WEBVTT 00:00:11.650 --> 00:00:15.550 An Image Ten Production 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:48.800 Night of the Living Dead 00:00:49.050 --> 00:00:54.550 Screenplay by John Russo George Romero 00:00:54.700 --> 00:01:03.350 Production Director: Vincent Survinski Production Manager: George Kosana Photographed by The Latent Image, Inc. 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:11.350 Sound Engineers: Gary R. Steiner Marshall Booth Special Effects: Regis Survinski Tony Pantanello Make-up: Hardman Assoc., Inc. Props: Charles O'Dato 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:20.550 Title Sequence: The Animators Script Coordination: Jacqueline Streiner Continuity: Betty Ellen Haughey Hair Styles: Bruce Capristo 00:01:20.700 --> 00:01:34.950 Lighting Supervisor: Joseph Unitas Laboratory: W. R. S. Motion Picture Lab Produced through the facilities of: The Latent Image, Inc. and Hardman Associates, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:49.000 CEM*TERY E*CE 00:01:55.550 --> 00:01:59.850 Produced by Russell W. Streiner Karl Hardman 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:05.300 Directed by George A. Romero 00:02:19.251 --> 00:02:22.715 - They ought to make the day the time changes the first day of summer. 00:02:22.801 --> 00:02:23.655 - What? 00:02:23.822 --> 00:02:26.016 - Well, it's eight o'clock and it's still light. 00:02:26.241 --> 00:02:28.762 - A lot of good the extra daylight does us. 00:02:28.804 --> 00:02:30.720 Now we've still got a three-hour drive back. 00:02:30.729 --> 00:02:32.530 We're not gonna be home until after midnight. 00:02:32.572 --> 00:02:35.292 - Well, if it really bugged you Johnny, you wouldn't do it. 00:02:35.418 --> 00:02:38.281 - You think I wanna blow Sunday on a scene like this? 00:02:38.365 --> 00:02:41.258 You know, I figure we're either gonna have to move mother out here, - 00:02:41.283 --> 00:02:42.996 or move the grave into Pittsburgh. 00:02:43.079 --> 00:02:45.089 - Oh, she can't make a trip like this! 00:02:45.472 --> 00:02:47.349 - Oh, I don't know that she can't. 00:02:47.641 --> 00:02:49.810 Is there any of that candy left? 00:02:51.060 --> 00:02:51.660 - No. 00:02:51.786 --> 00:02:53.772 - Look at this thing: "We still remember." 00:02:53.797 --> 00:02:57.067 I don't. You know, I don't even remember what the man Iooks like. 00:02:57.192 --> 00:02:58.868 - Johnny, it takes you five minutes. 00:02:58.992 --> 00:03:01.374 - Yeah, 5 minutes to put the wreath on the grave, - 00:03:01.424 --> 00:03:03.824 and 6 hours to drive back and forth. 00:03:03.916 --> 00:03:07.277 Mother wants to remember, so we trot 200 miles into the country and - 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:08.670 she stays at home. 00:03:08.737 --> 00:03:10.737 - Well we're here Johnny, all right? 00:03:13.746 --> 00:03:16.051 - Testing... back on? Oh. 00:03:17.101 --> 00:03:19.101 Uh, ladies and gentlemen... - Hey...! 00:03:19.177 --> 00:03:21.064 - We're coming back on the air after - 00:03:21.114 --> 00:03:23.114 an interruption due to technical prob... 00:03:35.395 --> 00:03:38.294 - There's nothing wrong with the radio. Must've been the station. 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:40.638 - Which row is it in? 00:04:00.940 --> 00:04:02.949 - Well there's no one around. 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:05.838 - Well, it's late. If you'd gotten up earlier... 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.767 - Oh, look, I already lost an hour's sleep in the time change. 