They ought to make the day, the time changes the first day of summer. What?
Well, it's eight
and it's still light.
A lot of good. The extra daylight does
us. Now, we've still got a three hour drive back.
We're not gonna be home until after midnight.
Well, if it really bugged you, Johnny, you wouldn't do it.
Do you think I want to blow Sunday on a scene like this?
You know,
I figure we're either gonna have to move mother
out here or move the grave into Pittsburgh.
She can't make a trip like this,
that she can
there any of that candy left.
No.
Look at this thing we still remember.
I don't, you know, I don't even remember what the man looks like. Johnny.
It takes you five minutes.
Yeah. Five minutes to put the wreath on the grave in six hours to drive back and forth.
Mother wants to remember.
So, we trot 200 miles into the country and she stays at home. Well, we're here, John.
All right.
It doesn't.
Right.
Ladies and gentlemen,
we're coming back on the air after an interruption due to technical problems.
Nothing wrong with the radio.
It must have been the station.
Which row is it in?
Well, there's no one around.
Well, it's late.
You'd gotten up earlier. Oh, look, I already lost an hour's sleep on the time
change. I think you complain. Just to hear yourself talk.
There. It is.
I wonder what happened to the one from last year.
Each year. We spend good money on these things.
We come out here and the one from last year is gone.
Well, the flowers die and
the caretaker or somebody takes them away.
Yeah, a little spit and polish. You can clean this up.
Sell it next year.
I wonder how many times we bought the same one.
Hey, come on. Barb Church was this morning, huh?
Hey, I mean, praying for church. Huh?
Come on.
I haven't seen you in church lately. Well,
there's not much sense in my going to church.
Do you remember one time when we were small? We were out here
it was from right over there.
I jumped out at you from behind the tree and grandpa got
all excited and he shook his fist at me and he said,
boy, you'll be damned to hell.
Remember that right over there?
Well, you used to really be scared here,
Johnny.
You're still afraid.
Stop it now. I mean, it,
they're coming to get you. Barbara.
Stop it.
You're ignorant. They're coming for you. Barbara,
stop it. You're acting like a child.
They're coming for you.
Look there comes one of them now.
He'll hear you here he comes now
I'm getting out of here, John.
Wow.
Wow,
it's alright.
Don't worry about him I can handle them.
Probably be a lot more of them. As soon as they find out about us,
the truck is out of gas.
This pump out here is locked. Is there a key
we can try to get out if we can get some gasses there? A key?
I suppose you tried this.
Do you live here?
Jesus?
We've got to get out of here.
We have to get where there's some other people.
Maybe, maybe we better take some food.
I'll see if I can find some food.
What's happening,
what's happening?
Two of them,
there are two of them out there. Have you seen any more around here?
I can take care of those too.
I know you're afraid. But we
ok
this
ok.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I know we're in here now.
Don't look at it.
Get some more lights on in this house.
Why don't you see if you can find some wood, some board,
something about the fire for you.
Something we can nail this place up
it.
Look,
I know you are afraid.
I'm afraid to,
but we have to try to board the house up together.
Now, I'm going to board up the windows and the doors. Do you understand?
We'll be all right here.
We'll be all right here until someone comes to rescue us.
But we'll have to work together. You'll have to help me. Now.
I want you to go in and get some wood so I can board the place up. Do you understand?
Ok.
No, that's wrong.
I want you to pick
out some nails. Pick out the biggest ones you can find.
Yeah, this room looks pretty secure.
If we have to, we can run in here and board up the doors.
We'll be longed for those, they will be back pounding their way in here.
They're afraid now
they afraid of fire. I found that out,
you know, a place back down the road called Beakman's
Beakman's diner.
Anyhow, that's where I found that truck I have out there,
there's a radio on the truck.
I jumped in to listen to it
when a big gasoline truck came screaming right across the road.
But there must have been
1015 of those things chasing after it,
grabbing and holding on.
I didn't see them at first.
I could just see that the truck was moving in a funny way
and those things were catching up to it
right across the road,
slammed on my brakes to keep him head at
myself.
It went right through the guardrail,
I
guess.
I guess the driver must have cut off the road
into that gas station by Beakman's diner.
It went right through the billboard,
ripped over a gas pump and never stopped moving.
