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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 4/15/24
Fear Fest will begin Tuesday, October 1st 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
- 9:45pm – Ghostbusters (1984)
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- 12:15am – Ghostbusters II
- 3:00pm – Ghostbusters (1984)
- 5:30pm – Ghostbusters II
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- 7:00pm – The Mummy
- 9:45pm – The Mummy Returns
Friday, April 19, 2024
- 12:15pm – The Mummy
- 3:00pm – The Mummy Returns
Sunday, April 28, 2024
- 7:45am – Ghostbusters (1984)
- 10:15am – Ghostbusters II
- 3:15pm – The Mummy
- 6:00pm – The Mummy Returns
- 11:08pm – The Mummy
Monday, April 29, 2024
- 12:00pm – Ghostbusters II
- 2:30pm – The Mummy Returns
What channel is AMC Fear Fest?
- DirecTV – Channel 254
- DISH Network – Channel 131
- AT&T U-Verse – Channel 795
Available on most cable networks. Check with your local provider for channel.
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Why is there no Jeepers Creepers. I have waited all year for this. This is egregious. Get rid of Tremors.
Someone mentioned Gore…. how about Pieces, Day of the Dead (original), …… strange mind went straight to Faces of Death and Shocking Asia after that last one.
Actually I would love to see the old movies AMC used to play like “The Amazing Colossal Man”, “War of the Colossal Beast”, etc. Those were the best years of Monster fest.
Why not play ones like:Trick or Treat, Night of the Demons, Dark night of the Scarecrow, Halloween Hell, Halloween Night, House of 1000 corpses. There are so many fun horror movies that are not the same old tired ones that AMC puts on every single year. even Ginger Snaps would be an ok change. The Friday the 13 movies should be played on Friday the 13th.
Yasss! Great list
Halloweenlll Season of the Witches was the worst, John Carpenters Halloween l & lol were the absolute best of the series hands down.
I agree, we need to start Oct. 1 and have for sure Halloween 1 and 2 on, the rest are so so. Also, Friday the 13th series should be included. These classics should be able to be viewed more than once or twice during Fearfest, but as it looks now, are only on a couple of times!!! These are classics and many people would like to be able to see them, however, if only on a couple of times, chances are that they will not be viewed by those that love these movies!!!
Great movies but the same old, same old. There’s a lot more out there. Wouldn’t mind seeing some B&W classics and more from the 80’s and 90’s. From Beyond, Return of the Living Dead, In the Mouth of Madness, etc. And the Alien movies are not horror. They need to be removed from the list all together. Fear Fest used to be much better.
I loves horrofest in the past but as an avid horror fan big miss this year. Re-animator which played in September, true classic. Not even the original Child’s play, really? Tuning into Shudder on demand this year. There’s the Hellraiser, Steven King and George Romero Classics, many more. Even Canninbal Holocoust! the true horror fans know what I am talking about. Might turn on AMC when I have to do house cleaning. Ps. I love the walking dead but it’s a drama with horror effects, not really a horror.
aight listen, im upset af cuz fear fest didnt start on the 1st! cmon what happened to yall? u good? yes love the halloween series keep that up, but yall could play some other good movies like, sinister ! thats a real good one bruh
The 2016 fearfest lineup is looking good so far! Just bring out the alien trilogy, hammer horrer films, classic universal films and your good to go! Maybe throw in some toho studios monster classics too, since the program was called monsterfest.
Well that was supposed to be the twentieth annual fearfest , however they did nothing to impress me. They could have done something special for the twenty year anniversary, but once again they show those damn tremors movies. They could have shown the short films Living Nightmares like they did a few years ago. They didnt even have a special guest host. It’s obvious amc doesn’t care about the fans.
Why do y’all only show the first 5 Halloween films? I’d be nice, for at least once, to have a true marathon for this particular franchise.
Maybe Because all the others are garbage.
Wheres karloff, Lugosi and
Chaney. Show true classic horror movies.
Not a lot of gore and good stories. come on AMC
No kidding need the old classics !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please change it up.