KZfaq is so strange. I watch many channels with the exact same quality and 1000x the subs - your channel is fantastic and deserves some more love.

So excited to see a video about this. Young Redditors called me nuts for insisting there was ever a “Monsterfest” but this was peak Halloween! 👻🎃

I’ll never forget finding out this was a thing. I’m 41, but didn’t grow up with cable. Was delivering pizza in what must’ve been 99/2000 when someone had this on in background. Truly life changing indeed.

MonsterFest is so important to me, and a huge reason for my love of classic films today. Thank you for creating this!

I really miss those Monster Fests of old,where they would show the classic Universal monsters and Hammer movies. While I still love it today and adore all the classic 80's movies,they don't show many movies before the late 70's.

The production quality and script for this video is so solid bro be proud of your work!

Great vid! I remember my Brother and I actually anticipating this. Like "dude Monsterfest is next week, what tapes can we tape over without getting in trouble?"

What a wonderful video, hit it out of the park with this one. It makes me find myself saying “I miss cable?”. Towards the end you touched on what I think is the problem now: nothing is special. Movie and TV studios, through 24/7 streaming, have managed to remove any sense of “now”, which removes any trace of something being special. It also makes me, again, realize we got what we wanted, sort of: unbundling. Those of you not old enough to remember, you had to buy ‘bundles’ of channels on cable, most of them you couldn’t get a la carte, with the exception of a few such as HBO. Something like AMC would come with some bundle of channels, even if you didn’t want them, you’d have to get basic cable then add on some number of bundles to get those 4 other channels you wanted. The end result: cost. So when streaming appeared it promised to “unbundle” those channels so if you wanted to just watch AMC, you could, just not on cable. So, we essentially got what we asked for, unbundling, just not in a way beneficial to anyone, producers or consumers. Had the greed of cable companies, and the providers, not taken over, and they simply just offered a la carte channels, I bet cable would have survived longer.

They really need to show the classic movies in prime time again.

Hold on, does anyone remember Turner Classic Movies??? I would love to see a video about that channel as TCM introduced me to some amazing classics back in the early 2000s

I was there for the walking dead premiere, it was like nothing else at the time, everyone at school was talking about it the next day, it was an awesome event to experience.

I love when things had that 90s video store vibe. Grab a 2 liter of Pepsi , some Cooler Ranch Doritos and watch some monster flicks 🎃

You are the first channel to cover monster/fear fest i remember my parents would let us watch it during Halloween or we would sneak it. I remember early morning monster classics. It shaped me to grow up and love horror movies.

I used to watch monster/fearfest pretty hardcore every year growing up. Saw a lot of classics for the first time through that time. I did eventually stop during the walking dead marathon years though. The block became less of a celebration of Halloween and horror movies, but instead became a promotional tool for their newer series. Also by that point I was old enough to have a job and start buying copies of all the movies I liked.

i remember getting in trouble in '99 for staying up all night on Halloween watching that live cam of the haunted house. i would run from the kitchen to the living room so i could watch whatever was playing on AMC at the time.

I watched Monster Mania when it aired and taped it so that I could watch it over and over. Great doc.

This was awesome!!! I didn't become a fan of Monsterfest until its '02 version. I was more of a fun of Usa Network's Halloween movie marathons of the 90's which would air for the entire Halloween weekend in the 80's to late 90's. I would love to see you do a retrospective on Usa Network ( Saturday Nightmares, Commander Usa's Groovie Movies, Usa Up All Night). Thanks for the upload of Monsterfest I really appreciated watching this.

Bro, you only have 9 videos on you're channel, but you're my favorite KZfaq channel. I love when you upload, thanks for all the work you put into these.

I never watched Monsterfest, but this is giving me some nostalgia for IFC’s Indie Screams.

An amazing breakdown. Nothing was quite like the AMC of the '90s and early 2000s, and I particularly remember enjoying them more when they stayed true to their roots and played more of the Universal horror classics from the '30s-'50s. I totally get that they had to rebrand and change with the times, though. That's the nature of the beast.

This was a awesome throwback to my childhood. I remember scouring the channels around Halloween watching all the specials and movies I could. This also jogged my memory to where I saw Hellraiser for the first time.

I remember this as a kid. Wow. Love it!!

Brought back memories of my childhood. Loved this video. I watched these classics with my mom. She introduced me to so many classics. I miss her so much!

