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 Ground Zero (aka Polar Opposites)
A scientist holds the fate of the world in his hands when a rogue nuclear test triggers a host of massive earthquakes. Disaster thriller from king of the b-moves Fred Olen Ray.
9.00pm Glee (E4)
An incriminating document about members of the Glee club is sent around McKinley High School. Will is determined to find the perpetrator. But will the gossip ruin the Glee club’s reputation? A video of Sue impersonating Olivia Newton-John in her Physical music video is circulated on the internet and catches the eye of Olivia Newton-John. Meanwhile, will Puck and Rachel get back together?
10.00pm Hideous! (Horror Channel +1)
Grisly horror comedy from Full Moon. A gang that collects deformed freaks of nature must band together with the FBI agents investigating them, when their ghoulish specimens reanimate and viciously turn on them.
11.00pm Silent Hill (E4/E4 HD)
Christophe Gans’s stylish horror film, based on the classic video game of the same name, stars Radha Mitchell as Rose Da Silva, whose young daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland, pictured) keeps having nightmares about Silent Hill. Rosa decides to take her to the West Virginia town to solve the puzzle but on the way, blacks out after a minor road accident. Awakening, she finds her daughter disappeared into the deserted town, a place of evil that sits atop a smouldering mine, where grey ash falls, making it perpetual night and where the only inhabitants include bloodthirsty babies and zombie nurses. Not only must she avoid their murderous attentions, she must get to Sharon before they do.
12.00am Serial Mom (Sky Movies Indie)
A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family’s picture perfect world.
