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James · #1

Halloween's less than a week away now, and the horror films are starting to pick up on television. The focus will, of course, be on Friday, when it comes to the big celebration. But there will be films here and there that will be played as well.

So I just thought it would be a neat idea for us to outline some horror films or marathons throughout the week that might be worth (or not worth) our time.

Here's something I just saw on TV. Cinemax is going to do a marathon, starting at 7:30 in the morning. Now, the films are a mix of good and bad, but what interests me is one film. The ads say that 8pm, they're going to show a movie so horrifying, they can't even reveal its name. Using the built-in guide for my digital cable, the time slot is just labeled "Movie." Now, I doubt it's really worth all the hype, but I am interested to see what the movie will be.

Independant Film Channel also has a block of time, from 8pm to 5am, all listed as "Movie." What's with all the secrets? I hope one of the films in Cemetery Man, because that film is awesome.

So yeah, any marathons, or horror films coming on this week that you feel are worth taking a look into? Any films you WANT to see for Halloween? For the most part, a lot of the films I've seen showing up on TV have been played for the past 3 months, so there's nothing to get all excited about.

oedipus_wrecked · #2

Poltergeist was on the other night. That's a movie I haven't seen in a while.

On Halloween, Sci-Fi Channel will be showing the Twilight Zone, which is cool, but then a marathon of Wishmaster and its sequels followed by the sequels to Phantasm. Ugh.

Mockery · #3

Cool, I was actually gonna make a post requesting this. So when you're posting about a horror movie marathon going on this week, please post the channel, the day, and what time the marathon will be starting.

oedipus_wrecked · #4

The Sci-Fi Halloween Schedule:

8:00 AM THE TWILIGHT ZONE PRINTER'S DEVIL
9:00 AM MOVIE MARATHON HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (PART 1) '97
11:00 AM MOVIE MARATHON HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (PART 2) '97
1:00 PM MOVIE MARATHON WISHMASTER
3:00 PM MOVIE MARATHON WISHMASTER 2: EVIL NEVER DIES
5:00 PM MOVIE MARATHON WISHMASTER 3: BEYOND THE GATES OF HELL
7:00 PM MOVIE MARATHON WISHMASTER 4: THE PROPHECY FULFILLED
9:00 PM CRISS ANGEL: SUPERNATURAL
10:00 PM SCARE TACTICS SCARE TAC-ULAR!
11:00 PM CRISS ANGEL: SUPERNATURAL
12:00 AM SCARE TACTICS SCARE TAC-ULAR!
1:00 AM MOVIE MARATHON PHANTASM II
3:00 AM MOVIE MARATHON PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION
5:00 AM THE TWILIGHT ZONE JESS-BELLE

Also, on the 28th at 10 PM, the Discovery Channel will have a show called Mostly True Halloween. It's about urban legends, real and not. That sounds intriguing.

James · #5

Halloween
Cinemax

7:30am - Tales From the Darkside
9:05am - The Ring
11:00am - Earth vs The Spider
12:30pm - The Lost Boys
2:30pm - Ghosts of Mars
4:15pm - Eight Legged Freaks
6:00pm - The Relic
8:00pm - The movie they won't name
10:00pm - The Ring
12:00am - Hotel Erotica (They're taking a break from Horror)
12:30am - All For Lust (Still on that break)
2:00am - Queen of the Damned
3:45am - Jack Frost 2
5:30am - April Fool's Day

Not the best lineup, eh?

American Movie Classics is also having a marathon of sorts, showing "horror" films starting tonight, and running through Halloween. Everything from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, to An American Werewolf in London, to Halloween II, to Army of Darkness, Alien Resurrection, and a bunch of other stuff. Too much to list a schedule for.

HickMan · #6

Thank God for AMC

Jixby Phillips · #7

After Alien Ressurection (1997), AMC is showing the "classic" PINATA: SURVIVAL ISLAND, which was only made last year, and went direct-to-video.

