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Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Not Rated | 62 min | Sci-Fi, Horror | August 1958 (USA)
An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writers: Gene Corman (story), Martin Varno
Stars: John Baer, Angela Greene, Ed Nelson
Not Rated | 62 min | Sci-Fi, Horror | August 1958 (USA)
An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writers: Gene Corman (story), Martin Varno
Stars: John Baer, Angela Greene, Ed Nelson
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00:01:40This is X-100 to Goldenrod. X-100 to Goldenrod. Do you read me? Over.
00:01:44Normal descent on instruments. Normal descent on instruments.
00:01:49Altitude 90,000 feet. Approaching critical velocity.
00:01:54Something's wrong. I'm falling too fast.
00:01:59Goldenrod, I'm in trouble. The jets don't break my speed.
00:02:04I'm releasing the drag chute.
00:02:08The chute feels 500 pounds heavier.
00:02:12There's no drag and I'm getting too close to the Earth.
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00:02:24There's nothing more I can do now.
00:02:27Estimate impact radius.
00:02:30Ten miles northeast your location.
00:02:33In case recorders damage, get this.
00:02:35Velocity 6,700 miles.
00:02:38Weight ratio 187.
00:02:40Thrust, 220 tons.
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00:04:00I'll, uh...
00:04:04I'll tell the others.
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00:04:37Goldenrod-Baker to Goldenrod-Abel.
00:04:42Goldenrod-Baker to Goldenrod-Abel.
00:04:48Goldenrod-Baker to Goldenrod-Abel.
00:04:55Goldenrod-Baker to Goldenrod-Abel.
00:05:03Did you find it?
00:05:05Came down about three miles east of Walker's Pass.
00:05:08Area 116 or 117 on your map.
00:05:11How bad is he?
00:05:12He... he bought it all the way.
00:05:15You're certain?
00:05:16No respiration, no heartbeat, no pulse.
00:05:18Came down pretty hard.
00:05:20The rocket unit's still in one piece and most of the control section.
00:05:24Everything else is scattered around for about half a mile.
00:05:28Tell Donna to cover the entire area.
00:05:30Canaveral will want all the visual data we can give them.
00:05:33Oh, and, uh, don't move anything till we get there.
00:05:36Goldenrod-Baker out.
00:05:46I'm terribly sorry, Julie.
00:05:48I can understand how you feel.
00:05:51But we can't let it interfere with the work we have to do.
00:05:54You both knew it was a calculated risk.
00:05:58I'll be all right, Doctor.
00:06:01Let's get going.
00:06:23Dave?
00:06:25Dave?
00:06:27Look at the composition of this mud.
00:06:30Dr. Wyman wants you to get full coverage on the entire area.
00:06:35This was your first project under Dr. Wyman, wasn't it?
00:06:40Yeah.
00:06:42I helped design the jettison unit.
00:06:44It didn't work.
00:06:46On a project like this, there's always a margin for error.
00:06:49You expect it.
00:06:50Sure.
00:06:52Then when it comes, you'll find you really didn't expect it after all.
00:06:57You think Julie expected it?
00:06:58With his engagement ring on her finger?
00:07:02John Kerkorn was the first man to be sent up in a satellite and ejected back to Earth.
00:07:08Don't think he was supposed to come back alive.
00:07:11Let's check the rest of them.
00:07:13Look, Dave.
00:07:15Look.
00:07:16Don't blame yourself.
00:07:18The answer lies in this wreckage.
00:07:20Let's recheck the crash pattern.
00:07:50Hey, that's funny.
00:07:57What's that?
00:07:58This rip was smaller when we first got here.
00:08:01Would the stress of settling into the ground have widened it?
00:08:04How could that be?
00:08:05The entire hull is made of magnarety mallow.
00:08:09I'd like to examine the body before we bring it out.
00:08:12All right.
00:08:13Watch you don't cut yourself, Doctor.
00:08:43Doctor Benson, come here quickly.
00:08:44Bring my bag.
00:09:05I want you to see this.
00:09:17How long did you say he'd been dead?
00:09:20It's been at least three hours since the crash.
00:09:24Over three hours and no sign of body rigidity.
00:09:29No skin discoloration.
00:09:31He feels normal.
00:09:36No dilation whatsoever.
00:09:39The cause of death must be due to an internal rupture.
00:09:44I've never seen an internally damaged body with no sign of rigor mortis after so long.
00:09:50Let's get him back to the lab so we can continue the examination.
00:10:09Help Dr. Wyman.
00:10:11He wants to take John back to the lab.
00:10:13Right.
00:10:15Dave, get a blanket.
00:10:45Hello, Everglade.
