Halloween Programming from AMC, Sundance Channel and Travel Channel
AMC
AMC FEAR FEST
Kicks Off with the Season 4 Premiere of The Walking Dead: Sunday, October 13 at 9 PM ET/PT
AMC FEARFEST, the biggest annual horror and thriller movie marathon of the Halloween season, starts Sunday, October 13. The 19-day virtual film festival, kicking off with the season four premiere of “The Walking Dead,” celebrates the best in contemporary and classic horror genre films, including the 40th anniversary of The Exorcist and the 30thanniversary of Cujo. AMC FEARFEST features 19 days of continuous scare-themed programming, including classic film franchises such as Halloween, The Omen, Alien, Friday the 13th and Tremors, and 10 AMC premieres including A Nightmare on Elm Street andThe Amityville Horror. In addition to the on-air festivities, AMC FEARFEST will feature daily online interactive movie trivia games inviting horror movie fans to take quizzes, earn badges and challenge friends via Facebook. AMC FEARFEST begins Sunday, October 13th at 9 PM and concludes Thursday, October 31st.
THE WALKING DEAD
SEASON 4 PREMIERE: Sunday, October 13 at 9 PM ET/PT
SEASON 4 PREMIERE: Sunday, October 13 at 9 PM ET/PT
The fourth season of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” the most watched drama in basic cable history, returns this October with sixteen episodes. Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, “The Walking Dead” tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse, and follow a group of survivors who travel in search of a safe and secure home. The series stars Andrew Lincoln, David Morrissey, Steven Yeun, Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Chandler Riggs, Lauren Cohan, Scott Wilson, Melissa McBride, Chad Coleman, Sonequa Martin-Green and Emily Kinney.
SUNDANCE CHANNEL
THE RETURNED (Two-Hour Special Halloween Episode)PREMIERE: Thursday, October 31 at 9 PM ET/PT
Based on the feature film "Les Revenants" by Robin Campillo, “The Returned,” an eight-part French series distributed by Zodiak Rights created by Fabrice Gobert was a smash hit for France’s Canal+ and the UK’s Channel 4. The Independent proclaimed the drama “one of the greatest, creepiest, most compelling shows brought to…TV screens in 2013.” In an idyllic French mountain town, a seemingly random collection of people find themselves in a state of confusion as they attempt to return to their homes. What they don’t know yet is that they have been dead for several years, and no one is expecting them back. As they struggle to reintegrate with their families and past lovers, buried secrets emerge and new mysteries develop as they grapple with a miraculous and sinister new reality. But it seems they are not the only ones to have returned from the dead. Their arrival coincides with a series of gruesome murders which bear a chilling resemblance to the work of a serial killer from the past. The series is produced by Caroline Benjo, Jimmy Desmarais and Carole Scotta from Haut et Court.
TRAVEL CHANNEL
GHOST ADVENTURES (100th Episode)“The Exorcist House”
PREMIERE: Friday, October 4, at 9:00 PM ET/PT
In the milestone 100th episode, part of the current season, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin travel to St. Louis for an unprecedented investigation - the Exorcist House, site of the actual petrifying events depicted in the popular novel and Hollywood film, The Exorcist. Timed to the 40th anniversary of the film's release, "Ghost Adventures" is the very first paranormal television show to ever investigate the home, which is the only building left in St. Louis in its original form that is tied to the Exorcist case. The team seeks answers to the mysteries behind what happened here in the past, and in the home's recent history. To further aid in the investigation, they interview the great niece of Father William Bowdern, who performed the exorcism in 1949.
HALLOWEEN CRAZIEST (One-Hour Special)PREMIERE: Sunday, October 13 at 10:00 PM ET/PT
This one-hour special features the most terrifying, extreme and absolute best of what Halloween has to offer. From America's scariest, no-holds-barred haunted house in San Diego and a hair-raising coffin race in Colorado, to the ultimate custom bodying painting studio in Las Vegas and British Columbia's pumpkin drop celebration, each destination is more frightening and fun than the last! Produced by High Noon Entertainment with Travel Channel's Sean McKnight as Executive Producer.
"MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM" HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
"Bride of Frankenstein, Walking Dead, Ghosts in the Mirror"
PREMIERE: Thursday, October 17 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT
At the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida, history explorer and museum enthusiast Don Wildman investigates a cracked funerary plaque that once adorned a beautiful woman’s grave. It tells of one man’s grotesque attempt to bring his love back from the dead. Then, at the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, Wildman explores a crudely-made whip that harkens back to a blood-chilling voodoo practice that defies belief. And prominently displayed in the lavish Mansion at the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana is an antique mirror, which some say is a portal to the world of the dead.
“TOY HUNTER” HALLOWEEN SPECIAL (One-Hour Special)“Toy Haunter”
PREMIERE: Sunday, October 20 at 8:00 PM ET/PT
In this one-hour Halloween special, Toy Hunter and collectibles expert Jordan Hembrough is on The Hunt for some of the scariest toys to sell at the Midwest's HorrorHound convention. Meanwhile, Hembrough's toy buddy Mark needs help with a special client - Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, who's looking for extremely vintage, scary toys. In between scoring Ghostbusters memorabilia in Connecticut and a 1972 Parker Brothers Ouija board in Salem, MA, Hembrough scours for the perfect and rarest monster memorabilia for Hammett. When he locates just the right item, he not only makes Hammett a very happy customer, but gains a new rock star client for himself. Produced by Sharp Entertainment with Travel Channel's Daniel A. Schwartz as Executive Producer.
GHOST ADVENTURES HALLOWEEN EPISODE (Two-Hour Special)
PREMIERE: Thursday, October 31 at 9:00 PM ET/PT
In a special two-hour Halloween episode, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin take viewers to Transylvania, where the team explores the truth behind the legend of Vlad The Impaler, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Bagans and the group explore the most terrifying haunted castles and locations in this intriguing and historical Romanian province, including Targoviste, where Vlad ruled from and ordered the impaling of thousands of people; Hunedoara, where Vlad was imprisoned for seven years; and the mysterious Hoia-Baciu Forest - locally referred to as the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."
THE DEAD FILESSEASON 5 PREMIERE: Friday, November 1 at 10:00 PM ET/PT
In each hour-long episode of the paranormal investigative series, retired NYPD Homicide Detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan explore all-new frightening cases of unexplained paranormal activity. The duo investigates each case separately, coming together only at the end to reveal their results. Season five opens with an investigation of Iowa's Villisca Axe Murder House - site of a gruesome century-old mass murder whose case still remains unsolved. Other highlights include a Chicago home where a woman has returned to confront childhood nightmares; violent forces terrorizing a family home in St. Clair Shores, MI, that leaves the team questioning the safety of the house; a special "Dead Files Revisited" episode in which a violent exorcism was recorded in a Flint, MI home after the duo uncovered malicious entities; and more. Produced by Painless Entertainment, Inc. with Travel Channel's David E. Gerber as Executive Producer.
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