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Posted on Monday 18th February 2019
Apart from our Season of the Dead event throughout March, Horror also wants to take you on a couple of trips, dare you come with us to Ireland, France and a mythical forest?
A backpacking trip through Ireland sees the resurrection of a franchise on the 1st and a UK TV premiere for Leprechaun: Origins. Two unsuspecting young couples discover a town's chilling secret when the town's residents offer them an old cabin at the edge of the woods. Soon, they discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality. Another UK TV premiere on the 8th, Resurrection of Evil. Jackie Sullivan (Julie Benz), a troubled young woman with a serious alcohol addiction, i...
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All rise for Horror Channel's Season of the Dead
Posted on Monday 18th February 2019
Be prepared for a Zombie invasion as Saturday nights in March on Horror Channel give rise to Season of the Dead, a collection of modern zombie movies. Highlights include the channel premieres of critically-acclaimed Maggie, a heart-breaking take on the Zombie genre starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joe Dante's Burying The Ex, a radical blend of classic horror and screwball zomedy. There are also welcome returns for post-apocalyptic zombie actioner Extinction, directed by Inside helmer Miguel Angel Vivas, Matthias Hoene's ultra-splatter comedy horror Cockneys Vs Zombies, starring Michelle Ryan and John Erick Dowdle's [REC]-inspired Quarantine.
The season starts on March 2nd in a movie that gives Arnold Schwarzenegger a real chanc...
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A Grimmfest double-bill event to celebrate Horror Channel's Season of the Dead
Posted on Wednesday 13th February 2019
Grimmfest will be presenting a Zombie Double Bill, in association with Horror Channel's upcoming Season of the Dead on February 20th.
The evening is being held at Plaza Cinema, Stockport with doors opening at 6.30pm for a 7pm start and contains two celebrated gut-munching must sees back on the big screen; Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland.
Shaun of the Dead is the cult horror/comedy starring Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield and Nick Frost and directed by Edgar Wright, this is your chance to embrace the famous George A. Romero parody on the big screen as a man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother and dealin...
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UK TV premieres for Redwood and The Tall Man lead Horror Channel's February line-up
Posted on Monday 21st January 2019
February on Horror Channel sees the UK TV premieres of films by two highly talented directors: Tom Paton brings a fresh spin to creature-in-the-woods mythology with Redwood, a nerve-shredding chiller that will make you think twice about going camping, and The Tall Man, Pascal Laugier's follow-up to his classic Martyrs is another sensational thriller of astonishing depth.
There are also channel premieres for Luls de la Madrid's unholy supernatural shocker The Nun, John Dahl's white-knuckle thriller Joy Ride, the Wachowski Brothers' stylish, neo-noir crime caper Bound, starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon, and Alexandra Aja's intensely disturbing Mirrors, starring Keifer Suther...
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Get ready to move into 2019 with Sliders.
Posted on Thursday 3rd January 2019
Ever wanted the ability to move between periods of time in Earth's history, and if so, where would you choose? But what if each period of time was from an alternate universe? This is the added jeopardy faced by the four travellers in the cult series Sliders, which starts on Horror on January 7th.
A physics postgraduate student Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) discovers how to travel or 'slide' to parallel dimensions via a vortex, and is joined by his professor Professor Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), his friend Wade Wells (Sabrina Lloyd), and a stranger Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks) accidentally caught up in the experiment.
Over five seasons and 88 ep...
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Top 10 movies of 2018
Posted on Tuesday 1st January 2019
It's been a real bumper year for horror movie fans. 2018 delivered up more cinematic scares than most years, it also saw he return of some of one of the most iconic monsters of all time.
Here, in no particular order, is our ten favourites and let us know yours via Facebook and Twitter.
Ghost Stories The movie that breathed new life into the portmanteau genre, Ghost Stories is a sublime excursion into the smart minds of two incredibly talented people; Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Phillip Goodman (Nyman), professor of psychology, arch-skeptic, one-man 'belief buster' - has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. Played totally straight and written and directed by Dyson and Nyman from their own celebrated stage play, Ghost Stories delivers an unforgettable experience and proves once again that Andy Nyman is on...
