Syfy - NBCUMV/Syfy: Press Release - Fall 2013 Programming

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SYFY - NBCUMV/SYFY PRESS RELEASE: FALL 2013 PROGRAMMING

August 27, 2013

SYFY’S FALL PROGRAMMING LINEUP FEATURES NEW REALITY SERIES FANGASM AND NAKED VEGAS

SEASON RETURNS OF GHOST MINE, HAVEN, GHOST HUNTERS, SCARE TACTICS AND HAUNTED HIGHWAY

6th ANNUAL 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN SCARE-A-THON


This Fall, Syfy will take viewers to imaginative new programming heights led by the premiere of the provocative reality series Fangasm (September 24) and Naked Vegas (October 29), which journey into the worlds of super fans and body painting art; the season returns of Ghost Mine (September 4), Haven (September 13), Ghost Hunters (October 9) and Haunted Highway (November 27), as well as a special Scare Tactics marathon (October 21).

Syfy will also unleash nearly 600 hours of scary programming during its 6th annual 31 Days of Halloween month-long spook-a-thon dripping with bloodcurdling theatrical and original movies.

In November, Sharknado’s Cassie Scerbo returns to Syfy in the Original Movie Bering Sea Beast.

Syfy will kick off the Fall season with its traditional Labor Day weekend movie marathon.

Highlights of Syfy’s 2013 Fall Programming Schedule (All Times ET/PT)

SEPTEMBER



RAGIN CAJUN REDNECK GATORS (ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERE)

Premieres Thursday, September 5 at 9PM – Contaminated moonshine dumped in a Louisiana swamp turns the bayou’s gators (and the people who eat them) into deadly mutants. The movie stars Victor Webster (Continuum) and Jordan Hinson (Eureka).

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 'RAGIN' CAJUN REDNECK GATORS' MOVIE TRAILER



HAVEN (SEASON 4 PREMIERE)

Returns Friday, September 13 at 10PM – Season 4 of Haven picks up six months after the devastating events of the Season 3 cliffhanger in which the town was pummeled by a violent meteor storm. Audrey (Emily Rose) and Duke (Eric Balfour) vanished into thin air, leaving an injured Nathan (Lucas Bryant) marooned in Haven. This season, Colin Ferguson (Eureka) returns to Syfy playing William, a handsome mysterious stranger, whose secret agenda leads him to Audrey. Haven, based on the novella The Colorado Kid from renowned author Stephen King, follows former FBI agent Audrey Parker, who becomes a cop in the small town of Haven, Maine, and soon discovers the town’s many secrets – which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

During its third season, Haven was the #1 cable drama (based on Live + 7 data) in Adults 18-49, Adults 25-54 and total viewers in its Friday 10PM time period.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW A VIDEO PREVIEW OF 'HAVEN' SEASON FOUR

ROBOCROC (ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERE)

Premieres Saturday, September 14 at 9PM – A military nanotech experiment goes awry, infecting a huge crocodile in a zoo and transforming it into a metal killing machine. Robocroc stars Corin Nemec (Stargate SG-1) and Dee Wallace.


OCTOBER

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN (6TH ANNUAL EVENT)

Returns Tuesday, October 1 – Thursday, October 31 – 31 Days of Halloween will unleash nearly 600 hours of bloodcurdling programming with original series, a trio of terrifying Saturday Original Movies and theatricals.


SCARECROW (ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERE)

Premieres in October – A group of teens and their teacher are stranded in the countryside when they discover that the local legend of a murderous scarecrow creature is real – and the creature is after them. Scarecrow stars Robin Dunne (Sanctuary) and Lacey Chabert.

THE RITUAL (working title) (ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERE)

Premieres in October – An American college student studying in Japan risks her own life to save the spirit of her dead mother who killed herself in the notorious Suicide Forest. The Ritual stars Cassie Thomson and Graham Wardle.

ZOMBIE NIGHT (ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERE)

Premieres in October – Two families in a small American town face off against zombies in a long night of horror, torn between helping each other and saving themselves. Zombie Night stars Darryl Hannah, Anthony Michael Hall and Shirley Jones.



NOVEMBER

BERING SEA BEAST (ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERE)

Premieres in November – While prospecting for gold, a brother and sister accidentally disturb a colony of sea vampires in an underwater cave. Cassie Scerbo (Sharknado), Jonathan Lipnicki and Kevin Dobson star in Bering Sea Beast.

31 Days of Halloween - Syfy: Flyaway Sweepstakes

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - SYFY: FLYAWAY SWEEPSTAKES

Win a trip to New York City for Halloween 2013!

