NYX UK In April Will Have A ‘Thousand Faces’

NYX UK celebrates the birthdays of two iconic figures in the horror genre. On Tuesday 1st April, the channel honours Lou Chaney, the legendary “Man of a Thousand Faces“, with screenings of Tod Browning’s The Unknown (1927) at 9pm, followed at 10.15pm by The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1923), in which he plays a heart-breaking ‘Quasimodo’ – a perfect tribute to his unparalleled contributions to silent horror cinema.

Then on Thursday 3rd April,  NYX UK celebrates the legacy of Italian horror maestro Lamberto Bava with a double-bill  of his most gore-soaked, high-energy horror spectacles – Demons (9pm) and Demons 2 (11pm). Produced by the legendary Dario Argento, they blend supernatural terror with neon-drenched 80s excess, creating some of the most stylish and chaotic zombie-like horror ever put to film.

Horror series Dark Rewind continues its 9pm popular run with two April channel premieres. On 8th April , host August Kyss takes viewers back to 1980 to revisit the meaty cult horror-comedy Motel Hell, and then on  22nd April, she invites us back to 1983 for a deep dive into The House On Sorority Row, a slasher gem drenched in sorority drama, deadly secrets, and classic 80s horror vibes.

Another horror series enjoying a successful run is Galveston’s Cavern Of Creeps, which streams on Thursday nights at 9pm. This month  our favourite underworld exile Galveston and his clueless mortal roommate Jack tackle two Channel premieres – Jacques Tourneur’s 1957 supernatural classic Night Of The Demon (a.k.a. Curse of the Demon) and Joseph Green’s 1962 sci-fi horror The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.

Two more Channel premieres this month – Anders Banke‘s multi-award winning vampire horror Frostbite (Frostbitten, 2006), which plays on Thursday 10th April, 9pm, and we get a horror meets stoner comedy in Hansel & Gretel Get Baked (2013), that puts a darkly humorous, twist on the classic fairy tale. Viewers can catch this at 9pm, Sunday 20th April.

Other gruesome 9pm delights include Renaud Gauthier’s Canadian slasher Discopathe, (Friday 11th April). You will be ‘Howling’ with Scottish werewolf thriller Wild Country, starring Peter Capaldi and Martin Compston (Thursday 17th April). A  first for Israel film, the country’s  first slasher film Rabies (Thursday  24th April),  Then on Friday 25th April is Grimm Love, a psychological horror film inspired by the Armin Meiwes cannibal murder case. End the month with a Dario Argento classic with Tenebrae, a Giallo masterpiece which screens on Sunday 26th April.