00:11:11Hello, Everglade.
00:11:12This is Goldenrod.
00:11:13This is Goldenrod.
00:11:14How do you receive, or?
00:11:17Aren't they receiving us?
00:11:19That's not the question.
00:11:21Are we transmitting?
00:11:23They don't receive anything from us.
00:11:24They won't try and reach us until the frequency check at 9 o'clock.
00:11:39By all medical standards, this man is dead.
00:11:43No heartbeat, no respiration.
00:11:48Yet his tissues refuse to dissipate.
00:11:51Is it possible he could be in a, well, a kind of catatonic state?
00:11:55Could he still be alive?
00:11:57Perhaps a form of hypometabolism.
00:11:59That's impossible.
00:12:01It's hard to stop.
00:12:02There's no circulation.
00:12:04You know as well as I do that when this process stops, the brain starts to deteriorate almost at once.
00:12:09Within a matter of three minutes, it dies.
00:12:13Hello, Everglade.
00:12:14Hello, Everglade.
00:12:15This is Goldenrod.
00:12:16This is Goldenrod.
00:12:17How do you receive, over?
00:12:21Maybe after this long of radio silence, we'll switch over to an emergency channel.
00:12:26I've already tried that.
00:12:28How about the Air Force?
00:12:33Hello, Air Force emergency.
00:12:34This is Special CQD Goldenrod Station.
00:12:37How do you receive, over?
00:12:44Everything's all fouled up here.
00:12:45I couldn't receive the spot weather report on this thing.
00:12:48Yeah, but are you sure it's not your set?
00:12:50No, I've already checked everything.
00:12:52Will you go out and ask Steve to come in here a minute?
00:12:54Sure.
00:12:57Hello, Everglade.
00:12:58Hello, Everglade.
00:12:59This is Goldenrod.
00:13:00This is Goldenrod.
00:13:02Do you receive, over?
00:13:05Nothing, Doctor.
00:13:08Doctor!
00:13:13What is it?
00:13:15It's not a lesion.
00:13:17It's more like something had been forced through the tissue under high pressure.
00:13:25Steve.
00:13:27The radio still won't work.
00:13:29Dave wants to see you.
00:13:30Okay.
00:13:32I'll bet they're going nuts at the Cape.
00:13:34Is that radio working, Steve?
00:13:37We're going to need assistance.
00:13:51What's the trouble?
00:13:53I can't transmit across the room with this thing.
00:13:59It sounds like a magnetic disturbance.
00:14:01Yeah.
00:14:02Could be the power lines followed up outside.
00:14:05What's happening in there?
00:14:07I don't know.
00:14:08Somehow we've got to get through to the Cape.
00:14:10Five hours overdue now.
00:14:12I bet half the brass in the state of Florida is up in arms.
00:14:14I hope not.
00:14:15If enough people find out about this, we'll have everybody up here.
00:14:18I'll check the tower.
00:14:20You stay here and keep trying to get through, will you?
00:14:21Yeah.
00:14:25Look, if you pick up anything, give a yell, huh?
00:14:27Okay.
00:14:35Blood pressure 120 over 80.
00:14:38Normal for a living man.
00:14:40That's impossible, Doctor.
00:14:41You must have made a mistake.
00:14:42But, Doctor, I checked it twice.
00:14:46Well, this man does have normal pressure.
00:14:50That's impossible.
00:14:53I'll make a blood sample.
00:14:54I'll make a radiation count.
00:15:19Goldenrod to Everglade.
00:15:20Goldenrod to Everglade.
00:15:22Come in, Everglade. Over.
00:15:33Goldenrod to Everglade.
00:15:34Come in, Everglade.
00:15:35This is an emergency.
00:16:04Steve?
00:16:32What happened?
00:16:34Something hit me.
00:16:35It was big, like a bear.
00:16:37It came from out of the darkness and was heading for the lab.
00:16:40I know I put a couple of shots in it before I went down.
00:16:43Wounded animal that large isn't good.
00:16:45How well are we armed?
00:16:47Well, besides these pistols, we've got a couple of rifles.
00:16:49I think it headed toward the back of the building.
00:16:51Dave, are you sure you're all right?
00:16:54Yeah.
00:16:55Yeah, it just clipped me.
00:16:58Inside.
00:17:08It's in the medical room.
00:17:09Wait a minute.
00:17:38Down to get the other ladder.
00:17:42Did it get to him?
00:17:45No.
00:17:46What do you think it was?
00:17:48Well, this didn't come off any bear.
00:17:50Bring the light over here, will you?
00:17:56No fur, no blood.
00:18:00Very much like leather.
00:18:04Is the power out completely?