00:04:08.852 --> 00:04:11.907 - I think you complain just to hear yourself talk. 00:04:12.442 --> 00:04:13.638 There it is. 00:04:29.507 --> 00:04:31.994 - I wonder what happened to the one from last year. 00:04:33.207 --> 00:04:35.378 Each year we spend good money on these things. 00:04:35.767 --> 00:04:38.362 We come out here, and the one from last year is gone. 00:04:38.545 --> 00:04:40.329 - Well, the flowers die and... 00:04:40.579 --> 00:04:43.179 the caretaker or somebody takes them away. 00:04:43.534 --> 00:04:45.587 - Yeah, a little spit and polish, - 00:04:45.671 --> 00:04:48.285 you can clean this up, sell it next year. 00:04:48.698 --> 00:04:51.692 Wonder how many times we bought the same one? 00:05:08.689 --> 00:05:11.670 Hey, come on Barb, church was this morning, huh? 00:05:30.662 --> 00:05:34.697 Hey, I mean praying's for church, huh? Come on. 00:05:35.422 --> 00:05:38.603 - I haven't seen you in church lately. 00:05:39.695 --> 00:05:42.617 - Well, there's not much sense in my going to church. 00:05:42.688 --> 00:05:46.644 Do you remember one time when we were small, we were out here? 00:05:46.657 --> 00:05:48.645 It was from right over there, - 00:05:48.658 --> 00:05:50.646 I jumped out at you from behind the tree. 00:05:50.655 --> 00:05:53.322 And grandpa got all excited, and he shook his fist at me and he said, - 00:05:53.331 --> 00:05:55.661 "Boy, you'll be damned to hell." 00:05:56.515 --> 00:05:58.646 Remember that? Right over there. 00:05:59.408 --> 00:06:01.130 Well, you used to really be scared here. 00:06:02.193 --> 00:06:03.627 - Johnny. 00:06:03.669 --> 00:06:07.616 - Why, you're still afraid. - Stop it now. I mean it. 00:06:10.985 --> 00:06:14.611 - They're coming to get you, Barbra. 00:06:14.641 --> 00:06:17.305 - Stop it. You're ignorant. 00:06:17.308 --> 00:06:19.635 - They're coming for you, Barbra. 00:06:20.210 --> 00:06:22.640 - Stop it. You're acting like a child. 00:06:22.674 --> 00:06:24.628 - They're coming for you. 00:06:24.887 --> 00:06:27.659 Look! There comes one of them now. 00:06:28.443 --> 00:06:30.627 - He'll hear you. - Here he comes now. 00:06:30.777 --> 00:06:33.577 I'm getting out of here. - Johnny! 00:06:40.127 --> 00:06:42.227 Oh! No! 00:06:43.633 --> 00:06:44.650 Johnny! 00:06:45.059 --> 00:06:46.634 Help me! 00:13:55.465 --> 00:13:56.650 - It's all right. 00:14:00.659 --> 00:14:02.573 Don't worry about him. I can handle him. 00:14:02.581 --> 00:14:05.483 Probably be a lot more of them as soon as they find out about us. 00:14:08.622 --> 00:14:10.260 Truck is outta gas. 00:14:10.368 --> 00:14:12.569 This pump out here is locked. Is there a key? 00:14:14.262 --> 00:14:17.563 We can try to get out of here if we can get some gas. Is there a key? 00:14:27.172 --> 00:14:28.669 I suppose you've tried this. 00:14:39.019 --> 00:14:40.478 Do you live here? 00:14:53.828 --> 00:14:55.328 Jesus... 00:15:03.793 --> 00:15:05.785 We've gotta get out of here. 00:15:05.798 --> 00:15:08.115 We have to get to where there are some other people. 00:15:11.380 --> 00:15:13.602 May... maybe we better take some food. 00:15:13.939 --> 00:15:15.824 I... I'll see if I can find some food. 00:16:00.977 --> 00:16:03.679 - What's happening? - I'll be just a second. 00:16:04.804 --> 00:16:06.426 - What's happening? 00:16:19.786 --> 00:16:21.128 - Two of them. 00:16:26.352 --> 00:16:29.057 There are two of them out there. Have you seen any more around here? 00:16:29.061 --> 00:16:30.675 I can take care of those two. - I don't know... 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:33.634 - Look, I know you're afraid, but we have to... - I don't know! I don't know! 00:16:33.638 --> 00:16:35.244 I don't know! 00:16:36.194 --> 00:16:38.394 What's happening? 