It stars Jammie Pressley, who agreed to be in it because she read the script and thought it was meant to be a comedy, and was very disturbed to find out that it was meant to be a serious horror film.

THEN, IF YOU'RE STILL AWAKE, CHECK OUT AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, WHICH MORE SO FITS THE DEFINITION OF "CLASSIC" OR "HORROR" THAN THE OTHER MOVIES IN THE MARATHON.

Then they're showing the Pinata movie again.

Fuck AMC blows.

Cap'n Crunch · #8

I just bought a whole shitload of movies and I am having my own marathon.

Book of the Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre : Special Edition
Dawn of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Dead Alive
Jack Frost
Freight Night
Wishmaster 1 and 2
Friday the 13th

I doubt I will see them all in one day, but I am going to start the night before. All of those Marathons seem to suck.

Zomboid · #9

American werewolf in london kicks so much ass

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Geggy · #10

Jack Frost sucked so much that I loved it.

Mockery · #11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jixby Phillips

After Alien Ressurection (1997), AMC is showing the "classic" PINATA: SURVIVAL ISLAND, which was only made last year, and went direct-to-video.

It stars Jammie Pressley, who agreed to be in it because she read the script and thought it was meant to be a comedy, and was very disturbed to find out that it was meant to be a serious horror film.

Haha I've never even heard of that. What day is that on?

FS · #12

I have little to contribute to this, other than that I caught Pirana 2 on TV last night. At first I thought it was a movie about flyfish killing people, and I couldn't stop laughing. Then I thought that someone probably meant for those hovering killer fish to be scary, and I laughed harder.

Mockery · #13

What's even funnier is that it's James Cameron's directorial debut.

James · #14

Indeed, there's very little "horror" going on this year. As I said, 80% of the horror/scary movies they're playing, I've been watching on TV for the past three or fours months to begin with. But then others that they've been doing the same thing with, which might actually be worth playing for Halloween, aren't being shown.

For example, they're playing Jason X, but none of the other Friday films, though in the past months, they've shown 1-4.

Ninjavenom · #15

Pinata was so gay. It wasn't funny-gay, it was like "god, stop watching already" kind of gay.

Drev · #16

If IFC doen't show dead alive or TCM, I will cry.

Cap'n Crunch · #17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geggy

Jack Frost sucked so much that I loved it.

I am not sure if it was a comedy or a horror film.

Why the fuck was Shannon Elizibeth in this?

CaptainBubba · #18

To get raped in a bathtub.

Mockery · #19

Jack Frost is my favorite Horror/Comedy of all-time. I still need to do a big write-up on it sometime.

Anyway, AMC is showing THEY LIVE on Wednesday night, and you all must watch it. If you haven't seen it, it's an awesome movie and has what is the best street fight ever.

Zbu Manowar · #20

Fuck that, get $10 and buy the new release of They Live which is uncut and in widescreen.

Meanwhile, AMC is playing Halloweens 2-5 as well as scifi/horror at all times this week, while Turner Classic Movies is playing the black and white stuff--and we're talking Lon Chaney here--all this week at 8pm as well. But if you wish, on Halloween they'll be breaking out the Hammer Classic 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' in its widescreen debut a little past midnight on Halloween. ENJOY!

Cap'n Crunch · #21

Don't they fight for like 20 minutes in that one?

James · #22

They fought for real during that scene, only faking punches to the face.

CastroMotorOil · #23

The fight scene is AWESOME, but the movie gets kinda wacky in the last half hour, but it is definately a gem.

Zebra 3 · #24

- It's that time of year again, Spike TV's (formely knowed as the newTNN network, but now owned by filmmaker Spike Lee) will be having its all-day Halloween Jason marathon. Here's the schedule (Eastern Time):

Friday the 13th PartVIII: Jason Takes Manhatan - 12:30pm & 9:00pm
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning - 3:00pm
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives - 5:00pm
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood - 7:00pm