doll The Bad Seed Barbarella Bayou The Beast Must Die The Beast with Five Fingers Beat Street Belladonna of Sadness Below the BeltBen Berserk! The Beyond Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Big Bad Mama The Big Cube The Big Doll House Billy the Kid vs. Dracula Black Belt Jones Black Caesar Black Christmas Black Eye Black Gunn Black Mama White Mama Black Moon Black Samson The Black Sleep Blacula Blast of Silence Blood and Black Lace Blood Feast Blood Freak The Blood on Satan's Claw Bloodmatch Bloody Birthday Blue Sunshine Blue Steel Blue Velvet Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw Bone The Boogens Border Radio Born in Flames The Born Losers Boss Nigger Brainstorm Breakin' Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo Brewster McCloud Bride of the Monster Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia The Brood Brothers A Bucket of Blood Burn, Witch, Burn Burnt Offerings Bus Riley's Back in Town C.C. and Company Caged Caged Heat The Caller The Candy Snatchers Carnival Magic The Cat o' Nine Tails Cat's Eye Chafed Elbows Chained for Life Cherry 2000 Child Bride Children of the Damned The Chocolate War Chopping Mall Christmas Evil The Church Ciao! Manhattan The City of the Dead Class Class of 1984 Clay Pigeon Cleopatra Jones Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold Coffy College Confidential Coma The Conqueror Worm Cookie Cops and Robbers Corruption Corvette Summer Count Yorga, Vampire Countryman Cover Me Babe Crawlspace Crazed Fruit The Crazies The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder Crumb Curse of the Demon Cyborg Darktown Strutters Daughter of Horror Daughters of Satan Day of the Dead Dead Sleep The Dead Zone Deadly Friend Death by Invitation Death Force Death Line Death Race 2000 Death Watch Deathdream Deathsport The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years The Decline of Western Civilization III Deep End Dementia 13 Derek The Devil Rides Out The Devil Within Her The Devil-Doll Die! Die! My Darling! Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry Disco Godfather Doctor Blood's Coffin Dolemite The Doll Squad Dolls Don't Open the Door! Door-to-Door Maniac Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde Dracula's Dog Dreamscape Drive, He Said Dudes Dusty and Sweets McGee Earth Girls Are Easy Eating Raoul Electra Glide in Blue Emma MaeEnter the Dragon Enter the Ninja Equinox Escape from New York Escort Girl Evil Dead II The Exiles Exorcist II: The Heretic Experiment in Terror Eye of the Devil Eyes of a Stranger Eyes of Laura Mars Fame Fantastic Planet The Fast and the Furious Fast-Walking Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! The Fastest Guitar Alive The Fearless Vampire Killers The Fearmakers Final Exam Five on the Black Hand Side The Flesh Merchant Fleshpot on 42nd Street The Fog Forced Vengeance The Foreigner The Fox Foxes Foxy Brown Frankenstein 1970 Frankenstein Created Woman Freaked Freaks Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film Friday Foster Fright From Beyond From the Life of the Marionettes The Full Treatment Funeral Parade of Roses Galaxy of Terror Games The Gamma People Ganja and Hess The Garbage Pail Kids Movie Gator Ghoulies The Giant Spider Invasion Girls on the Loose The Glory Stompers God Told Me To Grand Theft Auto Greaser's Palace The Green Slime Grizzly Guru, the Mad Monk Gymkata Hackers The Hand Hard Ticket to Hawaii Hardcore The Harder They Come Hatchet for the Honeymoon The Haunting House Häxan He Knows You're Alone Head Heathers Heavenly Bodies Heavy Metal Hell Night Hell Up in Harlem Hell's Angels '69 Hercules Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush The Hidden Hiding Out High-Ballin' Hit Man The Hitman Homicidal The Honeymoon Killers Hooper Horror Express Hot Rods to Hell House by the Cemetery">House (1977 film)">House by the Cemetery The House of Seven Corpses House of Usher House of Women The Howling The Hunger The Hypnotic Eye I Bury the Living I Love You, Alice B. Toklas I Saw What You Did I Was a Teenage Zombie Ice Castles The Ice Pirates I'm Gonna Git You Sucka In Cold Blood The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies Incubus The Iron Rose Island of Lost Souls It Lives Again It's Alive J.C. Jennifer on My Mind Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter Jigoku Jubilee The Kids Are Alright Killer Klowns from Outer Space Kitten with a Whip Killer Party Kiss of the Tarantula Krull Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains Lady Snowblood Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance Lady Street Fighter Land of Doom The Last Dragon The Last Man on Earth The Lawnmower Man The Legend of Billie Jean The Legend of Hell House The Legend of Lylah Clare Lemora Let's Kill Uncle Let's Scare Jessica to Death Lifeforce Little Darlings The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Logan's Run Lolita Look in Any Window Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator The Loveless Lunatics: A Love Story Lust in the Dust Mac and Me Macabre Machine Gun McCain The Mack Macon County Line Made in U.S.A.  