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Night of the Blood Beast is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film produced by exploitation filmmaker Roger Corman and his brother Gene. It was one of the first films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and was written by first-time screenwriter Martin Varno, who was 21 years old. It starred several actors who had regularly worked with Roger Corman, including Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Steve Dunlap, Georgianna Carter and Tyler McVey.
It took Varno six weeks to write the script, the original working title of which was Creature from Galaxy 27. The story was partially influenced by the real-life Space Race and the Howard Hawks film The Thing from Another World (1951). Screenwriters Jerome Bixby and Harold Jacob Smith gave Varno uncredited assistance with the dialogue. With a budget of about $68,000, it was shot over seven days at the Charlie Chaplin Studios, Bronson Canyon and a television station on Mount Lee in Hollywood.
Storyline:
An astronaut returns from space dead. The base that recovered him is then cut off from the outside world by an alien. The death of a scientist, and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body, bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and the rest of humanity.
Credits
John Baer as Steve Dunlap
Angela Greene as Dr. Julie Benson
Ed Nelson as Dave Randall
Georgianna Carter as Donna Bixby
Michael Emmet as Major John Corcoran
Tyler McVey as Dr. Alex Wyman
Ross Sturlin as The Creature
It took Varno six weeks to write the script, the original working title of which was Creature from Galaxy 27. The story was partially influenced by the real-life Space Race and the Howard Hawks film The Thing from Another World (1951). Screenwriters Jerome Bixby and Harold Jacob Smith gave Varno uncredited assistance with the dialogue. With a budget of about $68,000, it was shot over seven days at the Charlie Chaplin Studios, Bronson Canyon and a television station on Mount Lee in Hollywood.
Storyline:
An astronaut returns from space dead. The base that recovered him is then cut off from the outside world by an alien. The death of a scientist, and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body, bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and the rest of humanity.
Credits
John Baer as Steve Dunlap
Angela Greene as Dr. Julie Benson
Ed Nelson as Dave Randall
Georgianna Carter as Donna Bixby
Michael Emmet as Major John Corcoran
Tyler McVey as Dr. Alex Wyman
Ross Sturlin as The Creature
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00:02:59Velocity 6,700 miles.
00:03:01Weight ratio 1 to 87.
00:03:03Thrust 220 tons.
00:04:24I'll tell the others.
00:06:16Don't interfere with the work we have to do.
00:06:18You both knew it was a calculated risk.
00:06:24I'll be fine.
00:06:25I'll be all right, doctor.
00:06:27let's get going.
00:06:29Let's get going.
00:07:05I'll be all right.
00:07:08I'll be all right.
00:07:09I'll be all right.
00:07:26I'll be all right.
00:07:26John Kukoran was the first man to be sent up in a satellite and ejected back to Earth.
00:07:32He was supposed to come back alive.
00:07:35Let's check the rest of them.
00:07:36Look, Dave, look, don't blame yourself.
00:07:42The answer lies in this wreckage.
00:07:44Let's recheck the crash pattern.
00:07:55I'll be all right.
00:08:20That's funny.
00:08:21What's that?
00:08:22This rip was smaller when we first got here.
00:08:25Will the stress of settling into the ground have widened it?
00:08:28How could that be?
00:08:29The entire hull is made of magnesium alloy.
00:08:33I'd like to examine the body before we bring it out.
00:08:36All right.
00:08:37Watch you don't cut yourself, doctor.
00:09:07Dr. Benson, come here quickly.
00:09:09Bring my bag.
00:09:28I want you to see this.
00:09:39How long did you say he's been dead?
00:09:42It's been at least three hours since the crash.
00:09:46Over three hours, no sign of body rigidity.
00:09:51No skin discoloration.
00:09:53Temperature feels normal.
00:09:59No dilation whatsoever.
00:10:02The cause of death must be due to an internal rupture.
00:10:07I've never seen an internally damaged body with no sign of rigor mortis after so long.
00:10:13Let's get him back to the lab so we can continue the examination.
00:10:32Help, Dr. Wyman.
00:10:34He wants to take John back to the lab.
00:10:37Right.
00:10:39Dave, get a blanket.
00:11:22Oh, no.
00:11:24Yes, you must be 500,000 hires.
00:11:24No.
00:11:24No.
00:11:25No.
00:11:27No.
00:11:28No!
00:11:32I'm going on.
00:11:33I'll go on a two hour.
00:11:34Hello, Everglade. Hello, Everglade.
00:11:36This is Goldenrod. This is Goldenrod.
00:11:39How do you receive? Over.
00:11:42Aren't they receiving it?
00:11:44That's not the question.
00:11:46Are we transmitting?
00:11:47They don't receive anything from us.
