The 1993 House of Secrets (NBC Sunday...

The 1993 House of Secrets (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), a tremulous thriller with a Gothic touch and set in a Southern plantation turned sanitarium, shamelessly lifts scenes from both “Diabolique” and “Black Orpheus.” Melissa Gilbert, Kate Vernon and Bruce Boxleitner star.

Although its plot of courageous parents trying to find a cure for an illness that is crippling their even more courageous son sounds like an ordinary disease-of-the-week TV movie, Lorenzo’s Oil (KNBC Monday at 8:30 p.m.) is anything but average. Director George Miller believes this true-life adventure is every bit as exciting as any Mad Max flick and has told it urgently without loading it down with sentiment. With a pair of fine performances from Nick Nolte (despite a silly accent) and Susan Sarandon.

Mo’ Money (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.)--but less funny. Damon Wayans made his feature debut for both starring and writing in this 1992 release. Unfortunately, he seems to have remembered more of “The Last Boy Scout” than “In Living Color.” This one starts as a kind of contemporary ghetto “Sting,” collapses into a lackluster retread of “Strictly Business,” and then tries to hook into the “Lethal Weapon” knockoff sweepstakes. Some of the jokes are callow and mean; all of the action swift and sterile.

The 1993 “yuppie-in-peril” picture” The Crush (KTTV Wednesday at 3:30 a.m.) tries to tease with lewd fantasies and then wash everything clean with a moralizing rampage; GQ handsome Cary Elwes finds himself hounded by his landlord’s sexy 14-year-old daughter (Alicia Silverstone), a rich nymphet from Hell before she became “Clueless.”

After waging war in Norman Rockwell’s small-town America in the first “Gremlins,” the grinning, green little beasties take on New York City in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (ABC Saturday at 9 p.m.). The sequel is funnier and fiercer than the first.