But now it's like a moving bonfire
didn't know if the truck was going to explode or what?
I still hear the man
screaming.
This thing is just backing away from it.
I look back at the diner to see
if there was anyone there who could help me.
Just when I noticed that
the entire place had been encircled.
There
wasn't a sign of light left except
by now there were no more screams.
I realized it.
I was alone,
50 or 60 of those things just
standing there
staring at them.
I,
I started to drive,
just plowed right through them.
They didn't move, they didn't run or
just stood there staring at me,
just wanted to crush them.
Ok,
scattered through the air like bugs.
We were riding in the cemetery.
Johnny and me,
Charlie,
wait,
we came to put a wreath on my father's grave
jogging.
And he said,
can I have some candy
bar? Right?
Um We didn't have any
and
oh,
it's hot
in here
hot
and,
and he said,
oh, it's late.
Why did we start so late?
And I said,
Johnny,
if you'd gotten up earlier,
we wouldn't be late.
Johnny asked me if I were afraid
and I said,
I'm not afraid, Johnny.
And then
this man started walking up the road.
He came slowly
and Johnny kept teasing me and saying
he's coming to get you Barbara.
And I laughed at him and said, Johnny, stop it.
And then
Johnny ran away.
I,
I went up to this man
and I was going to apologize,
why don't you just keep calm?
And I looked up
and I said, goody
and he grabbed me,
did he grab me?
And he ripped at me. He
held me and he ripped at my clothes. I think he's just calmed down.
Oh, I screamed, Johnny.
Johnny help me. Oh, help
anyone that
we've got
ripped.
And then Johnny came and he ran and he had, he fought this man
and
I got so afraid I ran.
I ran.
Oh
rabbit
and joy.
He didn't come.
We've got,
we had to wait for Johnny.
Maybe we better go out and get him.
We have to go out and get Johnny.
He's out there.
Please don't you hear me? We've got to go out and get him,
please. We have got to go get
time.
Please.
Please
don't. You know what's going on out there? This is no Sunday school picnic.
Don't you understand? My brother is alone.
Your brother is dead. No,
my brother is not dead.
Hello?
Because of the obvious threat to untold numbers
of citizens and because of the crisis which
is even now developing this radio station will remain on the air day and night.
This station and hundreds of other radio and
TV stations throughout this part of the country are
pooling their resources through an emergency network hook
up to keep you informed of all developments.
At
this hour. We repeat these are the facts as we know,
there is an epidemic of mass murder being
committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins.
The murders are taking place in villages, cities,
rural homes and suburbs with no apparent pattern or reason for the slayings.
It seems to be a sudden general explosion of mass homicide.
We have some descriptions of the assassins.
Eyewitnesses say they are ordinary looking people.
Some say they appear to be in a kind of trance. Others describe them as being.
So at this point,
there is no really authentic way for us to say
who or what to look for and guard yourself against
this
shape of monsters
reaction of law enforcement officials is one of complete bewilderment.
At this hour.
So far,
we have been unable to determine that any
kind of organized investigation is yet under way.
Police,
sheriff deputies and emergency ambulances are
literally deluged with calls for help.
The scene can best be described as mayhem
mayors of Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia and Miami along with the
governors of several eastern and midwestern states
have indicated the National Guard may be
mobilized at any moment, but that has not happened as yet.
The only advice our reporters have been able to
get from official sources is for private citizens to stay
in their home,
behind locked doors,
do not venture outside for any reason until
the nature of this crisis has been determined.
And until we can advise what course of
action
to
keep listening to radio and TV. For any special instructions.
As this crisis develops further,
thousands of office and factory workers are being
urged to stay at their places of employment
not to make any attempt to get to their homes.
However, in spite of this urging and warning streets and highways are packed with
people
apparently to flee just anywhere.
The safest course of action at this time is simply to stay where you want.
Ladies and gentlemen,
we've just received word that the president has
called a meeting of his cabinet to deal
with the sudden epidemic of murder which has
seized the eastern third of this nation.
The meeting is
scheduled to convene within the hour.
Members of the presidential cabinet will be joined by officials of the FBI
behind closed doors. The
White House spokesman in announcing this conference says there will be
an official announcement as soon as possible following that meeting.
