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NFT: AMC Fear Fest… kinda meh this year

Ben in Tampa : 10/17/2014 12:48 pm
AMC Fear Fest starts today. I always love Halloween season, its goofy and we always get a ton of horror movies on TV. Fear Fest has been the "destination" for horror movies for like 20 years. This year's lineup is really underwhelming.

There is a Stephen King marathon today, but much of the schedule is multiple airings of the Halloween & Friday the 13th marathons. The schedule is supplemented by Cujo, a friggin Tremors marathon and some blah more recent flicks.

I used to love watching the really old Universal Monster movies and the Hammer Horror flicks during Fear Fest back when I was in college in the early 00s. Seems like they haven't played those in close to 10 years.

Anyone know is those Universal/Hammer movies are on TV anymore? Is there a place to stream them? If you're interested in the Fear Fest line up, the link is below.
AMC Fear Fest Schedule - ( New Window )
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DG_89 : 10/17/2014 12:52 pm : link
That's why for the past few years I download a bunch of flicks I wanna see and spend Halloween night watching them and eating frozen peanut butter cups. This year is obscure 80s slasher movies
Nightmare on Elm Street = GOAT.  
Dave in Hoboken : 10/17/2014 12:56 pm : link
Wish they'd air that more often.
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Gap92 : 10/17/2014 1:05 pm : link
In comment 11925050 DG_89 said:
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That's why for the past few years I download a bunch of flicks I wanna see and spend Halloween night watching them and eating frozen peanut butter cups. This year is obscure 80s slasher movies


Check out "MadMan" (1981) if you haven't. My favorite 80s slasher.
I usually host my own marathon every year  
djl8699 : 10/17/2014 1:11 pm : link
a bunch of friends nominate movies to watch and vote on them. Really awesome time. Last year we watched Blair Witch, Texas Chainsaw, Evil Dead, Event Horizon and The Descent.

Way better option for me than going the TV programming route.
Turner Classic Movies  
PEEJ : 10/17/2014 1:12 pm : link
Classic horror movies every Wednesday in October. Including the Universal and Hammer films you want. DVR for Halloween night
Anyone know what they play all of the Halloween Movies  
Chef : 10/17/2014 1:26 pm : link
except for part 2? some strange rights?
I love  
Gmen in 2012 : 10/17/2014 1:35 pm : link
That they still show halloweens 1-6 all day long on halloween, but yea I agree it has not been good recently. I could do without friday the 13th. They show friday the 13th a lot during the year . And I am a big fan of the films the same goes for nightmare on elm street
Chef  
Gmen in 2012 : 10/17/2014 1:36 pm : link
They are showing halloween 2 this year
Tremors has sequels?  
Chef : 10/17/2014 1:37 pm : link
3 sequels? They must be dreadful
RE: Anyone know what they play all of the Halloween Movies  
djl8699 : 10/17/2014 1:42 pm : link
In comment 11925105 Chef said:
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except for part 2? some strange rights?


2 or 3? Because I know 3 is the one that had nothing to do with Michael Myers and everybody hated it for that. So that may be why they don't show it.
I like  
Gmen in 2012 : 10/17/2014 1:43 pm : link
The second tremors
PEEJ  
Ben in Tampa : 10/17/2014 1:43 pm : link
Just checked the TCM schedule, looks like the week of Halloween they are essentially running a marathon. Hammer Horror marathon on 10/31. Nice!
RE: I like  
djl8699 : 10/17/2014 1:45 pm : link
In comment 11925127 Gmen in 2012 said:
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The second tremors


I agree with this. Campy but fun.
Huge fan of  
BIG FRED : 10/17/2014 1:52 pm : link
Madman .That movie needs a proper blu ray release as the dvd is worth big bucks .Its been out of print for years ..Just watched The Battery the other night .It was ok i expected a little more since it got good reviews
RE: RE: Anyone know what they play all of the Halloween Movies  
Chef : 10/17/2014 1:54 pm : link
In comment 11925126 djl8699 said:
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In comment 11925105 Chef said:


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except for part 2? some strange rights?



