Horror Channel brings you, lucky people, an array of Saturday night UK TV premieres in the month of May. These prime-time slots feature the award-winning dark comedic monster movie BOOK OF MONSTERS by Stewart Sparke, as well as Audrey Cummings’s grisly chortler SHE NEVER DIED, starring Olunike Adeliyi. 

May also sees the UK TV premiere of the gruesome action thriller BECKY, along with style master Henry Jacobson’s crime chiller BLOODLINE, starring Seann William Scott. The classic supernatural horror THE CHANGELING receives its Channel premiere. This masterpiece from Peter Medak starring the inimitable George C. Scott is not to be missed. 

Horror Channel is especially proud to present premieres for DR WHO AND THE DALEKS and DALEKS’ INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. Peter Cushing stars as Dr Who alongside Roberta Tovey as Susan and Jennie Linden as Barbara. The second features Bernard Cribbins as Tom Campbell, who would return years later to play Wilfred Mott opposite David Tennant’s Doctor. 

Horror Channel announces May UK TV premieres for May including channel premieres for Dalek movies.

Full film details in transmission order:

Saturday 7 May @ 21:00 – SHE NEVER DIED (2019) *UK TV Premiere

Lacey (Olunike Adeliyi) is a socially detached loner, cursed with immortality and the eternal drudgery of existence. Her attempts to control her compulsions lead her to the darkest souls of humanity, where Lacey must confront her inner demons and also seek her next meal.

Saturday 14 May @ 21:00 – BECKY (2020) *UK TV Premiere

Becky (Lulu Wilson) is a rebellious teen, dragged by her father (Joel McHale) to a lake house for a weekend getaway where he hopes they can reconnect. Things get complicated and nasty when a group of escaped convicts invade the house. Becky must draw on all her resources to save her father’s life.

Saturday 14^th May @ 22:55 – BOOK OF MONSTERS (2018) *UK TV Premiere

Sophie’s 18th birthday party should have been a good time. But six terrifying monsters turn it into a bloodbath as they devour her party guests and kill anyone who tries to leave. Amidst the carnage, Sophie must face her destiny as she’s the only one who can stop the monsters, uniting with an unlikely band of comrades to send these monstrous party crashers back where they came from. 

Saturday 21 May @ 21:00 – THE CHANGELING (1980) *Channel Premiere

Composer John Russell (George S. Scott) loses his wife and child in a tragic car accident, and months later moves to a long unoccupied mansion. But John’s hopes of peace and quiet are soon dashed as a strange and uncanny presence haunts the house and his mind. Local historian Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere) takes John into the house’s mysterious past, and he discovers secrets both revealing and terrible. Review here

Saturday 28 May @ 22:50 – BLOODLINE (2018) *UK TV Premiere

Social worker Evan (Seann William Scott) values family above all else and is fiercely protective of his wife, and newborn son. However, Evan encounters many families with different proclivities and administers his own form of rough justice. Maintaining the balance between his two lives proves difficult in this crime horror from Henry Jacobson. 

Sunday 29 May @ 15:00 – DR WHO AND THE DALEKS (1965) *Channel Premiere

Scientist Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) invents a time machine disguised as a police telephone box, which he calls the Tardis. When activated, the Tardis transports the Doctor, his granddaughters Susan and Barbara and Barbara’s boyfriend Ian, through time and space to the planet Skaro, where the peaceful Thals face nuclear attack from the robotic mutant Daleks. This first of two films based on the television series also stars Roy Castle and Jennie Linden and is directed by Gordon Flemyng. 

Sunday 29 May @ 16:40 – DALEKS’ INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966) *Channel Premiere

Following the events of DR WHO AND THE DALEKS, Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) returns to Earth in the year 2150. The planet has been largely destroyed by cosmic rays and the Daleks are hollowing out the planet’s core to turn it into a gigantic spaceship. Again directed by Gordon Flemyng, this was the second of two films based on the television series and also stars Bernard Cribbins and Gill Curzon.

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