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 Millenium (Zone Horror)
Drama series about the struggle between the forces of good and evil starring Lance Henriksen. When the ashes of seven murder victims are discovered in a San Francisco park, Frank Black, a retired FBI agent, is called in to assist with the investigation. But when a witness to the deaths apparently dies of fright in front of the police, Black suspects the mysterious Gehenna International organisation of involvement. Season 1 episode 2.
9.00pm Half Past Dead (Five)
Brilliant later-day Steven Seagal movie in which Seagal goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
10.10pm Undercover (Movies4Men 2)
A female cop goes undercover in a high price whorehouse to find a murderer and discovers she likes the assignment more than she should. Erotic thriller from king of the erotic thrillers Gregory Dark.
11.00pm The Henry Rollins Show (Film24)
Not just another talk show. Everything that’s been said about Henry Rollins can be said about this show. It’s hard, honest, and takes no prisoners.
11.30pm Dinner for Five (Film 24)
Actor/director Jon Favreau films dinner with four other celebrities in restaurants in New York and LA. Guests include movie stars, musicians, directors, comedians and sports stars.
11.55pm 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.
12.45am I Spit on Your Grave (Zone Horror)
This former video nasty tells the story of Jennifer, a writer who is working on a new novel and needs to get out of the city to finish it. She hires a riverside apartment in upstate New York to finish her novel, attracting the attention of a number of rowdy male locals. They catch Jenifer one day and strip her naked for the village idiot (Matthew) and rape her. Jennifer is later attacked and raped a further two times by the four degenerates, and her novel is also destroyed. But Jennifer slowly recovers and in her now-twisted, psychotic mind, she then begins to seek revenge on the four men who raped her.
