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 June 1, 2007

10:30 PM Magic

Saturday, June 2, 2007

12:45 AM Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters

2:30 AM And Now the Screaming Starts!
Magic (1978)

Horror , Suspense
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Ann-Margret
Anthony Hopkins
Burgess Meredith
Anthony Hopkins stars in this creepy psychological thriller as a ventriloquist who slowly loses his grip on reality. Failed stage magician Corky Withers (Hopkins) tries one last time to make it in showbiz when he adds a foul-mouthed ventriloquist's dummy named Fats to his act. With Fats, Corky hits the big time and discovers a new self-confidence in his skills, but soon he gets scared of his new fame and runs off to hide in his hometown with his childhood sweetheart (Ann-Margret). When his agent (Burgess Meredith) tracks him down and then ends up dead, Corky becomes convinced that Fats is the murderer, although the truth may be much more terrifying. Dark and suspenseful, the film is a rare venture into horror by director Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) with a screenplay by the ever-versatile William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) based on his own best-selling novel.
E.J. Andre, Ann-Margret, Anthony Hopkins, Jerry Houser, Ed Lauter, Burgess Meredith, Lillian Randolph, David Ogden Stiers

Director Richard Attenborough

Producer C. O. Erickson
Joseph E. Levine
Richard Levine

Original Story William Goldman

Editor John Bloom

Composer Jerry Goldsmith

Screenwriter William Goldman

Production Designer Terence Marsh

Costume Designer Ruth Myers

Art Director Richard Lawrence

Cinematographer Victor J. Kemper


Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (1994)

Horror , Science Fiction
R, Hollywood Pictures
Richard Belzer
Keith David
Will Patton
Donald Sutherland
Eric Thal
Julie Warner
Adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's science-fiction novel of the same name, director David Orme and star Donald Sutherland provide this chilling account of alien slugs who land in rural Iowa, only to ride on the backs of their helpless human hosts and control their minds. Government officials are faced with the dilemma of how to stop a seemingly invulnerable enemy before they infect the entire population of the globe, in this fast-paced and cleverly written film.
Sam Anderson, Gerry Bamman, Marshall Bell, Richard Belzer, Keith David, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Mason, J. Patrick McCormack , Will Patton, Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner

Director Stuart Orme

Producer Ralph Winter

Original Story Robert A. Heinlein

Director of Photography Clive Tickner

Editor William Goldenberg

Composer Colin Towns

Screenwriter Ted Elliott
David S. Goyer
Terry Rossio

Production Designer Daniel A. Lomino


And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)

Horror , Monster , Suspense
TV14

Stephanie Beacham
Rosalie Crutchley
Geoffrey Crutchley
Peter Cushing
Janet Key
Gillian Lind
Herbert Lom
Patrick Magee
Ian Ogilvy
Guy Rolfe
When a British nobleman exercises the droit de seigneur on the bride of one of his servants, a curse is placed on him and his descendants. Some generations later, two newlyweds (Ian Ogilvy and Stephanie Beacham) arrive at the ancestral mansion and discover that the curse is taking effect. Peter Cushing is good as a doctor who investigates the mysterious events in this well-mounted Gothic horror film.
Stephanie Beacham, Rosalie Crutchley, Geoffrey Crutchley, Peter Cushing, Janet Key, Gillian Lind, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Ian Ogilvy, Guy Rolfe

Director Roy Ward Baker

Producer Max J. Rosenberg
Milton Subotsky

Director of Photography Denys Coop

Editor Peter Tanner

Composer Douglas Gamley

Screenwriter Roger Marshall

Art Director Tony Curtis