This is the latest dispatch just received in our newsroom.
Latest word also from National Press Services in Washington DC.
Now tells us that the emergency
presidential conference which we've just mentioned
will include high ranking scientists from
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
all radio
we got
have join their facilities and an emergency network
to bring you this news as it develops.
We urge you to stay tuned to radio and TV and to stay indoors at all costs.
Late reports reaching this newsroom tell of
frightened people seeking refuge in churches,
schools and government buildings demanding shelter
and protection from the wholesale murder,
which apparently is engulfing much of the nation
to explain all
that
to
theorize
about the reasons
for this.
So far,
you were able to give up
TK Dunmore
of Camden, North Carolina
was quoted,
tell the people for God's sake to get off the streets,
tell them to go home and lock their doors and windows uptight.
We don't know what kind of murder happy characters.
He's chief.
So far, the only descriptions of the only clues anyone has of the killers
come from fright and
as
ordinary looking people,
miss
monsters,
people who look like they're in a trance
and
things
like
animals,
seeing victims who look as though they had been torn
apart.
Ghastly story began developing two days ago with a
report of the slaying of a family of seven
reports of
killings began snowballing in a reign of terror which has
not
keep
track
in
a
general spreading. The
news have been
talking with officials in other cities and have determined that none of this kind
has yet been reported west
of the Mississippi River, except in the
southeastern portion of Texas.
Similar killings have been reported around the Houston and Galveston areas but
nothing like I found a gun and some bullets out there.
It was only late
yesterday
when
it became clear we were facing some kind of national emergency
when first reports began filtering in news,
men and law enforcement agencies rubbed the opinion
this place is boarded up pretty solid.
Now, in nature,
we had to be all right here for a while
dramatically.
We
have a gun and
bullets,
food and the radio
to suspect an obscure kind of conspiracy. Sooner or later someone
bound to come and get us out
creatures from outer space.
So again,
we join with law enforcement agencies encouraging
you to seek shelter in a building,
lock the doors and windows
securely. That's
us. We're doing all right,
any
suspicious strangers
and keep tuned
to your radio
and
television for survival instructions
and further details of this continuing story.
Look, I don't know if you're hearing me,
but I'm going upstairs now.
If anything should try to break in here,
I can hear it from up there and I'll be down to take care of it.
Everything is all right for now.
I'll be back to reinforce the windows and doors later,
but you'll be all right for now. Ok.
Ok.
Civil defense officials in Cumberland have told news men that murder
victims show evidence of having been partially devoured by their murderers.
Consistent reports from witnesses to the effect that people
who acted as though they were in a kind of
trance were killing and eating their victims prompted authorities
to examine the bodies of some of the victims.
Medical authorities in Cumberland have concluded that in all cases,
the killers are eating the flesh of the people they murdered,
repeating this latest bulletin just received moments ago from Cumberland,
Maryland.
Civil Defense authorities have told news men that murder victims
show evidence of having been partially devoured by their murderers.
Medical examination of victims' bodies shows conclusively that the killers
are eating the flesh of the people they kill.
And so this incredible story becomes more ghastly with each report.
It's difficult to imagine such a thing actually happening.
But these are the reports we have been receiving and passing on to you
reports which have been verified as completely
as is possible in this confused situation.
It is happening
and it would appear that no one is safe from this wave of.
We're from town city, a radio
county, Pennsylvania, the butler,
county sheriff has verified that reports of murder victims
being partially eaten by their slayers is true.
No further details available at this time.
However, how
have you guys been down there? I could use some help up here. That's the cellar.
It's the safest place.
You mean you didn't hear the racket we were making up here.
How are we supposed to know what was going on?
It could have been those things for all we knew that girl was screaming.
Sure, you must know what a girl's screaming.
Sounds like those things don't make any noise.
Anybody would know somebody ever needed help.
Look, it's kind of hard hear what's going on
down there.
We thought we could hear screams, but
for all we knew that could have meant those things were
in the house afterwards and you wouldn't come up and help.
Well, if there were more of the racket,
sounded like the place was being ripped apart.
How are we supposed to know what was going on
now? Wait a minute,
you just got through saying you couldn't hear from down there.
