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…
8.30pm The Ray Bradbury Theatre (Film 24)
Renowned author Ray Bradbury presents a series of eerie tales based on his own stories. A murdered man has a deadly secret. Season 3, episode 1.
9.00pm The Lost Boys (TCM)
Unmissable classic ’80s movie starring Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Keifer Sutherland. Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.
10.05pm Kill Switch (Sky Movies Action & Thriller)
Tough homicide cop Jacob Stillwell (Steven Seagal) enters the seedy Memphis underworld to hunt down a vicious serial killer. Hard-hitting action with Isaac Hayes.
11.00pm The Tripper (Zone Horror)
In the 80’s, after seeing his father and lumberjack foreman being hit by a protestor against the deforesting and arrested by the police, the boy Gus kills the protestor with a chainsaw. In the present days, Samantha, who is traumatized after being abused by her former boyfriend Jimmy, travels with her pothead friends in a van to the American Free Love Festival, a rock-and-roll concert in the woods. Near the location, they are assaulted by three local hillbillies, but they manage to arrive in the festival. Meanwhile, Mayor Hal Burton and Deputy Buzz Hall try to give a minimum of organization to the event – however a deranged psychopath serial-killer wearing a mask of Ronald Reagan decides toady is a good day to hunt and kill…
12.00am Seed of Chucky (ITV4)
The killer doll is back! Glen, the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come-to-life Chucky and his equally twisted bride Tiffany. When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents’ lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. The family dynamics are far from perfect as Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem; much to gentle Glen’s horror. Chucky can’t believe that his child doesn’t want to walk in his murdering footsteps, and star-struck Tiffany can’t believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly, who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one…