00:18:07Yes, it is.
00:18:08You have any idea what caused it?
00:18:10Could be a break in the cable of the dam or a short circuit in one of the transformers.
00:18:15Dave, are you sure the building was thoroughly checked?
00:18:17Are the wiring and fuses all right?
00:18:19I went over everything thoroughly.
00:18:21I checked everything.
00:18:22I'll check again.
00:18:28Nothing's wrong here.
00:18:30Like I said, it's probably the disturbance up at the dam.
00:18:32Well, Steve needs some help boarding the window.
00:18:35All right.
00:18:43Well, at least we won't freeze.
00:18:46A place like this would be equipped with heating.
00:18:49Up until a few months ago, this was a radar monitoring station.
00:18:53Most of the ultra-sensitive instruments respond better to the cooler atmosphere.
00:18:57Systolic was 140.
00:18:59I'll have a blood sample for you in a few minutes.
00:19:02How long do you think it'll take Canaveral to realize we're incommunicado and send aid?
00:19:06Well, with a security operation as tight as this, maybe another 12 hours.
00:19:10That could mean we could be here another day.
00:19:21Doctor!
00:19:22Doctor!
00:19:28I've never seen anything quite like it.
00:19:33Notice the way it's fighting the others.
00:19:42Seven hours and his blood is still alive.
00:20:01One of us will have to drive to the nearest telephone and call a cape.
00:20:04Every minute counts.
00:20:05What is it?
00:20:08I've never seen amoebic dominance of a cell structure before, but this is completely out of proportion.
00:20:13What are they? What do they mean?
00:20:15Well, normal blood has two basic cells.
00:20:18The red carry oxygen and the white fight infection.
00:20:22But this blood has three.
00:20:24The third cell, that big one, well, that's completely foreign to any blood structure.
00:20:32If that bacterioid is contagious, then we've all been exposed.
00:20:36I doubt if it's communicable.
00:20:38We'd better get to the nearest town fast.
00:20:40I imagine that'd be Desert City.
00:20:42But that's over 30 miles.
00:20:43Isn't there anything closer?
00:20:46There's nothing on the map.
00:20:48Steve, call a cape from Desert City.
00:20:52Get in touch with Dr. Zimmerman.
00:20:55Don't go into detail.
00:20:57Just tell him to get here as quickly as he can.
00:20:59What about equipment?
00:21:02We need a new power supply.
00:21:04A refrigerated truck or an ambulance to transport the body.
00:21:08Oh, and tell him to request priority clearance directly to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.
00:21:13Right. I'll be back as soon as I can.
00:21:19Keep checking the blood pressure, doctor.
00:21:21The last count was 140 over 80.
00:21:26Well, that's all we can do with the present.
00:21:40♪
00:22:00Any luck with the jeep?
00:22:02I can't figure it out.
00:22:05It wasn't both the truck and the jeep are burnt out.
00:22:16♪
00:22:25Stopped.
00:22:26They're both stopped.
00:22:47Take a look.
00:22:49We're in a magnetic force field.
00:22:51A what?
00:22:52A net of static electricity is surrounding the entire area.
00:22:55That's why our power's dead.
00:22:57Well, we're not going anywhere tonight.
00:22:59The truck and the jeep are burnt out electrically.
00:23:02What would cause a thing like that?
00:23:04There's a very powerful magnetic source somewhere nearby.
00:23:07It's reversing all positive electrical power.
00:23:12Dr. Wyman, how close is the satellite compartment?
00:23:16Two, maybe three miles.
00:23:17I was just thinking, is it possible that the compartment could be bombarded with electron particles?
00:23:22It could be.
00:23:23It's happened before in some of the earlier snark finds at the Cape.
00:23:27When the missiles came back to Earth, they were pretty heavily magnetized.
00:23:30But there's a mountain range between us and the compartment.
00:23:33Yeah, well, there doesn't seem to be any logic behind any of this.
00:23:36Well, here's something to complicate things even more.
00:23:39This was a shot I took when Dave and I first got out there.
00:23:42Look at it closely.
00:23:45Dave, remember I mentioned the strange mud?
00:23:48Yes.
00:23:49Well, this was the last shot taken.
00:23:51Most of the mud has disappeared and the opening is larger.
00:23:54Yes, I remember that when we took John out of the compartment.
00:23:57But at the time, it didn't seem important.
00:24:00Well, someone or something must have been there.
00:24:16There's an explanation and a good one for all of this.
00:24:19There must be.
00:24:22Some of the things that have occurred today are without precedent.
00:24:26The man in there alive, it should be dead.
00:24:29Something that's never happened before.
00:24:33And we've never sent a man so far into space before.