Now, you say it sounded like the place was being ripped apart.
It would be nice if you get your story straight, man. All right. Now you tell me
I'm not going to take that kind of a chance. When we got a safe place,
we look into a safe place and you're telling us we
got to risk our lives just because somebody might need help.
Yeah, something like that.
All right. Why don't we settle this?
We came up, ok, we're here.
Now,
I suggest we all go back downstairs before any of those things find out we're in here.
We
can't get in here.
You got the whole place,
most of it.
I'll be a few spots upstairs. They won't be hard to fix. You are insane.
A cellar is the safest place I'm telling you,
they can't get in here and I'm telling you those things turn over our car.
We were damn lucky to get away at all.
Now, you tell me those, those things can't get through this lousy pile of wood.
His wife and kids downstairs,
the kids hurt.
Well, I still think we're better off up here.
We could strengthen everything up, Mr Cooper
with all of us working, we could fix this place up in no time.
We have everything we need up here. We can take all that stuff downstairs with us
and you're really crazy. You know that you've got a million windows up here.
All these windows, you're gonna,
you're gonna make them strong enough to keep these things out.
I told you those things don't have any strength.
I smashed three of them and pushed another one out the door.
Did you hear me when I told you? They turned over our car.
Oh, hell, any good five men could do that. That's my point. Only.
There's not going to be five or even 10,
there's going to be 2030 maybe 100 of those things.
And as soon as they know we're here, this place is going to be crawling with them.
Well, if there are that many, they'll probably get us wherever we are.
Look,
the cellar,
the cellar, there's only one door, right, just one door.
That's all we have to protect.
Finally fix it. So it locks and boards from the inside.
But up here all these windows, we'd never know where they were going to hit us next.
You've got a point, Mr Cooper,
but down in the cellar there's no place to run to.
I mean, if they did get in,
there would be no back exit. We'd be done for
it.
We can get out of here if we have to.
And we've got windows to see what's going on outside.
But down there with no windows, if a rescue party did come, we wouldn't even know it.
But the cellar is the strongest place. The cellar is a death trap.
I don't know, Mr Cooper.
I think he's right.
You know how many is out there? I don't know,
maybe six or seven. Look,
you two can do whatever you like.
I am going back down to the cellar and you better decide
because I'm going to board up that door and I'm not going to unlock it again.
Matter what happens now. Wait a minute, Mr
Cooper. No, I'm not going to wait. I've made my decision. Now.
You make yours now, wait a minute.
Let's think about this.
We can make it to the cer if we have to
and if we do decide to stay down there, we'll need some things from up here.
So let's at least consider this a while.
If you box yourself in the cellar and those things get in the house, you've had it,
at least up here you have a fighting chance.
Yeah, it looks like about eight or 10 of them. Now,
it's more than there were,
there are a lot out back too
so far. The
best advice.
It's all right
and faith.
Yeah,
we gotta fix these boards.
You're crazy.
Those things are going to be in every window when they are in this place.
We've got to get down into the cellar,
in the damn cellar. Get out of
here.
I'm taking the girl with
you. Leave her here.
Keep your hands up here and everything else that is up here too.
Because if I stay up here,
I'm fighting for everything up here and the radio and
the food is part of what I'm fighting for.
Now. If you're going down the cellar, get
a
change,
he's insane.
We, we've got to have food down there. We've got a right. This is your house.
We've got a right.
You're going down there with him.
Yes or no. This is your last chance. No beating around the bush.
Listen, I got a kid down there.
She, she can't,
possibly, I couldn't bring her up here.
She can't possibly take all the racket and those,
those things smashing through the windows.
Well, you're her father.
If you're stupid enough to go die in that trap, that's your business.
However, I am not stupid enough to follow you.
It is tough for the kid that old man is so stupid.
Now,
get the hell down in the cellar.
You can be the boss down there. I'm boss up here.
You bastards.
And
you know, I want to open this door and
I mean it
Mr Cooper with your help, we can with my help. Let him go, man. His mind is made up.
Just let him go.
Wait a minute,
Judy.
Come on up here, honey.
It was all me late
to me.
You gonna let them get hurt too, huh?
It's all right, honey. Go ahead.
If we stick together, man, we can fix it up real good.
There's lots of places we can run to up here.