00:11:49They won't try and reach us until the frequency check at 9 o'clock.
00:12:04By all medical standards, this man is dead.
00:12:08No heartbeat, no respiration.
00:12:13Yet his tissues refuse to dissipate.
00:12:16Is it possible he could be in a catatonic state?
00:12:19Could he still be alive?
00:12:21Perhaps a form of hypometabolism.
00:12:24That's impossible.
00:12:25It's hard to stop. There's no circulation.
00:12:29You know as well as I do that when this process stops,
00:12:31the brain starts to deteriorate almost at once.
00:12:34In a matter of three minutes, it dies.
00:12:38Hello, Everglade. Hello, Everglade.
00:12:40This is Goldenrod. This is Goldenrod.
00:12:42How do you receive? Over.
00:12:46Maybe after this long of radio silence,
00:12:48I'll switch over to an emergency channel.
00:12:50I've already tried that.
00:12:53How about the Air Force?
00:12:57Hello, Air Force Emergency.
00:12:59This is Special CQD Goldenrod Station.
00:13:02How do you receive? Over.
00:13:08The meeting's all fouled up here.
00:13:10I couldn't receive the spot weather report on this thing.
00:13:12Yeah, but are you sure it's not your set?
00:13:14No, I've already checked everything.
00:13:17Will you go out and ask Steve to come in here a minute?
00:13:18Sure.
00:13:22Hello, Everglade. Hello, Everglade.
00:13:24This is Goldenrod. This is Goldenrod.
00:13:26Do you receive? Over.
00:13:29Nothing, Doctor.
00:13:32Doctor.
00:13:37What is it?
00:13:39It's not a lesion.
00:13:41It's more like something you've been forced through the tissue
00:13:43under high pressure.
00:13:49Steve.
00:13:51The radio still won't work.
00:13:53Dave wants to see you.
00:13:55Okay.
00:13:56I'll bet they're going nuts at the Cape.
00:13:59Get that radio working, Steve.
00:14:01We're gonna need assistance.
00:14:17What's the trouble?
00:14:18I can't transmit across the room with this thing.
00:14:24It sounds like a magnetic disturbance.
00:14:26Yeah.
00:14:27Could be the power lines followed up outside.
00:14:30What's happening in there?
00:14:32I don't know.
00:14:33Somehow we've got to get through to the Cape.
00:14:35Five hours overdue now.
00:14:37I bet half the brass in the state of Florida's up in arms.
00:14:39I hope not.
00:14:40If enough people find out about this,
00:14:41we'll have everybody up here.
00:14:43I'll check the tower.
00:14:45You stay here and keep trying to get through, will you?
00:14:46Yeah.
00:14:50Look, if you pick up anything, give a yell, huh?
00:14:52Right.
00:15:00Blood pressure 120 over 80.
00:15:02Normal for a living man.
00:15:04That's impossible, Doctor.
00:15:06You must have made a mistake.
00:15:06For Doctor.
00:15:07I checked it twice.
00:15:11This man does have normal pressure.
00:15:15That's impossible.
00:15:17Take a blood sample.
00:15:19I'll make a radiation count.
00:15:29That's impossible.
00:15:43Goldenrod to Everglade.
00:15:45Goldenrod to Everglade.
00:15:47Come in, Everglade. Over.
00:15:59This is an emergency.
00:16:27Steve?
00:16:54Hey, there.
00:16:56What happened?
00:16:59Something wickeded me.
00:17:00It was big like a bear.
00:17:02I came from out of the darkness and was heading for the lab.
00:17:05I know I put a couple of shots in it before I went down.
00:17:08Wounded animal that large isn't good.
00:17:10How well are we armed?
00:17:12Well, besides these pistols, we've got a couple of rifles.
00:17:14I think it headed toward the back of the building.
00:17:17Dave, are you sure you're all right?
00:17:19Yeah, yeah, just clip me.
00:17:23It's inside.
00:17:33It's in the medical room.
00:17:34Wait a minute.
00:18:01At the window.
00:18:04Down to get the other lanterns.
00:18:07Did it get to him?
00:18:10No.
00:18:11What do you think it was?
00:18:13This didn't come off any bear.
00:18:15Bring the light over here, will you?
00:18:21No fur, no blood.
00:18:25Very much like leather.
00:18:29Is the power out completely?
00:18:32Yes, it is.
00:18:33You have any idea what caused it?
00:18:35Could be a break in the cable of the dam or a short circuit in one of the transformers.
00:18:40Dave, are you sure the building was thoroughly checked?
00:18:42Are the wiring and fuses all right?
00:18:44I went over everything thoroughly.
00:18:46I checked everything.
00:18:47I'll check again.
00:18:55Nothing's wrong here.