00:24:38Well, we're all tired and disappointed and under a terrible strain.
00:24:46After this long, the Cape has probably contacted the Pentagon in just a matter of time.
00:24:50What if they can't get through?
00:24:52The magnetic force field works both ways.
00:24:55Well, in the morning, one of us will have to hike down and meet them.
00:24:58As a precautionary measure, I suggest we all stay in this room tonight.
00:25:02Steve and Dave and I will take turns watching Kikorin.
00:25:05Bye.
00:25:09Julie.
00:25:12I'm sorry, Doctor.
00:25:15I just can't hold it back any longer.
00:25:18I know.
00:25:20I wish there was something I could say.
00:25:23I'll listen if you like.
00:25:27It's bad enough losing someone you love.
00:25:30But this...
00:25:32The unknown...
00:25:34I'm being held here.
00:25:36Alexander!
00:25:41Julie.
00:25:46Julie.
00:25:48He alone stood on the threshold of our future.
00:25:52And what happened to him today, we may learn more than we've ever known.
00:26:01Maybe I should just listen.
00:26:05He's so incongruous.
00:26:09He's dead.
00:26:12But is he dead?
00:26:24Scientists, the more we learn, the more we realize there is to learn.
00:26:28Life itself is the greatest miracle.
00:26:30Well...
00:26:32When we get him to the hospital tomorrow, maybe we'll know.
00:26:39Good night, Doctor.
00:26:41Good night, Julie.
00:27:08Good night.
00:27:39Dave.
00:27:41What is it?
00:27:43I think I hear something in there.
00:27:52The light's out.
00:28:09Dr. Wyman.
00:28:12Half his head's gone.
00:28:21Dr. Wyman!
00:28:26There's nothing you can do.
00:28:34Must have taken the body.
00:28:36Whatever it is, it works fast.
00:28:39Let's take him down.
00:29:06Steve.
00:29:21Steve.
00:29:23Help him to the table.
00:29:33Johnny.
00:29:35Johnny, you're all right.
00:29:38Well, Julie...
00:29:40I don't know.
00:29:43I think so.
00:29:48Where's Dr. Wyman?
00:29:53What happened?
00:29:55Suppose you tell us what happened.
00:29:58Julie, what happened to Dr. Wyman?
00:30:00He's dead.
00:30:03Why are you staring at me?
00:30:07You don't think that I had anything to do with it.
00:30:09John.
00:30:11We're just as confused as you are.
00:30:13Did you see anything?
00:30:15Was there anybody in the room with you and Dr. Wyman?
00:30:18I don't know.
00:30:22Last thing I remember...
00:30:24I was making my descent.
00:30:26The jets didn't take hold.
00:30:28When I finally released the drag chute, it didn't hold.
00:30:32I was too close to the ground.
00:30:34You crashed.
00:30:35We brought you here.
00:30:38You don't remember.
00:30:40I seemed to be floating...
00:30:43in a warm...
00:30:45black mist.
00:30:49Oh, my head.
00:30:51My neck.
00:30:53Oh, no.
00:30:55Look at that.
00:30:57The same mark.
00:31:01What's this?
00:31:11What's this?
00:31:17Tell me what's happening.
00:31:19Johnny.
00:31:21You don't understand.
00:31:23We thought you were dead.
00:31:26Dead?
00:31:28What do you mean, dead?
00:31:31When we pulled you out of the compartment,
00:31:33your body had completely ceased to function.
00:31:41A hypometabolistic state.
00:31:43A type of...
00:31:45suspended animation...
00:31:47brought on by the contraction of the mesentery blood vessels...
00:31:50in the pressure change of landing.
00:31:52That kind of terminology I'd expected from Dr. Wyman, not from you.
00:31:57Well, it seemed like the natural diagnosis.
00:31:59From Dr. Wyman, yes.
00:32:02In some way, I think Dr. Wyman...
00:32:04is influencing me.
00:32:06I think he may be a part of me now.
00:32:12I don't understand!
00:32:16You've got to help me!
00:32:18Help me!
00:32:19Fantastic. It's unbelievable. Things like this just don't happen.
00:32:22But it has happened.
00:32:27Johnny.
00:32:33I'm not afraid.
00:32:35I'm not afraid.
00:32:37It didn't come here to destroy.
00:32:40Johnny.
00:32:41Try to tell us.
00:32:43What didn't come here to destroy us?
00:32:48Is he all right?
00:32:50Yes.
00:32:57Yes.
00:32:58They're gone.
00:33:09What are you talking about?
00:33:11Come see for yourself.
00:33:17That's what your blood looks like now.
00:33:19Normal in every respect.