Mr Cooper.
We'd all be a lot better off if all three of us were working together.
Hey,
hey, kid,
he's wrong. You know,
I'm not boxing myself in down there.
This radio station will remain on the air day and night.
Well, we're safe now. It's
board it up tight.
What about Tom and Judy?
They want to stay up there and let them,
they're
two other people upstairs. A man and a girl. We heard the screaming.
Yeah. But I didn't know who they were and I wasn't about to
take any unnecessary chances. Of course not.
Is she all right? I don't know what it is.
She feels warm. Maybe it's shock.
Where'd you get the bandage?
Some
laundry in a basket? I tore a sheet.
Let them stay upstairs.
Bless them.
Too many ways. Those monsters can get in up there.
We'll see who's right.
We'll see when they come begging me to let them in down here.
That's important, isn't it? What
to be right? Everybody else to be wrong. What do you mean by that?
Does anyone up there know why we're being attacked?
Whatever it is. It isn't just happening here. It's some kind of mass murder.
It's going on everywhere.
The radio said to stay inside. Radio,
radio upstairs. I heard a news bulletin.
There's a radio upstairs and you boarded us in down here. I know what I'm doing.
What did it say? Nothing, nothing.
They don't know anything yet, but
there's mass murder everywhere.
And people are supposed to look for a safe place to hide,
take the boards off that door.
We are staying down here, Helen Harry.
That radio is at least some kind of communication.
If the authorities know what's happening.
Well, they'll send people for us so they tell us what to do.
How are we going to know what's going on? If we lock ourselves in this dungeon?
We may not enjoy living together
but dying together isn't going to solve anything.
Those people aren't our enemies.
Mr Cooper then found a television set upstairs.
Let's go up to,
yeah,
if Judy would come downstairs for a few minutes, Harry and I could come upstairs.
Ok.
Yeah,
right away.
We do it.
Do I have to look, honey, nothing's gonna get done with them down there and us up here
do this for me.
10.
Ok. Open up.
I'll take good care of her.
She's all I have.
Why don't you go upstairs now,
her brother was killed.
Hey, give me a hand with this thing.
I
gotta go help Ben with the television.
Don't be afraid of me.
I'm Helen Cooper.
Harry's wife.
This place is ridiculous.
Look at this.
There's a million weak spots up here.
Give me one of those,
her brother was killed
and they talk about these windows.
I can't see a damn thing.
There could be 50 million of those things out there.
That's how much good these windows are.
Why don't you do something to help somebody
here? I have it, drag a couple of those chairs together.
There's a socket over here,
but you better watch this and try to understand what's going on.
I don't want anyone's life in my hands. Is there anything I can do?
I don't want to hear any more from you. Mr
If you stay up here, you take orders from me
and that includes leaving the girl alone.
It's on, it's on,
there's no sound
play with the rapt ears.
Reports.
Incredible as they seem
are not the results of mass hysteria, mass hysteria. What do they think?
We're imagining all this in
all
parts of
the wave of murder which is sweeping the eastern third of the nation
is being committed by creatures who feast upon the flesh of their victims.
First,
eyewitness accounts of this grisly development came from
people who were understandably frightened and almost incoherent
officials and news men at first discounted
their eyewitness descriptions as being beyond belief.
However, the reports persisted,
medical examinations of some of the victims bore out
the fact that they had been partially devoured.
I think we have some late word of just arriving
and
interrupt to bring this to you.
This is the latest disclosure in a report
from National Civil Defense headquarters in Washington.
It has been established that persons who have recently died
have been returning to life and committing acts of murder.
A widespread investigation of reports from funeral homes,
morgues and hospitals has concluded that the unburied dead
are coming back to life and seeking human victims.
It's hard for us here to believe what we're reporting to you.
But it does seem to be a fact
when this emergency first began radio and television was advising
people to stay inside behind locked doors for safety.
That situation has now changed and we're able to
report a definite course of action for you.
Civil defense machinery has been organized to
provide rescue stations with food shelter,
medical treatment and protection by armed national Guardsmen.
Stay tuned to the broadcasting stations in your
local area for this list of rescue stations.
This list will be repeated throughout our news coverage.
Look for the name of the rescue station nearest you
and make your way to that location as soon as possible.
