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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 Halloween Movies on TV News
FearFest returns all month long this October on AMC!
AMC shared a short teaser for this year’s “FearFest” celebration, including clips from the Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises.
Other films featured in the video include Creepshow, Poltergeist, The Thing, and The Shining.
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, A Nightmare on Elm Street, 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 10/02/24
Fear Fest will begin Tuesday, October 1st 2024
AMC FearFest Schedule
Schedule subject to change, please check back for new updates.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- 12:00am – The Crazies
- 9:00am – The Apparition
- 11:00am – The Crazies
- 1:30pm – The Last House on the Left
- 4:00pm – Trick ‘r Treat
- 6:00pm – Thirteen Ghosts
- 8:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
- 10:00pm – House of Wax (2005)
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- 12:30am – The First Purge
- 9:00am – Hellraiser (1987)
- 11:15am – House on Haunted Hill (1999)
- 1:15pm – The Haunting (1999)
- 3:45pm – The Last Exorcism
- 5:45pm – Poltergeist
- 8:15pm – The Exorcist (1973)
- 11:00pm – Christine (1983)
Thursday, October 3, 2024
JOHN CARPENTER MARATHON
- 1:00am – Carrie (1976)
- 5:27am – Violent Midnight
- 9:00am – John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars
- 11:00am – John Carpenter’s Vampires
- 1:30pm – John Carpenter’s They Live
- 3:30pm – John Carpenter’s The Thing
- 6:00pm – John Carpenter’s Christine
- 8:00pm – Halloween (1978)
- 10:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
Friday, October 4, 2024
AMC Celebrates A Nightmare of Freddy Marathon
- 12:00am – Horror’s Greatest (2024)
- 1:20am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 5:45am – Voodoo Woman
- 9:00am – Corridors of Blood (1958)
- 9:15am – The Creation of the Humanoids
- 9:30am – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
- 11:30am – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
- 1:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- 3:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 6:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 8:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 10:15pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Friday the 13th Marathon
- 3:56am – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
6:00am – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) - 8:00am – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 10:00am – Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
- 12:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
- 2:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- 4:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 6:00pm – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
- 8:00pm – Friday the 13th (1980)
- 10:00pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Final Destination Marathon
- 12:00am – Friday the 13th Part III
- 2:00am – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
- 4:00am – How to Make a Monster (1958)
- 4:15am – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 6:15am – Jason X
- 8:30am – Freddy vs. Jason
- 10:45am – I Know What You Did Last Summer
- 1:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 3:00pm – Final Destination 2
- 5:00pm – Final Destination 3
- 7:00pm – Final Destination 5
- 11:56pm – Final Destination (2000)
Monday, October 7, 2024
Halloween Marathon Begins
- 9:00am – Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961)
- 9:15am – Jet Attack (1958)
- 9:30am – Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
- 11:30am – Motel Hell
- 2:00pm – Pumpkinhead
- 4:00pm – The Fly (1986)
- 6:00pm – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 8:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 10:00pm – Halloween (1978)
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Halloween Marathon Continued
- 12:00am – Halloween II (1981)
- 2:00am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 4:00am – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
- 9:00am – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 11:00am – Halloween II (1981)
- 1:00pm – Halloween (1978)
- 3:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 5:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 7:00pm – Halloween (2007)
- 9:30pm – Halloween II (2009)
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- 12:00am – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 2:00am – House on Haunted Hill
- 4:00am – Piranha 3DD
- 9:00am – Invasion of the Neptune Men
- 9:15am – How to Make a Monster
- 9:30am – Halloween (2007)
- 12:00pm – Child’s Play (2019)
- 2:00pm – Candyman
- 4:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 6:00pm – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
- 8:00pm – Friday the 13th (1980)
- 10:40pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- 1:20am – Hellraiser (1987)
- 3:35am – House of the Dead
- 9:00am – The Rite
- 10:45am – The Haunting
- 1:15pm – Cloverfield
- 3:15pm – House of Wax
- 5:45pm – I Know What You Did Last Summer