00:33:21Four hours ago, it was populated with alien amorphic cell structures.
00:33:29I think we should see what I look like under the fluoroscope.
00:33:37How will it work with the power out?
00:33:39It operates on a radium cathode tube.
00:33:47What are they?
00:33:49The amorphic cell structures have expanded to...
00:33:52They're using his body for a breeding ground.
00:33:55You're not going to harm them, are you?
00:33:57What do you mean?
00:33:58We don't even know what they are.
00:34:00The one thing we do know is that they're alien to the human body.
00:34:04Somehow, they must have come down with you in the compartment.
00:34:07Only a few hours ago, they were microscopic.
00:34:10We've got to do something.
00:34:12If you destroy them,
00:34:14you destroy me.
00:34:19You can't destroy them.
00:34:21Why not?
00:34:23That's why not.
00:34:34Steve, don't shoot him! I'll kill you!
00:34:36Steve, don't shoot!
00:34:38Don't shoot him! I'll kill you!
00:34:48Don't shoot!
00:35:19It's burned, but it got away, didn't it?
00:35:21I don't think it'll go very far.
00:35:23It's gone. It was burned pretty bad.
00:35:25I think we ought to track it down and make sure it's dead.
00:35:27No, let's wait for help.
00:35:28We can't possibly combat that thing by ourselves.
00:35:31Look, nobody's gotten to us, and no one probably will until it's destroyed.
00:35:34Why does it have to be killed?
00:35:36Why are we all fighting?
00:35:38I don't know.
00:35:39I don't know.
00:35:40I don't know.
00:35:41I don't know.
00:35:42I don't know.
00:35:43I don't know.
00:35:44I don't know.
00:35:45I don't know.
00:35:46I don't know.
00:35:47Why are we always so quick to destroy?
00:35:49It's an alien. It's the first of its kind to come to the Earth.
00:35:52John, you know what it's done to you, breeding its young in your body.
00:35:55You saw what it did to Dr. Wyman.
00:35:56Isn't that reason enough?
00:35:58It has to be killed.
00:35:59You don't understand.
00:36:00It didn't come in malice.
00:36:02It could have killed all of you earlier, but it was me it was after.
00:36:06It had to come back to me to...
00:36:08to nourish its young.
00:36:10Well, all the more reason to destroy it.
00:36:12Suppose it is still alive.
00:36:13Bullets don't harm it.
00:36:16Well, fire seems to.
00:36:19Well, a very pistol.
00:36:20It has an engulfing flame plus a delayed explosion.
00:36:22That's better than a ladder.
00:36:24Very pistol?
00:36:25A flare gun.
00:36:26At short range, it'll chop down anything.
00:36:28There's someone in the cabinet in the hall.
00:36:29I'll get him.
00:36:30No, you can't.
00:36:31Listen, you can't kill a living creature without giving it a chance to justify itself.
00:36:38Let's put him in there.
00:36:45Come on.
00:37:01Can you give him something to keep him quiet?
00:37:04Sodium amytal.
00:37:06Good.
00:37:08I'll leave you here to watch him.
00:37:09Don will come with us.
00:37:10We're going to need photographic coverage.
00:37:13Will that really keep him out until we get back?
00:37:16I don't know.
00:37:18Under normal circumstances, this should render him unconscious for at least 12 hours.
00:37:22But this isn't a normal person.
00:37:25What you and he were to each other has no bearing on what he is now, Julie.
00:37:30I'm not worried.
00:37:32He's not dangerous.
00:37:34Not to me, anyway.
00:37:37Well, we can't take any chances.
00:37:39That creature eludes us and comes back here.
00:37:43Or if he gives you a bad time, you better know how to use a buried pistol.
00:37:48Believe me, Julie.
00:37:49He's not the same man you were engaged to.
00:37:53Thanks.
00:37:54Let me have one for Julie, will you?
00:37:58Now, don't worry.
00:38:00If we run into any trouble, we're not going to be heroes.
00:38:05Just pull the hammer back.
00:38:08Just be back as soon as you can.
00:38:12All right.
00:38:42They got this far. It's a lot healthier than I am.
00:38:45You know, I think it's leading us back to the compartment.
00:38:48It looks that way.
00:38:50How long do you think we've been out?
00:38:53Hey, look. My watch is running again.
00:38:59Mine, too.
00:39:00That means the magnetic field must be broken.
00:39:03It must be dead.
00:39:07We better make certain.
00:39:12Come on.
00:39:42Come on.
00:40:03Well, it seems like the most likely place for it to go.
00:40:06Yeah, I don't see anything.
00:40:08Maybe it's on the inside.
