Film
News (UK): Horror Channel to show network TV premiere of HARD
CANDY as part of its ‘Xtreme Teens’ season
Horror
Channel plans to screen a selection of provocative revenge and hormonal horror
movies in its ‘Xtreme Teens’ season, with will play Saturdays at
22:50 from 5th July and end on 26th July
with the Network TV premiere of David Slade’s award-winning,
controversial vigilante thriller HARD CANDY The other titles are: ALL THE
BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE, THE LOVED ONES and GINGER SNAPS
Plus
Horror Channel will be showing the long overdue UK TV premiere
of SEXY KILLER, Miguel Marti’s brilliant Spanish black comedy horror
and the network premieres of Brett Simmons HUSK, a 2011 remake
of the 1988 film ‘Scarecrows’ and CUBE 2 – HYPERCUBE, the 2002 Canadian sequel
to the psychological thriller ‘Cube’.
Sat 26 July @ 22:50 – HARD CANDY (2005) * Network TV Premiere
David
Slade's provocative and topical thriller stars Hayley (Ellen Page) as a
14-year-old teenwho meets a thirty-something photographer Jeff (Patrick Wilson)
on an internet chat line. After meeting in a coffeehouse, Jeff invites Haley
back to his place, and it's not long before Jeff's underage guest is pouring
drinks and posing provocatively for an impromptu photo shoot. As the evening's
activities take a decidedly sordid slant and Jeff appears poised to strike, a
sudden turn of events reveals that Hayley has had a plan of her own from the
very beginning.
Sat
5 July @ 22:50 – ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (2006)
A
psychotic stalker kills anyone getting close to sexy, sassy Texas cheerleader
Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) in director Jonathan Levine’s tightly wound
shocker. Skilfully recreating the raw choppiness and rough-edged
grind-house feel of classic exploitation. Levine puts his canny chiller through
retro filters for a scintillating post-modern charge. The bitch slap
atmosphere is a pure delight and the gory deaths are terrifically
cringe inducing.
Sat 12 July @ 22:50 – GINGER SNAPS (2000)
Two
death-obsessed sisters (played by Emily
Perkins and Katharine Isabelle) are outcasts in their suburban
neighbourhood. One night, one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf and
they must both deal with the bloody, tragic consequences. Now a cult favourite,
the film’s production caused public controversy as the Columbine High School
massacre and the W. R. Myers High School shooting both took place, during
shooting. Directed by John Fawcett.
Sat
19 July @ 22:50 – THE LOVED ONES (2009)
Director
Sean Byrne’s hilariously dark and supremely confident mash-up of MISERY, SAW
and CARRIE sees cute young Brent picked out by classmate Lola to attend her
gore-soaked private prom. Kidnapped by her devoted father who will do
absolutely anything Lola requests, Brent soon finds himself in the company
of the deadliest pair since Burke and Hare. Byrne’s stylish twist on teen
horror provides superior scream shocks.
Fri 4 July @ 22:55 – SEXY KILLER (2008) *UK TV
Premiere
Barbara (Macarena
Gómez) is a medical student in an exclusive Spanish university. On
the surface she is spoilt, beautiful, a skilled seductress, with a bright
future. But she has a dark side. When not in classes or out
shopping, she is a brutally violent serial killer carving her waythrough
the university population. The police are at a loss. Assuming that the killer
must be a man they have no chance of ever catching Barbara, until a pair of
students develop a brain wave analyser with the ability to project
the last images to be imprinted upon the brain. Also starring César
Camino as Tomás and Alejo Sauras as Alex.
Sat
11 July @
22:55 – HUSK (2011) * Network TV Premiere
Five
friends are traveling through rural Nebraska on a weekend trip when
their SUV is forcedoff the road by a flock of wild crows. Upon waking,
they discover that one of their party, Johnny (Ben Easter), is missing.
Seeking help, Brian (Wes Chatham) and Scott (Devon Graye)head through a
cornfield to a nearby farm house, hoping to find Johnny there
but they’ve stumbled across a centre of a supernatural ritual. Directed
by Brett Simmons.
Fri
18 July June @ 22:50 – CUBE 2 - HYPERCUBE (2002)
* Network TV Premiere
Eight
strangers awaken with no memory and find themselves in a puzzling cube shaped
room where the laws of physics do not always apply. Cube 2:
Hypercube had
a bigger budget than its predecessor, and a new director, Andrzej Sekuła. The
industrial-style rooms of the first film are replaced with high-tech, brightly
lit chambers; instead of traps such as flamethrowers and extending spikes, the
rooms have "evolved" and now are controlling illusion, time, space
and reality.
TV:
Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138
