By James Whittington, 20th October 2022
November weekends will be daring, dangerous and deadly as LEGEND presents a bumper month of horror, sci-fi and action movies, headed up by the UK TV premieres of Doron and Yoav Paz's unnerving, original Israeli terror experience The Golem and Eric Bress's grisly Brit supernatural horror film Ghosts of War. Plus, there is a Channel premiere for John McTiernan's compelling chiller Nomads, starring Piers Bronsan.
There are also Channel premieres for a series of starry cult 70s and 80s action thrillers The Disappearance (Donald Sutherland and David Hemmings), Who Dares Wins (Richard Widmark and Ingrid Pitt), Hannie Caulder (Raquel Welch and Christopher Lee) and Wheels of Terror (David Carradine and Oliver Reed). Plus, there are first-time Legend showings for The Gunman, starring Sean Penn and Air America, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.
Plus, two Channel premieres head up The Vintage Vault strand: Robert Hartford-Davies' gothic masterpiece The Black Torment and Sci-fi horror classic The Sorcerers, starring Boris Karloff. Both headline the popular Sunday night double-bills of cult favourites from decades gone by.
Other titles include drive-in favourite The Blob (1958), starring Steve McQueen, Terence Fisher's irresistibly lurid The Mummy (1959), starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, the fantasy horror anthology Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Terence Fisher's intense sci-fi thriller Night of the Big Heat, Island of Terror, one of the great British Sci-Fi thrillers starring Peter Cushing, and Quatermass and the Pit, another memorable British Sci-Fi horror from Hammer Films, based on the TV series and directed by Roy Ward Baker.
And the third season of hit series Knight Rider, in which Michael, K.I.T.T. and gang return for more roadside adventures, has its channel premiere.
Here's some more info on some of these cracking titles:
Who Dares Wins on the 6th is a classic British movie with an all-star cast which includes Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark and Edward Woodward. The British receive intelligence that an anti-nuclear militant group is planning to kill the U.S. ambassador at the Iranian embassy. The British Special Air Services enlists the help of Capt. Peter Skellen (Collins), who is charged with going undercover. But he is quickly found out by the terrorists, and his wife and child are taken hostage. We ride to the Wild West on the 11th for a hard-hitting drama, Hannie Caulder. Starring Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, and Ernest Borgnine it focuses on vicious bandit brothers Emmett (Borgnine), Frank (Jack Elam) and Rufus Clemens (Strother Martin) who botch a heist, and in anger they rape local woman Hannie Caulder (Welch), murder her spouse and destroy her home. Wrong move...
You'll need to buckle yourselves in for the channel premiere of Air America on the 12th. It is 1969 and the Vietnam War is raging. Billy, a brilliant helicopter pilot (Mel Gibson) is recruited by the CIA as part of 'Air America' an elite but clandestine unit. When he and fellow pilot Ryan (Robert Downey Jr.) discover their aircraft are being used by government agents to smuggle heroin, they must fight to avoid being framed as the drug-smugglers. War is hell and never has this been so vividly illustrated in Ghosts of War. Five battle-hardened American soldiers are assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. Formerly occupied by the Nazi high command, this welcome respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy far more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.
More World War II drama in Wheels of Terror on the 19th. During World War 2 a German penal unit composed of hardened criminals, political dissidents and religious non-conformists from the Nazi Prison camps are compelled to fight for something they do not believe in. Now they have the job from hell - a suicide mission on the Eastern Front that becomes one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Stars Bruce Davison, David Patrick Kelly, Oliver Reed and David Carradine. Nomads on the 25th concerns a French anthropologist, who is an expert on nomadic groups, stumbles across a group of urban nomads who turn out to be more than he expected. Directed by John McTiernan, this terrifying supernatural chiller stars Pierce Brosnan and Lesley-Ann Down.
The UK TV premiere of The Golem is on the 25th and is set during an outbreak of a deadly plague. Here a mystical woman must save her isolated, tight-knit community under attack from the plague and deadly evil invaders. She conjures an entity that she moulds out of mud to protect them, but the innocent-looking boy hides a much greater evil. This superb tale is directed by Doron and Yoav Paz. The taut action thriller, The Gunman directed by Pierre Morel and starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance and Ray Winstone comes to Legend on the 26th. A sniper, on a mercenary assassination team kills the Congo's Minister of Mines. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.
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