00:18:56Like I said, it's probably the disturbance up at the dam.
00:18:59Well, Steve needs some help boarding the window.
00:19:02I'm going to go.
00:19:10Well, at least we won't freeze.
00:19:12If a place like this would be equipped with heating.
00:19:16Up until a few months ago, this was a radar monitoring station.
00:19:19Most of the ultra-sensitive instruments respond better to the cooler atmosphere.
00:19:24Systolic was 140.
00:19:26I'll have a blood sample for you in a few minutes.
00:19:29Well, do you think it'll take Carnival to realize we're incommunicado and send aid?
00:19:33Well, if a security operation is tight as this, maybe another 12 hours.
00:19:37That could mean we could be here another day.
00:19:47Doctor!
00:19:49Doctor!
00:19:50Doctor!
00:19:54I've never seen anything quite like it.
00:19:59Notice the way it's fighting the others.
00:20:02Seven hours and his blood is still alive.
00:20:21One of us will have to drive to the nearest telephone and call the Cape.
00:20:25Every minute counts.
00:20:26What is it?
00:20:28I've seen amoebic dominance of a cell structure before, but this is completely out of proportion.
00:20:33What are they? What do they mean?
00:20:35Well, normal blood has two basic cells.
00:20:38The red carry oxygen and the white fight infection.
00:20:42But this blood has three.
00:20:44The third cell, that big one.
00:20:46Well, that's completely foreign to any blood structure.
00:20:53If that bacterioid is contagious, then we've all been exposed.
00:20:57I doubt if it's communicable.
00:20:59We'd better get to the nearest town fast.
00:21:00I imagine that'd be Desert City.
00:21:02But that's over 30 miles. Isn't there anything closer?
00:21:06There's nothing on the map.
00:21:10Steve, call the Cape from Desert City.
00:21:13Get in touch with Dr. Zimmerman.
00:21:16Don't go into detail.
00:21:18Just tell him to get here as quickly as he can.
00:21:20What about equipment?
00:21:22We need a new power supply.
00:21:24We need a refrigerated truck or an ambulance to transport the body.
00:21:29Oh, and tell him to request priority clearance directly to Water Reed Hospital in Washington.
00:21:34Right. I'll be back as soon as I can.
00:21:39Keep checking the blood pressure, doctor.
00:21:42The last count was 140 over 80.
00:21:47Well, that's all we can do with the present.
00:22:22Any luck with the Jeep?
00:22:24I can't figure it out.
00:22:26Carls and both the truck and the Jeep are burnt out.
00:22:41Stopped.
00:22:42They're both stopped.
00:23:03Take a look.
00:23:05We're in a magnetic force field.
00:23:07A what?
00:23:08A net of static electricity is surrounding the entire area.
00:23:11That's why our power's dead.
00:23:13Well, we're not going anywhere tonight.
00:23:15The truck and the Jeep are burnt out electrically.
00:23:18What would cause a thing like that?
00:23:20There's a very powerful magnetic source somewhere nearby.
00:23:23It's reversing all positive electrical power.
00:23:28Dr. Wyman, how close is the satellite compartment?
00:23:32Two, maybe three miles.
00:23:33I was just thinking.
00:23:34Is it possible that the compartment could be bombarded with electron particles?
00:23:38It could be.
00:23:39It's happened before.
00:23:40And some of the earlier snark farms to the Cape.
00:23:42When the missiles came back to Earth, they were pretty heavily magnetized.
00:23:46But there's a mountain range between us and the compartment.
00:23:48Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any logic behind any of this.
00:23:51Well, here's something to complicate things even more.
00:23:54This was the shot I took when Dave and I first got out there.
00:23:57Look at it closely.
00:24:01Dave, remember I mentioned the strange mud?
00:24:03Yes?
00:24:04Well, this was the last shot taken.
00:24:07Most of the mud has disappeared and the opening is larger.
00:24:10Yes, I remember that when we took John out of the compartment.
00:24:13But at the time, it didn't seem important.
00:24:16Well, someone or something must have been there.
00:24:28There's an explanation and a good one for all of this.
00:24:31There must be.
00:24:34Some of the things that have occurred today are without precedent.
00:24:38The man in there alive, it should be dead.
00:24:41Something that's never happened before.
00:24:45And we've never sent a man so far into space before.
00:24:51Well, we're all tired and disappointed.
00:24:55We're under a terrible strain.
00:24:58After this long, the Cape is probably contacted the Pentagon.
00:25:01It's just a matter of time.
00:25:02What if they can't get through?
00:25:04The magnetic force field works both ways.
00:25:07Well, in the morning, one of us will have to hike down to meet them.
00:25:10As a precautionary measure, I suggest we all stay in this room tonight.
