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 TeenWolf (Sky Movies Christmas)
Unmissable 80’s classic starring Michael J. Fox. Hairy palms are just the start of Scott Howard’s problems. He already has girl problems, yearning for a fellow female classmate’s attention, his school basketball team can’t win any matches and rapidly reaching his late teens he feels too “normal”. However, with a full moon approaching Scott starts to feel different and when the “dog whistle” blows he realizes he’s not “normal” after all. The Teen Wolf is finally born, claws and all, and to his surprise finds that being a werewolf is in the family blood, just that his father, Harold Howard, was hoping it might have “skipped a generation”. Ensuing pressure on the basketball front brings the Teen Wolf to the public’s attention and for a while he can do no wrong in the whole of the school’s eyes, in fact he doesn’t miss a shot! His best friend, Stiles, sees money making opportunities and even Pamela, the teen temptress he longed to date, finally gives him something to howl about. Before long things take a turn and the Wolf’s persona takes a few knocks on and off court and his popularity is questioned. But the only person who knows that the real Scott should prevail is Boof, his childhood best friend.
9.00pm Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Zone Horror)
Subterranean monster mash up. A drilling team on a hazardous underground rescue mission unearth ravenous prehistoric monsters lurking in the darkness. Will they ever see the light of day again? Yet another telling of the Jules Verne tale, thi time starring Greg Evigan and Dedee Pfeiffer.
10.40pm Electra (Film 24)
Billionaire named Roach desperately seeks for the secret serum which could turn an ordinary human into a superbeing. The serum is hidden in the body of young Billy Duncan. The serum can be transmitted via sexual intercourse, and that turns to be the basis of Roach’s evil scheme. Stars ex-Playboy model turned Mrs Simmons, Shannon Tweed.
11.00pm Elsewhere (Zone Horror)
A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery, and she must piece together the disturbing puzzle that surrounds her friends disappearance.
11.45pm Invincible Iron Man (Sky Movies Family)
When billionaire inventor Tony Stark uses break-through technology to physically raise a forgotten city, he awakens an unspeakable evil, giving life to the most vile of all emperors – the Mandarin. Only one man can stop this newly re-emerged force of evil. One who will don a powerful suit of armour forged from iron and advanced technology. To take on the mystical underworld forces of ancient China, he must become The Invincible Iron Man.
12.25am The Alien Factor (Film 24)
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for independent Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.