- 8:00pm – Final Destination 5
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 3
Friday, October 11, 2024
- 12:00am – Horror’s Greatest (New Episode)
- 1:10am – Child’s Play (2019)
- 3:10am – Ghost Rider
- 5:40am – Tanks of El Alamein
- 9:00am – Voodoo Woman
- 9:15am – Hellraiser: Inferno
- 11:45am – Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
- 1:45pm – Hellraiser (1987)
- 4:00pm – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
- 6:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 8:00pm – Ghost Ship
- 10:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Stephen King Marathon
- 12:00am – The Last House on the Left
- 3:58am – Suicide Battalion (1958)
- 4:13am – The Ring
- 6:45am – Cujo
- 8:45am – Graveyard Shift
- 10:45am – Children of the Corn (1984)
- 1:00pm – Carrie (1976)
- 3:15pm – Misery
- 5:45pm – Thinner
- 7:45pm – Carrie (2013)
- 10:00pm – Silver Bullet
Sunday October 13, 2024
Fear the 80s Marathon
- 12:00am – Christine
- 2:00am – Carrie (2013)
- 5:43am – Thinner
- 7:45am – The Thing
- 10:15am – Child’s Play
- 12:15pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
- 2:15pm – Poltergeist
- 4:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 6:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 11:30pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Monday, October 14, 2024
- 4:00am – Body Snatchers
- 11:15am – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 1:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 3:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 5:45pm – Freddy vs. Jason
- 8:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- 10:00pm – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- 12:30am – Tales From the Darkside: The Movie
- 2:30am – The Prodigy
- 5:45am – Violent Midnight (1963)
- 9:00am – Ghoulies
- 11:00am – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- 1:00pm – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
- 3:30pm – Candyman (1992)
- 5:30pm – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- 7:30pm – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- 9:45pm – Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
- 11:45pm – Jason X
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- 2:00am – Hellboy
- 4:00am – Piranha 3DD
- 5:45am – Voodoo Woman (1957)
- 9:00am – War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
- 9:15am – Corridors of Blood (1958)
- 9:30am – Tanks of El Alamein (1958)
- 9:45am – Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives
- 11:45am – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 1:45pm – Friday the 13th A New Beginning
- 3:45pm – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- 6:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
- 8:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 10:00pm – Child’s Play (2019)
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- 12:00am – The First Purge
- 2:00am – The Last Exorcism
- 4:00am – The Covenant
- 9:00am – Pumpkinhead
- 10:30am – Creepshow
- 1:30pm – Children of the Corn (1984)
- 3:45pm – Silver Bullet
- 5:45pm – Christine (1983)
- 7:45pm – Carrie (2013)
- 10:00pm – Thinner
Friday, October 18, 2024
House of Horrors Marathon
- 12:00am – Horror’s Greatest (2024)
- 1:25am – The Mist
- 4:05am – Piranha 4D
- 9:00am – The Haunting in Connecticut
- 11:00am – The Shining
- 2:30pm – Misery
- 5:00pm – The Last House on the Left
- 7:30pm – House of Wax (2005)
- 10:00pm – Thirteen Ghosts
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Final Destination Marathon
- 12:00am – Poltergeist
- 4:00pm – Final Destination 2
- 6:00pm – Final Destination 5
- 8:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 3
Sunday, October 20, 2024
SLASHER SUNDAY
- 6:45am – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- 8:45am – Candyman
- 10:45am – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 12:45pm – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- 3:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street
- 5:00pm – Halloween
- 7:00pm – Friday the 13th
Monday, October 21, 2024
- 5:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 8:00pm – Halloween (2007)
- 10:30pm – Halloween II (2009)
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- 5:30pm – Misery
- 8:00pm – Poltergeist
- 10:30pm – The Exorcist
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- 6:00pm – Trick ‘r Treat
- 8:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 2
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- 12:00am – House of Wax (2005)
- 7:30pm – Ghost Ship
- 9:30pm – AMC Premiere Event: The Meg
Friday, October 25, 2024
Friday the 13th Marathon
- 9:00am – Friday the 13thPart VI: Jason Lives
- 11:00am – Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- 1:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 3:00pm – Freddy vs. Jason
- 5:15pm – Friday the 13th Part III
- 7:15pm – Friday the 13th
- 9:15pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
- 11:15pm – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Creature Feature Marathon
- 1:15am – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 3:15am – Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
- 5:15am – Friday the 13th
