Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
7.00pm Atomic Twister (Movies24)
Low budget made for TV rip off of Twister starring Sharon Lawrence and Mark Paul Gosselar. When tornadoes hit a nuclear power plant, critically damaging the plant’s cooling system, the results could be catastrophic. The film follows an extraordinary day in the lives of small town citizens who unexpectedly find themselves facing the possibility of mass destruction.
7.05pm Enemy Mine (Sky Movies Sci-fi & Horror)
On a far distant planet, at the height of the war between the Dracon and Terran Empires, two military pilots crash in the heat of battle. One is Terran, one is Drac. Each is a repulsive alien to the other. Each is a professional warrior, filled with hatred for his blood enemy. Now, marooned on a hostile world, they have a choice. They can complete their missions in a mutual pact of violence and death. Or they can do the most painful thing any Human or Drac has ever done: reach out and begin the new age of understanding that is struggling to be born. Stars Louis Gosset Jr. and Dennis Quaid.
8.00pm Freddy’s Nightmares (Zone Horror)
For the first time in years the tv spin-off of the Nightmare on Elm Street series is broadcast on UK television. When John witnesses a murder by a terrifying killer called The Chopper he starts having troubling nightmares about the evil axe man.
9.00pm Destination: Infestation (Movies24)
While on a flight home from Colombia, the plane that Dr. Carrie Ross and her daughter are on is attacked by bullet ants whose sting is the most painful and deadliest on the planet. Joining forces with air marshal Ethan Hart, Dr. Ross, an entomologist, tries desperately to save the flight from disaster. In the end, their struggle brings them closer together and offers the couple hope for the future.
10.00pm Lie To Me (Sky 1)
Last episode of the first season ofthis US drama starring Tim Roth and Kelli Williams. Dr. Cal Lightman and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and federal law enforcement), and assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language.
11.00pm Nude for Satan (Film24)
Italian gothic horror that tells the story of Dr. Benson, who while driving through the countryside late at night, finds a crashed car with a young woman hanging out of it. The doctor puts the girl in his car and drives for help to the nearest house, which turns out to be a mysterious castle. He is greeted at the door by a woman who looks exactly like the woman from the car, and she invites them both to stay for the night. The doctor soon discovers that his host is not the only one in the castle, and that this beautiful woman is concealing a terrifying secret.
12.40pm Heartstopper (Sci-Fi Channel)
Robert Englund stars in this hospital set horror in which the evil serial-killer Jonathan Chambers is executed in the electric chair. The arrogant coroner Doctor Hitchens brings the corpse in an ambulance to a hospital for the autopsy escorted by the County Sheriff Berger that arrested Chambers. Meanwhile the outcast high-school student Sara Wexler tries to commit suicide on the road and is hit by the Sheriff Berger’s car. While bringing Sara in the same ambulance that is transporting the body of Chambers to the hospital, the teenager sees the dead coming back to life. In the hospital Sara tells her roommate, Walter, what she saw and asks him to help her to leave the hospital. Walter believes Sara is nuts, however, when he sees blood on the corridor he helps Sara to escape from their room. However, they find that all exits are locked and they are trapped in the hospital while the psychopath is slaughtering the patients and staff looking for Sara.
12.45am House of 1000 Dolls (Movies4Men 2)
When a vacationing couple in Tangiers run into an old friend there, they discover that he is searching for his missing girlfriend who has been kidnapped by an international gang of white slavers. Nader investigates but before he can come up with anything, his friend is murdered. Meanwhile, nightclub magician Price and his mentalist partner continue their nefarious activities–they hypnotize and kidnap young women for the white slavers, and spirit them to the House of 1000 Dolls. Stars Vincent Price.