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Horror Channel goes nuts in January with a Bloody Crazy Season!
Posted on Monday 17th December 2018
Madness, mayhem and adult babies! Horror Channel goes nuts on Saturday nights in January with a Bloody Crazy Season, a celebration of out-there modern horror, headlined by the UK TV premiere of Attack Of The Adult Babies, directed by Emmerdale star Dominic Brunt. This outrageous and hilarious satire stars a whole host of TV favourites including Andrew Dunn, Kate Coogan, Joanne Mitchell, Charlie Chuck and 'Sally Dexter.
The season also includes the UK TV premiere of Lowell Dean's blood-soaked werewolf caper Another Wolfcop and the channel premiere of wacky zombie rom-com Ibiza Undead, starring Cara Theobold and Emily Atack. Topping off the season with copious amounts of slimy gore is Jacob Vaughan's comedy horror Bad Milo! T...
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Got Freeview Play? Then get Horror Bites!
Posted on Wednesday 5th December 2018 Hungry for a taste of more Horror? Check out our catch-up player, Horror Bites now on Freeview Play. SHARE:
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Zombie elves, Christmas demons and William Shatner! December on Horror
Posted on Thursday 22nd November 2018
Be prepared for an X-rated Xmas this December as Horror Channel serves up an horrific host of premieres, leading with the UK premiere of Xmas anthology A Christmas Horror Story. Tales From The Crypt meets Silent Night Deadly Night as zombie elves, Xmas demons and William Shatner invade UK homes on Saturday 22nd of December.
There are also channel premieres for Michael Thelin's unnerving and superbly performed chiller Emelie, and the star-studied jungle nightmare Anaconda, with Jon Voight, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Eric Stoltz. From giant snakes we move to killer sharks and vampiric post-apocalyptic creatures - as the channel is giving seasonal first-showings t...
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From the Horror Channel Sci-Fi Zone - The Invaders
Posted on Monday 19th November 2018
Long before The X-Files, long before 24, and at around the same time as The Prisoner, there was one show that dared to tackle the subject of "Is our Government lying to us" head on in a manner that was not only dignified but played totally straight; The Invaders.
Running for two seasons from 1967 to 1968, The Invaders was created by Larry Cohen, a man who had cut his writing teeth on classics such as The Fugitive and who would go on to carve a career as a cult movie favourite bringing fans movies such as It's Alive (1974), The Stuff (1985) and The Ambulance (1990).
With bold colours and the legendary line, "A Quinn Martin Production" proudly in place, The Invaders took the B-Movie ...
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Happy 30th Birthday Chucky!
Posted on Friday 9th November 2018
When you were a child, did you ever think that your toys came to life when you were asleep? Or, did you even think they could come alive and gut you like a fish? This second idea is the premise behind Child's Play, one of the most successful slasher series of all time.
OK, the idea of a killer doll or toy wasn't new, one only has to look back at movies like Dead of Night (1945), Magic (1978), and The Pit (1981) and countless episodes from anthology shows, but the way Child's Play was done totally straight gave it that special edge over what had come before.
Written and directed by genre master Tom Holland, Child's Play was based on an idea from Don Mancini and quickly become a slasher f...
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Author and critic Kim Newman reflects on Horror Channel's Hammer Classics Season
Posted on Thursday 1st November 2018
Very few people could write about Hammer films with the credentials that Kim Newman has. He's an award-winning author, a highly respected critic, a noted journalist and talented broadcaster and his passion for cinema is known throughout the industry. Here he takes a look at Horror's Hammer Classics Season.
Into the polite grey world of 1950s British cinema burst lurid EastmanColor decadence. In Essoldos, Odeons and Classics up and down the country, screens that were dominated by well-mannered, stiff-upper lip characters - the repressed romantics of Brief Encounter or the staunch heroes of The Dam Busters - suddenly ran red with gore, and the flash of the scarlet lining of Dra...
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