- 7:15am – The Mist
- 10:00am – Gremlins
- 12:30pm – Christine
- 2:30pm – Silver Bullet
- 4:30pm – The Fly (1986)
- 6:30pm – The Thing
- 9:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
- 11:00pm – Child’s Play
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Halloween Marathon
- 1:00am – Sleepy Hollow
- 3:30am – Eight Legged Freaks
- 9:00am – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 11:00am – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 1:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
- 3:00pm – Halloween
- 5:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 7:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
Monday, October 28, 2024
Final Destination Marathon
- 4:00pm – Final Destination 2
- 6:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 8:00pm – Final Destination 3
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 5
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Nightmare Marathon
- 9:00am – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
- 11:00am – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
- 1:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- 3:15pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 5:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 7:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 9:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- 11:45pm – Freddy vs. Jason
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Halloween Marathon
- 2:00am – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
- 9:00am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 11:00am – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 1:00pm – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 3:00pm – Halloween
- 5:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
- 7:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 9:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 11:00pm – Halloween
Thursday, October 31, 2024
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Halloween Marathon Continues
- 1:30am – Halloween II (2009)
- 4:00am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 6:00am – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 8:00am – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
- 10:00am – Halloween: Resurrection
- 12:00pm – Halloween (2007)
- 2:30pm – Halloween II (2009)
- 5:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 7:00pm – Halloween
- 9:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
- 11:00pm – Halloween
Friday, November 1, 2024
- 1:00am – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 3:00am – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of Monster/ fearfest for Amc. I hope they do it big this year and take something from each year that made Fearfest what it is today. I would love to see the classic universal monsters, along Hammer movies. Then have a slasher week with Michael, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, and Ghostface. The Omen trilogy, also The Conjuring, Final destination movies and Stephen King movies.
Halloween 1978 and Halloween 1981 and Halloween 1988 and Halloween 1989 and scream 1 and scream 2 and scream 3
Halloween 1978 and Halloween 1981 and Halloween 1988 and Halloween 1989 Halloween 2007 and Halloween 2009 scream 1 and scream 2 and scream 3
I so agree. Last year the schedule was disappointing and they only showed The Excorsist once and they didn’t even show The Conjuring or The Conjuring 2 but I guess they didn’t have the rights show them or the other horror classics like they did for 2021. I was really expecting to see those films but they didn’t .
Once again fearfest this year is a huge disappointment.
Playing the same movies over and over. The movies aren’t even classics there garbage from the worst era of horror 2000-2009. What happened to all the classics?
Fearfest is definitely not the way it used to be in the 1990’s or early 2000’s. How many times are they going to play the halloween franchise movies over and over or the 2009 friday the 13th over and over or the 2009 crazies over and over? I could go on asking how many times your going to play the same movies but this post would be ridiculously long. why are they playing the walking dead every night after midnight taking up all the late night hours trying to pass it off as fearfest when it’s a original amc show that they have to play anyway? They are playing some classics every once in awhile but at times that are ridiculous. Who wants to see Damien omen 2 (the best of the omens) at 5:45 in the morning?
Come On!!!!!!! By the way let’s play Damien one time the whole month but play the final destinations movies 101 times. Fearfest has turned boring. They did go back to playing fearfest the whole month this year and last year but we all know that’s because of covid19 and people being home more. They just had slasher weekend unfortunately it was the same movies they played all month long. Where are all the 80’s classic slasher movies? I am sure there are people who are loving fearfest but the true blue old school horror fans are very disappointed. Hopefully in the future AMC will accommodate everybody and not just the Newbies.