When it comes to Halloween, the city that never sleeps knows how to celebrate. Now, with some help from Syfy, you can be a part of it like never before. Enter the sweepstakes, and you could win a trip to New York and everything you need to make your Halloween 2013 unforgettable.

The deadline is November 1, 2012, so enter now and get ready to get your ghost on!


One (1) Winner and a Guest Will Receive:

- Round trip air transportation to and from New York City!
- Hotel accommodations for three nights!
- Front row seating for the famous Greenwich Village Halloween parade!
- A full Halloween makeover from Spirit Halloween!

How to Enter

1. Enter Online: Fill out the form [at link above], and you're entered!
2. Enter by Mobile Device: Text HALLOWEEEN to 79391 during the entry period!

All entries must be received by 11:59 PM on November 1, 2012.

Enter now, and make your next Halloween one to remember!

OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS

Excerpts:

* Syfy 31 Days of Hallowee NYC Fly Away Sweepstakes will begin on October 1, 2012 at 12:01 AM ET and end on November 1, 2012 at 11:59 PM ET.

* Open only to permanent, legal United States residents who are physically residing in one (1) of the forty-eight (48) continental U.S. or the District of Columbia (excluding Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories, and who are eighteen (18) years of age or older and the age of majority in their state of residence as of the start of the Sweepstakes Period.

31 Days of Halloween (2012) - Syfy Video: Promo Oct 1 '12

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN (2012) - SYFY VIDEO: PROMO - BEGINS OCTOBER 1, 2012

It's Syfy's 31 Days of Halloween. Watch Ghost Hunters, Face Off, Paranormal Witness, Syfy Movies and Haven through out the month of October. Check in to these shows through Get Glue for your chance to win a prize package from NBC Store.

31 Days of Halloween - Syfy: Underworld Marathon Oct 30 '11

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - SYFY: Underworld Marathon Sunday, October 30, 2011




09:00 AM The Pumpkin Karver

A pumpkin-headed killer is an uninvited guest at a wild Halloween party on a deserted farm.

Cast includes Michael Zara, Amy Weber, David J. Wright, Terrence Evans and Jonathan Conrad.



11:00 AM Bone Eater

A highway crew accidentally unleashes a deadly creature tied to Native American mythology that leaves boneless victims in its wake.

Cast includes Babylon 5's Bruce Boxleitner, Clara Bryant, Robert Clotworthy, Roark Critchlow, Randy Flagler, Gil Gerard, Brian Gross, Veronica Hamel, Kristen Honey, Michael Horse, William Katt and Star Trek's Walter Koenig.



01:00 PM Zombie Apocalypse

Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

Cast includes Ving Rhames, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Taryn Manning, Eddie Steeples, Johnny Pacar, Gerald Webb, Gary Weeks, Lilan Bowden and Robert Blanche.



03:00 PM Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Milla Jovovich does battle with zombies and a sinister corporation in a sequel that covers much of the same scary ground as the original.

Cast includes Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti, Jared Harris and Mike Epps.



05:00 PM Underworld: Evolution

Gory sequel finds the bloodsucking heroine (Kate Beckinsale) tracing the origins of the ancient feud between the tribes of vampires and werewolves.

Cast includes Kate Beckinsale, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen and Sophia Myles.



07:00 PM Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja (Rhona Mitra), courageous Lucian (Michael Sheen) leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor (Bill Nighy). Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.

Cast includes Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Geraldine Brophy and Leighton Cardno.



09:00 PM Halloween (2007)

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

Cast includes Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Danielle Harris, Kristina Klebe, Skyler Gisondo, Danny Trejo, Brad Dourif, Richard Lynch, Clint Howard, Dee Wallace and Sid Haig.

11:30 PM Underworld: Evolution

01:30 AM Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans



03:30 AM Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers

The Shape returns to a small town for another night of deadly tricks.

Cast includes Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitch Ryan, Kim Darby, Bradford English, Keith Bogart and Mariah O'Brien.

31 Days of Halloween - Syfy: Zombie Movie Marathon Oct 29 '11

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - SYFY: Zombie Movie Marathon Saturday, October 29, 2011





10:30 AM Return Of The Living Dead: Rave To The Grave

On Halloween night, unsuspecting college kids take a party drug that turns them into zombies.

Cast includes Aimee-Lynn Chadwick, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe, Jenny Mollen, Peter Coyote, Claudiu Bleont and Sorin Cocis.



12:30 PM Death Valley: The Revenge Of Bloody Bill

Jeremy Bouvet stars as a vengeful Civil War soldier who terrorizes a group of teens with his band of zombies.

Cast includes Chelsea Jean, Gregory Bastien, Denise Boutte, Scott Carson, Matt Marraccini, Kandis Erickson, Steven Glinn, Jeremy Bouvet and Dean N. Arevalo.