00:40:09Yeah.
00:40:10I'll let you stay here until we're sure it's safe.
00:40:13Dave, you circle to the left and I'll go to the right.
00:40:15Check.
00:40:40Nothing could possibly live through that.
00:41:11Look, it stopped again.
00:41:13Hey, Dave.
00:41:16I better get some pictures before there's nothing left to show.
00:41:40Hold it. It's going to kill her.
00:41:59Fire over its head.
00:42:11You hurt?
00:42:12No, I don't think so.
00:42:15It could have killed me.
00:42:17But it didn't.
00:42:18Probably would have if we hadn't chased it off.
00:42:20Might have wound up like Wyman.
00:42:22We better get back.
00:42:23Julie's all alone and the monster may try and contact Koryn again.
00:42:26Yeah, let's go.
00:42:41Don't be afraid, Julie.
00:42:58I'm not going to hurt you.
00:43:01That wasn't meant for you.
00:43:03That was for the creature or whatever it is.
00:43:07Don't stare at me, Julie.
00:43:11I'm sorry, John.
00:43:15If what you say is true and I've been dead,
00:43:21I don't know what this means for us.
00:43:23But I haven't changed my feeling.
00:43:28Julie, we're all afraid of the unknown.
00:43:30You don't understand what's happened to me.
00:43:32And because there's an unknown being, you want to destroy it.
00:43:37But isn't it possible that what's taking place is for a purpose?
00:43:41Why not let the creature have a chance to tell us why it's here?
00:43:45But it broke in and attacked us.
00:43:47It killed Dr. Wyman.
00:43:48It's done this to you.
00:43:50We had to do something.
00:43:51Now the others have gone to make sure it's dead.
00:43:54It's not dead.
00:43:56And they won't be able to find it.
00:43:58How do you know?
00:43:59How do you know?
00:44:03Julie, I'm the one who's had the most contact with it.
00:44:07Something foreign is inside of me.
00:44:10Alive.
00:44:12If there was any cause for fear,
00:44:14wouldn't I know it?
00:44:16But I'm not afraid.
00:44:17This creature is intelligent.
00:44:19It wants something.
00:44:20We've got to give it a chance to communicate with us.
00:44:29Come on.
00:44:51See, the sedative didn't work.
00:44:53My bodily reactions aren't those of a normal person.
00:44:56What happened to the creature?
00:44:58It got away.
00:44:59Then it's alive.
00:45:01He told me it would be.
00:45:03Somehow he knew.
00:45:05He seems so sure that it's not evil.
00:45:07This isn't a battle between men and a non-reasoning being.
00:45:10Can't you see it doesn't want to kill for the sake of killing?
00:45:13It could have done away with all of us earlier if it wanted to.
00:45:15Until we discovered its fear of fire.
00:45:17Listen.
00:45:18When you were out checking the power lines last night,
00:45:20all you had with you was a pistol,
00:45:21which you fired at it with no effect.
00:45:24If it had been a wild animal,
00:45:25it would have tried to kill you before moving on.
00:45:27Can you account for what happened to Dr. Wyman?
00:45:32No, I can't.
00:45:34But maybe it could if we give it a chance.
00:45:35Why should we give it a chance?
00:45:38It's already committed murder.
00:45:39It's done I don't know what to you,
00:45:40and it's attacked Donna.
00:45:45Look.
00:45:46If you were in a strange place
00:45:47and you were trying to communicate with the inhabitants,
00:45:49but every time you tried they made a move against you,
00:45:52the only way to break through to them
00:45:54would be to take a hostage.
00:45:55Can't you see that's what it's been doing?
00:45:57It's been acting out of fear and self-preservation.
00:45:59It wants to communicate with us,
00:46:00but it doesn't know how.
00:46:02We've got to give it a chance.
00:46:04What do you have in mind?
00:46:05It's obvious the creature keeps coming back to me
00:46:07because part of it is inside of me.
00:46:11Why not let me lead us to it?
00:46:13In the daylight.
00:46:15In the open.
00:46:16Maybe he's got something.
00:46:18When we were out searching for the creature,
00:46:20our watches started running again.
00:46:22And then when we encountered it,
00:46:24they stopped.
00:46:26On our way back here, they became active again.
00:46:29And now everything's dead.
00:46:32Now it's my guess that the magnetic disturbance
00:46:35originated from two different locations.
00:46:39One from the creature.
00:46:42And then from you.
00:46:44It might be the only thing that's keeping you alive.
00:46:48If my life has been given back to me,
00:46:50it's for a purpose.
00:46:52Trust me.
00:46:54And we'll learn why.
