December 25th on the Horror Channel:

15:00: The City Under The Sea
16:45: At The Earth's Core
18:35: Warlords Of Atlantis
20:30: The New Twilight Zone - Series 1, Episode 25. A department store Santa Claus is fired from his job, but finds that his toy sack can still deliver magical Christmas cheer. Starring William Atherton
21:00: Silent Night
22:55: The Wicker Man
00:50: Horror Express
02:35: Lesbian Vampire Killers

December Highlights on the Horror Channel:

"Andrew Goth's ambitious and disaster beset zombie cowboy feature (it started production in 2009) finally gets an outing on UK TV on Friday 16 December at 9pm, courtesy of Horror Channel. Starring Wesley Snipes (who served a prison sentence soon after the film was completed) Gallowwalkers is a heady mix of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, and Alejandro Jodorowsky's mystical cult classic El Topo. Set in a vast foreboding desert, we follow a cursed gunfighter Aman (Snipes) as he attempts to allude justice whilst killing the 'undead'. Prepare for surreal true grit, a shock bonanza, and a fistful of corpses. It also stars fellow hard-nuts Kevin Howarth and Patrick Bergin.

That's not the only movie worth staying in for this December, Horror Channel also has a Boxing Day treat for you - the network premiere of Joe Dante's genuinely affecting monster movie Matinee, starring John Goodman. Set in the 1960s, this early comedy from horror filmmaker Joe Dante centres on a teenage boy who befriends charismatic, humorously overblown movie producer Lawrence Woolsey (Goodman), who specialises in gimmick-filled horror films. Preparation for the premiere of Woolsey's latest opus, which stars a giant ant, coincides with the escalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This culminates in unexpected chaos. Well worth a watch.

Other UK premieres on offer include Austin Chick's shocking payback thriller Girls Against Boys; and Olatunde Osunsanmi's serial-killer crime gripper Evidence, starring Stephen Moyer.

There are also network premieres for Alex Proyas's absorbing sci-fi actioner Knowing, starring Nic Cage; Joseph J. Lawson's dinosaur-battling B-movie homage Age Of Dinosaurs, starring Treat Williams and Rachel Goldenberg's sci-fi flavoured mockbuster Sherlock Holmes.

ALSO... from Friday 16 December at 7pm there is the Network Premiere of Earth: Final Conflict Season 2 (1998)"

Horror Channel - Sky 319 Virgin 149 Freeview 70 Freesat 138

Dante's Matinee is on the Horror channel Boxing day 4pm.

January premiers on The Horror Channel:

Jan 8th - Muck: "After escaping from a possessed ancient burial ground underneath the Cape Cod marshes, Mia (Lauren Francesca) and her friends take shelter in an abandoned house. Unfortunately, the house has an evil spirit of its own. They are now trapped between malevolent entities, forcing them to stay and fight, or go back the way they came. Also stars Kane Hodder"

Jan 9th - The Ninth Gate

Jan 13th - 13 Sins: "Heavily in debt and with a pregnant girlfriend, an autistic brother, and an ailing father to care for, down-on-his-luck salesman Elliot (Mark Webber) is thrown an unusual lifeline. A mysterious phone caller offers him cash for completing thirteen challenges, each more difficult than the one before. However, should he fail one, he loses everything. As the stakes rise, Elliot must decide whether the risk is worth the reward"

Jan 14th - We Are Still Here. "After their teenage son is killed in a car crash, Paul and Anne (Barbara Crampton) move to the New England countryside to start a new life. But the grieving couple unknowingly becomes the prey of a family of vengeful spirits that reside in their converted funeral parlour home. And so begins a terrifying fight back against the living hiding a terrible secret, and the malicious dead demanding a sacrifice that threatens to pull their cursed souls into hell"

Jan 20th - ATM. "One late night after an office party, co-workers David (Brian Geraghty), Emily (Alice Eve) and Corey (Josh Peck) make a late-night stop at an ATM. What should be a routine transaction turns into a desperate struggle for survival when an unknown man appears outside the vestibule. With the wintry temperatures dipping below freezing, and the morning sunrise still hours away, they have no choice but to play the man's deadly game of cat-and-mouse

Jan 21st - Out Of The Dark. "Sarah Harriman (Julia Stiles) has moved her family - husband Paul (Scott Speedman) and sprightly daughter Hannah (Pixie Davies) - to a small Colombian town to work at the paper mill her father (Stephen Rea) owns. As they settle into their home, surrounded by a forbidding jungle landscape, Hannah begins to act strangely and suddenly disappears. As Sarah and Paul frantically search for her, they delve deeper into the town'superstitions and discover a shocking secret about their family; a secret they must uncover in order to save their daughter"

Jan 29th - The Last Exorcism

Class: Series 1 Gets Late Night Slot on BBC1

BBC1, Monday 9th January 2017 at 10.45pm

Or maybe not!

TNT's "Tales From the Crypt" Reboot Gets the Axe?(Exclusive) - Bloody Disgusting!

It would never have lived up to the original series anyway :nod:

Something on the lines of Masters of Horror with the Crypt keeper introducing would have been okay.

Weren't they planning on ditching the Crypt Keeper for the reboot?

No idea. I never read the article posted.

It doesn't mention it in either of those articles, but I seem to remember reading that HBO owns the rights to the Crypt Keeper, could be wrong though

For people who like musical film and theatre

BBC4 documentary Sound of Musicals With Neil Brand to cover 100 years of the genre

starts January 13 at 9pm

Captain America: Winter Soldier is on telly tonight. BBC 1 at 8.30. Not seen it before, so i'll give it a look-see.

