Friday 13th movies: Pay TV

Tomorrow night Foxtel’s Premiere and Action movie channels get into the spirit of Friday the 13th with several shock and shlock films.

Paranormal Activity
8:30pm Premiere
In the fourth instalment in the popular horror franchise, it’s been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter; a suburban family begin to witness strange events in their neighbourhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

Piranha DD
110pm Premiere
Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames. After the terror unleashed on Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood thirsty piranhas are back. This time, no one is safe from the flesh eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of summer’s best attraction, The Big Wet Water Park. Prepare for double the terror, double the action and double the D’s in this sequel.

Shark Night
11:25pm Premiere
Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates

Pet Semetary
6:40pm Action
With the title track sung by the Ramones fright meister Stephen King directs this chilling tale about a magical Indian burial ground. When his three-year-old son is killed on the road outside his home, Dr Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) begins to think about the stories surrounding the ancient cemetery and how those buried there can be resurrected. Denise Crosby (one of Bing Crosby’s many children) and Fred Gwynne also star.

Dreamcatcher
8:30pm Action
Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman stars in this supernatural thriller from the master of horror, Stephen King, with a screenplay by Academy Award-winner William Goldman. Four friends, tied together through a telepathic bond they gained as children, reunite as adults to fight an invading alien force that controls human beings like helpless puppets and threaten to take over the earth.

Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers
10:55pm Action
From the mind of Stephen King comes this thriller about a family of shape shifting twilight beings who wreak havoc on a small town. Directed by Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris, who once again assembles some of the big names in the business for cameos, including Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper and King himself as a gravedigger.