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Arrow Video FrightFest announces Glasgow Film Festival 2020 line-up

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Welcome to the transgressive, the traumatic and the terrifying as Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 15th fantastic year, from Thursday 5 March to Saturday 7 March, 2020. Thirteen is lucky for some as that’s the number of new films being presented at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, embracing the latest genre discoveries from around the globe, spanning four continents, including one world, two European and seven UK  premieres. Alan Jones, FrightFest co-director, commented: “Welcome to another banner FrightFest and another invitation to explore the horror fantasy genre’s fertile harvest bursting with creativity, imagination and difference in a world that often seems hostile to all three. So enjoy FrightFest Glasgow 2020: 13 new films from around the world guaranteed to offer a much-needed cinematic sanctuary”. Hold on to your seats for the altered state sci-fi fantasy journey of your life! In a special Thursday night p

Arrow Video FrightFest announces Glasgow Film Festival 2020 line-up

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Welcome to the transgressive, the traumatic and the terrifying as Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 15th fantastic year, from Thursday 5 March to Saturday 7 March, 2020. Thirteen is lucky for some as that’s the number of new films being presented at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, embracing the latest genre discoveries from around the globe, spanning four continents, including one world, two European and seven UK  premieres. Alan Jones, FrightFest co-director, commented: “Welcome to another banner FrightFest and another invitation to explore the horror fantasy genre’s fertile harvest bursting with creativity, imagination and difference in a world that often seems hostile to all three. So enjoy FrightFest Glasgow 2020: 13 new films from around the world guaranteed to offer a much-needed cinematic sanctuary”. Hold on to your seats for the altered state sci-fi fantasy journey of your life! In a special Thursday night p

Horror Channel marks February weekends with eight action-packed premieres

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Killer parties, virtual dinosaurs, zombie flesh-eaters and Milla Jovovich in top form…Horror Channel makes February an action-packed month with eight premieres, including the UK TV premiere of Matty Beckerman’s savage sorority slasher THE ROW and the channel premieres of Simeon Halligan’s neon-drenched Mancunian horror thriller HABIT, starring Elliot James Langridge, Roxanne Pallett and Jessica Barden. Plus there’s the eerie psychological thriller CAN’T COME OUT TO PLAY, directed by John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), starring Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon and Peter Fonda. There are also Channel premieres for the 2019 version of CABIN FEVER, a remake of Eil Roth's 2002 film and written by him; Scott Derrickson’s supernatural chiller DELIVER US FROM EVIL, starring Eric Bana, futuristic survivalist thriller THE JURASIC GAMES, fiery revenge horror THE BURNING and Milla Jovovich is back in RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION, the third chapter of the hugely successful Reside

Horror Channel marks February weekends with eight action-packed premieres

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Killer parties, virtual dinosaurs, zombie flesh-eaters and Milla Jovovich in top form…Horror Channel makes February an action-packed month with eight premieres, including the UK TV premiere of Matty Beckerman’s savage sorority slasher THE ROW and the channel premieres of Simeon Halligan’s neon-drenched Mancunian horror thriller HABIT, starring Elliot James Langridge, Roxanne Pallett and Jessica Barden. Plus there’s the eerie psychological thriller CAN’T COME OUT TO PLAY, directed by John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), starring Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon and Peter Fonda. There are also Channel premieres for the 2019 version of CABIN FEVER, a remake of Eil Roth's 2002 film and written by him; Scott Derrickson’s supernatural chiller DELIVER US FROM EVIL, starring Eric Bana, futuristic survivalist thriller THE JURASIC GAMES, fiery revenge horror THE BURNING and Milla Jovovich is back in RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION, the third chapter of the hugely successful Reside

Horror Channel beams in Captain Sulu for GEORGE TAKEI SELECTS STAR TREK on Saturday January 25.

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George Takei, the legendary Star Trek actor, personally introduces some of his favourite Sulu episodes from the Original Series. “George Takei Selects Star Trek” will take over Horror Channel on Saturday 25 January, from 3pm, showing four specially selected episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 of STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES. Full film details in transmission order: 15:00 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE NAKED TIME A rescue party goes to save some scientists on a dying planet, but they are all dead when the team arrives. Can McCoy save the day? 16:05 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – SHORE LEAVE The crew enjoy some downtime on a peaceful planet - what could possibly go wrong? 17:10 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS The crew go in search of the lost USS Archon on the planet Beta III, but they find something much more troubling. 18:15 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – MIRROR, MIRROR Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uhura end up beamed to an alternative reality, with vicious

Horror Channel beams in Captain Sulu for GEORGE TAKEI SELECTS STAR TREK on Saturday January 25.

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George Takei, the legendary Star Trek actor, personally introduces some of his favourite Sulu episodes from the Original Series. “George Takei Selects Star Trek” will take over Horror Channel on Saturday 25 January, from 3pm, showing four specially selected episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 of STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES. Full film details in transmission order: 15:00 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE NAKED TIME A rescue party goes to save some scientists on a dying planet, but they are all dead when the team arrives. Can McCoy save the day? 16:05 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – SHORE LEAVE The crew enjoy some downtime on a peaceful planet - what could possibly go wrong? 17:10 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS The crew go in search of the lost USS Archon on the planet Beta III, but they find something much more troubling. 18:15 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – MIRROR, MIRROR Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uhura end up beamed to an alternative reality, with vicious