00:25:14Steve and Dave and I will take turns watching Gacoran.
00:25:17Right.
00:25:23Julie.
00:25:28I'm sorry, Doctor.
00:25:30I just can't hold it back any longer.
00:25:33I know.
00:25:35I wish there was something I could say.
00:25:38I'll listen if you like.
00:25:42It's bad enough losing someone you love.
00:25:45But this.
00:25:47The unknown.
00:25:49Being held here.
00:25:52Alex.
00:25:56Julie.
00:26:00Julie.
00:26:03He alone stood on the threshold of our future.
00:26:07What happened to him today, we may learn more than we've ever known.
00:26:15Maybe I should just listen.
00:26:20It's so incongruous.
00:26:23He's dead.
00:26:26But is he dead?
00:26:39Strange.
00:26:39As a scientist, the more we learn the more we realize there is to learn.
00:26:42Life itself is the greatest miracle.
00:26:46Well, when we get them to the hospital tomorrow, maybe we will know.
00:26:58Good night, Dr.
00:27:00Good night, Julie.
00:27:31Good night, Julie.
00:27:59Dave.
00:28:00What is it?
00:28:02I think I hear something in there.
00:28:10The light's out.
00:28:26I'm sorry.
00:28:29I'm sorry.
00:28:31I'm sorry.
00:28:39Dr. Simon!
00:28:43There's nothing you can do.
00:28:51Must have taken the body.
00:28:53Whatever it is, it works fast.
00:28:56Let's take him down.
00:29:22Let's take him down.
00:29:38Steve, help him to the table.
00:29:50Johnny.
00:29:52Johnny, you're all right.
00:29:55Oh, Julie.
00:29:57I don't know.
00:30:00I think so.
00:30:05Where's Dr. Wyland?
00:30:10What happened?
00:30:11Suppose you tell us what happened.
00:30:14Julie, what happened to Dr. Wyland?
00:30:16He's dead.
00:30:20Why are you staring at me?
00:30:24You don't think that I had anything to do with it.
00:30:26John.
00:30:28We're just as confused as you are.
00:30:31Was there anybody in the room with you and Dr. Wyland?
00:30:34I don't know.
00:30:35No.
00:30:38Last thing I remember.
00:30:40I was making my descent.
00:30:42The jets didn't take hold.
00:30:43When I finally released the drag chute, it didn't hold.
00:30:46I was too close to the ground.
00:30:48You crashed.
00:30:50We brought you here.
00:30:53You don't remember.
00:30:54What happened?
00:30:55I seemed to be floating.
00:30:58In a warm, black mist.
00:31:03Oh, my head.
00:31:05My neck.
00:31:08Oh, no.
00:31:10Look at that.
00:31:10The same mark.
00:31:25What's this?
00:31:31Tell me what's happening.
00:31:32Johnny.
00:31:33Johnny.
00:31:34You don't understand.
00:31:37We thought you were dead.
00:31:40Dead?
00:31:43What do you mean, dead?
00:31:46When we pulled you out of the compartment, your body had completely ceased to function.
00:31:56a hypometabolistic state, a type of suspended animation brought on by the contraction of the mesentery blood vessels in the
00:32:06pressure change of landing.
00:32:07That kind of terminology I'd expected from Dr. Wyman, not from you.
00:32:12Well, it seemed like the natural diagnosis.
00:32:15From Dr. Wyman, yes.
00:32:17In some way, I think Dr. Wyman is influencing me.
00:32:21I think he may be a part of me now.
00:32:28I don't understand.
00:32:31You've got to help me!
00:32:33Help me!
00:32:34Fantastic.
00:32:35It's unbelievable.
00:32:36Things like this just don't happen.
00:32:37But it has happened.
00:32:48I'm not afraid.
00:32:50I'm not afraid.
00:32:52It didn't come here to destroy.
00:32:55Johnny.
00:32:56Try to tell us.
00:32:58What didn't come here to destroy us?
00:33:00Yes.
00:33:03Is he all right?
00:33:10Yes.
00:33:16They're gone.
00:33:17Come on.
00:33:27What are you talking about?
00:33:29Come see for yourself.
00:33:35That's what your blood looks like now.
00:33:37Normal in every respect.
00:33:40Four hours ago, it was populated with alien amorphic cell structures.
00:33:47I think we should see what I look like under the fluoroscope.
00:33:56How will it work with the power, Al?
00:33:58It operates on a radium cathode tube.
00:34:05What are they?
00:34:07The amorphic cell structures have expanded to...
00:34:11They're using his body for a breeding ground.
00:34:14You're not going to harm them, are you?
00:34:15What do you mean?
00:34:17We don't even know what they are.
