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Five Films to Check Out on Horror Channel This Week – 080321

Written By:

Martin Unsworth
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Things are getting brighter outside but there are still plenty of darker things to watch on Horror Channel each week. Here are some of our favourites this week:

tall man

Tuesday March 9th, 9pm – The Tall Man (2012)

Martyrs director Pascal Laugier helms this brilliantly twisted thriller about a series of child abductions in a remote town. Jessica Biel (from 2003’s version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) plays a mother who goes to extremes to find her son.

nightbreed

Wednesday March 10th, 9pm Nightbreed (1990)

Clive Barker adapts his own novella Cabal and directs this wonderfully imaginative movie. David Cronenberg plays a doctor with a sinister side and there are plenty of misshapen characters in Midian, the mythical home of monsters.

green inferno

Friday March 12th, 10.50pm – The Green Inferno (2013)

Eli Roth heads to the Amazon in this homage to the cannibal films of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s. A group of student activists head to the jungle to try to prevent a company clearing the forest, and endangering the native tribes. The tribes, however, are not very grateful as they capture and proceed to eat the team.

starman

Saturday March 13th, 6.35pm – Starman (1984)

Jeff Bridges (King Kong) and Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) star in this often overlooked sci-fi romantic fantasy from the legendary John Carpenter. Bridges is an alien who embodies the form of Allen’s dead husband after crash landing near her home. Like the creature in Spielberg’s E.T., he just wants to go home.

ultraviolet

Saturday March 13th, 9pm – Ultraviolet (2006)

Kicking off a week of vampire films, which also includes 30 Days of Night (which follows at 10.45pm), Let Me In, and Fright Night. Milla Jovovich stars in this futurist take on the bloodsucker, where the vampires are people infected with a rare blood disease.

Tune into Horror Channel on Sky 317, Virgin 149, Freeview 68, Freesat 138.

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