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Coming this October to M-Net Movies
Get ready for the Shock-Tober Festival, the M-Net Movies Bucket List Pop-Up channel and the Animania Movie Festival.
In the upcoming months M-Net Movies viewers will become a little obsessed with the Shock-Tober Festival, the M-Net Movies Bucket List Pop-Up channel and the Animania Movie Festival. From October through to December M-Net Movies will give you everything your heart desires.
In October, M-Net Movies gives you the Shock-Tober Festival from Sunday, 1 October until Tuesday, 31 October (M-Net Movies Action+ Channel 106 on DStv Premium only) which will give you the very best of thriller and horror on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays – just in time for Halloween.
M-Net Movies delivers the M-Net Movies Bucket List Pop-Up channel from Monday, 30 October until Saturday, 2 December on DStv channel 109. These are 100 movies you need to watch “before you die”. For five glorious weeks premium audiences have the chance to watch some of the most iconic and influential films of all time and experience the countdown to the coveted top 10.
All 100 movies will be available to DStv Explora users on DStv Catch Up Plus.
December brings in the holiday season and that means a return of the Animania Movie Festival, from the first week of December 2017 to the second week of January 2018. Watch the best animated movies, all day every day on M-Net Movies Smile Channel 105 (DStv Premium).
THE SHOCK-TOBER FESTIVAL
WEEK ONE
THURSDAY 5TH OCTOBER
SLEEPWALKERS at 20:00
A terrifying horror movie based on a Stephen King novel. Two supernatural beings travel to a small town to hunt and feed on a young virgin.
BURYING THE EX at 21:30
The late Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) stars in this horror romcom about a man whose life is turned upside down when his girlfriend comes back from the dead as a zombie.
THE VISIT at 23:00
M. Night Shyamalan returns to form in this chilling horror. Two siblings visit their grandparents on vacation, only to be terrified by their increasingly disturbing behavior.
FRIDAY 6TH OCTOBER
FINAL DESTINATION at 21:40
Death is everywhere in this riveting horror. A teenager’s vision prevents him and his friends from dying in a plane crash. But the Grim Reaper begins to hunt them down one by one.
THE EXORCISM OF MOLLY HARTLEY at 23:35
Terrifying sequel to the 2008 horror film. A young woman possessed by an unholy demon finds it slowly transforming her into a servant of evil.
SATURDAY 7TH OCTOBER
THE GALLOWS at 22:26
If you’re a horror fan then this is up your street. 20 years after a horrific accident took place during a school play, a group of kids are being hunted by an evil spirit.
WEEK TWO
THURSDAY 12TH OCTOBER
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER at 20:00
An all-star cast drives this thriller. Four inebriated teens hit a fisherman with their car. A year later their actions come back to haunt them.
THE LAZARUS EFFECT at 21:40
Olivia Wilde stars in this sci-fi horror. A medical team discover a way to bring the dead back to life. They’re forced to save one of their own, but she returns as something else.
THE BOY at 23:06
Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead) stars in this chilling horror. An American nanny is shocked to find that her new English family’s ‘son’ is actually a life-sized doll.
FRIDAY 13TH OCTOBER
THE CONJURING 2 at 20:00
For this equally chilling sequel to the popular horror, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine go to London where a terrifying and malicious spirit is awaiting them.
FINAL DESTINATION 2 at 22:13
Death returns in this sequel to the hit horror film. After having a vision of a violent road accident, a teen seems to prevent it, but the survivors begin to die off one by one.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION at 23:49
The final instalment of the terrifying franchise follows a family desperate to protect their daughter from an evil, sinister entity.
SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER
THE FOREST at 22:23
There’s no escaping true evil in this terrifying horror. A woman travels to Japan’s Suicide Forest in search of her missing twin sister. There, she is confronted by deadly spirits.
WEEK THREE
THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER
I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER at 20:00
The thrilling sequel to the hit teen horror. After surviving the last massacre, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinz Jr’s characters must fight for their lives once again.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES at 21:40
Take the timeless Jane Austen classic, add a dash of horror and a whole lot of terrifying undead and you have a gritty action film about five sisters who take on a zombie horde.
THE UNBORN at 23:34
A great ensemble cast fight for the soul of a young woman in this terrifying horror. A woman battles the spirit of her unborn twin, who is slowly trying to possess her.
FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER
FINAL DESTINATION 3 at 22:00
The third installment to the horror franchise. A student’s premonition of a roller-coaster accident saves the lives of a lucky few, but death itself seeks to re-correct fate.
WOMAN IN BLACK 2, THE: ANGEL OF DEATH at 23:33
Terror returns to the Eel Marsh House in this disturbing horror sequel. It’s WWII and a group of children are evacuated to the countryside. But they are taken to a haunted place.
SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER
OUT OF THE DARK at 22:48
Julia Stiles (Save the Last Dance) stars in this intense horror. A family move to Columbia to take over the family manufacturing plant, only to find that their home is haunted.
WEEK FOUR
THURSDAY 26TH OCTOBER
URBAN LEGEND at 20:00
Jared Leto fights for his life in this thrilling horror. A college student begins to suspect that a bunch of unusual deaths are based on a series of urban legends.
SHAUN OF THE DEAD at 21:40
Hot Fuzz stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost make the ultimate zombie adventure comedy. A man decides to turn his mundane life around during a zombie apocalypse.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR at 23:20
Tragedy turns to terror in this movie when a mother tampers with unknown forces. After an accident, she tries to contact her dead son but brings back a dark evil instead.
THE CONJURING 2 at 00:55 (Repeat)
For this equally chilling sequel to the popular horror, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine go to London where a terrifying and malicious spirit is awaiting them.
FRIDAY 27TH OCTOBER
FINAL DESTINATION 5 at 22:03
Death returns for another gruesome instalment. The survivors of a tragic bridge accident find they haven’t really escaped death – as each succumbs to their respective fate.
JESSABELLE at 23:36
This bone-chilling horror sees a woman return to her childhood Louisiana home to recover after an accident, only to find that a truly terrifying danger awaits her.
SATURDAY 28TH OCTOBER
HOUSE OF WAX at 21:46
A heart-stoppingly good remake of the spine-chilling horror classic. A group of teenagers is hunted down, one by one, by a set of murderous twin brothers.
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