00:46:55If the creature isn't what you believe it to be
00:46:57and we're forced to kill it,
00:46:59then we have no indication of what will happen to you.
00:47:02I know.
00:47:04That's why it's important to let the creature make itself known
00:47:06before we take any action.
00:47:08All right.
00:47:09But if we follow Johnny's plan,
00:47:11we still have to be prepared.
00:47:13We have no way of knowing what can happen to us out there.
00:47:16Remember,
00:47:18we've agreed to give the creature every opportunity to prove itself.
00:47:21Then the morning we still agree to follow Johnny's plan,
00:47:23we'll get an early start.
00:47:25By that time, maybe help will arrive.
00:47:27Dave and I will stay on guard.
00:47:28The rest of you get as much sleep as you can.
00:47:30Will it come back here tonight?
00:47:35I don't know.
00:47:52THE CREATURE
00:48:03Steve,
00:48:05I'm a little worried about Johnny's plan.
00:48:08So am I.
00:48:10I don't know if he's responsible for his actions.
00:48:14I think it might be a trap.
00:48:16If it is,
00:48:18this time we're going to be prepared.
00:48:19Come on.
00:48:22THE MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
00:48:30How about a Molotov cocktail?
00:48:33We fill it with gasoline and then use it as a hand grenade.
00:48:35That's a ticket.
00:48:36We could saturate the creature
00:48:38and detonate it with a buried pistol.
00:48:40There's no way it could escape then.
00:48:48How many bombs are we going to make?
00:48:50Between us, we have to be able to carry about six.
00:48:54What are we going to do with the girls?
00:48:56Take them with us.
00:48:57It's better than leaving them here unprotected.
00:49:00That's enough.
00:49:03Are we going to tell Julie and Donna about this?
00:49:05No, I think we better
00:49:07make sure Johnny doesn't find out.
00:49:14Have you ever seen any of these work before?
00:49:17Yeah.
00:49:19The Guadalcanal.
00:49:21The guerrilla tank was running wild behind our lines.
00:49:25He knew we couldn't do any much damage with our rifles,
00:49:27so he was playing kind of a cat-and-mouse game
00:49:30until he knew he could finish us off.
00:49:34Not far from where we were, there was a truck overturned.
00:49:37The kid in it saw what was happening.
00:49:40I got the brilliant idea to bring me some gasoline
00:49:42and I made up some of these.
00:49:45When that tank came by, we smeared it for good.
00:49:49It's pretty horrible to see,
00:49:51but it worked.
00:49:55Yeah, well,
00:49:56it'd be good for me to get off of this mountain.
00:49:59Even with these cocktails,
00:50:00I'm not anxious to tangle with that creature again.
00:50:02Well, none of us are,
00:50:03but I don't think we have any choice.
00:50:06It came down on the satellite.
00:50:07It's our responsibility.
00:50:09Besides, it's
00:50:11better to stalk it than have it come after us.
00:50:14Yeah, you're probably right.
00:50:16And so,
00:50:17we should wait for some help.
00:50:18I just don't like the idea of taking Julie and Donna with us.
00:50:20Well, I don't either.
00:50:22Then we don't know when help will arrive.
00:50:23We can't leave them alone.
00:50:44What are you doing here?
00:50:45What are you doing with Dr. Wyman's body?
00:50:47I couldn't sleep.
00:50:50I had to see how he was killed.
00:50:52Half his head gone.
00:50:53It's horrible.
00:50:55I don't expect you to trust me.
00:50:57I don't even know that I can trust myself, but
00:50:59please don't treat me like a monster.
00:51:01I haven't done anything wrong.
00:51:02John, it's not a question of right or wrong.
00:51:05Maybe you're not responsible for your actions.
00:51:07Whether you are or not,
00:51:09who knows what you might do.
00:51:11John, don't you
00:51:12don't you realize this
00:51:13unknown creature is using your body as a breeding ground?
00:51:17We don't know what to expect.
00:51:22I can't deny anything you've said.
00:51:25I do receive impulses from the creature, but
00:51:28I know I have free will. I
00:51:30I know I can still make my own decisions.
00:51:33Was it your own free will or the creature's?
00:51:37That insists it's benevolent?
00:51:43I'm not sure.
00:51:46But I do know that we have to give it a chance to explain.
00:51:49And I know that no harm will come to you.
00:51:55daylight will be here in about three hours.
00:51:57Better get some rest.
00:52:00It's all the same to you, Al.
00:52:02Stay here for a while.
00:52:05I'll get the bags.
00:52:14All right.
00:52:16You will give it a chance to explain.
00:52:19We'll give it a chance.
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00:55:14It's in there.
00:55:16Julie? Donna?
