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Posted on Tuesday 21st May 2019
Summer kicks off on Horror Channel in suspenseful style with Killer Thriller Season - a selection of tense shockers including the channel premieres of Rod Lurie's 2011 pulsating remake of Straw Dogs, starring James Marsden and Kate Bosworth; the murder motel chiller Vacancy, starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson; and the 2009 remake of kin killer slasher The Stepfather.
The Saturday night primetime season also features psychological thriller House at the End of the Street, starring Jennifer Lawrence, and Neil LaBute's horrifying racial drama Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Patrick Wilson.
Here's more info on these killer movies...
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Horror will be at MCM Comic Con London 2019, and you could be too!
Posted on Friday 17th May 2019
Horror will be at MCM Comic Con London 2019 and you've got the chance to be there too. More details on our Competitions Page.
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Interview with Horror's Channel Manager Stewart Bridle
Posted on Friday 10th May 2019
Stewart Bridle is Horror Channel's longest serving Channel Manager. He has guided Horror for almost a decade and has managed to bring to our screens many classics as well as introducing us to some new horror movie talent. In this, our 15th anniversary month we chat to Stewart about his role and some of the juicy pieces he has lined up for the rest of 2019.
HC: Have you always been a horror movie fan?
SB: Yes! I've always been interested and fascinated with horror and all genre stuff. I have an older brother who would manage to rent or get bootleg VHS of some great horror titles and I have memories of watching things like the original Dawn Of The Dead or slashers like The Burning while far too youn...
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Horror Bites - Now available on Freesat
Posted on Wednesday 8th May 2019
Satellite TV audiences are now able to catch up on their favourite Horror Channel, CBS Reality, CBS Justice and CBS Drama programmes through their Freesat set top boxes as the CBS AMC UK Channels Partnership, a joint venture between AMC Networks International and CBS Studios International, launches Horror Bites and CBS Catchup Channels UK on Freesat, the UK's leading subscription free satellite TV platform.
Freesat viewers can now access content from the CBS UK channels, one of the fastest-growing channel portfolios in the UK, for up to thirty days after broadcast. Viewers can also watch on-demand content in the form of box sets and CBS Reality Original programming such as Ev...
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A brief history of Horror
Posted on Friday 3rd May 2019
"Let the nightmares begin..."
It's hard to think that way back in 2004 that there wasn't a TV station dedicated to the darker side of cinema. We all had to make do with DVDs, late night repeats or subscribe to Sky Movies to get our fix of classic and contemporary chills.
The Horror Channel (for that it was called way back) was launched on May 3rd, 2004 on an unsuspecting public. This free-to-air destination for horror fans was filled with some true classics as well as the odd piece of news and some features. After a few months the channel had built up a loyal following and was noticed by a company, Zone Vision Networks Ltd in 2005 and in 2006 the channel was re-...
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Horror brings terror home in May
Posted on Saturday 27th April 2019
Apart from the movies in our Invasion Season (Channel premieres for The Darkest Hour, Extraterrestrial and Dark Skies) tune in for the UK TV premiere of Roxy Shith's blood-thirsty thriller Painkillers and channel premieres for horror anthology, Tales That Witness Madness, helmed by Freddie Francis and Neil LaBute's horrifying racial drama Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Patrick Wilson.
Plus, the channel premiere of Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution, with Milla Jovovich, returning as iconic heroine Alice.
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Dark forces invade Horror Channel in May
Posted on Thursday 18th April 2019
Dark forces arrive on Horror Channel in May when the UK's most popular genre TV channel unleashes Invasion Season: a collection of Saturday night alien attack sci-fi movies.
The line-up includes Chris Gorak's Moscow-set apocalyptic fantasy, The Darkest Hour, Colin Minihan's wonderfully effective sci-fi shocker Extraterrestrial, Scott Stewart's compulsive alien home-invasion thriller Dark Skies and the high velocity alien battler drama Skyline, directed by Greg and Colin Strause.
In the Channel Premiere of The Darkest Hours on the 4th, young entrepreneurs Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) find themselves stranded in Moscow, alongside fellow travellers Natal...
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Fright Night, The Woman in Black and The Final Girls lead Horror Channel's April line-up
Posted on Monday 18th March 2019
Coming up in April, Horror Channel premieres two playfully affecting horror comedies that both pack a mighty punch.
Todd Strauss-Schulson's entertainingly subversive slasher fantasy The Final Girls, receives its UK TV premiere on Friday 19th April, 9pm, whilst Tom Holland's voracious vampire classic Fright Night will get its Channel premiere on Saturday 13th April, 9pm.
Also, on Friday 12th April, 9pm, there is a TV first for Takashi Shimizu's turbulence-driven supernatural thriller Flight 7500, starring Amy Smart and Ryan Kwanten.
Plus, in an petrifying scare-packed month, there are channel premieres for Peter ...
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Hit the road with Horror in March
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?
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, is released from rehab and given a second chance with a new job a...
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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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