So we have that truck. If we can get some gas, we can get out of here.
There's a pump by the sheds. I know that's why I pulled in here, but it's a lot and
called this afternoon by the president
since convening this conference of the presidential cabinet, the FBI,
the joint chiefs of staff, the CIA has not produced any public information.
Why are space experts being consulted about an earthbound emergency?
So far?
All the betting on the answer to that question
centers on the recent explorer satellite shot to Venus.
That satellite you'll recall started back to earth
but never got here.
That's the space vehicle which orbited Venus
and then was purposely destroyed by NASA.
When scientists discovered it was carrying a
mysterious high level radiation with it.
Could that radiation be somehow responsible for the wholesale murders?
We are now suffering.
Newsman Don Quinn in Washington
has posed those questions.
Our best move is to try to get out of here.
How are you going to get over to that pump at
the White House?
You're coming from a meeting regarding the explosion of the Venus probe.
Is that right?
Yes. Yes, that was the subject of the meeting.
You feel there is a connection between this and the phenomenon.
There's a definite connection, a
definite connection.
In other words,
you feel that the radiation on the Venus probe is enough to cause these mutations.
There was a very high degree of radiation just a minute.
I'm not sure that that's certain at all. I don't think that has been
that we have at this time.
In other
words, it is the military's view
that
the
radiation is not the cause of the mutation.
I can't speak for the entire military at this time. Gentlemen,
I must disagree with these, gentlemen.
Presently until we,
until this is irrefutably proved everything is being done that can be done.
We have to hurry for our next meeting.
Professor.
You feel that there is a definite
connection between definite connection as far as Dr
Keller and myself, doctor, please. I thought we decided that is not proved.
It was the satellite.
When the satellite was exploding,
unusual amount of radiation enough to
cause mutations under certain circumstances,
it could have happened to have a bearing on it.
It does seem to have a barrier.
Will there be, will there
be a reply
later?
There will be a reply. Yes, later this afternoon.
Ok.
There will be a report this
afternoon. Perhaps there will be a report, a report. We
are
doing everything possible to solve.
We're hoping to get some further explanation of this.
We've heard all these, we have to try to get out of here.
He said the rescue stations have doctors and medical supplies.
If we could get Karen there, we could get help for.
It was one of the world's foremost authorities on space science and technology.
Willard. I saw a sign that said Willard any moment.
It's only about 17 miles from here.
You know this area. Are you from around here,
Judy and I are both from around here.
We were on our way up to the lake to go swimming
and Judy had a radio and we heard the first reports about this.
So we knew the old house was here and we came in and found the lady upstairs dead.
Then these other people came,
we went down into the basement and put a bar across the door and it is pretty strong.
How could we possibly get away from here?
We've got a sick child, two women, one woman out of her head, three men,
certain places surrounded with
the
NASA
Dr
grimes. Your entire staff.
I know has been working very hard to find
some solution to these things that are happening.
Do you have any answers to this?
Yes, we have some answers.
But first let me stress the importance of seeking medical
attention for anyone who's been injured in any way.
We don't know yet what complications might result from such injuries.
How bad has your kid been hurt?
Look, you go down there and tell,
isn't it Judy?
Yeah. You tell Judy to come up here and you stay with the kid. All right
actions.
Pro
in the cold room at the university,
we had a cadaver cadaver from which all four limbs had been amputated.
Sometime early this morning.
It opened its eyes and began to move its trunk. It was dead
but it opened its eyes and tried to move.
They watch upstairs.
Did she ask for me? She had to do
anything?
I don't understand
baby.
It's mommy.
I heard
I'll come back down as soon as I find out what they want.
Thank you, Judy.
The body should be disposed of at once, preferably by cremation.
Well, how long after death then does the body become reactivated?
It's only a matter of minutes.
Minutes.
Well, that doesn't give people time to make any arrangements. Oh, you're right.
It doesn't give them time to make funeral arrangements.
The bodies must be carried to the street and, and, and burned.
They must be burned immediately, soak them with gasoline and burn them.
The
bere
will have to forego the dubious comforts that a funeral service will give.
They're just dead flesh and dangerous.
I,
I need you to find some beds, spreads or sheets to tear up in the small strips. Ok.
