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 Leverage (Bravo)
New US action series featuring hi-tech Robin Hoods exacting revenge on the wealthy and wicked. The team try to avenge the death of a young girl, who was killed by toxic fertilizer, but the CEO of the conglomerate that makes the chemical is prepared to go to any lengths to protect his company’s interests. Season One, episode 8.
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8.05pm The Perfect Score (Film4 +1)
6 teenagers from diverse backgrounds conspire to break into a SAT testing center to steal the answers in hope of acing their exam. They quickly realize that the answer to their problems and the key to their happiness do not lie in achieving a perfect score. Stars Chris Evans, Erika Christensen, Bryan Greenberg and Scarlett Johansson.
9.00pm Pet Sematary (TCM)
After moving into their new home the Creed family’s cat is killed after wondering onto the highway. Jud an elderly neighbor shows Louis, the father, to an isolated hill behind the local Pet Cemetery and instructs him to bury the deceased feline there. Not long after the cat reappears at the Creed home, only he is not the same. The docile cat is now vicious and destructive. When their youngest son meets with a fatal accident, the distraught Louis buries him in the same location hoping to revive him. Unfortunately he unleashes far more than he had bargained for.
10.00pm Watchmen (Sky Movies Premiere)
In a world where superheroes have been outlawed, the murder of a masked avenger brings his colleagues out of retirement. Investigating the killing, the team uncover a sinister plot that could change the course of history.
10.40pm An American Werewolf in London (Sci-Fi Channel)
Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it’s human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it’s existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death. Unmissable classic 80’s horror comedy from director John Landis.
12.00am Demons 2 (The Unexplained Channel)
A documentary is shown on TV of group of teens who investigate the site of a demon infestation (seen in the first film). When they find a lifeless corpse of a demon, one of the teens causes it’s resurrection, and the demon makes it’s way into the nearby world by TV-broadcast… An unlucky girl, having her birthday-party at that time, gets posessed by the demon while watching the documentary and soon the complete building in which she lives turns into a living nighmare.
