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This Week’s FearFest Favs on AMC and AMC+

Join us for a full month of frights, delights, and all your favorite iconic horror franchises.

Creepy Catalog obsessively tracks the best horror movies available to stream and in October, these movies are part of FearFest. From frightful new films like Daddy’s Head to monster-sized events like the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, experience the joy of horror with FearFest all October on AMC and AMC+. Check the full FearFest schedule and plan your October movie nights accordingly. 

Our #1 streaming pick for this weekend is The Thing (1982), John Carpenter’s classic isolation horror movie about a research team in Antarctica who are hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. Dripping with paranoia, dread and iconic jumpscares, there is a reason The Thing is a favorite among die-hard horror fans. We have it ranked as the #1 horror movie of the 80s, which is arguably the #1 decade for horror. Catch it airing on AMC this Sunday as part of the “Fear the 80s” marathon, or stream it any time on AMC+.

More movies to stream on AMC+ this weekend:

Daddy’s Head (2024). Official synopsis: “A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy’s recently deceased father visits them.”

Carrie (1976). Official synopsis: “Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.”

Child’s Play (1988). Official synopsis: “A dying serial killer transfers his consciousness into a popular kids doll using voodoo. A struggling single mother gifts her six-year-old son the much sought-after doll for his birthday, and the doll slowly begins to show its true colors.”

The Dead Zone (1983). Official synopsis: “A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.”

House of the Devil (2009). Official synopsis: “In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.”

For live television viewers, this weekend’s FearFest schedule includes:

Friday, October 11: No Survivors Marathon:

6pm: Final Destination (2000)

8pm: Ghost Ship

10pm: Jeepers Creepers   

12am: Last House on the Left

Saturday, October 12: Stephen King Marathon:

6:45am: Cujo

8:45am: Graveyard Shift

10:45am: Children of the Corn (1984)

1pm: Carrie (1976)

3:15pm: Misery

5:45pm: Thinner

7:45pm: Carrie (2013)

10pm: Silver Bullet

12am: Christine

2am: Carrie (2013)

Sunday October 13: Fear the ’80s Marathon:

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)   

9pm: New Episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol   

Join us for a full month of frights, delights, and all your favorite iconic horror franchises. Watch FearFest all month on AMC and AMC+

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