With October, comes Halloween 2011. And with Halloween, comes the ghostly movie collection on TV that we can all enjoy filled with fright, fret and fears, especially from Syfy, AMC and TMC. [Updated 10-13-11 with programming from FEARnet]
Of course, a lot of TV shows will have Halloween themed episodes. I’ll leave the descriptors of that mess to other places. But a few networks are having their annual bit of fun with the holiday.
I’ve listed a few things, but I ended up focusing on the Syfy channel, AMC‘s annual Fear Fest and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). And in the listing are some good movies… well, movies I have been known to enjoy, like Lake Placid and the all-time sci-fi classic, Forbidden Planet. And if you look carefully, we even have some Nathan Fillion, some Godzilla, and other fun or “fun” movies!
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Cartoon Network will be be having special episodes on Saturday and Sunday during October of shows like Johnny Test, The Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Time and Regular Show. Not to mention the Scooby Doo movies and other shows like Ed, Edd n Eddy’s Boo-Haw Haw, Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen. (CN Press)
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Spike: Don’t forget about the Scream 2011 awards on Spike TV, where everything frightful in comic books, fantasy, sci-fi and horror. This takes place on Spike, Oct. 18 at 9pm ET/PT.. (Spike TV Press)
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ABC Family will have their 13 Nights of Halloween and you can catch such movies as Beetlejuice, Van Helsing, The Addams Family, Casper and more. Alongside the movies will be premieres of Coraline (Oct. 23, 8pm ET/PT) and the network premiere of Bewitched (Oct. 24, 6:30pm ET/PT). (ABC Press)
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The Hallmark channel will be having a ten-hour Munster marathon on Halloween. On Oct. 29 at 9pm ET/PT. Catherine Bell return’s in the fourth The Good Witch’s Family movie installment. Bell plays Cassandra “Cassie” Nightingale. As Cassie is trying to settle into her new marriage, a long-lost cousin shows up and she brings some evil with her. (As it looks right now, Catherine Bell is also set for a fifth movie of the Good Witch movie franchise, set for next year) (THC Press)
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But alas, let’s check out what Syfy, AMC and TCM have in store for us!
Now admittedly, I was only going to focus on AMC, and such, the other two networks lose out on this list where they started airing movies starting October 1st. With that said, oh well! Sorry gang!
Syfy Channel
As anyone can probably attest to, the Syfy channel has started their 31 Days of Halloween scheduling, as they fill the month of October up with nightly frightful movies.
Ghost Hunters Halloween Live – Syfy, Oct. 31 at 7pm ET, Live. The TAPS team has its annual live, six-hour investigation. This year they’ll be at the Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania, which is an hour outside of Philly. The regular cast will be on hand, as well as some from Ghost Hunters International.
On Saturday, October 29th, Syfy will be airing the movie called Zombie Apocalypse. In this movie starring Ving Rhames, (Stop me if this sounds familiar… LOL), a zombie plague has wiped out 90% of the American population and a small group of survivors struggle across the country to get to a rumored refuge from this plague, located on the island of Catalina.
Syfy TV Shows and Movies on AMAZON
A complete list of their scheduled movies for the Halloween 2011 TV season is listed later on in this article.
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Full network schedules after the break….
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