Vampire Week on SBS 2

SBS 2 will sink its teeth into Vampire Week in early August as part of Olympics-alternative programming.

From Sunday 7th to Saturday, 13 August SBS 2 features primetime movies from around the globe, with everything from cult Aussie flick Thirst to 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive.

The films include such actors as Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, Chris Sarandon, Gemma Arterton and Chantal Contouri.

The late Anton Yelchin also appears in Only Lovers Left Alive.

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013 UK)
Sunday, 7 August at 8.30pm
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers, an underground musician, Adam (Tom Hiddleston), deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover, Eve (Tilda Swinton). Their love story has already endured several centuries, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by Eve’s wild and uncontrollable sister, Ava (Mia Wasikowska).

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014 USA)
Monday, 8 August at 8.30pm
In one of the most stunning and stylish films to come out in 2014, Sheila Vand stars as The Girl, a sassy loner who roams the streets on a stolen skateboard, in Ana Lily Amirpour’s stunningly crafted black-and-white world.

Thirst (1979 Australia)
Monday, 8 August at 10.20pm
Kate (Chantal Contouri) is tracked down by the secret society members known as ‘The Brotherhood’, a society of vampires who believe that Kate is descended from an illustrious, aristocratic, Austrian vampire family of the 18th century.

We Are The Night (2010 Germany)
Tuesday, 9 August at 8.30pm
Bitten by a vampire, a young woman (Karoline Herfurth) tries to leave her band of bloodsucking cohorts.

Night Watch (2004 Russia)
Wednesday, 10 August at 8.30pm
Set in contemporary Moscow, Night Watch uncovers the other-world battle that upholds a 1000-year-old truce between the forces of light and darkness.

Day Watch (2006 Russia)
Wednesday, 10 August at 10.35pm
A dazzling mix of state-of-the-art visual effects, amazing action sequences, and nail-biting horror set in contemporary Moscow, this film revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness – the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides.

Fright Night (1985 USA)
Friday, 12 August at 8.30pm
Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is pretty sure his neighbour Jerry (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. Of course, no one believes him, so Charley sets out to destroy Jerry himself.

Byzantium (2012 UK)
Saturday, 13 August at 8.30pm
Mayhem follows when two female vampires (Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan), on the run from a kindred group, take refuge at a seaside British community.