2 or 3? Because I know 3 is the one that had nothing to do with Michael Myers and everybody hated it for that. So that may be why they don't show it.


Part 2, part three is played all the time, and yes it was bad
No Rob Zombie movies?  
RobCarpenter : 10/17/2014 2:10 pm : link
That's unfortunate.
Part 3 rules  
BIG FRED : 10/17/2014 2:13 pm : link
Tom Atkins is the man ...I guess iam part of the cult following for it ..
RE: Nightmare on Elm Street = GOAT.  
Bramton1 : 10/17/2014 2:21 pm : link
In comment 11925060 Dave in Hoboken said:
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Wish they'd air that more often.


All the trailers for AMC Fear Fest have featured the Rooney Mara Elm Street movie. Hope that's not what you mean.
RE: Huge fan of  
Gap92 : 10/17/2014 2:24 pm : link
In comment 11925142 BIG FRED said:
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Madman .That movie needs a proper blu ray release as the dvd is worth big bucks .Its been out of print for years ..Just watched The Battery the other night .It was ok i expected a little more since it got good reviews


There's a bunch of cool little companies now that specialize in re-releasing horror/grindhouse stuff on blu-ray. Rumor is that one of them, Vinegar Syndrome, is releasing the Madman blu-ray next year.

Another company called Scream Factory is great too. I recently got Motel Hell and Witchboard on blu-ray.
I am a huge fan of the early Universal horror films.  
truebluelarry : 10/17/2014 2:37 pm : link
I haven't seen any airings, I rent them through Netflix (I don't see them on demand either.)

I've already watched Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, plus Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Dracula is up next. Bela Lugosi & Boris Karloff are the best, I watch them every year.
Puppet Master not on anyones list?  
GMAN4LIFE : 10/17/2014 2:43 pm : link
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I liked 3  
YAJ2112 : 10/17/2014 2:46 pm : link
8 more days till Halloween... Silver Shamrock
Why  
SoZKillA : 10/17/2014 2:52 pm : link
Wait so late to start playing the Halloween movies ?
The original  
Gene : 10/17/2014 3:00 pm : link
version "The Haunting" (1963) is always at the top of my list.
truebluelarry  
Ben in Tampa : 10/17/2014 3:06 pm : link
It drives me nuts they aren't available on Netflix Streaming. Whats even worse is that they used to be on there a few years ago, but were pulled down. Probably a licensing issue.

My tradition is to watch Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein every Halloween evening. I've been watching it since I was 10 years old.
This looks awesome  
BIG FRED : 10/17/2014 3:08 pm : link
Hopefully its good
The house that October built  
BIG FRED : 10/17/2014 3:10 pm : link
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Gap  
BIG FRED : 10/17/2014 3:14 pm : link
Yeah i have every scream factory and Synapse films blu ray ,i starting collecting them a few years ago .The Halloween box set is awesome and worth the money
RE: truebluelarry  
truebluelarry : 10/17/2014 3:32 pm : link
In comment 11925231 Ben in Tampa said:
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It drives me nuts they aren't available on Netflix Streaming. Whats even worse is that they used to be on there a few years ago, but were pulled down. Probably a licensing issue.

My tradition is to watch Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein every Halloween evening. I've been watching it since I was 10 years old.


Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein is always entertaining and never gets old!

Check out the link below - make that your next purchase through the BBI Store.
Universal Classic Monsters: Complete - ( New Window )
RE: Tremors has sequels?  
Vinny from Danbury : 10/17/2014 3:42 pm : link
In comment 11925120 Chef said:
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3 sequels? They must be dreadful


Haha... I like the Tremors flicks. They're campy and funny at times. I guess if you didn't know there were 4 Tremors movies, you also probably don't know there's 13 episodes of a TV series too. hehe... :)
always get a laugh out of  
mdc1 : 10/20/2014 10:28 am : link
"The Shocker".
Svengoolie  
butler : 10/20/2014 11:25 am : link
Every Saturday night at 10 pm on ME TV. Great horror host. He almost always plays an old Universal horror or sci fi film. He just played the original Wolf Man. This Saturday it's Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein.
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