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They ought to make the day the time changes, the first day of summer.

What? Well, it's 8 o'clock 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.

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.

Oh, I know that she can't.

Is 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 and 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?

Ladies and gentlemen, we're coming back on the air after an interruption due to

technical problems.

There's nothing wrong with the radio.

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 chain 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's 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. Johnny.

Thank you.

It's all right.

Don't worry about him. I can handle him.

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 of here if we can get some gas. Is there a key?

I suppose you've tried this.

Do you live here?

We've got to get out of here.

We have to get to where there's some other people.

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 two.

I don't know. I know you're afraid, but we have to... I don't know!

Oh.

I know we're in here now.

Don't look at it.

Get some more lifeline in this house.

Why don't you see if you can find some wood, some boards, something by the

fireplace, something we can nail this place up.

Look, I know you're afraid.

I'm afraid too.

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 void the place up. Do you understand?

Okay?

Okay?

you

No, that's wrong.

Here, I want you to pick out some nails. Pick out the biggest ones you can find.

There, this room looks pretty secure.

If we have to, we can run in here and board up the doors.

Won't be long before those days be back pounding their way in here. They're

afraid now.

The freighter fire, I found that out.

You know a place back down the road called Beatman's?

Beatman's Diner?

Anyhow, that's where I found that truck I have out there.

There's a radio in the truck.

I had jumped in to listen to it when a big gasoline truck came screaming right

across the road.

But there must have been 10, 15 of those things chasing after it, grabbing and

holding on.

Now, 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.

The truck went right across the road.

I slammed down my brakes to keep from hitting it myself.

It went right through the guardrail.

I got... I got the driver mouth to cut off the road into that gas station by

Beekman's Diner.

It went right through the billboard, ripped over a gas pump and never stopped

moving. By now, it's like a moving bonfire.

I didn't know if the truck was going to explode or what.

I could still hear the man screaming.

This thing is just backing away from it.

I looked back at the diner to see if... if there was anyone there who could help

me.

That was when I noticed that... the entire place had been encircled.

There wasn't a sign of life left except...

By now, there were no more screams.

I realized that... I was alone.

with 50 or 60 of those things just standing there,

staring at me.

I started to drive.

I just plowed right through them.

They didn't move. They didn't run. They just stood there staring at me.

Just wanted to crush them.

scattered through the air like bugs.

We were riding in the cemetery, Johnny and me.

Johnny.

We... We came to put a wreath on my father's grave.

Johnny and... And he said,

Can I have some candy?

Barbara.

And we didn't have any.

And... Oh, it's hot in here.

Hot.

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 and i i went up to this man and i was going to

apologize why don't you just keep calling and i looked up and i

said goody and he grabbed me

I think you should just calm down.

Oh, I screamed, Johnny!

Johnny, help me!

Oh, help me!

And he wouldn't let me go. And then Johnny came, and he

ran, and he fought this man.

We have to wait for Johnny.

Meg, 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.

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!

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 hookup to

keep you informed of all developments.

At this hour, we repeat, these are the facts as we know them. 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.

Misshapen 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 underway.

Police, sheriff deputies, and emergency ambulances are literally edged 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 homes 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 take. 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 frantic people trying to hurt their family or apparently to flee just

anywhere. To repeat, the safest course of action at this time is simply to stay

where you are.

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 be joined by

officials of the FBI and Joint Chiefs behind closed doors.

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, D.C., 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. That's the extent of this latest bulletin. Repeating,

President, members of his cabinet, the FBI, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and

scientists from NASA within the hour.

All radio and TV stations throughout the country, including on Twitter. We're

listening. have joined their facilities in 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 at

churches, schools, and government buildings, demanding shelter and

protection from the wholesale murder, which apparently is engulfing much of

the nation.

For God's sake, to get off the streets. Tell them to go home and lock their

doors and windows up tight. We don't know what kind of murder-happy

characters we have here.

End quote.

Please, Chief Dunmore of Camden, North Carolina.

So far, the only descriptions, the only clues anyone has of the killers come

from frightened witnesses and some of the slaves.

These eyewitness accounts very much describe the murderers as ordinary

-looking people, misshapen monsters, people who look like they're in a

trance, and...

Things that look like people but act like animals.

Some eyewitnesses tell of seeing victims who look as though they had been torn

apart.

This whole ghastly story began developing two days ago with the report

of the slaying of a family of seven in their rural home near Belfort.

Since then, reports of such senseless killings began snowballing in a reign of

terror which has hopscotch in an erratic, disconnected manner throughout

much of the eastern and midwestern states.

Efforts to keep track of the murder reports by the placing of markers on a

map seem to indicate a general spreading to the extreme southeastern United

States from north and west.

Our newsmen have been on telephone talking with officials in other cities

and have determined that none of this kind of murder has yet been reported

west of the Mississippi River except in the extreme south.

