Sundance TV to Present 'Stephen King Thriller Week', Beg. 10/25

In the spirit of the Halloween season, and to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Stephen King's The Shining, SundanceTV will air a "Stephen King Thriller Week," featuring King's fan-favorite films, beginning Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 8:00 PM ET/PT. The films will culminate with an airing of The Shining, which will then lead into the highly anticipated season two premiere of SundanceTV's International Emmy(R) and Peabody Award-winning French drama, "The Returned," on Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 10:00 PM ET/PT.

Stephen King's film adaptation of The Shining is written and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), a writer and former teacher, agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that has driven people who have lived there insane. While Jack slowly becomes more violent and angry, his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform people outside the hotel about what is going on.

The second season of "The Returned" picks up six months after the deceased gathered outside the Helping Hand shelter before disappearing into the mountains with Simon (Pierre Perrier), Camille (Yara Pilartz), her mother, Claire (Anne Consigny), Julie (Céline Sallette) and the mysterious youngster Victor (Swann Nambotin). Since then, nothing has been heard of them or the police who fought to protect the Helping Hand shelter's residents. In present day, Adele (Clotide Hesme) is about to give birth to Simon's child, part of the town is still flooded and the dam remains under surveillance, with the army providing logistical support for those residents who have chosen to stay. Rumors abound that the dead have returned, but the authorities refuse to believe them. The rare witnesses have chosen to remain silent or are not taken seriously, among them Léna (Jenna Thiam) and her father Jérme (Frédéric Pierrot), who have not given up hope of finding Claire and Camille. But when a mysterious man named Berg (Laurent Lucas) pays a visit to the town, it appears he knows more than he claims.

Below, please find the programming schedule for SundanceTV's "Stephen King" Marathon:

Sunday, October 25, 2015:

The Mist at 8:00 p.m ET/PT Trapped townspeople (Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden) face monsters inside and out after a supernatural fog engulfs their Maine community.

Thinner at 10:45 p.m ET/PT An elderly Gypsy king's (Michael Constantine) weight-loss curse prompts an obese lawyer (Robert John Burke) to call in a mob boss's (Joe Mantegna) debt.

Monday, October 26, 2015:

Cujo at 8:00 p.m ET/PT A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Silver Bullet at 10:00 p.m ET/PT A boy (Corey Haim) in a wheelchair stops a werewolf with his uncle (Gary Busey) and sister (Megan Follows).

Tuesday, October 27, 2015:

Firestarter at 8:00 p.m ET/PT Quasi-federal agents hunt a man (David Keith), who can bend minds and his daughter (Drew Barrymore), who can start fires by staring.

Riding the Bullet at 10:30 p.m ET/PT A troubled Maine art student (Jonathan Jackson) meets sinister drivers while hitchhiking to see his mother in the hospital. Wednesday, October 28, 2015:

Pet Sematary at 8:00 p.m ET/PT Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of LIFE AFTER death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.

Pet Sematary at 10:00 p.m ET/PT See above.

Saturday, October 31, 2015:

The Shining at 6:30 p.m ET/PT A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

"The Returned" season 2 premiere at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT

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