This might be of interest to some people:

BBC Four, Wed 18 Jan 12:55am - 1:55am: How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale

"Review
by Claire Webb
Art historian Alastair Sooke is on a diabolical quest but at first finds no trace of the horned Satan with swinging tail and sulphourous whiff. The earliest existing Lucifer, in a sixth-century church in Ravenna, northern Italy, looks more like a beatific blue angel.

Five centuries later, Beelzebub makes a second appearance in Venice: still blue but this time with flowing locks and squiffy eyes. This fascinating film then reveals how the artists of the Middle Ages turned to fun-loving pagan gods for inspiration. Soon Old Nick was getting up to all sorts. Often, as Sooke points out with a glint in his eye, more porno than inferno.

Summary
Art historian Alastair Sooke reveals how the Devil's image was created by artists in the Middle Ages. He explores how visual interpretations of Satan evolved between the birth of Christ and the Renaissance, and how he was depicted in an array of different guises, including tempter, tyrant and rebellious angel."

When I was wee I loved the Crystal Maze and when they announced that Stand Up To Cancer special I couldn't wait to watch it. When it actually came around it was sooo boring! All the contestants and the host all looked sooo awkward all the way through it. When I was complaining about it the older members of my family all told me it was like that when I was wee too, I suppose I was too young to notice.

Sometimes nostalgia ain't what it used to be!


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If you have the option for 'regional programmes' on your television, BBC1 on Monday (6th February) 'Inside Out West Midlands' at 7:30pm has a feature on the band Black Sabbath

"They're the band who created the heavy metal sound. Now after half a century, legendary rockers Black Sabbath are on their final live tour. Nick Owen goes behind the scenes to meet the band to find out how they've stayed on top of their game for so long. And about how their distinctive sound was born in the factories and back streets of inner city Birmingham."

Heads up people

The 'Talking Pictures TV' channel is showing the docu-drama "Legend of the Witches" at midnight on Saturday/Sunday, Feb 12th

According to the synopsis on their site, it's '...the famous cult film about witches and witchcraft in Britain'

It Follows premiers on Film 4 at 9 o'clock tonight, if you have yet to see it .

Fox Will Move Forward With Firefly Reboot - On One Condition...

...Joss Whedon has to be on board if it's going to get made.

In the early hours of Thursday, March 9th, between 01:05am - 02:35am, BBC4 is showing 'Horror Europa With Mark Gatiss'

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

That means it'll be on BBC iPlayer for a month or two for those who didn't record it last time.

I'm in two minds about this. The show was fun to watch not only because of the fantastic scripts and dialogue but because of the cast. A reboot sounds like a good idea but what if the cast lacks the same chemistry...

I wonder if Joss is up for it, he was pretty disappointed with how the show was treated the first time around (by Fox...)

It's been done once and failed at at least in the eyes of the Networks.

There's so much tv nowadays but unless you're Trebor there's still only 24 hours in the day and of that time only three or four are for tv and movie watching at most.

without the cast i cant see it working, Nathan Fillion Is Malcolm Reynolds can't see anyone else in the role as he was basically playing himself

The weird thing is that it's the same TV Network that caused it to flounder that wants to reboot it!

Space operas like that don't tend to work for the networks. I don't think Enterprise was considered a huge success was it and that was quite similar to Firefly.

I may be wrong of course. I can't recall any similar sci-fi since.

No, You're right. I can't see it being a success at all. Battlestar Galactica was probably the last successful sci-fi series of this ilk, and even that only lasted for 2 short seasons and 2 long seasons. Caprica was cancelled before the end of its first season and Blood and Chrome was never even picked up.

agree, think thats why CBS are doing star trek discovery the way they are

The thing with Star Trek, as with Doctor Who, is there is a world wide recognized brand in place that will always guarantee some sort of interest.

Something like Firefly doesn't have that luxury. Battlestar Galactica also had a fondly remembered brand with which to work.

Heads up, people

On Thursday, 30 March at 4:00pm, the Talking Pictures TV channel is showing something called "Laurel & Hardy: Home Movies". Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Rare home movie footage of Stan, Ollie and other rarities!

This is followed at 4:35pm by 'Flying Deuces' and an Oliver Hardy interview at 5:55pm, where he reminisces about his 23-year relationship with Stan Laurel and his early career before the famous partnership was formed

"Ten years after the Frank Darabont-directed film depressed us all with its shocking ending, Spike is bringing “The Mist” to the small screen with the network’s own adaptation of the Stephen King novella. The series from executive producer and writer Christian Torpe has been described as a “twisted cousin” to the source material, and the 10-episode first season premieres in June."

Official Trailer Provides First Look at Spike's "The Mist" - Bloody Disgusting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_uqiSQOY

This looks pretty good to be quite honest, I think it looks better than the movie which I did enjoy as well, but obviously as it's a series it'll be a lot more 'fleshed out'. The cast looks good, familiar faces from TV and film.

But how will they cope with 'the ending?'

It was very effective in the movie version, but if the television version uses it, it will kill any chance of a second series!

Well that ending was solely in the movie, so they don't have to copy it. In the novella they just drive off into the mist.

I was wondering about that as it's not a usual Stephen King type of ending. I've not read the book with The Mist in it yet.

The Windmill Massacre is on Film 4 Saturday 15th 11.35 PM.

"Now then, now then, what's all this shouting? We'll have no rumours without factual basis here!"

The League of Gentlemen will make TV comeback, writer says - BBC Newsbeat