02:30 PM Saw IV

Jigsaw may be dead, but Tobin Bell is mysteriously back in this fourth installment in the popular Saw series in this sequel that explores the killer's origins.

Cast includes Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent, Stargate Universe's Louis Ferreira, Blue Blood's Donnie Wahlberg, Angus Macfadyen and Dina Meyer.



04:30 PM Dawn Of The Dead

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Cast includes Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Torchwood: Miracle Day's Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Kevin Zegers and Stargate Universe's Louis Ferreira.



07:00 PM Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Milla Jovovich does battle with zombies and a sinister corporation in a sequel that covers much of the same scary ground as the original.

Cast includes Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti, Jared Harris and Mike Epps.



09:00 PM Zombie Apocalypse - PREMIERE

Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

Cast includes Ving Rhames, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Taryn Manning, Eddie Steeples, Johnny Pacar, Gerald Webb, Gary Weeks, Lilan Bowden and Robert Blanche.

11:00 PM Halloween (2007) After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger. Cast includes Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Danielle Harris, Kristina Klebe, Skyler Gisondo, Danny Trejo, Brad Dourif, Richard Lynch, Clint Howard, Dee Wallace and Sid Haig. 01:30 AM Zombie Apocalypse 03:30 AM Night Of The Living Dead
Classic low-budget shocker about a plague of zombies running amok in rural Pennsylvania.

Cast includes Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley and Kyra Schon.

31 Days of Halloween - Syfy: Saw Movie Marathon Oct 28 '11

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - SYFY: Saw Movie Marathon Friday, October 28, 2011




09:30 AM The Final

A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them. |

Cast includes Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Justin Arnold, Lindsay Seidel, Julin and Laura Ashley Samuels.



11:30 AM The Seamstress

An ancient curse returns with a vengeance in this harrowing descent into shear terror!

Cast includes Lance Henriksen, Kailin See, David Kopp, James Kirk, Lara Gilchrist, Kevin McNulty, Aaron Pearl, David Nykl, Andee Frizzell and Jennifer Copping.



01:30 PM Saw II

Dull-edged sequel to the 2004 hit picks up with the sadistic serial killer once again putting his victims in horrific life-or-death situations.

Cast includes Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg, Erik Knudsen, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Emmanuelle Vaugier and Dina Meyer.



03:30 PM Saw III

Jigsaw kidnaps a doctor to keep him alive while he watches his new apprentice put an unlucky citizen through a brutal test.

Cast includes Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Costas Mandylor, Blue Bloods' Donnie Wahlberg, Dina Meyer, Leigh Whannell and Mpho Koaho.



06:00 PM Saw IV

Jigsaw may be dead, but Tobin Bell is mysteriously back in this fourth installment in the popular Saw series in this sequel that explores the killer's origins.

Cast includes Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent, Stargate Universe's Louis Ferreira, Blue Blood's Donnie Wahlberg, Angus Macfadyen and Dina Meyer.

31 Days of Halloween: Syfy: Anacondas, Boas and Pythons: Snake Slitherthon Oct 27 '11

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - SYFY: ANACONDAS, BOAS AND PYTHONS: SNAKE SLITHERTHON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011





08:00 AM Snake King

An object is found that points to the secret of eternal youth so a research team is sent to find the fountain only to find it is protected by a giant snake.

Starring Stephen Baldwin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Larry Day, Gary Hudson and Ross McCall.



10:00 AM Boa Vs. Python

After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!

Starring Stargate Atlantis' David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. Woller, Adamo Palladino, Angel Boris Reed, Marianne Stanicheva and Griff Furst.



12:00 PM Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid

Uninspired tongue-in-cheek thriller about a scientific expedition in Borneo, where giant snakes thrive in the jungle.

Cast includes Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden, Nicholas Gonzalez, Bones' Eugene Byrd, Karl Yune, Eureka's Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Morris Chestnut.



02:00 PM Anaconda 3

A hunt for two massive snakes is launched following their escape from a research facility where their longevity was studied.

Cast includes David Hasselhoff, Crystal Allen, Ryan McCluskey, Patrick Regis, Anthony Green and John Rhys-Davies.



04:00 PM Anacondas: Trail Of Blood

A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.

Starring Crystal Allen, Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter, Ana Ularu, Claudiu Bleont, Anca-Ioana Androne and John Rhys-Davies.




06:00 PM The Hills Have Eyes 2

A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.

Cast includes Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander, Lee Thompson Young, Daniella Alonso, Eric Edelstein, Jeff Kober, Jay Acovone and Archie Kao.




08:00 PM The Devil's Advocate

Al Pacino has a field day playing Lucifer disguised as the head of a law firm in this thriller about a lawyer (Keanu Reeves) who doesn't realize his new boss is a real demon.

