FEARnet Is Coming Down The Chimney With A Sack Full Of Screams This December Delivering The World Premiere Of 'Hostel: Part III' On Sunday, December 16, Along With Many Other Gory Gifts

FEARnet Is Coming Down The Chimney With A Sack Full Of Screams This December Delivering The World Premiere Of 'Hostel: Part III' On Sunday, December 16, Along With Many Other Gory Gifts

Highlights Include the "Holliston" Holiday Marathon, Featuring the Premiere of the "Holliston Christmas Special," on Tuesday, December 18 and the Network Premiere of 'District 9' on Sunday, December 9

The CryptKeeper Presents the First-Ever New Year's Shockin' Eve "Tales from the Crypt" Marathon on Monday, December 31

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FEARnet will have you stalkin' around the Christmas tree all month long, with a variety of world and network premieres, frightful features, and holiday marathons capped off by the New Year's Shockin' Eve "Tales from the Crypt" Marathon.

December Highlights Include:


-- New Year's Shockin' Eve "TALES FROM THE CRYPT" Marathon - Monday,
December 31 (4 p.m.-4 a.m. ET/1 p.m.-1 a.m. PT) Feel like you're trapped
in "The Twilight Zone"? The CryptKeeper is here to help with the New
Year's Shockin' Eve "Tales from the Crypt" Marathon, featuring 24
terrifying "Tales" and hosted by the CryptKeeper, himself, in all-new
interstitial content for the first time in 15 years. Spanning the first
four seasons of the groundbreaking series, the marathon includes such
classic episodes as "And All Through the House" (6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m.
PT) the fan-favorite story of a murderous woman terrorized by a maniacal
Santa Claus; "Dead Wait" (8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT) directed by genre
master Tobe Hooper and starring Whoopi Goldberg as a backstabbing voodoo
priestess; "None But the Lonely Heart" (3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT) Tom Hanks'
directorial debut about a nefarious gold digger who may have finally
been found out; and the Emmy-nominated "Yellow" (2:30 a.m. ET/11:30 a.m.
PT), directed by Robert Zemeckis and boasting a star-studded cast helmed
by Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd and Lance Henriksen, about a demanding
father who tries to give his cowardly son one last shot at honor in WWI.

-- "HOLLISTON" Holiday Marathon, Featuring the Premiere of the "Holliston
Christmas Special" - Tuesday, December 18 (3:30 p.m.-9 p.m. ET/12:30
p.m.-6 p.m. PT)FEARnet's hit series "Holliston" returns with a brand new
one-hour Christmas special and a season 1 marathon to whet viewers'
appetites for the premiere of season 2 in June. Get caught up with all
the "Holliston" hijinks as Adam, Joe, Laura and Corri deal with life,
love, and Lance Rockett (Dee Snider), while having run-ins with genre
legends Kane Hodder, Tony Todd and John Landis, and receiving
sincere-yet-terrible advice from GWAR's Oderus Urungus, who lives in
Adam's closet. Directly following the marathon at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT,
the most wonderful time of the year quickly turns into "Black
Christmas," when a blizzard strikes the town of Holliston, trapping
Adam, Joe, Corri and Laura inside with no power in the "Holliston
Christmas Special." To make matters worse, a crazed serial killer has
just escaped and is said to be lurking somewhere in the area. Fearing
for their lives and having nothing but flashbacks to entertain them, the
gang reminisces about the moments in their lives that brought them all
together. Derek Mears (Friday the 13(th)) guest stars.

-- Christmas Eve "Killer Kringle" Marathon - Monday, December 24 (12 p.m.-8
p.m. ET/9 a.m.-5 p.m. PT)Santa Claus is comin' to town... and he's out
for blood, in this four-film frightfest dedicated to the not-so-nice
side of Old St. Nick. The Ghoul Yule begins at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT with
The Traveler, starring Val Kilmer (Wonderland) as a mysterious stranger
with a deadly confession. Then, 1,000 years ago, Santa, the Son of
Satan, made a deal with an angel to put his evil ways aside and deliver
presents to the world... but now, that deal is up, and he's free to kill
once again in Santa's Slay at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. The Dutch shocker,
Saint, follows at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT with a sinister Sinterklaas who
punishes the naughty and nice alike. And the Spanish import A Christmas
Tale rounds out the evening at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT, when a dangerous
woman in a Santa suit turns the tables on the children who have captured
her.

