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Five Films to Check Out on Horror Channel This Week – 160522

Written By:

Martin Unsworth
revenge of the creature

There are some more great movies this week on Horror Channel. Here are our picks….

 

saturn 3

 

Tuesday May 17th, 11.10pm – Saturn 3 (1980)

Sci-fi terror as Harvey Keitel and his killer robot threaten Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett on a distant space station.

 

cooties

 

Wednesday May 18th, 9pm – Cooties (2014)  

Elijah Wood is a teacher trying to keep his colleagues safe when the kids all become bloodthirsty zombie-types

 

robot overlords

 

Friday May 20th, 4pm – Robot Overlords (2014)

Bad guy Ben Kingsley commands a horde of robots in this family-friendly sci-fi action-thriller. Gillian Anderson is there to help the locals fend off the menace. The film also boasts some rather spectacular effects considering its budget! Also showing on Saturday at 8am.

 

the changeling

 

Saturday May 21st, 9pm – The Changeling (1980)

George C. Scott stars in this classic supernatural horror as a composer who moves from New York to Seattle following the death of his wife and daughter, only he’s not alone in his new house.

 

it came from outer space

 

Sunday May 22nd, 9pm – 12.10am The Vintage Vault

Horror Channel is celebrating the Golden Age of genre cinema with a season of double bills. There are more fifties chills this week with the Universal sequel Revenge of the Creature (1955), in which aliens take over the bodies of local folk in a desert town. This is followed by It Came from Outer Space (1953), where aliens land on Earth and take over the bodies of the residents of a sleepy desert town.

Tune into Horror Channel on Sky 317, Virgin 149, Freeview 69, Freesat 138.

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