00:55:18Stay there.
00:55:19There's nothing to fear.
00:55:21We're not going to take any unnecessary chances.
00:55:24The girls will wait here.
00:55:25Okay, you lead the way.
00:55:26You're going to give it a chance?
00:55:29You're not going to kill it?
00:55:32You're not going to kill it?
00:55:34♪
00:55:39What happened?
00:55:40Why did you let him go?
00:55:42We couldn't stop him.
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00:55:53I brought them to you.
00:55:55They don't understand.
00:55:58I'm not sure I do.
00:56:00How can I help you to communicate with us?
00:56:02Now I am able to speak by assimilation,
00:56:06a form of photosynthesis.
00:56:08I have been able to incorporate certain of Dr. Wyman's functional processes.
00:56:14Was Dr. Wyman's death necessary?
00:56:16Through his sacrifice, I can communicate,
00:56:20understand your reasoning,
00:56:22your motivations, your way of life.
00:56:25I will need your help.
00:56:27Together we must make them understand that I have not harmed you
00:56:31and that we will give them a better way of life.
00:56:34♪
00:56:48Look!
00:56:50Listen!
00:56:52Please listen!
00:56:53Do not be afraid.
00:56:55I am not here to harm you.
00:56:58We're too far away.
00:56:59Let's move in.
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00:57:22Do not be afraid.
00:57:24That's Dr. Wyman's voice.
00:57:26It is his voice.
00:57:27But how?
00:57:28Yes, I am using Dr. Wyman's voice.
00:57:38I have been able to master the use of many of his faculties.
00:57:42With his voice, I am able to communicate with you.
00:57:45You killed him!
00:57:46He is not dead.
00:57:48Not dead?
00:57:49He has gained something more than life as you know it.
00:57:53He is the first of your kind to attain immortality.
00:57:56Immortality?
00:57:58We're not interested in that kind of immortality.
00:58:01I know you want to destroy me.
00:58:03But listen!
00:58:04Please listen!
00:58:06I only want to help you.
00:58:08Millions of years ago, my people inhabited a planet such as yours.
00:58:12We discovered the ultimate power,
00:58:15just as you on Earth are about to do.
00:58:18Get ready to make your move.
00:58:20We should have put this power to our own benefit.
00:58:23Instead, hatred, greed and prejudice caused us to misuse that power
00:58:29and it brought about our own destruction.
00:58:31Open target. Now's our chance.
00:58:33But you can't risk killing Johnny.
00:58:35No, wait.
00:58:36What harm is there in hearing them out?
00:58:38For centuries, we have been circling your Earth,
00:58:41waiting for a means to penetrate your atmosphere.
00:58:44Your projectile was the first to present a means of entry.
00:58:48Those before were not retractable and burned as they fell back to Earth.
00:58:52I am the first to come...
00:58:54Death and destruction?
00:58:55If what you say is true, what are we to expect?
00:58:58You need me, and I have come.
00:59:01Through me, we will unite our intellects within one body.
00:59:05It's insane.
00:59:06And how do you plan to do that?
00:59:08Already it has begun.
00:59:10Within the hour, the first of our new generation will be born.
00:59:14It's true.
00:59:17I can feel it inside.
00:59:20You're imposing your will on us.
00:59:23You're sacrificing our civilization for the resurrection of your own.
00:59:28I've been a fool.
00:59:30The only way you can be safe from your downfall is by our sacrifice.
00:59:34What you propose is dominance, not salvation.
00:59:37Don't be governed by fear.
00:59:39Go ahead and kill me.
00:59:41You've already said I'm dead.
00:59:43A dead man with a brain and a body kept alive artificially to...
00:59:46to feed a generation of monsters.
00:59:48That's not true.
00:59:51If you don't kill me,
00:59:53a new civilization is inside of me.
00:59:57It will destroy mankind as we know it today.
01:00:00The future of our race is in you.
01:00:04You've got to kill me.
01:00:06We have to destroy it.
01:00:08John!
01:00:09Run! Get away from him!
01:00:11Look!
01:00:13He will live on to become a greater being in future generations to come.
01:00:17Don't kill me.
01:00:19In destroying me, you are destroying your only hope for mankind.
01:00:29You've got to kill me!
01:00:48Fire!
01:01:11You are not ready.
01:01:13But we will still save you.
01:01:15In your quest for self-destruction, you will send up more satellites.
01:01:19And we will be there,
01:01:21waiting to come again.
01:01:46There's nothing left.
01:01:48Do you think we made the right decision?
01:01:52John made the decision.
01:01:54Let's hope it was the right one.
01:01:57We'll probably never know.
01:02:15The End
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