Sleigh bells ring … are you listening … in the lane … several undead bloodsucking women, a gnarly mummy, an evil trucker and more are waiting to welcome you to Svengoolie‘s December picks! In 2025’s final month, MeTV‘s Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie brings you thrills so chilling … you may want to crank up the thermostat.

All films will air on Saturday night at 8pm EST.

In this sequel to 1940’s The Mummy’s Hand, Lon Chaney Jr. plays Kharis, an evil mummy taking out the full families of anyone who disturbed his lover’s tomb in the previous pic. The film was Chaney’s first since signing a new contract with Universal; in The Mummy’s Hand, the titular undead fellow was played by Captain Marvel star Tom Tyler.

December 13: Duel (1971)

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Steven Spielberg kicked off his directing career with this tale of road rage in the high desert. Gunsmoke‘s Dennis Weaver stars as a workaday businessman whose decision to pass a tanker truck on a lonely road has consequences he could never have dreamed. Horror and sci-fi icon Richard Matheson based his script on a true story of being dangerously tailgated on a two-lane highway; originally a made-for-TV movie, it was such a hit that it was released in theaters, as well.

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And you thought your family was hard to deal with! A naive French schoolteacher finds herself drawn into bloodsucking chaos when she accidentally frees a vampiric baron, in this sequel to Hammer’s 1958 Christopher Lee Dracula. Speaking of Lee — the horror icon skipped out on this film because he feared being typecast. But Peter Cushing‘s Van Helsing reprises his role from the first film, and Lee eventually thought better, showing up in 1966’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness.

Sharktopus (2010)

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s Eric Roberts chasing a shark with tentacles all over Mexico! This SyFy camp-fest about a genetically engineered monster who escapes containment and runs amok all over a tourist area was one of the final films to bear uber-producer Roger Corman‘s name (he passed away in

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This low-budget film about blue-skinned androids who might be taking over the human race was most famous at the time of its release for drawing on the talents of makeup artist Jack Pierce, who is most famous for having designed Universal’s original Frankenstein. Later noted to be Andy Warhol‘s favorite movie, its previously far-out sci-fi premise — that it might not be a great idea to create technology that can imitate humans exactly — is now a little too relevant.