Re-Animator
(Screened: Wednesday May 6, 8.30pm)CATCH-UP: Watch it now
(USA, comedy/horror/sci-fi)
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
What's it about?Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s 1922 pulp horror story, Re-Animator follows Herbert West, a brilliant but deranged scientist conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University. One day, he reveals to a fellow student his groundbreaking work on the re-animation of fresh corpses. However, his obsession soon sends him further into madness. With a good dose of black humour, plenty of gore and a chilling performance by Jeffrey Combs, Re-Animator "will scare you to pieces".
Bride of Re-Animator
Wednesday May 13, 8.30pmCATCH-UP: Watch it now
(USA, comedy/horror/sci-fi)
Director: Brian Yuzna
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones
What's it about?
The mad Dr. Herbert West returns in this terrifying sequel, set eight months after the events of Re-Animator. Dr. West and Dr. Cain continue their strange experiments, this time attempting to create the perfect woman by joining the legs of a hooker and the womb of a virgin to the heart of Dr. Cain's dead girlfriend. A grisly and witty tribute to The Bride of Frankenstein.
The Thing
Wednesday May 20, 8.30pm
(USA, horror/sci-fi)
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
What's it about?
This cult classic by master of horror John Carpenter (Halloween) is a remake of the 1951's movie The Thing from Another World. Carpenter's key actor Kurt Russell plays one of the scientists based at an arctic research station, who discover an alien spacecraft under the thick ice, and thaw out the body of a shape-shifting alien. A must-see.
Blood Glacier
Wednesday May 20, 10.30pm
(Austria, horror)
Director: Marvin Kren
Starring: Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic, Santos
What's it about?
Often compared to Carpenter's The Thing, Blood Glacier tells the story of a team of scientists, led by gruff researcher Janek, who are posted in the Austrian Alps to research global warming. One day, while walking their dog, they make a strange discovery: a blood-like liquid pouring from a nearby glacier, which causes horrifying mutations in the local wildlife. Soon the team have to defend themselves and the station against a growing horde of biological monsters. (Pet lovers beware of a particularly heartbreaking scene involving the dog.)
Evil Dead 2
Wednesday May 27, 8.30pmCATCH-UP: Watch it now
(USA, comedy/horror)
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
What's it about?
The pitch-perfect gory slapstick made Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise a must-see of the horror comedy genre. In this second part, our hero Ash Williams is the sole survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, who infected his girlfriend Linda and forced him to decapitate her. But she comes back from the dead, albeit disjointed, and is determined to get a piece of him.
Army of Darkness
Wednesday May 27, 10.30pm
(USA, comedy/fantasy/horror)
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
What's it about?
In the outrageous third installment of the Evil Dead franchise, Ash Williams is time-warped back to the Dark Ages by the demonic power of the Necronomicon, a magical book. Thanks to his modern weaponry – a '73 Oldsmobile, his trusty chainsaw and a 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun – which travelled with him from the present, he's chosen as the leader to fight against the relentless hordes of the medieval dead led by a diabolical Evil Ash.
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