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News: Horror Channel to premiere Stephen Moyer’s DEVIL IN THE WOODS
Horror
Channel’s highlights for January include the UK TV premiere of DEVIL IN THE
WOODS, a brutish supernatural chiller starring Stephen Moyer (‘True Blood’) and
directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III, IV, REPO! The Genetic Opera).
There
is also a first-time TV showing for JULIA X, a disturbing serial-killer
thriller starring Kevin (‘Hercules’) Sorbo and directed by P.J. Pettiette.
Plus
there are three Network TV premieres to usher in the new year on a bloody
note: WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD and WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS
both directed by Declan O’Brien, continues the globally successful
cannibalistic franchise which started in 2003 and is still going strong, with
’Wrong Turn 6’ screening at FrightFest 2014. Then there’s THE RATS. John
Lafia’s gruesome vision of a rodent-invested New York City.
Sat 24 Jan @ 21:00 – DEVIL IN THE WOODS (2012) * UK TV
Premiere
True
Blood’ star Stephen Moyer takes the lead in director Darren Lynn Bousman’s
Jersey Devil-themed nightmare, playing Richard Vineyard, who eagerly takes his
new wife (Mia Kirshner) and their combined family on a vacation to the
reclusive Pine Barrens. Desperate for real solitude, Richard leads them deeper
into the woods, where it quickly becomes clear that all is not well as animals
are found mutilated and horrifically killed. Struck down by illness, Richard
and his family are stranded as the local legend of the ‘Jersey Devil’ starts to
haunt their thoughts and what started out as a peaceful family trip ends up
being a deadly nightmare.
Sat 31 Jan @ 22:45 – JULIA X (2011) *UK TV Premiere
In
the unpredictable world of internet dating Kevin Sorbo plays an available male
known only as “The Stranger”; a notorious serial killer who lures girls onto
dates, murders them, then brands them with a letter of the alphabet. Julia
(Valerie Azlynn) becomes letter “X,” and the night is going well for The
Stranger until he realises that Julia is also a predator. Along with her
sister, Jessica, she targets men to take out the aggression that stems from an
abusive childhood. The tables are turned, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Sat 10 Jan @ 22:50 – WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD (2009) *Network
Premiere
Three
Finger and his disturbed family of inbred cannibals are very much alive and
very hungry. The main course for the bloodthirsty family comes when a group of
campers arrive, realising only too late that ticks aren’t the only things that
bite in these backwoods. But when some of the most vicious killers in the
country escape into the woods from a bus transporting them to prison, Three
Finger and his family may have met their match. Will justice be served on the
convicted murderers or upon the mutant killers? Starring Tom Frederic, Janet
Montgomery and Gil Kolirin
Sat 17 Jan @ 22:50 – WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS (2011)
*Network Premiere
In
1974, in the Glenville Sanatorium in West Virginia, three dangerous lunatics
escape from their cell, release the other inmates and kill the doctors and
staff. Fast forward to 2003, and a group of college friends from the Weston
University ride their snowmobiles to the cabin of a friend. However, they get
lost in a storm and just about reach an abandoned asylum where they decide to
spend the night. However, the three cannibal maniacs are still living in the
place and they are hungry for human flesh. Starring Jenny Pudavick, Tenika
Davis & Kaitlyn Wong.
Sat 3 Jan @ 21:00 – THE RATS (2002) *Network Premiere
In
Manhattan, a shopper is bitten by a rat in the dressing room of the Garsons
Department Store and contracts Weil's disease. The manager Susan Costello
(Madchen Amick) hires the best exterminator in New York, Jack Carver (Vincent
Spano). Jack and his assistant find a colony of mutant rats and it’s a race
against time before the colony breaks out and threatens to colonise the whole
state – and beyond!
TV:
Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138
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