00:18:56.334 --> 00:18:57.976 - They know we're in here now. 00:19:13.212 --> 00:19:14.442 Don't look at it. 00:20:27.659 --> 00:20:29.694 Get some more lights on in this house. 00:21:07.669 --> 00:21:09.300 Why don't you see if you can find some wood, some boards, - 00:21:09.304 --> 00:21:12.909 something there by the fireplace, something we can nail this place up? 00:21:17.387 --> 00:21:19.612 Well, goddamn... 00:21:21.884 --> 00:21:22.736 Look. 00:21:23.286 --> 00:21:26.286 I know you're afraid. I'm afraid too. 00:21:27.345 --> 00:21:29.689 But we have to try to board the house up together. 00:21:29.992 --> 00:21:33.552 Now, I'm gonna board up the windows and the doors. Do you understand? 00:21:33.655 --> 00:21:35.320 We'll be all right here. 00:21:35.324 --> 00:21:37.179 We'll be all right here till someone comes to rescue us. 00:21:37.429 --> 00:21:39.629 But we'll have to work together, you'll have to help me. 00:21:39.697 --> 00:21:41.423 Now I want you to go in and get some wood so - 00:21:41.473 --> 00:21:43.673 I can board the place up, do you understand? 00:21:43.723 --> 00:21:44.923 Okay? 00:21:45.829 --> 00:21:47.042 Okay? 00:24:26.903 --> 00:24:28.624 They're not that strong. 00:24:28.654 --> 00:24:31.676 Here, I want you to pick out some nails. Pick out the biggest ones you can find. 00:24:37.041 --> 00:24:39.092 There, this room looks pretty secure. 00:24:42.076 --> 00:24:44.690 If we have to, we can run in here and board up the doors. 00:24:47.683 --> 00:24:50.323 Won't be long before those things'll be back, pounding their way in here. 00:24:50.327 --> 00:24:51.678 They're afraid now. 00:24:56.629 --> 00:24:59.635 They're afraid of fire. I found that out. 00:25:10.953 --> 00:25:14.955 You know a place back down the road called Beekman's? Beekman's diner? 00:25:21.933 --> 00:25:24.934 Anyhow, that's where I found that truck I have out there. 00:25:27.248 --> 00:25:29.240 There's a radio in the truck. 00:25:30.278 --> 00:25:32.279 I had jumped in to listen to it, - 00:25:33.107 --> 00:25:36.818 when a big gasoline truck came screaming right across the road. 00:25:36.922 --> 00:25:41.224 Well, there must have been 10-15 of those things chasing after it. 00:25:42.249 --> 00:25:44.242 Grabbing and holding on. 00:25:47.393 --> 00:25:49.378 Now, I didn't see them at first. 00:25:51.245 --> 00:25:54.255 I could just see that the truck was moving in a funny way. 00:25:55.239 --> 00:25:58.190 And those things were catching up to it. 00:26:00.237 --> 00:26:03.242 Truck went right across the road. 00:26:04.226 --> 00:26:07.240 Slammed on my brakes to keep from hitting it myself. 00:26:07.691 --> 00:26:10.605 It went right through the guard rail. 00:26:16.628 --> 00:26:19.922 I guess... I guess the driver must have cut off the road, - 00:26:19.843 --> 00:26:22.957 into that gas station by Beekman's diner. 00:26:23.699 --> 00:26:25.567 It went right through the billboard. 00:26:25.571 --> 00:26:28.664 Ripped over a gas pump and never stopped moving. 00:26:28.668 --> 00:26:31.648 By now it's like a moving bonfire. 00:26:34.670 --> 00:26:38.634 Didn't know if the truck was going to explode or what. 00:26:41.619 --> 00:26:45.608 I can still hear the man, screaming. 00:26:48.606 --> 00:26:51.483 This thing is just backing away from it. 00:26:54.646 --> 00:26:57.673 I look back at the diner to see - 00:26:57.677 --> 00:27:00.607 if there was anyone there who could help me. 00:27:02.658 --> 00:27:04.672 That was when I noticed that - 00:27:04.676 --> 00:27:07.619 the entire place had been encircled. 00:27:08.881 --> 00:27:12.158 Wasn't a sign of life left, except... 