AMC has announced this year’s lineup for their highly anticipated Halloween horror movie marathon FearFest, an annual celebration of modern and classic horror films.
But this year FearFest is even more intense, because it kicks off the countdown to the October 31st premiere of The Walking Dead.
It will be two bloody weeks of insanity featuring the likes of 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead, as well as interviews with both established and upcoming horror filmmakers and actors with “Killer Conversations” and “New Blood” segments airing throughout each night’s prime time film. With more than 60 films (including five new zombie movies online), AMC Fearfest kicks off on-air on Mon., Oct. 18 then runs through Sun., Oct. 31, culminating with the 90-minute world premiere of “The Walking Dead” on Sun., Oct. 31 at 10/9c.
FearFest will also include House of Wax, Dead Silence, Jeepers Creepers 2, From Dusk Till Dawn and Evil Dead 2, as well as:
- Friday the 13th parts 1-9 airing together for the first time, in celebration of the franchise’s 30th Anniversary
- Halloween I-V airing primetime, Oct. 25-27
- Stephen King classics Cujo, Pet Sematary, The Shining, Sleepwalkers and Graveyard Shift
- Night of the Living Dead (1968), Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), The Wolf Man (1941), and many others
KILLER CONVERSATIONS
Throughout AMC Fearfest, the network will feature conversations between celebrated horror filmmakers including Frank Darabont and award-winning makeup artist Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Inglorious Bastards); Wes Craven (A Nightmare of Elm Street, Scream 3) and Mick Garris (Batteries Not Included, Hocus Pocus) and more. Each pair will talk candidly about their experience with the genre and what it takes to make a great horror film.
NEW BLOOD
AMC Fearfest will profile new and upcoming filmmakers and actors who are creating waves in and transforming the horror genre. Included are Shawnee Smith (actress, Saw), James Gunn (director/writer, Slither), and Alexandre Aja (director, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3-D), among others. “New Blood” segments airs throughout the primetime AMC Fearfest movies.
FANBOY IMAGE SHORTS
Airing during AMC Fearfest, the network will feature a series of ten comedic shorts, which showcase two fanboys parodying horror film classics from Friday the 13th and Pet Sematary to The Shining and Halloween.
B-MOVIE CLASSICS ON AMCTV.COM
In anticipation of the Halloween premiere of The Walking Dead, AMCtv.com features five new zombie classics including King of the Zombies (1941 Oscar nominee for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture), Revolt of the Zombies (1936), Teenage Zombies (1959), White Zombie (1932) and The Last Man on Earth (1964). Additional horror B-movies being shown online include Asylum (starring Peter Cushing and Charlotte Rampling), Corridors of Blood (starring Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee), What a Carve Up (starring Donald Pleasance) and The Undead (directed by Roger Corman).
Clearly FearFest will be taking priority over virgin sacrifices to Satan and pagan orgies this year.
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