SCI-FI

March 1996 Special Events

All times listed are GMT and are for cable schedule. Satellite hours listed where available.

SCI-FI ZOMBIE

People go mad sometimes, others lose their minds...A week of chilling zombie movies:

Night of the Living Dead
If you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise ... Zombies stalk the remote woods and isolated farm where a brother and sister go to visit the grave of their father. A classic horror. Beware the faint-hearted ...

Return to Horror High
A horror movie producer makes a film in an abandoned and haunted high school, where a series of murders occurred years earlier. But "history repeats itself," and never so literally.

The Dark
A string of gruesome murders are taking place in LA. It's up to a journalist and the father of one of the victims to find the killer before the killer finds them ... Not all creatures are our friends.

Hellgate
A young and attractive woman hitchhiking along a dark and deserted road is picked up by a young man. It's her one night for love and no demon from hell is going to stop her.

Revenge of the Zombies
Mad scientist Van Altermann has created a device that turns humans into zombies. The walking dead, they are immune from anything that would kill ordinary people. In league with the Nazis, Van Altermann dreams of a world empire controlled by his zombies.

Night of the Living Dead            4th March, 24:00-02:00 (SKY: 02:00-04:00)			
Return to Horror High               5th March, 24:00-01:40 (SKY: 02:00-03:35)
The Dark                            6th March, 24:00-01:40 (SKY: 02:00-03:40)			
Hellgate                            7th March, 24:00-01:30 (SKY: 02:00-03:35)
Revenge of the Zombies              8th March, 24:00-01:10 (SKY: 02:00-03:05)

BOUND & GAGGED - MUMMY'S DAY

Settle down with our Mummy for an afternoon of baby-sitting the Sci-Fi way ... Join the Sci-Fi Channel for the tales of Karris, a mummified Egyptian who has been alive for over 300 years. Played back to back, four creepy classics from beyond the grave ... Let Mummy take good care of you ... "A soulless demon with a desire to kill and kill"

Mummy can't help you now ...

The Mummy's Curse                   17th March, 15:00
The Mummy's Ghost                   17th March, 16:10
The Mummy's Tomb                    17th March, 17:15
The Mummy's Hand                    17th March, 18:20

ARMAGEDDON

A week of prime-time films depicting post-apocalyptic visions of the future.

Damnation Alley
After the bomb most of America has been wiped out. All that is left is a host of giant cockroaches that stalk the land devouring their human prey. Leading the straggling survivors is George Peppard.

In the Aftermath Angels Never Sleep
A little girl holds the key to the future when the Great War reduces the world to an unyielding wasteland, where clean air is the most precious commidity.

When Worlds Collide
Scientists discover that a planet is hurtling towards Earth and that final obliteration is imminent. A chosen few escape on a modern day Noah's Ark so that they can populate another planet.

DEF-CON 4
Deep in space three astronauts witness nuclear war on Earth. They return to a grim post-apocalyptic world of cannibalism, slavery and much, much worse ...

America 3000
The battle of the sexes reaches its climax in the year 3000. Post-bomb, and women tribes rule the earth. Men are consigned to slave camps, but are mustering together to overthrow the women. Their plans are dashed when the leader of the men falls in love with his female counterpart. If only he'd kept his mind on the job ...
Damnation Alley                            18th March, 20:00-22:00				
In the Aftermath Angels Never Sleep        19th March, 20:00-21:30
When Worlds Collide                        20th March, 20:00-21:30		
DEF-CON 4                                  21st March, 20:00-21:30
America 3000                               22nd March, 20:00-21:35

SCI-FI FRIGHT

Enter the labyrinths of horror with the Sci-Fi Channel. But beware:
"These catacombs are dangerous and I must warn you ... not ... to ... lose ... your ... way ..." (Tales From the Crypt)

Child's Play III
It's been eight years since Chucky first terrorised young Andy. Now he's a mixed up sixteen year old cadet in military school. When things couldn't get any worse, it's time for Chucky to go back into production.

Alone in the Dark
Are you bored with your psychiatrist? Are you sick of the treatment that he prescribes? Why not give him a dose of his own medicine? Revenge has never been sweeter.

The Thing
A team of scientists at a remote Antarctic outpost discover a buried spaceship with an unwelcome alien survivor. Fear, special effects, acting and direction have never been better in this modern Sci-Fi horror classic.

Tales From the Crypt
Classic anthology movie based on the popular EC comics of the fifties and sixties. Five people trapped in a cave are told what their future has in store. They really start worrying when that future becomes the past. Joan Collins has every reason to pout neurotically.

American Werewolf in London
Two American students backpack across England and are visciously attacked one night on the moors by a large wolf. Could the old legends be true? And how come David keeps seeing his best friend Jack (very dead and decaying fast), at the most inapprorpiate times.
Child's Play III                    18th March, 24:00-01:35 (SKY: 02:00-03:35)				
Alone in the Dark                   19th March, 24:00-01:40 (SKY: 02:00-04:00)
The Thing  * letterbox version*     20th March, 24:00-01:35 (SKY: 02:00-04:00)	
Tales From the Crypt                21st March, 24:00-01:30 (SKY: 02:00-03:30)
American Werewolf in London         22nd March, 24:00-01:40 (SKY: 02:00-03:40)

SHOWING AGAIN BY POPULAR REQUEST:

Back To The Future
Only one channel can take you to the outer reaches of time and space ... and then back again. The Sci-Fi Channel presents a double bill of cosmic proportions:
Back to the Future II               26th March, 19:55-22:00 &
                                                24:00-02:00 (SKY: 02:00-04:00)			
Back to the Future III              27th March, 19:30-22:00 &
                                                23:50-02:00 (SKY: 02:00-04:00)			
Star Trek: The First Three Movies
No crew has gone so far in the name of adventure. No channel has gone so far in the name of entertainment. The Sci-Fi Channel brings you Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise ...
Star Trek: The Motion Picture        11th March 19:30-22:00 & 
                                                23:30-02:00 (letterbox version) &
                                                01:30-04:00
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan      12th March 19:55-22:00 & 
                                                24:00-02:00 (letterbox version) &
                                                02:00-04:00
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  13th March 19:30-22:00 & 
                                                24:00-02:00 (letterbox version) &
                                                02:00-04:00

"late version" movies are generally NOT edited for content.