THERE are two films showing this evening of great mediocrity. But with Midnight Express to look forward to tomorrow evening, tonight would be a good night to spend in the pub anyway.
You can tell before watching it that Highway To Hell (World, 9.30pm) will be silly, not just because it has a silly title, but because it stars someone called Chad.
Chad Lowe plays Charlie Sykes and Kristy Swanson plays his true love Rachel. Both are navy brats whose lives have too often been disrupted by their parents' military base transfers.
But now they have found one another and fallen in love. And when that happens, in all good B-movies, things start to go wrong. The couple's domestic bliss is threatened when they set out for a secret wedding in Las Vegas and are pulled over, not by a cop, but by Hellcop (C.J. Graham). He is a demon from Hell who seizes Rachel with the intention of delivering her into the depths as a prize for his master, presumably chief inspector Hellcop.
This is all ridiculous, but it gets even more so. Sykes follows his damsel in distress into hell, where he finds people cooking eggs on the sidewalks and Hitler (an unfunny cameo by comedian Gilbert Gottfried) arguing with Cleopatra over shoe polish. There is Jimmy Hoffa's bar, where the dead eternally disco.
Patrick Bergin, much to his shame, although it all helps pay the bills, pops up as an underworld service station operator to help the couple out of their predicament.
The plot of Eye Of The Tiger (Pearl, 9.30pm) will sound familiar. A group of Hell's Angels invade a peace-lovin' town and sadistically murder an ex-con's wife. He goes after revenge and what follows is the same thing that has followed in 1,001 other films of this kind.