Synopsis

Tune in to Starz this October for the fourth annual "Fear Fest," a creepy collection of spine-tingling movies kicking off with the world television premiere of the Starz Inside original special Bloodsucking Cinema. Bloodsucking Cinema premieres on Starz Friday, October 26 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) and is followed by a 24-hour marathon of spooky films including Underworld: Evolution, Dawn of the Dead, Silent Hill and more. Come back Halloween night for a triple-feature headlined by Bloodsucking Cinema. Bloodsucking Cinema explores vampire films and their enduring hypnotic hold on audiences worldwide. Films featured in the special include Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Van Helsing and Underworld. Bloodsucking Cinema features interviews with directors John Carpenter (Vampires), Len Wiseman (Underworld, Underworld: Evolution), John Landis (Innocent Blood) and Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys), actors Kristanna Loken (BloodRayne), Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned), and critics Leonard Maltin and Harry Knowles (Ain't It Cool News). Starz Inside is a new monthly series of original specials from Starz hosted by film critic Richard Roeper.

Official Review

It’s the week before Halloween: cable stations all across this great and noble land are rolling out their horror film marathons, blocks of staggeringly diverse horror movies interspersed with horror film documentaries/retrospectives and collectively named “Monster Fest” or “Halloween Horror Nights” or “Screamgasm” or the like. Starz! is broadcasting a new documentary to accompany their “Fear Fest” horror marathon this weekend, BLOODSUCKING CINEMA, a clip/interview retrospective detailing the modern vampire film. …Read More