Madhouse Magic Making Mr. Right Man Is Not a Bird Maniac The Manitou Marihuana Mark of the Vampire Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore Massacre Mafia Style Maximum Overdrive Melinda Miami Connection Mixed Blood Model Shop Modern Girls Monster a Go-Go Motel Hell Mudhoney The Mummy The Mummy's Shroud The Mutations The Muthers Myra Breckinridge Mystery Train Near Dark The New Gladiators New Year's Evil New York Ninja Night of the Creeps Night of the Lepus Night of the Living Dead The Night of the Strangler Night School Night Train to Terror The Night Visitor Night Warning Night Watch Nightmare Honeymoon A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge Ninja III: The Domination The Ninth Configuration Nothing Lasts Forever Of Unknown Origin The Oracle Orca Out of Bounds Outlaw Blues Over the Edge The Pace That Kills The Pack The Panic in Needle Park Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Penitentiary Performance Phantom of the Rue Morgue Phase IV Pipe Dreams Piranha Plan 9 from Outer Space Poltergeist Polyester Poor Pretty Eddie Portrait of Jason Possession Prehistoric Women Pretty Poison The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover Private Parts Private Property Psycho Psych-Out Psychomania The Psychopath Punk Vacation Puppet Master Putney Swope The Pyramid )The Queen Queen of Blood Queen of Outer Space Rabid Race with the Devil Rad Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins Rappin' Rat Pfink a Boo Boo RattlersRazorback The Rebel Rousers Red Sonja Reefer Madness Remember My Name Repo Man Repulsion Return of the Street Fighter Return to Macon County Revenge of the Ninja Rich Kids Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky River's Edge Roadgames The Road to Ruin RoboCop RoboCop 2 The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy Rock 'n' Roll High School Roller Boogie S.F.W. The Sadist Salt of the Earth Santa Claus Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Satanis Scanners Scary Movie Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills Schizoid Scissors Scream Blacula Scream Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street Screaming Mimi Secret Ceremony Sex Madness Shack Out on 101 Shaft in Africa Shanks She Freak Shock Shock Corridor Shoot First, Die Later The Shooting The Shout Sid and Nancy The Sid Saga Silent Night, Deadly Night The Silent Partner Sister Street Fighter Sisters Skidoo The Slams The Slumber Party Massacre Smithereens Snapshot Solomon King Something Weird Some Call It Loving Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things Sonny Boy The Sorcerers Spider Baby Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story The Stepfather Strait-Jacket Strange Behavior The Strangler The Street Fighter Stunt Rock Stunts Suburbia Sugar Hill The Super Cops Super Fly Superstition Suspiria Swamp Thing The Swarm Sweet Jesus, Preacherman The Swinger The Sword of Doom Symbiopsychotaxiplasm The Take Taking Tiger Mountain Tarzan, the Ape Man The Tempest Tentacles Ten Violent Women Terminal Island The Terminal Man The Terror The Terror of Tiny Town TerrorVision The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Thank God It's Friday Them! They Came from Beyond Space They Live The Thing That Couldn't Die Thrashin' Three the Hard Way Times Square The Tingler Tintorera Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan Tower of Evil The Town That Dreaded Sundown Trick Baby The Trip Trog Truck Turner Twice Upon a Time The Twilight People Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Two Thousand Maniacs! Two-Lane Blacktop The Twonky UHF The Undertaker and His Pals Unholy Rollers The Unholy Three The Unknown Valley of the Dolls The Vampire Bat Vanishing Point The Velvet Vampire Venus in Furs Vibes Vigilante The Visitor Viva Knievel! The Wages of Fear Watermelon Man Welcome to the Dollhouse West of Zanzibar What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? What's the Matter with Helen? When a Stranger Calls White Lightning White Line Fever Who's That Girl Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? Wicked Stepmother Wicked, Wicked The Wicker Man Wigstock: The Movie Wild at Heart Wild Guitar Wild in the Streets Wild Seed Wild, Wild Planet Willard Willie Dynamite Witchboard The Witches Witchfinder General Without You I'm Nothing Women's Prison The World's Greatest Sinner Xanadu The Yakuza Zaat Zabriskie Point Zardoz Zig Zag The Zodiac Killer Zombies of Mora Tau

List of short films (under 45 minutes) in the TCM Underground block