00:34:19The one thing we do know is that they're alien to the human body.
00:34:23Somehow they must have come down with you in the compartment.
00:34:26Only a few hours ago they were microscopic.
00:34:29We've got to do something.
00:34:30If you destroy them,
00:34:33you destroy me.
00:34:43You can't destroy them.
00:34:45Why not?
00:34:47That's why not.
00:34:56Steve! Don't shoot him! I won't hurt you!
00:34:59Steve! Don't shoot!
00:35:01Don't shoot him! I won't hurt you!
00:35:11Don't shoot him!
00:35:16Don't shoot him!
00:35:18Don't shoot him!
00:35:31Don't shoot him!
00:35:47Don't shoot him!
00:35:47It was burned, but it got away, didn't it?
00:35:49I don't think it'd go very far.
00:35:50It's gone. It was burned pretty bad.
00:35:52I think we ought to track it down and make sure it's dead.
00:35:54No, let's wait for help.
00:35:56We can't possibly combat that thing by ourselves.
00:35:58Look, nobody has gotten to us, and no one probably will,
00:36:00until it's destroyed.
00:36:01Why does it have to be killed?
00:36:04Why are we always so quick to destroy?
00:36:06It's an alien. It's the first of its kind to come to the Earth.
00:36:09John, you know what it's done to you?
00:36:11Breeding its young in your body.
00:36:12You saw what it did to Dr. Wyman.
00:36:13Isn't that reason enough?
00:36:14It has to be killed.
00:36:16You don't understand.
00:36:17It didn't come in malice.
00:36:19It could have killed all of you earlier, but it was me it was after.
00:36:23It had to come back to me to...
00:36:25to nourish its young.
00:36:27All the more reason to destroy it.
00:36:29Suppose it is still alive. Bullets don't harm it.
00:36:33Well, fire seems to.
00:36:35Well, the very pistol has an engulfing flame, plus a delayed explosion.
00:36:39It's better than a ladder.
00:36:41Very pistol?
00:36:41A flare gun. At short range, it'll chop down anything.
00:36:44There's some in the cabinet in the hall. I'll get them.
00:36:46No, you can't. Listen, you can't kill a living creature
00:36:49without giving it a chance to justify itself.
00:36:54Let's put him in there.
00:37:18Can you give him something to keep him quiet?
00:37:21Sodium ametal.
00:37:23Good.
00:37:24I'll leave you here to watch him.
00:37:26Don will come with us.
00:37:27We're going to need photographic coverage.
00:37:30Will that really keep him out until we get back?
00:37:33I don't know.
00:37:35Under normal circumstances, this should render him unconscious for at least 12 hours.
00:37:39But this isn't a normal person.
00:37:42What you and he were to each other has no bearing on what he is now, Julie.
00:37:47I'm not worried.
00:37:49He's not dangerous.
00:37:51Not to me, anyway.
00:37:53We can't take any chances.
00:37:54That creature loses and comes back here.
00:37:58Or if he gives you a bad time, you better know how to use a very pistol.
00:38:03Believe me, Julie, he's not the same man you were engaged to.
00:38:08Thanks.
00:38:08Let me have one for Julie, will you?
00:38:13Now, don't worry.
00:38:15If we run into any trouble, we're not going to be heroes.
00:38:20Pull the hammer back.
00:38:23Just be back as soon as you can.
00:38:58I think this frog's a lot healthier than I am.
00:39:01You know, I think it's leading us back to the compartment.
00:39:04Yeah, it looks that way.
00:39:06How long do you think we've been out?
00:39:09Hey, look, my watch is running again.
00:39:15Mine, too.
00:39:16That means the magnetic field must be broken.
00:39:19It must be dead.
00:39:22We better make certain.
00:39:52We better make certain tanks.
00:39:52No, it's because of ouräusters.
00:40:00No, it's because of the
00:40:17Well, it seems like the most likely place for it to go.
00:40:20Yeah, I don't see anything.
00:40:22Maybe it's on the inside.
00:40:24Yeah.
00:40:25Only you stay here until we're sure it's safe.
00:40:28Dave, you circle to the left and I'll go to the right.
00:40:30Check.
00:41:19Nothing could possibly live through that.
00:41:23Look, it stopped again.
00:41:26Hey, Steve!
00:41:28I'd better get some pictures before there's nothing left to shoot!
00:41:32Oh, my God!
00:41:35Oh, my God!
00:42:07Hold it!
00:42:08It's going to kill her!
00:42:10Far over its head!
00:42:22You hurt?
00:42:24No.
00:42:24I don't think so.
00:42:26It could have killed me.
00:42:29But it didn't.
00:42:30Probably would have we hadn't chased it off.
