Horror Channel will be slicing its way through our TV schedules every Friday night throughout October as it celebrates slasher films, both classic and contemporary, From Oct 5 there will be four double-bills, headed up by four UK TV premieres. Seen as the most controversial of horror film sub-genres, the slasher film has delighted fans for over 30 years with its iconic psychopaths, trend-setting special effects, horny teenagers and outrageous plotlines. From ‘Psycho to the hilarious Scream
franchise, these endearing films forever changed the face and fortunes of horror
cinema.
Fri Oct 5 @ 22:55
The season kicks off with the premiere of
GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM (2006) a documentary which features a host of genre legends including Wes Craven, Rob Zombie & John Carpenter, who take us on a journey to the darkest recesses of cinematic shock. This is followed at
00:40 by
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974). Bob Clark’s Sorority House
horror classic, which stars Olivia Hussy, influenced such spine-chilling greats as
Halloween and
Scream.
Fri Oct 12 @ 22.55
Next up is the premiere of the bone-crunching
WRECKAGE (2010) directed by
John Mallory
Asher
in which four friends head to a scrap yard
to look for spare parts – but soon realise the only spare parts they’ll be
getting their hands on are their own!. This is followed at
00:40 by
high-school slasher favourite
PROM NIGHT (1980), starring the original
scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielson. There is also an actress in
the film called Liz Stalker-Mason.
Fri Oct 19 @ 22.55
Martin Kemp, the
famed actor/musician has turned his hand to horror, bringing us his impressive
directorial debut
STALKER (2010).
Its not often that a woman stalks another woman in this genre and
here Jane March, who found fame in ‘The Lover’, plays the part of a psychotic
female to chilling perfection. This is double-billed at
00:25 with
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY TO ME (1981) starring Melissa Sue Anderson as a high school senior whose
birthday party guests are being killed off one by one…
Fri Oct 26 @
22:55
The last
double-bill of the season features the TV premiere of
THE TORTURED
(2010), directed by Robert Lieberman, in which a desperate mother and father
(played by Jesse
Metcalfe & Elise Landry)decide
to take the law into their own hands after the kidnapper and killer of their son
receives a light sentence. .
Concluding the series at
00:30 is cult classic
MANIAC COP
(1988) written by Larry Cohen and starring Bruce Campbell as the
suspected cop who goes in search of the real killer.
TV: Sky
319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138