00:27:15.769 --> 00:27:17.787 By now, there were no more screams. 00:27:19.779 --> 00:27:21.793 I realized that... 00:27:22.922 --> 00:27:24.895 I was alone. 00:27:25.198 --> 00:27:27.420 With 50 or 60 of those things. 00:27:27.808 --> 00:27:29.859 Just standing there, - 00:27:31.147 --> 00:27:33.135 staring at me. 00:27:34.786 --> 00:27:36.795 I started to drive. I... 00:27:38.042 --> 00:27:40.055 Just plowed right through them. 00:27:41.247 --> 00:27:44.223 They didn't move. They didn't run or... 00:27:45.431 --> 00:27:47.900 Just stood there, staring at me. 00:27:50.335 --> 00:27:52.861 Just wanted to crush them. 00:27:55.067 --> 00:27:56.802 They... 00:27:58.052 --> 00:28:02.252 Scattered through the air, like bugs. 00:28:03.695 --> 00:28:06.675 - We were riding in the cemetery. 00:28:07.087 --> 00:28:09.042 Johnny and me. 00:28:10.047 --> 00:28:11.085 Johnny. 00:28:17.685 --> 00:28:22.603 We... we came to put a wreath on my father's grave. 00:28:23.858 --> 00:28:27.135 Johnny and... and he said, - 00:28:28.652 --> 00:28:31.149 "Can I have some candy, Barbra?" 00:28:35.051 --> 00:28:37.085 And we didn't have any. 00:28:39.674 --> 00:28:41.641 And... 00:28:44.014 --> 00:28:45.444 Oh... 00:28:45.594 --> 00:28:47.594 It's hot in here! 00:28:47.611 --> 00:28:49.620 Hot... 00:28:55.670 --> 00:28:57.827 And he said, "Oh, it's late." 00:28:57.831 --> 00:29:00.785 "Why did we start so late?" 00:29:01.684 --> 00:29:04.611 And I said, "Johnny, - 00:29:04.614 --> 00:29:06.686 if you'd gotten up earlier, 00:29:06.690 --> 00:29:08.671 we wouldn't be late." 00:29:09.671 --> 00:29:12.685 Johnny asked me if I were afraid. 00:29:13.606 --> 00:29:16.628 And I said, "I'm not afraid, Johnny." 00:29:18.646 --> 00:29:21.698 And then this man started walking up the road. 00:29:23.061 --> 00:29:26.963 He came slowly, and Johnny kept teasing me and saying, - 00:29:27.679 --> 00:29:30.689 "He's coming to get you, Barbra." 00:29:30.693 --> 00:29:33.699 And I laughed at him, and said, "Johnny, stop it." 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.355 And then Johnny ran away. 00:29:37.764 --> 00:29:40.694 And I... I went up to this man, - 00:29:40.697 --> 00:29:43.624 and I was going to apologize. 00:29:44.358 --> 00:29:46.459 - Why don't you just keep calm? 00:29:46.463 --> 00:29:48.448 - And I looked up, - 00:29:48.398 --> 00:29:51.598 and I said, "Good eve..." 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:53.645 And he grabbed me! 00:29:54.171 --> 00:29:58.648 He grabbed me! And he ripped at me! 00:29:58.677 --> 00:30:01.608 He held me and he ripped at my clothes! 00:30:01.620 --> 00:30:04.146 - I think you should just calm down. 00:30:05.105 --> 00:30:11.011 - Oh, I screamed, "Johnny! Johnny, help me! Oh, help me!" 00:30:11.014 --> 00:30:13.950 And he wouldn't let me go. He ripped at... 00:30:16.015 --> 00:30:19.004 And then Johnny came and he ran and he... 00:30:19.117 --> 00:30:21.143 He fought this man. 00:30:22.126 --> 00:30:25.115 And I got so afraid I ran. 00:30:25.124 --> 00:30:27.495 I ran... I ran... 00:30:31.122 --> 00:30:33.169 And Johnny didn't come. 00:30:34.406 --> 00:30:35.645 We've got to... 00:30:35.795 --> 00:30:37.895 We have to wait for Johnny. 00:30:43.585 --> 00:30:46.232 Maybe... we'd better go out and get him. 00:30:47.645 --> 00:30:49.992 We have to go out and get Johnny. 00:30:49.996 --> 00:30:51.447 He's out there. 00:30:52.560 --> 00:30:56.253 Please, don't you hear me? We've got to go out and get him. 00:30:58.229 --> 00:31:02.168 Please! We have got to go get Johnny! 00:31:02.214 --> 00:31:04.011 Please help me! 00:31:04.261 --> 00:31:05.361 Please! 