SBS World Movies: Modern Horror Showcase

Keep the blanket handy this Halloween as SBS World Movies presents a season of modern horror classics to chill the spine.

SBS World Movies: Modern Horror Showcase

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in 'In Fabric', airing Monday 31 October on SBS World Movies and now streaming at SBS On Demand Source: Arcadia Film

Audi Description available for I See You, A Hole in the Ground and In Fabric

Into the Labyrinth

Saturday 29 October, 8:30pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

MA15+
Italy, 2019
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Language: Italian
Director: Donato Carrisi
Starring: Toni Servillo, Dustin Hoffman, Valentina Bellè, Vinicio Marchioni, Riccardo Cicogna
What's it about?
When Samantha (Bellè), a kidnapping victim, turns up alive after fifteen years in captivity, a profiler (Hoffman) and a private investigator (Servillo) work together to hunt for the monster that kept her locked away for all those years. The second film that Donato Carrisi has adapted for the screen from his own novel and directed as well (following The Girl in the Fog).
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

Saturday 29 October, 10:55pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

MA15+
Canada, 2021
Genre: Horror, Drama
Language: English
Director: Thomas Robert Lee
Starring: Catherine Walker, Jared Abrahamson, Hannah Anderson, Geraldine O'Rawe, Don McKellar
What's it about?
An isolated and devout community ravaged by a plague becomes increasingly suspicious of a woman and her beautiful daughter who remains untouched by any disease. As tensions and anger mount, the townsfolk confront the pair whom they believe have made a pact with the devil.
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I See You

Saturday 30 October, 8:30pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

M, AD
USA, 2019
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Crime
Language: English
Director: Adam Randall
Starring: Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Owen Teague, Judah Lewis, Libe Barer, Gregory Alan Williams
What's it about?
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper (Tenney) struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie (Hunt). Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor (Lewis), in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.
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The Hole in the Ground

Saturday 30 October, 10:20pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

M, AD
Ireland, UK, 2019
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Director: Lee Cronin
Starring: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, Eoin Macken
What's it about?
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill (Kerslake) is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris (Markey). A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
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Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

Saturday 31 October, 8:30pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand

MA15+
Australia, 2014
Genre: Horror, Action, Comedy
Language: English, Spanish
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill, Luke McKenzie, Yure Covich
What's it about?
Barry (Gallagher) is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke (Bradely), is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers & experimented on by a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans her escape Barry goes out on the road to find her & teams up with Benny (Burchill), a fellow survivor - together they must arm themselves and prepare to battle their way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland.
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In Fabric

Saturday 31 October, 10:20pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

MA15+, AD
UK, 2018
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy
Language: French, English
Director: Peter Strickland
Starring: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Julian Barratt, Richard Bremmer
What's it about?
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences. From acclaimed genre-bending director Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy).
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Published 17 October 2022 11:02am
Updated 17 October 2022 12:23pm
By SBS Movies
Source: SBS

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