Deep and crisp and bloody! Get ready to be frozen to the
bone this November with Horror Channel’s Winter Chills Weekend – featuring some
truly snow-filled spine tingling premieres.
Fri Nov 9 @
22:55
The hills are alive –
with undead Nazis as the season kicks off with the premiere of DEAD SNOW (2009), a beautifully nasty
horror comedy directed by Tom Wirkola (Hansel &Gretel Witch Hunters). With a car full of ski equipment and enough beer to fuel their
escape from everyday life, eight medical students head out on their
vacation. Isolated in the snowy
hills the group begin to realise they came to the wrong resort, as deep in the
hills lay an unthinkable evil.
Sat Nov 10 @ 22.55
The season continues with
BLOOD RUNS COLD (2011). Swedish director Sonny Laguna
gives the slasher genre a welcome Scandinavian make-over. Record-producer
Winona heads to her hometown on the outskirts of
Stockholm for a
break... Shortly after settling in, she invites a former boyfriend and a couple
to the house. But there is an unknown presence stirring within the house, one
that has been waiting for the right moment to strike.
Sun Nov 11 @ 22.55
Wrapping up the season is
sci-fi horror thriller THE THAW
(2009) Directed by Mark A Lewis,
it stars Val Kilmer as Dr. Krupien
the head of a team of ecology students, who are examining a melting ice cap in
the Arctic. When Krupien unearths a
prehistoric specimen the likes of which has never been seen, he summons four of
his brightest students to take part in the excavation. But the melting polar
ice-cap has released a deadly pre-historic parasite…
