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…
8.00pm Gun (Zone Thriller)
Fifth episode of the Robert Altman anthology mini series that tracks the path of a gun through it’s various owners. Martin Sheen and Wil Wheaton star in a thrilling tale tracing the owners of an ill-fated firearm. A homeless man takes a gun from a crime scene setting an unlikely chain of events in motion.
9.oopm Black Dawn (Sci-Fi Channel)
Black Dawn is a sequel to Steven Seagal’s The Foreigner. Seagal is back as Jonathan Cold, this time he goes undercover to stop a group of terrorists before they bomb Los Angeles.
10.00pm Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Sky Movies Premiere)
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought. From director Kevin Smith, and starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks.
11.00pm House of Fears (Zone Horror)
Six friends sneak into a haunted house the night before it opens for Halloween, only to find that their evening of fun has turned into their worst nightmare.
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11.00pm I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (Film 4)
A young woman who believes she’s a cyborg hears voices and harms herself while at work making radios. She’s hospitalized in a mental institution where she eats nothing and talks to inanimate objects. She’s Young-goon, granddaughter of a woman who thought she was a mouse (and whose dentures Young-goon wears) and a mother who’s a butcher without much social grace. Young-goon comes to the attention of Il-sun, a ping-pong playing patient at the institution who makes it his goal to get her to eat. Will he succeed? Which way does sanity lie? From director Chan-wook Park
12.00am Village of the Damned (ITV 4)
John Carpenter’s re-imagining of the classic sci-fi horror tale in which an American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn’t take the “parents” long to realise that the kids are not human or humane.
