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.
It’s because there’s so many good ones,you’ll see similar comments to yours all over. I’ve made them myself,a few great ones are always gonna slip through the cracks. Yet some are popular but no one knows why🤪
The crazy thing is that it could be anything from titling to tagging to not doing chapter select, to a misinterpretation of words or overuse of footage, and still RU-vid could tomorrow show it to millions and up its views. The fact is the algorithm is us but also them, and they’re so many factors and intervening forces it may as well be random. Shorts with no content get millions of views. It’s horrific.
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'm not yet 40 but I do like TCM. I've seen a lot of good movies there but the one that always sticks with me is a version of Wizard of Oz feature Oliver Hardy, and not for positive reasons for the most part. The movie surprised me by how the effects (especially the scene with the faerie) really enhance the fantasy of it all, but it's one of the most racist things I've ever seen. They pick up a black character at one point. The black character is played by a white man in blackface and they find his character lounging in an open field eating watermelon. It just gets worse from there. I understand that a century or so has gone by since that version was made and that things were different back then, but holy shit, man.
There still around but I believe they require a special package or subscription now. I used to have access around there last anniversary year where they decide to take viewer requests for movies for that year
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?"
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.
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.
Bro, you only have 9 videos on you're channel, but you're my favorite RU-vid channel. I love when you upload, thanks for all the work you put into these.
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 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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
Same with Bravo. I remember seeing opera and the episodes of Twin Peaks with the Log Lady intros. Also, many foreign films. Now, it’s just reality TV. It’s a shame.
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!
Being honest, it seems as if Weigel has the old Universal horror flicks. They've been ran on 'Movies!' and were subjects of a few Svengoolie episodes for quite a few months now. For another thing, cable's audience is shrinking, but broadcast is stiff competition with it's wide availability and dirt-cheap installation.
I first became a Kong and Godzilla fan in 1994. 1997 was when my friend and I pulled 1991 VHS tape of the 1931 Frankenstein out of my dad's movie stash. I learned there were more universal monsters and wanted to see them. October my grandma recorded the 1989 anthology series "Monsters". Then in 1998. I saw Monsterfest house of Horrors and couldnt get enough of it. The following year, My grandma recorded Monsterfest Biggest scare ever for me. It taught me that Kong and Godzilla movies did belong in Halloween line-ups. In 2000, I watched all of The Classics Come Alive. I became addicted to that Dracula game on AMC's website. I liked You Don't know Jack as well as everything through 2007. For me Fear Fest in 2008 was when it died. Besides DVDs were coming out. I will always look back fondly on my years watching it from 1998-2007, especially 98, 99 amd 2000.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@stephennootens916 it's more that they are showing stuff that doesn't seem to fit 'classic' status- stuff from the late 80s, and even within the last decade sometimes
@@MrDozy1016 well as sad as it is to admit while movies from the 80s are not classic golden age d Hollywood they are getting to the age of being able to be labeled classic. That said my Dad still DVRs a lot of the old stuff off of TCM. In fact now that it is October he is DVRing the old monster movies off of TCM.
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
👁️ 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
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.
There was a point were it felt like they had the handful of Halloween movies they had the rights in heavy rotation during the Halloween season. Shudder is great since they have good working relationships with the distributors of more strange cult like movies so you find real odd ball movies plus they pick up stuff from the festival circuit.
@@stephennootens916 I wish they'd air more of the lesser known stuff in between the tried and true classics. I've been saying for years that a movie like The Frighteners could be a big October staple on AMC if they'd just air it a few times.
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+. :/
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.
Way too interested in having an opinion about something you don’t like. Don’t worry, you’ll find something better to do with your energy in your Thirties.