I like how they touted the AMC version of The Prisoner as “original”. I wonder if anyone has done videos about that dumpster fire. The original was so great and of its time…I wish it was left alone. Not even Sir Ian could make it watchable.

Fantastic video man ty! I’m just glad FearFest is still going and it’s a month long now. I was so upset a few years ago when they took two weeks away to give to The Walking Dead. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one as many people were not happy and let AMC know it. AMC had to put out tweet saying FearFest would be back at full power next year and they were. Keep the awesome stuff coming please and ty again!

Super freaking cool man, thank you

Awesome retrospective!

AMC Backstory: Halloween is on KZfaq

Fantastic informative blast from the past video!

Somewhere deep in my parents basement lie the tapes from the Godzilla marathon. Core memory unlocked!

This definitely unlocked some memories

Excellent video! Please cover TNT's "MonsterVision" with Joe Bob Briggs as well 👍

Some might of hated it, but that pop up version of Halloween is seared into my brain as a core memory i have staying up and watching AMC Monsterfest back in the day

I remember the original monster fest. It was such a good time for me as a kid. I also lament the old AMC, with the original classic films. TCM is going that way too. I'm just glad I have alot of it on disc and can still enjoy it that way

Love your channel. Please keep 'em coming.

Criminally underrated channel

Thanks for mentioning our show Ravenswood!!!!

please do tnt monstervision and joe bob brriggs please

👁️ always look forward to monsterfest . It screamed Halloween. It was like Bobby “Boris” Pickett Monster Mash came to life, but like monster👁️vision it too is never more

This is a great video and I can't wait for more!

This video's awesome. Even though Monsterfest/Fearfest is so bastardized and commercialized now, I still appreciate it. Nice to have a month straight of horror movies to just flick on in October, even though its usually the same like 20 movies over and over. I got sick of those years where they were really shoving TWD down our throats.

Would love to see a video dedicated to 13/31 Nights of Halloween next spooky season

I've been watching Monster/Fear fest for decades now. And while I love anything from the 70's and 80's,I really do miss the older classic silent and Universal horror films they used to play. The last few years it's been nothing but recent horror movies and tons of Walking dead commercials. And the last two days of October they've just played Halloween movies(with Michael Myers) over and over again. I get that things change and adapt,but I really do miss the way AMC used to be.

good job by the way

great stuff!

Great video! Discovered Monster/Fear Fest as a young teenager in the early 2000s and I still tune in every year even though the programming's been a dud for a while. Shudder's a great service, too. Joe Bob Briggs is such a welcome addition to their service.

Dawn 04 was a Snyder film, not Romero

I never really watched monsterfest/fearfest much but I did usually try to catch scifi original movies when they were still around

Romero... Dawn of the dead, 2004?

TV around Halloween time used to fuckin' rock, dude.

About time somebody opens there eyes and noticed that all amc does now with amc fearfest is make it to promote its damn streaming platform and doesn't even call it AMC FEARFEST LIKE WTF we clearly watching the channel for a reason

I miss when Bravo used to show classy stuff. Now it’s all reality TV. I also wish AMC would show all their new shows on regular cable and not just AMC+. :/

Does anyone remember Fear Friday?

I have these on VHS.

Bill "Moo-Mee"

Can you make a video about TNT and why it was heavily invested in martial arts film?

So I've been watching the Monster Mania specials out of order all this time? Bride is the third one, NOT Attack of the 50 ft?

22:00 I'm pretty sure you meant that Zach Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead premiered and not the original since the rights of the original are now owned by one of the producers who is notoriously stingy about making it available to watch.

Didn't TNT do something similar?

21:55 You mean Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead?

is it October yet?

The thing about cable that was so good, was you could have channels for niche media. Eventually though, all the unique channels slowly succumbed to the lowest common denominator, and because boring and dumb. Scifi, Discovery, Bravo, The Learning Channel, etc. Such a shame. There's something to be said for having a curated experience, over the trap of endless scrolling -- unable to decide which movie to watch. That's why I have a sub to Night Flight. My fav streaming service, not only does it have weirdo movies and show selections, it has a channel that you can just turn on and watch.

AMC needs to go back to the monster roots , they need to also go back to college and get monster fest instead of fear fest

George A Romero did not make Dawn of the Dead (2004) 21:58 lmao

No one can match monster vision

Plot twist walking dud is actually lame and banal but try to convince the sheeple of that.