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Celebrate Easter with Classic Marathon Weekend on Horror Channel

The long bank holiday weekend is finally upon us, and we’ll be spending it the way we always do: making the most of the holiday telly.

Lucky for all of us who enjoy binge watching, Horror Channel is dedicating its weekend schedules to Classic Marathon Weekend: two monstrous movie marathons for the brave-hearted.

Fromn Saturday, April 3 at 1pm, tune in to Classic Horror Day: a marathon of some of the horror genre’s most iconic monster movies of all time. Highlights include Ted Browning and Karl Freund’s Dracula, James Whale’s Frankenstein and Karl Freund’s The Mummy.

From Sunday, April 4 at 1pm, Horror Channel presents Classic Sci-Fi Day, including genre-defining classics such as Earth Vs The Flying Saucers and The Incredible Shrinking Man.

For full schedules, keep reading, or check out the trailer below:

Classic Horror Day (Saturday, April 3): The Line-Up

1.00pm Dracula:
Tod Browning’s classic interpretation of the Bram Stoker novel, starring Bela Lugosi as the titular villain in a performance that catapulted the character to icon status.

2.30pm Frankenstein:
James Whale’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic, about a mad scientist obsessed with creating a living being from the corpses of others.

3.55pm The Mummy:
Karl Freund directs this pre-Code horror classic, which tells the story of a team of archeologists who unwittingly bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.

5.25pm The Wolf Man:
The massively influential werewolf movie from George Waggner, The Wolf Man tells the story of a man who returns to his rural family home and is bitten while intervening in what appears to be a simple wolf attack.

6.50pm The Creature from the Black Lagoon:
Amphibious ancient monsters from beneath the sea are the focus of Jack Arnold’s The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which still holds up today as an entertaining and well-made classic of the genre.

Classic Sci-Fi Day (Sunday, April 4): The Line-Up

1.00pm It Came From Beneath The Sea:
The incredibly suspenseful monster flick, about a giant octopus empowered by nearby nuclear testing and heading to the North American Pacific Coast.

2.30pm This Island Earth:
Still a critical and cultural success to this day, This Island Earth tells the story of human scientists unknowingly recruited in an alien plan to take over Earth.

4.10pm Earth Vs The Flying Saucers:
A second collaboration from It Came From Beneath The Sea filmmakers Ray Harryhausen and Charles H. Schneer, this sci-fi classic became a heavy influence of the future flying saucer sub-genre.

5.50pm The Incredible Shrinking Man:
The story of a man who becomes a national sensation when he starts uncontrollably shrinking was a blockbuster hit in the 1950s and remains both imaginative and terrifying.

7.25pm 20 Million Miles To Earth:
The cinematic classic 20 Million Miles To Earth tells the story of a powerful and angry creature that hatches on Earth from eggs found on Venus during a space mission.

Watch the Classic Movies Marathon on Saturday April 3 and Sunday April 4 on Horror Channel (Sky 317, Virgin 149, Freeview 68 and Freesat 138).

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Don’t miss Vampire Week on Horror Channel, starting Saturday March 13

It’s time to get toothy as Horror Channel presents Vampire Week: a full seven days of horror films featuring our favourite blood-sucking creatures of the night.

Starting on Saturday (March 13), Vampire Week is an eclectic mix of new films, cult hits and classic horror. Highlights include comic book adaptation and new Horror Channel premiere 30 Days of Night, award-winning horror Let Me In and Gary Oldman’s acclaimed performance as the infamous Count in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Here’s what we’re watching this week on Horror Channel:

Ultraviolet

March 13 9pm

Milla Jovovich stars in this action-packed thriller, which is set in a dystopian future where some humans are infected with a vampire-like illness that leads to superhuman abilities. A militant government intends to round up and destroy the infected, but one infected woman – Violet – vows to protect her kind and seek revenge on those who created them.

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30 Days of Night

March 13 10.45pm

Premiering for the first time on Horror Channel, 30 Days of Night tells the story of a remote Alaskan town that experiences thirty days of darkness each winter – during which it is regularly beset by vampires. Josh Hartnett stars as Sheriff Eben, the leader of a small group of townsfolk who must do all they can to survive the onslaught.

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Let Me In

March 14 9pm

The acclaimed re-make of the 2008 Swedish horror, Matt Reeves’ Let Me In revolves around the friendship between a young boy and the strange girl who moves in next door. Mysterious deaths just seem to follow Abby, played by Chloë Grace Moretz, around; but to 12-year-old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), she’s his best friend.

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Redwood

March 14 11.15pm

Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Nicholas Brendon stars in the mythology-inspired flick Redwood, from director Tom Patton. When a young couple head to a secluded national park for a bit of peace and quiet, ignoring the advice of Park Rangers on the way, they discover far more than the clarity they hoped for.

