A host of channel premieres, some classic exploitation, unmissable sci-fi and a celebration of John Carpenter’s birthday will kick 2025 in fine style on NYX UK, the free-to-air channel dedicated to horror and genre films and TV.
There are twelve Channel premieres this month, including two standout directorial debuts: Jackson Stewart’s impressive adventure fantasy Beyond The Gates, starring genre favourites Barbara Crampton, Brea Grant, and Graham Skipper, and Padraig Reynolds’ glossy and shocking Rites Of Spring, starring the award-winning actor AJ Bowen. There’s also the premiere of Robbie Banfitch’s outstanding experimental found-footage horror The Outwaters.
There are also a further eight feature film channel premieres this month, including such sci-fi cult classics as Contamination, Luigi Cozzi’s former video Nasty, and tea-time screenings of Brit favourites The Day Of The Triffids, the original movie released in 1962 and The Earth Dies Screaming, directed by the legendary Terence Fisher in 1964.
Fans of ‘70s horror/fantasy exploitation can savour the unsavoury delights of Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay and the nunsploitation drama Flavia the Heretic.
More contemporary devilish delights include the channel premieres of Chilean Vampire chiller Eternal Blood and Hong Kong psychological horror-thriller Forest Of Death.
NYX UK also celebrates the Horror Master John Carpenter’s birthday on Thursday Jan 16th, with his most iconic film Halloween, followed at 11pm with a screening of his underrated supernatural shocker The Ward, starring Amber Heard.
Plus, on Thursday January 30th, at 7pm there’s the launch of Galveston’s Cavern of Creeps, a wickedly entertaining horror-comedy series where Galveston, a snarky demon on a quest to unleash the apocalypse, ends up bonding with Jack, a clueless but lovable horror movie enthusiast. Each episode features the duo diving into horror classics, B-movie treasures, and forgotten gems, while dealing with supernatural antics and laugh-out-loud subplots that mirror the films they’re watching. Season One kicks off with The Giant Gila Monster, and the nine episodes will be broadcast on subsequent Thursday nights.
NYX UK is available on Freeview 271, Channelbox App, Distro TV, and TCL TVs.