00:42:32Might have wound up like Wyman.
00:42:34We'd better get back.
00:42:35Julie's all alone and the monster may try and contact Akorian again.
00:42:38Yeah, let's go.
00:42:39No.
00:43:04I don't think so.
00:43:08Don't be afraid, Julie.
00:43:11I'm not going to hurt you.
00:43:14That wasn't meant for you.
00:43:17That was for the creature or whatever it is.
00:43:22Don't stare at me, Julie.
00:43:25I'm sorry, John.
00:43:29If what you say is true and I've been dead...
00:43:35I don't know what this means for us, but I haven't changed in my feeling.
00:43:42Julie, we're all afraid of the unknown.
00:43:44You don't understand what's happened to me, and because there's an unknown being, you want to destroy it.
00:43:51But isn't it possible that what's taking place is for a purpose?
00:43:55Why not let the creature have a chance to tell us why it's here?
00:43:59But it broke it and attacked us.
00:44:01It killed Dr. Wyman. It's done this to you.
00:44:04We had to do something.
00:44:05Now the others have gone to make sure it's dead.
00:44:09It's not dead, and they won't be able to find it.
00:44:12How do you know?
00:44:16Julie, I'm the one who's had the most contact with her.
00:44:21Something foreign is inside of me.
00:44:23Alive.
00:44:24If there was any cause for fear, wouldn't I know it?
00:44:29But I'm not afraid.
00:44:30This creature is intelligent.
00:44:32It wants something.
00:44:33We've got to give it a chance to communicate with us.
00:44:36And I'll give it a chance.
00:45:07My bodily reactions aren't those of a normal person.
00:45:11What happened to the creature?
00:45:13Got away.
00:45:14Then it's alive.
00:45:16He told me it would be.
00:45:18Somehow he knew.
00:45:19He seemed so sure that it's not evil.
00:45:22This isn't a battle between men and a non-reasoning being.
00:45:25Can't you see it doesn't want to kill for the sake of killing?
00:45:27It could have done away with all of us earlier if it wanted to.
00:45:30Until we discovered its fear of fire.
00:45:32Listen.
00:45:33When you were out checking the power lines last night,
00:45:35all you had with you was a pistol.
00:45:36Which you fired at her with no effect.
00:45:39If it had been a wild animal, it would have tried to kill you before moving on.
00:45:42Can you account for what happened to Dr. Wyman?
00:45:46No, I can't.
00:45:48But maybe it could if we gave it a chance.
00:45:50Why should we give it a chance?
00:45:52It's already committed murder.
00:45:54It's done I don't know what to you and it's attacked Donna.
00:45:59Look.
00:46:01If you were in a strange place and you were trying to communicate with the inhabitants,
00:46:04but every time you tried, they made a move against you,
00:46:06the only way to break through to them would be to take a hostage.
00:46:10Can't you see that's what it's been doing?
00:46:12It's been acting out of fear and self-preservation.
00:46:14It wants to communicate with us, but it doesn't know how.
00:46:17We've got to give it a chance.
00:46:19What do you have in mind?
00:46:19It's obvious the creature keeps coming back to me because part of it is inside of me.
00:46:25Why not let me lead us to it?
00:46:28In the daylight.
00:46:29In the open.
00:46:31Maybe he's got something.
00:46:33When we were out searching for the creature,
00:46:35our watches started running again.
00:46:37And then when we encountered it,
00:46:39they stopped.
00:46:41On our way back here, they became active again.
00:46:44And now everything's dead.
00:46:47Now it's my guess that the magnetic disturbance
00:46:50originated from two different locations.
00:46:54One from the creature.
00:46:58And then from you.
00:46:59It might be the only thing that's keeping you alive.
00:47:03If my life has been given back to me, it's for a purpose.
00:47:07Trust me.
00:47:08And we'll learn why.
00:47:10If the creature isn't what you believe it to be
00:47:12and we're forced to kill it,
00:47:13then we have no indication of what will happen to you.
00:47:16I know.
00:47:19That's why it's important to let the creature make itself known
00:47:21before we take any action.
00:47:23All right.
00:47:24But if we follow Johnny's plan,
00:47:26we still have to be prepared.
00:47:28We've no way of knowing what can happen to us out there.
00:47:30I remember.
00:47:32We've agreed to give the creature
00:47:33every opportunity to prove it so.
00:47:36If in the morning we still agree to follow Johnny's plan,
00:47:38we'll get an early start.
00:47:39By that time, maybe help will arrive.
00:47:41Dave and I will stay on guard.
00:47:43The rest of you get as much sleep as you can.
00:47:45Will it come back here tonight?
00:47:50I don't know.
00:48:19Steve, I'm a little worried about Johnny's plan.
