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SYFY DIGITAL WILL OFFER 20 ALL-TIME FAVORITE SATURDAY ORIGINAL MOVIES IN JUNE
LAUNCHES NEW MOVIE HUB FEATURING VIEWER POLL AND EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS
To celebrate Syfy’s June extravaganza of four Saturday Original Movies –
Jersey Shore Shark Attack (6/9),
Piranhaconda (6/16),
Arachnoquake (6/23) and
Bigfoot (6/30) – Syfy Digital is offering fans a remarkable 20 movies in one month at its new Movie Hub (
syfy.com/movies) and the popular
Syfy Rewind destination.
The Saturday Original Movie Hub showcases Caption This!, where fans can add their unique sense of humor as a caption to a photo from their favorite original movie, while users everywhere can join the fun by rating the captions. The mini-site also features weekly Viewer Polls (one per original movie) with a wide variety of questions pertaining to movie themes such as creatures, disasters, aliens and zombies.
At the new destination, fans can check in with the social service GetGlue and earn exclusive stickers for all new original movies as well as follow the
@SyfyMovies Twitter handle and like Syfy Movies on
Facebook.
Syfy Digital Saturday Original Movie Schedule
Streamed 6/3 – 6/10
Carny
A small-town sheriff (
Lou Diamond Phillips) contends with a creature that escaped from a carnival.
Cast includes
Longmire's Lou Diamond Phillips, Alan C. Peterson, Vlasta Vrana and Dominic Cuzzocrea.
The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake
Two rival sea captains embark on quests to exotic lands after they meet a mysterious sultan.
Cast includes
Highlander's Adrian Paul, Temuera Morrison, Wes Ramsey, Daniel Kash, Sofia Pernas and Nick Harvey.
Monster Ark
An ancient evil is unleashed by archaeologists in a remote region of the Middle East.
Cast includes Renée O'Connor,
White Collar's Tim DeKay, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Amanda Crew, Carlos Leon, Bill Parks and Richard Gnolfo.
Ghost Voyage
Seven strangers face a perilous mystery when they inexplicably awaken on a haunted cargo ship.
Cast includes Antonio Sabato Jr., Deanna Russo, Nicholas Irons, P.J. Marino, Adrian Neil, Julian Berlin, James Patric Moran and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
Dragon Dynasty
He was the first European explorer to reach China. And if two dragons have their way, he'll be the last.
Cast includes Federico Castelluccio, Aaron Hendry, Dion Basco, Peter Kwong, James Hong and
Castle's Stana Katic.
Streaming 6/10 – 6/17
Sand Serpents
American soldiers take on man-eating worms in addition to the Taliban in this rousing sci-fi adventure.
Cast includes Jason Gedrick, Tamara Hope, Elias Toufexis, Sebastian Knapp, Michelle Asante and Chris Jarman.
Copperhead
A mass of copperhead snakes besiege an old mining town in the West.
Starring Brad Johnson, Keith Stone, Brad Greenquist, Wendy Carter, Gabriel Womack and Billy Drago.
Mongolian Death Worm
Man-eating worms and local bandits become problematic for a group of treasure hunters in search of Genghis Khan's tomb in central Mongolia.
Cast includes Sean Patrick Flanery, Drew Waters, George Cheung, Victoria Pratt, Cheryl Chin and Jon Mack.
Mandrake
An expedition to find a mystical dagger goes horribly awry when researchers accidentally awaken some deadly vegetation.
Cast includes Max Martini, Betsy Russell, Benito Martinez, Jon Mack, Nick Gomez, Wayne Pére and Freddie Joe Farnsworth.
Streaming 6/17 – 6/24
High Plains Invaders
The hanging of train robber Sam Phoenix (
James Marsters) is abruptly halted by an invasion of uranium-based aliens, forcing Sam and a ragtag group of survivors to find sanctuary in a church. As the Old West becomes infested with the killer insectoids, Sam and company must find a way to fight back.
Cast includes James Marsters, Cindy Sampson, Sebastian Knapp and Sanny Van Heteren
Locusts: The 8th Plague
Genetically engineered, flesh-eating locusts escape from a research facility, and a team of scientists and investigators must find and destroy them before they reach plague proportions.
Cast includes Dan Cortese, Julie Benz, David Keith, Kirk B.R. Woller, Jeff Fahey and Atanas Srebrev.
Star Runners
Space smugglers transport cargo---a woman with special powers---that puts them at odds with an evil government. Matters get worse when the trio crashes onto a planet inhabited by carnivorous insect creatures.
Cast includes
Star Trek Enterprise's Connor Trinneer, James Kyson-Lee, Toni Trucks and Aja Evans.
Wyvern
A dragon menaces an Alaskan town. [No, not
Sarah Palin...]
Cast includes Nick Chinlund, Erin Karpluk, Barry Corbin, Elaine Miles, Tinsel Korey,
Stargate SG-1's Don S. Davis and David Lewis.
Ice Quake
A family tries to counter a threat to the planet on Christmas Eve as melting Alaskan permafrost creates underground rivers of liquid methane that trigger violent earthquakes.
Cast includes Brendan Fehr, Holly Elissa Lamaro, Jodelle Ferland, Ryan Grantham, Rob LaBelle, Nicholas Carella, Victor Garber, Sharon Taylor, Kurt Max Runte and Aaron Pearl.
Streaming 6/24 – 7/1
Hellhounds
A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades.
Cast includes Ben Cross, Scott Elrod, Adam Butcher, Amanda Brooks, James A. Woods, Andrew Howard, Olivia Nita, Marius Chivu and Theodor Danetti.
Rock Monster
A college student must become a hero after he pulls a sword from a stone and unleashes the titular beast on an Eastern European village.
Cast includes Chad Michael Collins, Natalie Denise Sperl, Alicia Lagano, David Figlioli and Jon Polito.
Goblin
Halloween spawns a goblin that is bent on taking a baby from an unsuspecting family, and it's up to their teenage daughter to save her little brother from becoming the creature's meal.
Cast includes Gil Bellows, Tracy Spiridakos, Camille Sullivan, Reilly Dolman, Andrew Wheeler,
Falling Skies Colin Cunningham and
Battlestar Galactica's Donnelly Rhodes.
Scream of the Banshee
In "
Scream of the Banshee," when a college professor opens a mysterious and ornate box discovered hidden in the tunnels under her university, she and her students hear the horrifying scream of a bloodthirsty Banshee. Everyone who hears the scream is fated to die a strange and terrible death. Now the professor, her daughter and a few of her students must try to stop the Banshee.
Cast includes Lance Henriksen, Lauren Holly, Monica Acosta, Eric F. Adams, Marcelle Baer, Edrick Browne, Leanne Cochran, Thomas C. Daniel and Todd Haberkorn.
SS Doomtrooper
Corin Nemec stars in this horror film set in World War II, in which American forces must battle monstrous super-soliders created by the Nazis.
Cast includes
Stargate SG-1's Corin Nemec, James Pomichter, Marianne Filali, Ben Cross, Kirk B.R. Woller and Harry Van Gorkum.