Is there a fruit cellar here? Yes, we need some bottles or jars to make bolo
cocktails and hold them off while we try to escape.
Hey, there's a big can of kerosene down there. I'll see what I can find.
I'll look for the bottles.
There's a big key ring down there.
There
may be a key to the gas pump on it.
I'll check,
we can toss the cocktails from a window upstairs.
Meantime,
a couple of us can go out and try to get the gas and come back for the rest of the people,
but that'll leave the door open someplace.
Yeah, that's right. It
better be this door,
but it's closer to the truck
before it involve goods and supplies behind the cellar door while we're gone.
The rest of you can hold up in there. I found some fruit jars in the cellar
and there's a key on here that's labeled for the gas pump out back.
And I'm not really that used to the truck. I found it abandoned.
I can handle the truck. No sweat.
You're it. Then
you and I go,
only wish we had,
we'll put whatever number we find behind the cellar door,
you can go upstairs and toss the cocktails from a window.
Tom, you and I will have to onboard this door
after you toss the cocktails, you hustle back down here and lock this door.
It's no good to board that because we'll have to get back in quickly
after we get the gas and get back into the house.
Then we'll worry about getting everybody into the truck
except for the rescue.
Indications. Are that before this emergency is over?
We will need many, many more such rescue.
You always have a smile for me.
How can you smile like that all the time?
How many do you have done?
Come on, honey, we gotta move,
Tom. Are you sure about the phone? The phone is dead out
that all you get is a recorded message.
If I can only call the folks,
they're going to be so worried about us.
Everything will be all right.
As soon as we get to Willard, we'll call them, they might even be there.
I know.
Tell
me,
are you sure we're doing the right thing, Tom. What about getting out of here?
Yeah.
Well, the television said that's the right thing to do.
We've got to get to a rescue station.
I don't know. Come on, honey, you're starting to sound like Mr Cooper.
Now, why do you have to go out there?
Look, I know how to handle that truck and I can handle the pump.
Ben doesn't know anything about that stuff,
but we're safe in here for how long? Honey, we're safe now.
But there's gonna be more and more of those things. I know. I know all that.
And
listen,
remember when we had the big flood,
remember how difficult it was for us to convince you that it was right to leave.
Remember, remember we had to go to Willard then
this isn't a passing thing, honey.
It's not like just a wind passing through.
We've got to do something fast.
I just don't want you to go out there. That's all.
Hey,
smiley
or that big smile for me.
What?
You're sure no use at all. Are you
make up work to do,
honey?
And you?
Yeah,
we better get her downstairs.
We have to go downstairs now. Barbara,
she's right.
You have to go downstairs now. Just for a little while until we get back,
then we can all leave.
Oh, I'd like to leave. Yes.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Not me.
Right.
Play upstairs. Get up.
Ok to
go ahead.
Go on.
I'm going with him.
Get back in the cell.
Let you come and come on,
get it.
This key won't work.
That's the tide.
Gotta get away from the pump.
Come on, come on
to.
Yeah.
Come
right.
That drag you out there and feed those things.
Yeah.
So,
isn't it three o'clock yet?
There's supposed to be another broadcast at three o'clock.
10 minutes.
Oh,
only 10 more minutes.
We don't have very long to wait.
But you leave.
Well, we better leave soon.
It's 10 minutes to three.
You know, anything about this area at all?
I mean, is Willard the nearest town?
I don't know.
We were
just trying to get to a motel before dark.
You say those things turned your car over?
Do you think we can get it back on its wheels and drive it? Where is? It
seems like it was pretty far away.
It seems like we ran,
forget
it. It's at least a mile.
Johnny has the keys.
You gonna carry that child a mile through that army of things out there.
I can carry the kid.
What's wrong with it? How'd she get hurt?
One of those things grabbed her,
bit her on the arm.
What's wrong?
Who knows what kind of disease those things carry?
Is she conscious?
Barely.
She can't walk. She's too weak.
Well, one of us could try to get to the car. You're gonna turn it over by yourself.
You can't start the car. Johnny has the keys.
You have a car
where, where is it?
You won't be able to start it. Yeah. Yeah, I know. But where is it?