00:48:23So am I.
00:48:25I don't know if he's responsible for his actions.
00:48:29Think it might be a trap?
00:48:31If it is,
00:48:33this time we're going to be prepared.
00:48:35Come on.
00:48:45How about a Molotov cocktail?
00:48:48We fill it with gasoline
00:48:49and then use it as a hand grenade.
00:48:51That's a ticket.
00:48:52We could saturate the creature
00:48:53and detonate it with a very pistol.
00:48:55There's no way it could escape then.
00:49:03How many bombs are we going to make?
00:49:05Well, between us,
00:49:06we ought to be able to carry about six.
00:49:10What are we going to do with the girls?
00:49:11Take them with us.
00:49:13It's better than leaving them here unprotected.
00:49:16That's enough.
00:49:18Are we going to tell Julie and Donna about this?
00:49:20No, I think we better.
00:49:22Make sure Johnny doesn't find out, huh?
00:49:30Have you ever seen any of these work before?
00:49:33Yeah.
00:49:34In Guadalcanal.
00:49:36Will the Tank was running wild behind our lines.
00:49:40He knew we couldn't do any much damage with our rifles,
00:49:42so he was playing kind of a cat and mouse game.
00:49:45He knew he could finish us off.
00:49:49Not far from where we were,
00:49:50there was a truck overturned.
00:49:52The kid in and saw what was happening.
00:49:55Got the brilliant idea
00:49:56to bring me some gasoline.
00:49:57and we made up some of these.
00:50:00That tank came by,
00:50:01we smeared it for good.
00:50:04Pretty horrible to see,
00:50:06but it worked.
00:50:11It'd be good for me to get off of this mountain.
00:50:14Even with these cocktails,
00:50:15I'm not anxious to tangle with that creature again.
00:50:17Well, none of us are,
00:50:18but I don't think we have any choice.
00:50:21If it came down on the satellite,
00:50:22it's our responsibility.
00:50:24Besides,
00:50:24it's...
00:50:25better to stalk it
00:50:26and have it come after us.
00:50:29Yeah, you're probably right.
00:50:31And so,
00:50:31I wish we could wait for some help.
00:50:33I just don't like the idea
00:50:34of taking Julie and Donna with us.
00:50:35Well, I don't either.
00:50:37Then we don't know when help will arrive.
00:50:38We can't leave them alone.
00:50:59What are you doing here?
00:51:00What are you doing with Dr. Wyman's body?
00:51:03I couldn't sleep.
00:51:05I had to see how he was killed.
00:51:08Half his head gone.
00:51:09It's horrible.
00:51:11I don't expect you to trust me.
00:51:13I don't even know that I can trust myself,
00:51:14but please don't treat me like a monster.
00:51:17I haven't done anything wrong.
00:51:18John,
00:51:18it's not a question of right or wrong.
00:51:20Maybe you're not responsible for your actions.
00:51:23Whether you are or not,
00:51:24who knows what you might do?
00:51:27John,
00:51:27don't you realize
00:51:29this unknown creature
00:51:30is using your body
00:51:31as a breeding ground?
00:51:32We don't know what to expect.
00:51:38I can't deny anything you've said.
00:51:40I do receive impulses
00:51:42from the creature,
00:51:42but
00:51:43I know I have free will.
00:51:46I know I can still
00:51:47make my own decisions.
00:51:49Well, is it your own free will
00:51:51or the creature's
00:51:53that insist it's benevolent?
00:51:59I'm not sure.
00:52:01But I do know
00:52:02that we have to give it
00:52:02a chance to explain,
00:52:05and I know that
00:52:05no harm will come to you.
00:52:10Daylight will be here
00:52:11in about three hours.
00:52:12You better get some rest.
00:52:15It's all the same to you, Al.
00:52:18Stay here for a while.
00:52:21I'll give it, thanks.
00:52:30All right.
00:52:31You will give it a chance
00:52:32to explain.
00:52:34We'll give it a chance.
00:52:48your voice.
00:53:05I'll give it a chance.
00:53:05I'll give it a chance.
00:53:05I'll give it a chance.
00:53:38The creature isn't far away.
00:53:42There's some hills to the north and a cave.
00:53:48But he's never been in this area before.
00:53:51How does he know there's a cave?
00:54:34How does he know there's a cave?
00:54:53How does he know there's a cave?
00:55:14How does he know there's a cave?
00:55:19How does he know there's a cave?
00:55:32I don't know.
00:55:35Stay there. There's nothing to fear.
00:55:38I've got to take any unnecessary chances.
00:55:41The girls will wait here.
00:55:42Okay, you lead the way.
00:55:43You're going to give it a chance?
00:55:46You're not going to kill it?
