This week on AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS Fear Friday Classic Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Sci-fi Movies they are showcasing and that is recommended must watch if you have AMC are.
Friday May 11, 2007

8:00 PM Dead Calm

10:00 PM Lake Placid

11:45 PM Nightwatch

Saturday, May 12, 2007

1:45 AM Pinata: Survival Island

Dead Calm (1989)

Horror , Suspense
R, Warner Bros.
Nicole Kidman
Sam Neill
Billy Zane
Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill star in this psychological thriller set on the open seas, directed by Phillip Noyce. When husband and wife John and Rae Ingram (Neill, Kidman) set off on a yachting trip after the accidental death of their infant son, they come upon a castaway (Billy Zane from Titanic) from a disabled schooner. When the castaway's story doesn't quite add up, John investigates the schooner and discovers a dark secret. But while he's gone, the castaway has already commandeered the yacht and taken his wife hostage. The tense script by Terry Hayes (Payback, Vertical Limit) is based on a popular novel by Charles Williams.
Lisa Collins, Sharon Cook, Paula Hudson-Brinkley, Nicole Kidman, Michael Long, Rod Mullinar, Sam Neill, Malinda Rutter, George Shevstsov, Joshua Tilden, Billy Zane

Director Phillip Noyce

Producer Terry Hayes

Director of Photography Geoff Burton
Dean Semler

Editor Richard Francis-Bruce

Composer Graeme Revell

Screenwriter Terry Hayes

Production Designer Graham Walker


Lake Placid (1999)

Comedy , Horror
R, Twentieth Century Fox
Bridget Fonda
Oliver Platt
Bill Pullman

Lake Placid (1999) is the brainchild of David E. Kelley, quirky writer of TV series Ally McBeal and The Practice, and director Steve Miner, co-creator of the Friday the 13th movie series. Their skills are combined in a comedic horror movie in which a 30-foot man-eating alligator surfaces in a tranquil Maine lake, drawing nature-hating paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), game warden Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), millionaire Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt) and sheriff Hank Keogh (Brendan Gleeson) into an investigation. Each character has his or her own reason for wanting to find the crocodile, with chaos ensuing as they race to capture it, dead or alive.
Tim Dixon, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Mariska Hargitay, David Lewis, Oliver Platt, Bill Pullman, Meredith Salenger, Betty White

Director Steve Miner

Producer David E. Kelley
Michael Pressman

Director of Photography Daryn Okada

Editor Marshall Harvey
Paul Hirsch

Composer John Ottman
Screenwriter David E. Kelley

Production Designer John Willett


Nightwatch (1998)

Horror , Suspense
R, Miramax
Patricia Arquette
Josh Brolin
Alix Koromzay
Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor (1999's Eye of the Beholder) stars in this creepy thriller adapted from a 1994 Danish hit about a night watchman in a heap of unexpected trouble. McGregor is Martin, a law student who takes a night job in a morgue that looks right at home in a horror movie, complete with big halls and eerie lighting. When local prostitutes end up dead in what appears to be a rash of serial killings, clues in the morgue point to Martin as the murderer in this chiller featuring Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette, with a screenplay by award-winning Traffic (2000) director Steven Soderbergh.
Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Brad Dourif, Lauren Graham, Alix Koromzay, Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte

Director Ole Bornedal

Producer Michael Obel

Director of Photography Dan Laustsen

Editor Sally Menke

Composer Marco Beltrami
Joachim Holbek

Screenwriter Ole Bornedal
Steven Soderbergh

Production Designer Richard Hoover


Pinata: Survival Island (2002)

Horror
TV14, First Look
Nicholas Brendon
Jaime Pressly
To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, a group of college co-eds vacations at an island resort. How will they fare when they find themselves at the mercy of evil spirits freed from a smashed pinata?
Nicholas Brendon, Jaime Pressly