Back in the day, reviews described thriller films as CHILLER DILLER. Such comments will be fitting for Horror Channel’s KILLER THRILLER WEEK in March. This white-knuckle week includes the UK premiere of Mena Suvari-starring mystery thriller PARADISE COVE as well as the channel premiere of road thriller COP CAR, as Kevin Bacon takes some time off EE adverts. The seven days of suspense also include Gus Van Sant’s revival of the Hitchcock classic PSYCHO (1998), 2014’s erotic thriller THE LOFT starring Karl Urban, the deliriously twisted WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE by Colin Minihan, Rod Lurie’s 2011 remake of STRAW DOGS and 2018’s BAD SAMARITAN, where a cunning David Tennant gets murderous.
As if that wasn’t enough, March also delivers four additional UK TV premieres. The highlight is surely the late Johnny Kevorkian’s final film, AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, a throat-grabbing nightmare of suspense, intensity and Cronenbergian mind-bending body horror, starring Sam Gittins, David Bradley, Grant Masters and Holly Weston. There is also the slasher thriller WIRED SHUT, Tate Steinsiek’s reboot of Stuart Gordon’s 1995 classic CASTLE FREAK, and Jesse Thomas Cook’s dark zombie thriller DEADSIGHT.
Horror Channel continues to spoil horror fans with channel premieres for the urban crime story, A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND, where Abner Pastoll directs a barnstorming performance by Sarah Bolger; Elijah Wood in murderous high-school horror-comedy COOTIES, and the German survival horror thriller PREY.
Transmission order and full film details:
Saturday 5 March @ 21:00 – PREY (2021) *Channel Premiere
Following the tragic death of his father, Toby is left stricken with guilt. He begrudgingly enrols on a program that involves spending three days on a remote jungle island. Before long, Toby discovers that he shares the island with a mysterious girl, and someone or something else. Neither Toby nor the girl are safe as time is rapidly running out…
Sunday 6 March @ 21:00 – WIRED SHUT (2021) *UK TV Premiere
Reed Rooney is a famous novelist, disillusioned and unable to talk following major reconstructive jaw surgery. While recovering in his remote mountain home, his estranged daughter Emma unexpectedly turns up, leading to the discovery of a life-threatening secret…
Friday 11 March @ 21:00 – A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND (2019) *Channel Premiere
Sarah is a recently widowed mother of two, whose young son was rendered mute when his father was murdered in front of him. Obsessed with finding the murderer, Sarah is coerced into stashing narcotics stolen from the local Mr Big by low-life drug dealer Tito. As she learns the terrible truth about her husband, Sarah must take drastic action to protect her children.
Saturday 12 March @ 21:00 – AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS (2018) *UK TV Premiere
On Christmas Day, the dysfunctional Milgram family discover that a mysterious black substance has surrounded their house. What is the cause of this substance? Industrial accident? Terrorist attack? Nuclear war? Only television provides information, but can it be trusted? Steadily, the influence of the gogglebox becomes ever more sinister, and the increasingly paranoid Milgrams descend into bloody carnage.
Friday 18 March @ 22:55 – CASTLE FREAK (2020) *UK TV Premiere
A tragic car accident has left young Rebecca permanently blinded, seeming to put an end to her life just as it was beginning. However, when she learns that her long-lost-mother has recently passed away, a chance arises for Rebecca to reconnect with the past she never knew as her mother’s will leaves her the family’s ancestral castle. But the castle brings with it family secrets that Rebecca must unravel, all the while being stalked by… the Castle Freak.
Saturday 19 March @ 21:00 – COP CAR (2015) *Channel Premiere
Two rebellious young boys discover an abandoned cop car and, in the best tradition of rebellious boys, decide that a joyride is in order. But the small-town sheriff (Kevin Bacon) goes looking for his missing car, placing the boys in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where the only escape is to push their cop car beyond the speed limit.
Sunday 20 March @ 21:00 – PARADISE COVE (2011) *UK TV Premiere
Paradise Cove looks idyllic for Knox and Tracey (Todd Grinnell and Mena Suvari) who move to Malibu to rebuild the beach house of Knox’s mother. But when they discover a deranged homeless lady (True Blood’s Kristin Bauer van Straten) under the house, paradise rapidly turns into a terrifying nightmare.
Friday 25 March @ 23:10 – DEADSIGHT (2018) *UK TV Premiere
When a deadly virus spreads across Grey County, the unlikely pairing of a partially sighted man (Adam Seybold) and a young pregnant police officer (Liv Collins) must work together to escape. Director Jesse Thomas Cook takes the zombie genre in a terrifying new direction: how do you survive when you cannot see?
Saturday 26 March @ 21:00 – COOTIES (2014) *Channel Premiere
On his first day on the job at a new elementary school, substitute teacher Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood) finds his new job to be a killer… literally! A diseased chicken nugget produces that spreads through the school and turns the children even more savage. Debut filmmakers Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion direct this murderous horror-comedy.
