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Five Films to Check Out on Legend This Week – 051222

Written By:

Martin Unsworth
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Well, we’re on to the last month of the year – where does the time go? As always, Legend has some cracking films and TV series to keep the winter blues away. Here are our picks you shouldn’t miss this week…

 

 

Tuesday December 6th, 11.45pm – Videodrome (1982)

Writer/director David Cronenberg is at his most iconic with this twisted piece of body horror. James Woods is the TV exec who stumbles on a sadistic pirate broadcast that takes over his life. Also stars Blondie singer Debbie Harry.

 

 

Thursday December 8th, 10.50pm – John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars (2001)  

The horror master takes on a sci-fi bent with this action-packed movie starring Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham, and cult icon Pam Grier. Set on Mars in the 22nd century, the ghosts of the planet’s past come back to haunt the mining colony.

 

 

Friday December 9th, 9pm – The Internecine Project (1974)

James Coburn is a success economist who is about to be promoted to work for the US president. The only thing he has to do is silence the four people who know about his shady espionage side hustle. Directed by Ken Hughes, best known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

 

Saturday December 10th, 9pm Lonesome Dove (2014)

Starring Tom Berenger, this is based on the real-life story of the formation of the Lonesome Dove Church in Texas. Directed by Even Lambs Have Teeth’s Terry Miles.

 

 

Sunday December 11th, 9pm – 12.40am The Vintage Vault

Legend continues to celebrate the Golden Age of genre cinema with a season of double bills. This week, Peter Cushing fights a giant moth in The Blood Beast Terror (1968) and there’s evil afoot in the folk horror classic The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), starring Linda Hayden, Wendy Padbury, and Patrick Wymark.

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