-- 'HOSTEL: PART III' (World Television Premiere) - Sunday, December 16 (10
p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT)A Las Vegas bachelor party has more than a hangover to
fear, after a night of partying turns to torture and mayhem in the
newest entry of the genre smash Hostel franchise. Be sure to tune in for
the original Hostel and Hostel: Part II, written and directed by Eli
Roth (Cabin Fever), airing at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT, directly before
Hostel: Part III, to complete the terrifying trifecta.

-- 'DISTRICT 9' (Network Premiere) - Sunday, December 9 (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m.
PT)Years after landing in South Africa, alien lifeforms, known as
prawns, now find themselves living in persecution and squalor. A routine
inspection of a prawn village leads to unexpected consequences, giving
one government agent (Sharlto Copley, Open Grave) a change of heart--and
body--in this hit science-fiction thriller directed by Neill Blomkamp
(Elysium) and produced by the iconic Peter Jackson (Dead Alive).

-- 'THE TRAVELER' (World Television Premiere) - Sunday, December 9 (8 p.m.
ET/5 p.m. PT)Val Kilmer (Tombstone) stars in this icy supernatural
thriller as a mysterious stranger who walks into a police department and
confesses to murder on a dark winter night. When the station's officers
begin dying in gruesome and unexplained ways, Sgt. Alex Black (Dylan
Neal, Ice Road Terror) must come face-to-face with the traveler's final
secret, before it's too late.

-- 'MIRRORMASK' (Network Premiere) - Saturday, December 22 (8 p.m. ET/5
p.m. PT)From the mind of celebrated genre scribe Neil Gaiman (The
Sandman series), comes the story of a young girl's journey into a land
of light and shadows. Blaming herself for her mother's collapse, Helena
Campbell falls into a dreamlike state, caught in a battle of good vs.
evil. Stuck between two worlds, she must restore balance to the City of
Light and find a way back to her own real-life existence, before her
dangerous doppelganger takes over.

-- 'SIBLINGS' (World Television Premiere) - Sunday, December 23 (8 p.m.
ET/5 p.m. PT)A twisted family of step-siblings re-define "growing
pains," as they search for normalcy after the death of their wicked
parents. With the family in shambles, eldest son Joe struggles to keep
everyone together amidst a growing web of lust and murder in this dark
comedy. Come spend some time with the ultimate dysfunctional family,
just in time for Christmas!

-- 'FRANKENFISH' (Broadcast Premiere) - Sunday, December 23 (10 p.m. ET/7
p.m. PT)It's Chinese snakehead terror when a swarm of
genetically-altered fish descend upon a small Louisiana swamp.
Investigators are brought in to eradicate the threat, but the hunters
quickly become the hunted as the vicious fish chase their human prey
upstream. It all leads up to a bloody showdown on a houseboat that is
not to be missed.
In summary:


-- The Traveler, Sunday, December 9 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT;
-- District 9, Sunday, December 9 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT;
-- Hostel: Part III, Sunday, December 16 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT;
-- "Holliston" Season 1 Marathon, Tuesday, December 18 at 3:30 p.m.
ET/12:30 PT;
-- "Holliston Christmas Special," Tuesday, December 18 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m.
PT;
-- MirrorMask, Saturday, December 22 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT;
-- Siblings, Sunday, December 23 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT;
-- Frankenfish, Sunday, December 23 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT;
-- "Santa is the Devil" Marathon, Monday, December 24 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m.
PT;
-- "Tales from the Crypt" Marathon, Monday, December 31 at 4 p.m. ET/ 1
p.m. PT
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