Eastern portion of Texas.

Similar killings have been reported around the Houston and Galveston areas,

but nothing like... I found the gun and some bullets out there.

It was only late yesterday... Oh, and these.

...that it first became clear we were facing some kind of national emergency.

When first reports began filtering in, newsmen and law enforcement agencies...

This place is boarded up pretty solid now.

We ought to be all right here for a while.

We have the gun and bullets.

Food and the radio?

Sooner or later, someone's bound to come and get us out.

Hey,

that's us. We're doing all right.

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. 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 newsmen 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 newsmen 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 masquerade.

Hold

it!

Don't shoot! We're coming down.

A radio.

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.

How long have you guys been down there? I could have used 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 were we supposed to know what was going on? Could have been those things

for all we knew. That girl was screaming.

Sure you must know what a girl screaming sounds like. Those things don't make any

noise. Anybody would know somebody ever needed help.

Look, it's kind of hard to hear what's going on from 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, the racket sounded like the place was being ripped

apart. How were we supposed to know what was going on?

Now, wait a minute.

You just got finished 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'd

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 luck into a safe place, and you're telling us we got to risk our lives just

because somebody might need help, huh?

Yeah, something like that.

All right, why don't we settle this? Mr.

We came up. Okay, we're here.

Now I suggest we all go back downstairs before any of those things find out

we're in here. They can't get in here.

You got the whole place boarded up? Yeah, most of it. I'll do a few spots

upstairs. They won't be hard to fix. You're insane.

The cellar's the safest place.

I'm telling you, they can't get in here.

And I'm telling you, those things turned over our car.

We were damn lucky to get away at all.

Now you tell me 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 can fix this place up in no time. We have everything

we need up here.

We can take all that stuff downstairs with us.

Man, you're really crazy, you know that? You got a million windows up here. All

these windows. You're gonna make them strong enough to keep these things out,

huh? 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 can do that. That's my point. Only there's not going

to be five or even ten.

There's going to be 20, 30, 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 they're 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.

Tom and I fixed it so it locks and boards from the inside.

But up here, all these windows, why, we'd never know where they were going to

hit us next.

You 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'd be no back exit. We'd be done for.

We can get out of here if we have to. And we 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's out there?

I don't know. Maybe six or seven. Look, you two can do whatever you like.

I'm 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, no

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 cellar 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.

Looks like about eight or ten of them now.

That's more than there were.

There are a lot out back, too.

Okay.

I gotta fix these boards.

You're crazy.

Those things are gonna be in every window and door in this place.

We've got to get down into the cellar. Go down in that damn cellar. Get out of

here!

I'm taking the girl with me. You leave her here.

Keep your hands off her. And everything else that's 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 in the cellar, get.

The man's insane.

He's insane.

We've... We've got to have food down there. We've got to write.

This is your house. We've got to write.

You going down there with him?

Well, I... Yes or no, this is your last chance. No beating around the bush.

Listen, I got a kid down there.

She can't possibly... I couldn't bring her up here. She can't possibly take all

the racket and 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.

You know, I won't open this door again.

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.

Don't 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, kid.

He's wrong, you know.

I'm not boxing myself in down there.

Well,

we're safe now. It's boarded up tight.

What about Tom and Judy?

They want to stay up there, let them.

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, Harry.

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.

Let 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.

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, they'll send people for us or

they'll 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!

Mr. Cooper, Ben found a television set upstairs.

Let's go up.

Tom?

Yeah?

If Judy would come downstairs for a few minutes, Harry and I could come

upstairs.

Okay, yeah.

Will you do it?

Do I have to?

Look, honey, nothing's going to get done with them down there and us up here.

Do this for me.

I'll take good care of her, Helen.

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.

You better watch this and try to understand what's going on.

I don't want anyone's life on my hands.

Is there anything I can do to help? I don't want to hear any more from you,

mister. 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 rabbit ears.

It reports, incredible as they seem, are not the results of mass hysteria. Mass

hysteria. What do they think we're imagining all this? Shut up!

in all parts of the world.

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 newsmen at first discounted those 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 I'll 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.

Well, that situation has now changed. 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 out by the shed.

I know that's why I pulled in here, but it's locked.

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 Earth-bound 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're now suffering?

Newsman Don Quinn in Washington has posed those questions... It's obvious

our best move is to try to get out of here. How are you going to get over to

that pump?

Look!

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. Do 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. Well,

just a minute.

I'm not sure that that's certain at all. I don't think that has been irrefutable.

That's the only logical explanation that we have at this time.

In other words, it is the military's viewpoint 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 this is irrefutably

proved. Everything is being done that can be done. We'll have to hurry for our

next meeting.

Professor, you feel that there is a definite connection between them?