Happy Halloween to all……
Just looked at the line up for Halloween Weekend.
Is this a joke?!?! The entire weekend filled with all Halloween franchise Movies?! This is ridiculous. How many times is AMC going to play these Movies?! They already played them to death all month long. They could have filled the Weekend with some good Horror Classics and a couple Halloween movies. Instead we get Halloween all Weekend! WTF! If that’s not bad enough they are playing repeats of FTWD on Halloween Night starting at 8pm WTF!!!! That is a bunch of BullS##t!!! Another thing that is ridiculous is that They did not play Cujo all Month long not even during the Stephen King Marathon, but there playing it Nov 1st?! WTF!!!!! Why is there a Jaws Marathon on Nov 1st at 8pm when they didn’t even play any Jaws Movies the entire Fearfest Month?!?! Fearfest is really getting more and more ridiculous year after year.
Cujo was on not long ago.
Not during FearFest….
It was, a few weeks ago, it was in place of something else.
You know AMC marathons Halloween movies every year on Halloween day, right? But you’re right, this lineup is a joke. They not only excluded part 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers, the ordering of the movies is laughable. They really showed Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 DIRECTLY BEFORE SHOWING Rob Zombie’s Halloween last night. HA!
Very, very disappointed at the films being shown again this year. Same ones every year that we have all seen too many times. There are so many great horror films that are never shown on any channels. But I do at least give AMC one positive, they are at least showing horror movies. Most of their competitors are not even showing horror films at this time of the year. Come on television programmers, lets show your subscribers you are at least trying to get someone to watch!
They cannot get the rights to show certain movies.
I I so agree they show the same ones repeated if you want to show them fine show them once and maybe repeat them towards the end of it where Halloween comes but show some new scary movies you know like either show The conjuring show something like they used to show wrong turn now you don’t even see them anymore all you see is Halloween and Friday the 13th and Chucky like I want to see some old ones some scary ones like hills have eyes too even when they like The walking Dead yeah that’s awesome but show from season 1 all the way to the end especially when this is coming to be the last season they don’t even do that anymore like this channel has gotten so awful
Amy, they can only show movies to which they have permission to show. If they only showed those they can once then Fear Fest would be short lived. That is why the repeat over and over, I agree it would be great to be able to show everything, but they cannot.
Halloween night the last Halloween movie is at 5:30 then it’s walking dead for the rest of halloween night? Can’t even show halloween movies for all of October 31st? What is wrong with u amc?
I agree, but it is because it is TWD. It is their bread and butter.
I know right? Walking dead on halloween night last Halloween movie before dinner time. What a joke halloween night is on amc.
I love this entire month of movies ! I also think that scream and all of the walking dead is played way too much ! I think you could add some other older movies that are better than seeing scream 100X – however i will still watch them all because I love these types of movies.
Halloween III should be shown Halloween night at 7pm so that it ends at 9pm right when “the big giveaway” starts. At least one primetime viewing would be nice. This is a cult classic that horror fans watch every year.
I Want Star October 20 2021 Wes Caven’s New Nightmare (1994) for 2hrs 30 min a.m.9:00-11:30-a.m. Star October 26 2021 Wes Caven’s New Nightmare (1994) for 2hrs 30 min a.m.7:00-9:30-a.m. Star October 27 2021 Wes Caven’s New Nightmare (1994) for 2hrs 30 min a.m.11:30-2:00-p.m. Star October 28 2021 Wes Caven’s New Nightmare (1994) for 2hrs 30 min p.m.12:00-2:30-p.m. 10-19-2021
Why are you not playing Halloween 6? Those of us like me who want to watch the series in order can not do so because you’re not playing 6. Why?
Guessing they don’t have the rights to air it
I agree. Can’t leave out Halloween 6. That’s a slap in the face to Paul Rudd!!