The Terror Within

Synopsis: It's the post-apocalypse, and the world has been changed by "the accident," a chemical warfare experiment gone awry. At an isolated subterranean complex, a group of people survives because they were able to get the antidote for the illness. They rescue a surface survivor from the gargoyles, who unfortunately had time to impregnate her, and when the "baby" is born and escapes into the ventilation ducts, they begin experiencing an attrition problem.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Thierry Notz
Production: Vestron Video
 
IMDB:
4.9
R
Year:
1989
88 min
71 Views


Exploration party calling mojave lab.

Exploration party calling mojave lab.

Sue, are you there?

Sue?

Sue, we're at three sisters.

Sue, you there?

Michael, they're not answering.

Let me check it out.

Mojave lab, come in.

Sue, come in, please.

Mojave lab, this is

exploration party calling.

Sue, are you there?

Sue, come in, please.

Sue, come in.

Yes, Michael?

What's happening? Taking a little nap?

Everything's all right.

Status report, please.

Well, we bagged a rattlesnake.

Great, get another one,

and we can have a barbecue.

Remember it...

Tastes like chicken.

That's 'cause you forgot

what real chicken tastes like.

Michael, check this out.

We have birds over there.

Hey, we got buzzards circling

about a quarter mile away.

Whatever it is still might be edible.

We'll check it out and let you know.

Okay, just be careful.

Over and out.

Want some?

With as much cover-up

as you can put in there.

Mm, thanks.

Ugh.

What's Andre using

for coffee these days?

I'm not sure you want to know.

Cleaning compound?

It's about the right color.

And the right taste.

Have you and sue finished

the supply inventory?

Yes, we have.

I figured if we cut

calories to 900 a day,

Bake some game every once and a while,

We can stay here for

about another two months.

Hal, we got to start thinking seriously

About getting out of here.

The rocky Mountain lab's...

Is 1,800 Miles away.

We haven't had a clear

message from them in ten days.

Our job is to stay here.

Our job is to survive.

Sue, you're not gonna believe this.

What is it?

Jesus, gargoyles!

John! John!

Michael? John?

Michael, John, David here.

What's going on?

John, Michael, this is David.

What the hell is going on?

You two better get out

there on the double.

Right. I'll get butch.

Don't waste your time.

He's the best tracker we got.

He knows the outside better than anyone.

All right, keep him under control.

Just go out there and bring them back.

Don't go looking for any more trouble.

Is that understood?

Sir, yes, sir.

Ugh!

This government issue

sh*t is for the birds.

Thanks for your opinion.

Now fix it.

David here. Nothing outside.

Anything on the motion detectors?

No activity.

We're out of here.

I sure don't like sending sue out there.

Don't worry.

She's in good hands.

Yeah, but I wish he'd

learn to follow procedures.

You love it up here, don't you?

Man, I don't know how you do it.

This place gives me the creeps.

I just wish we were

on our way out of here,

Headed to the rocky Mountain lab.

Thanks.

That's easy for you to say.

You were trained for that kind of stuff.

I just wish John and Michael

would've listened to me.

I told them to take butch along.

If they had, we wouldn't be doing this.

How could it be gargoyles?

They've never come out this far before.

Survivors.

Maybe it was survivors.

Survivors would see any one

of us as just somebody to rob.

Wouldn't they?

I mean, I think...

I think it's your turn

to get the shine, Neil.

Good plan.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Whoo.

When there ain't no food,

It sure does help to have good shine.

You think they're gonna

find anything out there?

Yeah, they're gonna discover

they don't have to cut rations,

Not with two less mouths to feed.

Well, maybe it wasn't survivors.

I mean, John's last words

were "Jesus, gargoyles. "

Gargoyles, shmargoyles.

Just thank your lucky stars

you're the most essential person

Old hal's got here.

I wouldn't go out there to find

them if they tripled my pay,

Assuming there's anybody

left to sign paychecks.

That sucks.

It sure is quiet out here.

Yeah, it's always been like this,

Even before the accident.

The accident.

You know, I used to think

we'd go out in a ball of fire,

Not because some leaky test

tube in a lab somewhere.

I still don't think it was one of ours.

Come on.

Ours, theirs, who cares?

With 99% of the population gone,

It doesn't make much

difference, does it?

And now we have the vaccine,

And we only have

ourselves to give it to.

If anyone survived out

there without mutating...

They must be living like

savages or something.

If anyone survived with

those things out there.

Mojave lab, David here.

Yeah, David, what is it?

About quarter of a mile

from three sisters rocks.

I think we spotted what

John and Michael found.

Ask him what it is.

What have you got, David?

Buzzards.

I'll let you know as soon as we know.

Didn't help them that much, did it?

Oh, God.

Holy sh*t.

David, look.

They have a diary too.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Mojave lab, David here.

I think we found what

John and Michael saw.

It's a human camp site.

Ten males, ages 40

maybe down to 10 or 11.

No survivors.

They've been ripped to pieces.

Looks like maybe two family groups.

No females?

Affirmative.

Males only.

Hal, this could be the breakthrough

We've been waiting for.

If they've survived outside this long,

They must have some

kind of natural immunity.

We've got to examine them.

I don't even have a way of

bringing in John and Michael.

It's a long way to cart bodies,

Especially if those

gargoyle things are around.

Then I'll have to go out there.

Andre?

Yeah?

I need you two up here right away.

Couple minutes.

F***.

F***.

David?

Still here, hal.

Remain on site.

Linda and Andre are coming out.

We've got to check those bodies.

There's not much left.

Well, find the ones

in the best condition.

Yes, sir.

No way. I ain't going out there.

We've got to retrieve them for analysis.

Sue and David can't do it by themselves.

It's not our job.

Then I'll go on my own.

I'll go.

Get your gear.

Ow!

Ow.

Butch?

Butch?

That way.

Butch.

Stay here.

It's a human!

Stay, butch.

It's all right.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

What's your name?

Come with me.

You'll be safe with me.

Mojave lab.

Mojave lab, David here.

Where in the hell have you been?

Playing hide-and-seek

with a gargoyle.

Tell Linda I got a present for her.

Stop screwing around.

I'm not screwing around, hal.

We got a survivor.

A survivor?

Affirmative.

Female, young.

Get back here just as fast as you can.

You got that right, boss.

We really need to take care of this.

Sue, let's get her out of here.

Come on.

Come on!

Hi, my name's Neil.

Take it easy.

Come on, let's get her down to medical.

Sure am glad you brought her in.

No way I was going out there.

Yeah? You owe me one.

- Anytime.

- Yep, anytime.

Okay, let's lie you down.

I just want to take your temperature

And get a blood sample.

Now you relax.

This won't take very long.

Sue, check her pulse, please.

I still don't understand

how she survived out there

Without the vaccine.

Well it's not important, hal.

The point is, if she

can survive out there,

We can survive out there.

In that campsite, David,

How many dead?

They found the shack.

Hatch lock topside has been destroyed.

- We've lost our eyes topside.

- We know.

Better get up there

and check that hatch.

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