Definite connection as far as Dr. Keller and myself.

Doctor, please. I thought we decided that is not true.

Was the satellite, when the satellite was exploded... There was an unusual

amount of radiation, enough to cause mutation under certain circumstances.

Could have happened to have a bearing on it.

It does seem to have a bearing.

Will there be a reply for this? Later. There will be a reply. Later this

afternoon.

We're hoping to get some further explanation of this. We've heard all we

need to know. 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 her. I don't know. It's one

of the world's foremost authorities on space science and technology. Willard.

I saw a sign that said Willard.

It's only about 17 miles from here.

You know this area? 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, and

the place is surrounded with these things.

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 at this time?

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?

Um... Look,

you go down there and tell Judy... Yeah, you tell Judy to come up here and you

stay with the kid, all right?

In the cold room at the university, we had a cadaver. A 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. No,

you're right. It doesn't give them time to make funeral arrangements.

The bodies must be carried to the street and burned.

They must be burned immediately.

Soak them with gasoline and burn them.

The bereaved will have to forego the dubious comforts that a funeral service

will give.

They're just dead flesh and dangerous.

I see. You're gonna need you to find some bedspreads or sheets to tear up

into small strips, okay?

Is there a fruit seller here?

Yes. We need some bottles or jars to make Molotov 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 a door open someplace.

Yeah, that's right.

It better be this door.

It's closer to the truck.

Before we go, I'll put some 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.

I'm not really that used to the truck. I found it abandoned.

I can handle the truck with no sweat.

You're it, then.

You and I'll go.

We'll put whatever lumber we find behind the cellar door.

You can go upstairs and toss the cocktails from a window.

Tom, you and I will have to unboard this door.

After you toss the cocktails, you hustle back down here and lock this door.

It's no good to board it up 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.

Now, let's move it.

There's no place to flee safely except to the rescue stations you've been sent

out.

Indications are that before this emergency is over, we will need many,

many more such rescue stations.

You always have a smile for me.

How can you smile like that all the time?

How many we have done?

Come on, honey, we gotta move.

Tom, are you sure about the phone? The phone is dead out.

All you get is a recorded message.

If I could 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.

Tom.

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?

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 going to be more and more of those things.

I know. I know all that.

Hey, 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, and fast.

I just don't want you to go out there, that's all.

Hey, smiley.

Where's that big smile for me?

Boy.

You sure no use at all, are you?

We got work to do, honey.

And you... you...

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.

I'm going with him.

Get back in the cellar. I'm going. It's too late.

It's too late.

Well, if you're coming, come on.

This key won't work.

Gotcha.

That's a dart!

Come on, come on!

Oh, shit.

Drag you out there and feed you those things.

Isn't it three o'clock yet?

There's supposed to be another broadcast at three o'clock.

Ten minutes.

Oh, only ten more minutes?

We don't have very long to wait.

We can leave.

Well, we'd better leave soon.

It's ten 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 said those things turned your car over.

You think we can get it back on its wheels and drive it? Where is it?

Seems like it was pretty far away.

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 her? 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.

Why are you thinking of the supply wagon, Cus? Uh, no, we're all right.

Put that thing all the way in the fire. We don't want it getting up again.

Chief, Chief McClellan, how's everything going?

Oh, 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. Those last three we caught

trying to claw their way into an abandoned shed. They must have thought

somebody was in there. There wasn't, though.

We heard them making all kind of noise. We came over and beat them off, blasted

them down.

Yeah, okay.

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 them. If you don't get yourself a club

or a torch, beat them or burn them, they go up pretty easy.

Well, Chief McClellan, 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, 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 Cardill, WIIC-TV11 News.

Thank you, Bill, for that report.

Official spokesman declined to speculate just how long it may take to kill off

all...

Is the fuse box in the cellar?

I don't know.

It isn't the fuse.

The power lines are down.

Helen, I have to get that gun.

Haven't you had enough?

What? Two people are dead already on account of that guy.

Take a look out that window.

Do you want to stay up here now?

Hey, Vince. Well, 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 stay here, Bill.

Yeah, Chief. We're going to stay with it till we meet up with the National Guard.

Where'd you get the coffee?

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 Willard then. 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?

Well, Bill, I'm going to check on your office, see what's happening.

All right, Steve, tell them we're going to stay with it and everything appears

to be under control.

They need you down there by the barn.

You guys can follow the wagon down. I only need a few men to check out

the house.

Somebody had a cookout here, Vince.

Yeah, sure looks like it, cop.

He's the dead one. Get up 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 down and give him a hand.

Let's go check out the house. There's something there. I heard a noise.

All right, Vince, hit him in the head, right between the eyes.

Good shot.

Okay, he's dead. Let's go get him. That's another one for the fire.

keep those dogs back off of those things

Hey Randy, light these torches over here.