Cast includes Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Connie Nielsen, Craig T. Nelson, Castle's Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Debra Monk and George Wyner.

11:00 PM The Hills Have Eyes 2



01:00 AM Open Graves

A group of American students in Spain stumbles across a sinister board game, in which the loser eventually suffers a terrible death.

Cast includes Mike Vogel, Eliza Dushku, Ethan Rains, Naike Rivelli and Lindsay Caroline Robba.



03:00 AM The Pumpkin Karver

A pumpkin-headed killer is an uninvited guest at a wild Halloween party on a deserted farm.

Cast includes Michael Zara, Amy Weber, David J. Wright, Terrence Evans and Jonathan Conrad.

31 Days of Halloween - Syfy: Stephen King's The Tommyknockers Oct 26 '11

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - SYFY: Stephen King's The Tommyknockers Wednesday, October 26, 2011




09:00 AM Stephen King's The Tommyknockers - Part 1

This two-part adaptation is set in a small town in Maine, where, in Part 1, a force begins to possess residents.

Cast includes Jimmy Smits, CSI's Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton, Allyce Beasley, Robert Carradine, Joanna Cassidy, Cliff De Young, Traci Lords and E.G. Marshall.

11:00 AM Stephen King's The Tommyknockers - Part 2

Gard (Jimmy Smits) feigns subjection to the power and joins Bobbi in exploring the buried structure.



01:00 PM Valentine

Four Friends start to receive morbid valentine day cards. Someone out there is stalking them....someone they all spurned when they were younger. And Valentines Day 2001 is the Day she/he gets their revenge.

Cast includes Denise Richards, Bones' David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Cauffiel, Katherine Heigl, Hedy Burress, Fulvio Cecere, Daniel Cosgrove, Johnny Whitworth, Adam Harrington, Stargate Universe's Haig Sutherland, Adrian Holmes, Ty Olsson, G. Patrick Currie and Alex Diakun.



03:00 PM My Bloody Valentine

Remake of the 1981 slasher classic about a homicidal maniac terrorizing a small mining town on Valentine's Day.

Cast includes Supernatural's Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Kevin Tighe and Megan Boone.




05:00 PM 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days

Following the gruesome vampire siege in Barstow, Alaska, Stella (Kiele Sanchez) moves to L.A. and decides to avenge the death of her husband by bating the local bloodsucking population into a fight.

Cast includes Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Mia Kirshner, Troy Ruptash, Ben Cotton, Katharine Isabelle and Jody Thompson.

31 Days of Halloween - Syfy: Vampire Movies Marathon Oct 25 '11

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - SYFY: Vampire Movies Marathon Oct 25 '11




07:00 PM 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days

Following the gruesome vampire siege in Barstow, Alaska, Stella (Kiele Sanchez) moves to L.A. and decides to avenge the death of her husband by bating the local bloodsucking population into a fight.

Cast includes Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Mia Kirshner, Troy Ruptash, Ben Cotton, Katharine Isabelle and Jody Thompson.



09:00 PM My Bloody Valentine

Remake of the 1981 slasher classic about a homicidal maniac terrorizing a small mining town on Valentine's Day.

Cast includes Supernatural's Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Kevin Tighe and Megan Boone.



11:00 PM Valentine

Four Friends start to receive morbid valentine day cards. Someone out there is stalking them....someone they all spurned when they were younger. And Valentines Day 2001 is the Day she/he gets their revenge.

Cast includes Denise Richards, Bones' David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Cauffiel, Katherine Heigl, Hedy Burress, Fulvio Cecere, Daniel Cosgrove, Johnny Whitworth, Adam Harrington, Stargate Universe's Haig Sutherland, Adrian Holmes, Ty Olsson, G. Patrick Currie and Alex Diakun.



01:00 AM Friday The 13th: The Series Night Hunger

A hot-rod racer uses a cursed necklace to win events by killing his competition and dipping the chain in his victims' blood.

Cast includes John D. LeMay, Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, Richard Panebianco, Réal Andrews, Elliott Smith, Nick Nichols and Gaston Poon.

02:00 AM Friday The 13th: The Series Eye Of Death

A devious antiques dealer uses a magic lantern to travel back to the Civil War so he can steal artifacts from dead soldiers.

Cast includes John D. LeMay, Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, Tom McCamus, Brooke Johnson and Jack Creley.



03:00 AM Bram Stoker's Way Of The Vampire

Toothless horror yarn, set in modern-day Los Angeles, where a demon-hunter (Rhett Giles) battles a bloodsucker (Andreas Beckett).

Cast includes Rhett Giles, Andreas Beckett, Paul Logan, Denise Boutte, Brent Falco, Anthony Turk and Alix Henning.