This Week on Sundance Channel

TAINTED LOVE SUNDAY STARTING AT 5:30P The day before Halloween, celebrate three films that explore the creepy side of romantic relationships. We start with NOTES ON A SCANDAL, starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in the story of a schoolteacher that's caught being inappropriate with a young student - only to be blackmailed to keep this fact a secret. Then, we close out our month-long ode to Stanley Kubrick starting at 7:15P with the Sundance Channel premiere of LOLITA, a proper name that now doubles as a description. At 10P, Kubrick's final film EYES WIDE SHUT provides an enigmatic coda on the evening, as a New York power couple struggles through their dysfunctional (and occasionally bizarre) marriage. > CHECK THE FULL SCHEDULE SPOTLIGHT Top 10 do's and don'ts of Halloween hookups Halloween is no longer just a scary holiday, for adults it's also now one of the sexxxiest holidays! But don't let the holiday itself trip up a rocking good time - find out how with our top 10 list. > Read More This Week Mon Oct 24 06:35 PM LIFE IN FLIGHT Will (Patrick Wilson), a successful, thirty-something architect, seems to have everything: a beautiful wife (Amy Smart), an adorable seven-year-old son, and a handsome New York brownstone. However when serendipity brings him together with a young, vivacious designer (Lynn Collins), a close friendship evolves, causing the man with the perfect life to question his circumstances. In her directorial debut, filmmaker Tracey Hecht presents a modest but haunting moral fable about self-knowledge, confronting fear and being true to oneself. Tue Oct 25 08:00 PM LOVE LUST & THE UNDEAD The Undead have risen, and they've taken over popular culture. But far from being a recent phenomenon, vampires and zombies have haunted us for centuries, evolving to fit the challenges of each culture and era. Simultaneously bewitching, repelling, seductive, and terrifying, these blood-suckers and brain-eaters embody both society's greatest fears and its secret, carnal desires. Love|Lust: The Undead explores how every generation defines itself with monsters.  From Dracula to Twilight and from Vlad the Impaler to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, tales of the Undead are the eerie but ultimately fun way to face our deepest fears and meet the challenges of today. Wed Oct 26 08:00 PM THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN One of the most honored and beloved French films of recent years, writer-director Abdellatif Kechiche's "bustling and brilliant" (New York Times) slice of life insightfully examines universal human themes — aging, class conflict, family rivalries and dreams for the future — from within a Tunisian immigrant community on the French Mediterranean. Kechiche garnered Césars for Best Film, Director and Writer while 20-year-old Hafsia Herzi won multiple awards for her astounding feature film debut. "Consistently surprising" — Salon. Thu Oct 27 10:00 PM BROKEDOWN PALACE Two carefree Americans embark on an overseas vacation that soon becomes a nightmare in this powerful drama. Alice (Claire Danes) is a headstrong teenager who wants to do something different to celebrate her high school graduation, so she persuades her more reserved best friend Darlene (Kate Beckinsale) to join her on a trip to Bangkok. While enjoying sun and scenery, Alice and Darlene meet Nick Parks (Daniel Lapaine), a charming Australian who shows them the sights and sweet-talks Darlene into a romantic assignation, which is something of a surprise to her bolder friend Alice. Nick then suggests that they join him on a side trip to Hong Kong, but they soon discover that Nick's interest has been neither friendly nor romantic: he has hidden a large amount of heroin in their luggage and is using them as drug runners without their knowledge. Fri Oct 28 10:00 PM THE POSSESSION OF DAVID O'REILLY A demonic presence terrorizes a young London couple. Shot in "shockumentary" first-person style, this collaboration between Steven Isles and Andrew Cull frightens to the core. Sat Oct 29 10:00 PM ONE MISSED CALL With tongue-in-cheek excess, cult filmmaker Takashi Miike (AUDITION) expands upon an established genre tradition to present an exercise in horror centering around a seemingly benign piece of modern technology that turns out to be far from harmless. Mysterious cellphone calls from the near future to a group of schoolgirls are unsettling enough. However, when it becomes apparent that they were made in the midst of extremely violent and deadly circumstances, the girls realize their days are numbered. Sun Oct 30 03:30 PM LOVE LUST & THE PARANORMAL From sightings of UFOs to mysterious ghostly apparitions and unexplained psychic phenomena, all over the world, regardless of the country, culture, or era, the paranormal has always had some degree of prominence in the public psyche. Sundance Channel's LOVE/LUST The Paranormal will explore all of our deepest hopes, fears, and desires fueling our fascination with the paranormal. We will look through history to find a wide range of strange phenomena, revealing the people behind the stories and examine how UFOs, ghosts, and the occult have found their way from underground subcultures to the mainstream and where the future of the paranormal might be headed.