`MONSTERFEST' ON AMC RESURRECTS CREEPIEST FLICKS.Byline: - Carol Bidwell If you just can't wait until Halloween to be scared to death, grab the remote and tune in to a week of 25 monster and horror movies on American Movie Classics starting Monday and continuing through Nov. 1. AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. also has produced two special TV shows - one exploring why we love movie monsters and scary movies, the other visiting ``haunted'' Hollywood sites - that will air during ``Monsterfest: House of Horrors'' week. The weeklong screamfest will be hosted by Tim Burton, director/producer/writer of films that included ``13 Ghosts'' and ``Haunted Palace,'' two of the movies that will be shown during the week. At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jack Palance, one of many ex-screen Draculas, will host ``Monstermania,'' an hourlong production that traces the history of our love affair with monsters, from the Gothic pages of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker and their silent screen incarnations to the classic films of the 1930s and '40s and more modern horror flicks like ``The Addams Family Addams Family weird family, presented in grotesque domesticity. [TV: Terrace, I, 29] See : Eccentricity .'' At 9 p.m. Oct. 30, with a repeat at midnight, AMC will premiere ``Hollywood Ghost Stories,'' a one-hour mystery tour of spooky Tinseltown spots. Sites visited include the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing Captain James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise will host. Viewers also can see one horror film horror film n → película de terror or miedo horror film horror n → film m d'épouvante horror film horror n each night Monday through Oct. 29. Leaving no crypt unopened, AMC is even creating something special for cyber horror fans. The network's Web site - www.amctv.com - will feature live images from a Webcam (WEB CAMera) A video camera that is used to send periodic images or continuous frames to a Web site for display. Webcam software typically captures the images as JPEG or MPEG files and uploads them to the Web server. positioned in front of the haunted homes from which Burton is hosting the film fest. Beginning Monday, cybersurfers will be invited to cruise the Web site to see if they can see any ... uh, unscheduled unscheduled Adjective not planned or intended Adj. 1. unscheduled - not scheduled or not on a regular schedule; "an unscheduled meeting"; "the plane made an unscheduled stop at Gander for refueling" ... activities in these real-life haunted palaces. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Watch out for ``The Reptile'' during American Movie Classics' ``Monsterfest,'' starting Monday. |
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