Good Lord
being monitored closely by scientists at all the radiation detection stations
at this hour,
they report the level of the mysterious radiation
continues to increase steadily.
So long as this situation remains.
Government spokesmen warn that dead bodies will continue
to be transformed into the flesh eating ghouls.
All persons who die during this crisis from whatever cause will come back to
life to seek human victims unless their bodies are first disposed of by cremation.
Our
news cameras have just returned from covering such
a search and destroy operation against the ghouls.
This one conducted by Sheriff Conan mcclellan
in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
So now let's go to that film report.
All law enforcement agencies and the military have been
organized to search out and destroy the marauding Ghouls.
The Survival Command Center at the Pentagon has disclosed that a ghoul can be
killed by a shot in the head or a heavy blow to the skull.
Officials are quoted as explaining that since the brain
of a ghoul has been activated by the radiation,
the plan is kill the brain
and you kill the
ghoul.
What do you think from the supply Ragon? C? Uh
No, we're all right.
Hey,
put that thing all the way in the fire. We don't want it getting up again.
Chief Chief mcclelland, how's everything going? Things aren't going too bad.
Men are taking it pretty good.
You want to get on the other side of the road over there?
Chief, do you think we'll be able to defeat these things?
Well, we killed 19 of them today, right in this area.
That was last three, we caught trying to claw their way into an abandoned shed.
They must have thought somebody was in there. There wasn't. No,
we heard them making all kind of noise. We came over and beat them off.
Blasted them down.
Yeah. Ok.
Chief, if I were surrounded by six or eight of these things,
would I stand a chance with them?
Well, there's no problem if you had a gun, shoot them in the head,
that's a sure way to kill him.
If you don't get yourself a club or a torch, beat him or burn them,
they go up pretty easy.
Well, Chief mcclelland,
how long do you think it will take you until you get the situation under control?
Well, that's pretty hard to say. We don't know how many of them there are.
We know when we find them we can kill them.
Are they slow moving, Chief? Yeah, they're dead. They're
all messed up.
Well, uh, in time, would you say you ought to be able to wrap this up in 24 hours?
Well,
we don't really know.
We know we'll be into it most of the night, probably into the early morning.
We're working our way toward Willard and we'll team up with the National Guard
over there and then we'll be able to give a more definite view.
Thank you very much, Chief mcclellan. This is Bill Cardell W
IC TV 11 news.
Thank you, Bill for that report.
Official spokesman declined to speculate just how long it
may take to kill off all the flesh eaters.
So long as the heavy rain
is the fuse box in the cellar.
I don't know. I,
he
isn't the fuse.
The power lines are down
Helen.
I have to get that gun.
Haven't you had enough? But two people are dead already on account of that guy.
Take a look out that window.
Go
ahead.
Go
ahead.
You want to stay
here now,
k
get someone out.
Ok.
Talk to
me.
Ok.
Yeah.
Right.
You want to get about four or five men and a couple of dogs.
There's a house over here behind those trees. We want to go check it out.
You
go
here, Bill.
Yeah. Cheap. We're gonna stay with it till we meet up with the National Guard.
Where did you get the,
one of the volunteers you're doing all the work. You take it. Thank you.
We should be wrapped up here about three or four
more hours and we'll probably get into Willow Den.
I guess you can go over there and meet the National Guard,
Nick. You and the rest of these men want to come with me.
They'll double
check in the office and see what's happening.
All right, Steve, tell them we're gonna stay with it and
everything appears to be under control.
Hm.
What
they need you down there by the barn
over the wagon down. I only need a few men to check out the house.
Somebody had a cook out here. Vince. Yeah. It sure looks like it
come,
he's
dead one. Get out here,
Nick, Tony Steve. You want to get out in that field and build me a bonfire.
You drag that out of here and throw it on the fire.
Nothing down here. All right. Go ahead. Don and give him a hand.
Let's go check out the house. There's something there. I heard a noise.
All right, man. Hit him in the head right between the eyes.
Good shot.
Ok. He's dead. Let's go get him. That's another one for the FARC.
Yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
All right. Send the wagon through
directly. I,
the,
comes back off of those things.
Nice.
Go ahead
with the
motorcycle, please.
Yeah.
Hey, Randy, light these torches over here
back
in the
back.