00:55:49You're not going to kill it!
00:55:56What happened?
00:55:57Why did you let him go?
00:55:59He couldn't stop it.
00:56:09They don't understand.
00:56:12I'm not sure I do.
00:56:13How can I help you to communicate with us?
00:56:16Now, I am able to speak by assimilation,
00:56:19a form of photosynthesis.
00:56:22I've been able to incorporate certain
00:56:24of Dr. Wyman's functional processes.
00:56:28Was Dr. Wyman's death necessary?
00:56:30Through his sacrifice, I can communicate.
00:56:33I understand your reasoning,
00:56:35your motivations, your way of life.
00:56:38I will need your help.
00:56:40Together we must make them understand
00:56:42that I have not harmed you,
00:56:44and that we will give them a better way of life.
00:56:52Look!
00:56:55Listen!
00:56:56Please listen!
00:56:57Do not be afraid.
00:56:59I am not here to harm you.
00:57:01We're too far away.
00:57:02Let's move in.
00:57:24Do not be afraid.
00:57:27That's Dr. Wyman's voice.
00:57:29It is his voice.
00:57:30But how?
00:57:31Yes, I am using Dr. Wyman's voice.
00:57:35I have been able to master the use of many of his faculties.
00:57:39With his voice, I am able to communicate with you.
00:57:42You killed him!
00:57:43He is not dead.
00:57:45Not dead?
00:57:46He has gained something more than life as you know it.
00:57:50He is the first of your kind to attain immortality.
00:57:54Immortality?
00:57:55We are not interested in that kind of immortality.
00:57:58I know you want to destroy me.
00:58:00But listen.
00:58:01Please listen.
00:58:03I only want to help you.
00:58:05Millions of years ago, my people inhabited a planet such as yours.
00:58:09We discovered the ultimate power.
00:58:12Just as you on Earth are about to do.
00:58:15You ready to make your move?
00:58:17We should have put this power to use for our own benefit.
00:58:20Instead, hatred, greed, and prejudice caused us to misuse that power.
00:58:26And it brought about our own destruction.
00:58:28Open target.
00:58:29Now's our chance.
00:58:30But you can't risk killing Johnny.
00:58:32No, wait.
00:58:33What harm is there in hearing them out?
00:58:35For centuries, we have been circling your Earth,
00:58:37waiting for a means to penetrate your atmosphere.
00:58:41Your projectile was the first to present a means of entry.
00:58:45Those before were not retractable and burned as they fell back to Earth.
00:58:49I am the first to come to you.
00:58:51With death and destruction?
00:58:53If what you say is true, what are we to expect?
00:58:56You need me, and I have come.
00:58:59Through me, we will unite our intellects within one body.
00:59:03It's insane.
00:59:04And how do you plan to do that?
00:59:06Already it has begun.
00:59:07Within the hour, the first of our new generation will be born.
00:59:11It's true.
00:59:14I can feel them inside.
00:59:17You're imposing your will on us.
00:59:20You're sacrificing our civilization for the resurrection of your own.
00:59:25I've been a fool.
00:59:27The only way you can be saved from your downfall is by our sacrifice.
00:59:31What you propose is dominance, not salvation.
00:59:34Don't be governed by fear.
00:59:36Go ahead and kill me.
00:59:38You've already said I'm dead.
00:59:40A dead man with a brain and a body kept alive artificially to...
00:59:43defeat a generation of monsters.
00:59:46That's not true.
00:59:48If you don't kill me, my civilization is inside of me.
00:59:53It will destroy mankind as we know it today.
00:59:56The future of our race is in you.
01:00:00You've got to kill me.
01:00:02We have to destroy it.
01:00:04John!
01:00:06Run!
01:00:06Get away from it!
01:00:08Look!
01:00:09He will live on to become a greater being in future generations to come.
01:00:13Don't kill me!
01:00:15In destroying me, you are destroying your only hope for mankind.
01:00:25You've got to kill me!
01:00:30Ah!
01:00:37Ah!
01:00:39Ah!
01:00:42Ah!
01:00:42Ah!
01:00:42Ah!
01:00:44Ah!
01:01:01You are not ready, but we will still save you.
01:01:05In your quest for self-destruction, you will send up more satellites.
01:01:09And we will be there, waiting to come again!
01:01:36There's nothing left.
01:01:39Don't you think we made the right decision?
01:01:43John made the decision.
01:01:44Let's hope it was the right one.
01:01:46I'll probably never know.
01:01:47Don't you think we made the right decision?
01:01:53Don't you think we made the right decision?
01:01:55Don't you think we made the right decision?
01:01:55Don't you think we made the right decision?
01:01:55Don't you think we made the right decision?
01:01:57The End
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