Gore goes
global as Horror Channel serves up three slices of sinful celluloid in its World
SINema Season – three premieres that highlight taboo, terror and blasphemy
Fridays at 22:55 from 7 Sept,
2012
The
season kicks off on Friday Sept 7, 22:55 with THE DEVIL’S
BACKBONE (2001) from Spanish Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del
Torro. Beautifully shot and
immensely creepy the film explores two different types of horror – the very real
horror of war and the exploration of horror experienced through a child’s eyes
(Carlos), one of ghost’s and the supernatural.
Guillermo
has stated this is his favourite work so far, and was a 16 year labour of love.
It was influenced by early memories of seeing his uncle come back as a
ghost
and the
creepy spectre that appears to Carlos was based on the pale faced ghosts in
Japanese horrors like The Ring.
Next up
on Friday Sept 14, 22:55 is THE ANTICHRIST (1974), which
delves dangerously deep into the blasphemous aspects of demonic
possession.
Ippolita,
a young woman wheelchair-bound and sexually frustrated, finds herself under the
spell of Satan himself when she becomes victim to an ancestral curse of
witchcraft and possession. She
starts seducing local men, only to kill them and an exorcism seems to be the
only solution to stop the madness
The
controversial Satanic orgy scene will certainly have a few tongues wagging with
its implication of bestiality
The last
in the season on Fri Sept 21, 22:55, is one of the most absurd,
gruesome French horrors ever made – BABY
BLOOD (1990)
Yanka, a
young circus performer, is pregnant but morning sickness and fat ankles are the
least of her problems when a new leopard from Africa is delivered to the circus
– a beautiful beast hiding a hideous creature within.
And as
the months progress, Yanka suffers from an overpowering appetite... for blood.
Or rather, her unborn baby is screaming for it. And she is forced to kill and
kill again…
TV: Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat
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