00:31:06.230 --> 00:31:08.436 - Look, don't you know what's going on out there? This is no Sunday school picnic. 00:31:08.439 --> 00:31:11.375 - Don't you understand? My brother is alone. 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.993 - Your brother is dead. - No! My brother is not dead! 00:32:09.843 --> 00:32:12.786 - Because of the obvious threat to untold numbers of citizens, 00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:15.809 and because of the crisis which is even now developing, - 00:32:15.813 --> 00:32:18.810 this radio station will remain on the air, day and night. 00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:21.665 This station and hundreds of other radio and TV stations - 00:32:21.669 --> 00:32:24.674 throughout this part of the country are pooling their resources through - 00:32:24.687 --> 00:32:28.794 an emergency network hookup to keep you informed of all developments. 00:32:28.831 --> 00:32:31.866 At this hour, we repeat, these are the facts as we know them. 00:32:31.870 --> 00:32:33.846 There is an epidemic of mass murder - 00:32:33.850 --> 00:32:36.856 being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins. 00:32:36.873 --> 00:32:39.815 The murders are taking place in villages, cities, - 00:32:39.832 --> 00:32:44.826 rural homes and suburbs with no apparent pattern or reason for the slayings. 00:32:44.807 --> 00:32:47.821 It seems to be a sudden, general explosion of mass homicide. 00:32:47.838 --> 00:32:50.807 We have some descriptions of the assassins. 00:32:50.810 --> 00:32:53.793 Eyewitnesses say they are "ordinary looking people". 00:32:53.796 --> 00:32:56.775 Some say they appear to be in a kind of trance. 00:32:56.779 --> 00:32:57.826 Others describe them as being... 00:33:07.835 --> 00:33:10.525 So, at this point there is no really authentic way for us - 00:33:10.525 --> 00:33:13.926 to say who or what to look for and guard yourself against. 00:33:14.176 --> 00:33:15.476 Misshapen monsters. 00:33:16.330 --> 00:33:17.919 Reaction of law enforcement officials is - 00:33:17.924 --> 00:33:19.830 one of complete bewilderment at this hour. 00:33:20.180 --> 00:33:22.580 So far, we have been... unable to determine - 00:33:22.630 --> 00:33:25.730 that any kind of organized investigation is yet underway. 00:33:26.131 --> 00:33:29.041 Police, sheriffs' deputies and emergency ambulances - 00:33:29.044 --> 00:33:31.846 are literally deluged with calls for help. 00:33:31.850 --> 00:33:34.293 The scene can best be described as mayhem. 00:33:34.330 --> 00:33:36.870 Mayors of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Miami, - 00:33:36.950 --> 00:33:39.926 along with the governors of several eastern and midwestern states - 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:43.378 have indicated the national guard may be mobilized at any moment, - 00:33:43.386 --> 00:33:44.903 but that has not happened as yet. 00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:48.955 The only advice our reporters have been able to get from official sources - 00:33:48.959 --> 00:33:52.957 is for private citizens to stay in their homes behind locked doors. 00:33:52.974 --> 00:33:55.922 Do not venture outside, for any reason, - 00:33:55.925 --> 00:33:57.905 until the nature of this crisis has been determined - 00:33:57.922 --> 00:34:00.927 and until we can advise what course of action to take. 00:34:00.931 --> 00:34:03.904 Keep listening to radio and TV - 00:34:03.912 --> 00:34:06.934 for any special instructions as this crisis develops further. 