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AMC FearFest
What is FearFest? In 1997, the AMC network launched Monsterfest, a popular week-long marathon of horror movies and thrillers that aired in late October. On September 26, 2008, AMC announced the launch of a new horror-themed movie marathon for its October schedule called “Fearfest” which replaced Monsterfest. Fear Fest typically runs from mid-October every year until Halloween (often the day after too) and in recent years has run throughout the entire month of October. In 2023 AMC ran a “Kickoff to FearFest” that began on September 25th.
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2024 AMC Fear Fest Schedule
AMC’s annual horror marathon FearFest is bringing the frights in the lead up to Halloween with 31 days of genre programming featuring 80 films and 400 hours of programming. Includes the iconic film franchises Halloween, Friday the 13th, Leprechaun, Alien, and Stephen King classics.
PLEASE NOTE: Date/times are subject to change (all times shown in ET)
Airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times/dates can vary by TV provider.
Schedule last updated on 5/15/24
Fear Fest will begin Tuesday, October 1st 2024
Saturday, May 25, 2024
- 6:00pm – Beetlejuice
What channel is AMC Fear Fest?
- DirecTV – Channel 254
- DISH Network – Channel 131
- AT&T U-Verse – Channel 795
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AMC FearFest Schedule Archives
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Honestly, is it just me or does it look like their playing the same movies day after day? And some aren’t even good. Play the altime ultimate classic horror movies! Nightmare on Elem Street (1984), The Blob (1988), The Thing, They Live, Village of the Damned, The Fly (1986), Alien, American Werewolf in London, Candyman, Christine, Pet Semetery (1 and 2), The Fog, etc.
Have a Stephen King Day where you play all the movies that were based on his awesome books!
Love the lineup. No Walking Dead, please. I don’t like that. If “Friday the 13th the Series” would be available to show in the daytime that would be awesome!
Please when you are doing a movie series do it in the order that the movies had premiered.
I agree. There is nothing worse than watching something that is not shown in order. I have never been able to wrap my head around why these networks do that.
I Know. It gives me a complete headache when they do this because what if someone who has never seen the series decides to watch it, but the movies are not in order and they will have no clue of what is happening because something could have been mention in reference to a previous movie.
Agreed
Any idea when the entire schedule will be announced? I’ve been stalking the page daily waiting… impatiently. I love what I’ve seen so far.
Also, Paramount network the last couple of years has done “Killer Classics” for the month of October.
I know you track mostly cable networks with officially named Halloween events, but check out the the Movies! OTA network’s October schedule… you might consider adding a list of their films. Looks rather solid with a mix of classic and modern…
for example:
Friday, October 2, 2020
6:00 AM – Son of Kong
7:40 AM – Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)
10:15 AM – The Haunting (1961)
12:40 PM – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
3:05 PM – Two on a Guillatine (1965)
10:40PM – Brainscan (1994)
12:45AM – Boogeyman 2 (2008)
2:40 AM – Boogeyman 3 (2009)
https://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/?date=10/02/2020#calendar
I need the full schedule
Damn 2020 Fearfest looks great so far going all out for the intire month of October I’ve seen to the 9th so far and it looks like they are finally listening this year could be the best fearfest in many years.
Please play Tales from the Crypt series and the other creep shows, yall play the same episodes every year….
I would love to see some Tales from the Crypt episodes on AMC fear fest!
The full schedule for AMC Fearfest is not up yet, but from what I see thus far, there are some good scary movies being shown this year like John Carpenter’s “Halloween”. Now, hopefully, AMC schedules “Halloween” on Halloween at least multiple times because that’s the ultimate Halloween horror movie viewing experience, hands down! It looks like they will show most of the Halloween sequels again, but I don’t see the best ones like the original sequel “Halloween 2” (1981) starring Donald Pleasance——and, NO, I am not talking about the Rob Zombie remake rubbish!! Also, I don’t see “Halloween 3” Season of the Witch. Personally, I have grown to really appreciate “Halloween 3” Season of the Witch; I know, I know….Michael Myers is not in it, but it has a great Halloween motif/theme, creepy John Carpenter soundtrack to it, and Tom Atkins does a terrific job in what is actually a very innovative Halloween movie. If the movie had simply been named “Season of the Witch” or “Samhain”, “Halloween 3” would have been much better received when initially released.
Basically, I recommend even more of the Halloween movies, focusing on parts 1, 2, 3 (no Myers but underrated), and 4. I’m okay with the others, but they really go down after part 4 in my opinion. Also, I would like to see “Salem’s Lot” (1979), “The Omen”, “Damien: Omen II”, “The Exorcist”, “The Shining”, “Amityville Horror”, “Amityville II: The Possession”, “Amityville 3”, “Sinister”, “The Blair Witch Project”, “The Conjuring”, “The Last Exorcism”, “The Houses that October Built”, “Hell House, LLC”, the original “When a Stranger Calls”, “He Knows You’re Alone”, “Pet Semetery”, “The Funhouse”, “The Silver Bullet”, the original “Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Friday the 13th” again parts 1-6, “The Pit & the Pendulum” (Vincent Price), “Dark Night of the Scarecrow”, and “Paranormal Activity”. Some of these movies are based on a Halloween theme and are perfect for the season. Others are simply classic horror movies that are perfect for Fearfest. And, finally, I have included some lesser know Halloween-based horror movies which may not be great movies in and of themselves, but are certainly good for the season. AMC Fearfest would do well to show all of these movies, and simply cut out “The Walking Dead”, which simply doesn’t fit the Halloween theme and takes away from the season’s theme.
Keep in mind, only a partial list of AMC Fearfest has been released, so we’ll get to see more later, and hopefully the great horror movies will be shown at better times going forward. Crossing my fingers…
So it’s starting up on Oct 1st this year??
Hope they hurry up and post the whole schedule soon…..Ive got vacation days to schedule off just so I can binge on all their movies!
lol same!! There’s something about watching these scary movies in October on cable tv that makes it so much better than just streaming it whenever without commercial interruptions- I live for October programming!
We need to make the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead happen, i don’t care how but they gotta make it happen and Day of the dead and all of the other George a Romero classic movies. They should make 1 day for fear fest for a tribute to George A Romero. When i think of Halloween his classic movies come to mind. The classic zombie movies defy fear fest, hopefully they wont shy away with that just because they have the walking dead still on AMC……Tell me what do you think………..
Dawn 78 won’t be on. The rights to it prevent this. As to day of the dead, I hope so,it has been on other Fear Fests. I hope Diary of the Dead is on too. Your idea of 1 day dedication to GAR is exactly what AMC needs to do.
I love The Month of October I love Halloween I love Fear Fest
I absolutely hated Halloween 3 ,I felt jipped. Your are absolutely right it should have had it’s own separate title.
Surprised they don’t include TCM schedules. Love Lugosi for Halloween.