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Fright Night

March 15 9pm

Cult classic Fright Night tells the story of a teenage horror fan Charley (William Ragsdale), who becomes convinced his next door neighbour Jerry (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. When everyone around Charley refuses to believe him, Charley turns to horror film actor Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) for help. The only problem is that Jerry isn’t keen on his true identity being revealed.

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John Carpenter’s Vampires

March 16 9pm

Indie horror John Carpenter’s Vampires sees a team of Vatican-sponsored vampire hunters take on vicious 600-year-old vampire Jan Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) as both groups clash in the desire to find the Berziers Cross: an item that will give all vampires the ability to withstand daylight.

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Priest

March 17 9pm

Set in an alternate universe where humans and vampires have warred for centuries, Paul Bettany stars as an elite warrior priest whose niece is kidnapped by vampires. Teaming up with a local sheriff and a priestess, he must track down those responsible before it is too late.

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Eat Locals

March 18 9pm

For those wanting a lighter take on vampires, the fabulously funny British spoof comedy Eat Locals won’t disappoint. In the quaint British countryside, a group of vampire overlords reunite for their semi-centennial meeting. Little do they know, they’re about to be interrupted by a detachment of Vatican-sponsored vampire killers.

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula

March 19 9pm

We finish Vampire Week with a cracker – the Academy Award-winning gothic horror Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Gary Oldman heads a star-studded cast as Count Dracula, the infamous centuries-old vampire, who imprisons a London solicitor (Keanu Reeves) when he discovers that man’s fiancee (Wynona Ryder) looks uncannily like his long-dead wife.

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Don’t miss Vampire Week on Horror Channel (Sky 317, Virgin 149, Freeview 68 and Freesat 138) from Saturday, March 13 to Friday, March 19.

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Expect the unexpected with Horror Channel this November

Horror Channel sounds pretty self-explanatory, right? Scary monsters chasing women through the woods, steadily picking off a group of college-aged vacationers in the spooky cabin that they didn’t intend to book.

Not so fast! There’s actually a lot more than you might expect on Horror Channel. From old school sci-fi classics, like Star Trek: The Original Series, to Arnold Schwarzenegger conspiracy thriller The 6th Day: it’s not just the scary stuff.

Here are a few highlights on Horror Channel this November:

Star Trek: The Original Series

Weekdays at 6pm through November

The absolutely classic science fiction needs no introduction, but here we go. Set in our very own Milky Way galaxy in the 2260s, Star Trek follows the adventures of Captain Kirk (William Shatner), First Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Chief Medical Officer McCoy (DeForest Kelley) plus the rest of the crew on the starship Enterprise. Their mission? To boldly go where no man has gone before.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Weekdays at 7pm through November

The second Star Trek sequel series, The Next Generation takes place a century later on the starship Enterprise. A new crew man the ship, including Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Lieutenant Commanders Data (Brent Spiner), Worf (Michael Dorn) and Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton). Their space exploratory mission remains the same, with a fresh batch of exciting new adventures.

Andromeda

Weekdays at 8pm through November

From the creator of Star Trek: The Original Series and The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry, the lesser known Andromeda is just as imaginative. Set in deep space in a post-apocalyptic future, Captain Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) commands the Andromeda Ascendant. It’s up to Hunt and his crew to restore the Systems Commonwealth to return space to peace and prosperity.

Tremors

November 12 at 9pm

Kevon Bacon stars in the hit horror comedy film Tremors, which spawned five sequels, a prequel and a television series. It tells the story of two bored handymen who stumble across the dead body of their friend, leading them to a seismologist who can’t make sense of bizarre readings underground. Their adventures lead to a fight for survival as a new threat emerges: giant worm-monsters hungry to devour mankind.

The 6th Day

November 17 at 9pm

Set in a future where animal and human organ cloning is the norm, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Adam Gibson, a pilot who returns home from a work trip to discover a clone of himself is now living with his family. Gibson discovers he is embroiled in a deadly conspiracy, and his only chance to clear his name is to fight his way to the truth.

The Arrival

November 20 at 9pm

Charlie Sheen stars in this sci fi conspiracy thriller as an astronomer who discovers alien contact with humans only to be dismissed from his job under mysterious circumstances. Could a covert alien invasion already be underway? The race to uncover the truth and spread the word is on.

Serenity

November 26 at 9pm

A cult classic from the mind of Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, Serenity follows on from the much-loved series Firefly. It tells the story of a psychic fugitive with a deadly secret, who is rescued by her brother and the crew of the spaceship Serenity.

Catch all of these and more on Horror Channel this November (Sky 317, Virgin 149, Freeview 68 and Freesat 138).

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