00:34:07.488 --> 00:34:10.307 Thousands of office and factory workers are being urged - 00:34:10.315 --> 00:34:12.295 to stay at their places of employment, - 00:34:12.299 --> 00:34:14.855 not to make any attempt to get to their homes. 00:34:14.871 --> 00:34:17.061 However, in spite of this urging and warning, - 00:34:17.064 --> 00:34:19.895 streets and highways are packed with frantic people - 00:34:19.899 --> 00:34:24.463 trying to reach their families, or apparently to flee just anywhere. 00:34:23.917 --> 00:34:26.932 To repeat, the safest course of action at this time, - 00:34:26.982 --> 00:34:28.982 is simply to stay where you... 00:34:47.691 --> 00:34:49.584 Ladies and gentlemen, we've just received word - 00:34:49.613 --> 00:34:52.334 that the president has called a meeting of his cabinet - 00:34:52.451 --> 00:34:54.295 to deal with the sudden epidemic of murder - 00:34:54.298 --> 00:34:56.649 which has seized the eastern third of this nation. 00:34:57.010 --> 00:34:59.258 The meeting is scheduled to convene within the hour. 00:34:59.436 --> 00:35:01.478 Members of the presidential cabinet will be joined - 00:35:01.487 --> 00:35:05.468 by officials of the FBI and the joint chiefs behind closed doors. 00:35:06.435 --> 00:35:08.448 A White House spokesman, in announcing this conference, - 00:35:08.795 --> 00:35:10.596 says there will be an official announcement - 00:35:10.601 --> 00:35:12.801 as soon as possible following that meeting. 00:35:12.806 --> 00:35:15.748 This is the latest dispatch just received in our newsroom. 00:35:16.411 --> 00:35:17.463 Latest word also from - 00:35:17.513 --> 00:35:20.113 national press services in Washington, D.C., now tells us - 00:35:19.972 --> 00:35:22.215 that the emergency presidential conference - 00:35:22.265 --> 00:35:23.565 which we've just mentioned - 00:35:23.620 --> 00:35:25.484 will include high-ranking scientists - 00:35:25.534 --> 00:35:28.434 from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 00:35:39.851 --> 00:35:43.210 All radio and TV stations across the eastern part of the country - 00:35:43.218 --> 00:35:45.118 including the one to which you are listening - 00:35:45.131 --> 00:35:47.593 have joined their facilities in an emergency network - 00:35:47.597 --> 00:35:49.906 to bring you this news as it develops. 00:35:49.922 --> 00:35:52.436 We urge you to stay tuned to radio and TV - 00:35:52.445 --> 00:35:56.241 and to stay indoors at all costs. 00:35:56.292 --> 00:35:58.210 Late reports reaching this newsroom - 00:35:58.214 --> 00:36:00.215 tell of frightened people seeking refuge - 00:36:00.219 --> 00:36:02.420 in churches, schools and government buildings, - 00:36:02.424 --> 00:36:03.997 demanding shelter and protection - 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.059 from the wholesale murder which apparently - 00:36:06.063 --> 00:36:08.643 is engulfing much of the nation. 00:36:08.023 --> 00:36:10.807 Law enforcement officials are at a loss to explain or, - 00:36:10.816 --> 00:36:13.004 even at this hour, even to theorize - 00:36:13.008 --> 00:36:15.026 about the reasons for this wave of murder... 00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:23.275 Chief T. K. Dunmore of Camden, North Carolina, is quoted as saying, - 00:36:23.178 --> 00:36:26.939 quote, "Tell the people, for God's sake, to get off the streets." 00:36:26.948 --> 00:36:30.179 "Tell 'em to go home and lock their doors and windows up tight." 00:36:30.282 --> 00:36:31.334 "We don't know what kind of - 00:36:31.584 --> 00:36:34.984 murder-happy characters we have here." End quote. 00:36:35.076 --> 00:36:38.244 That's chief Dunmore of Camden, North Carolina. 00:36:38.315 --> 00:36:41.392 So far the only descriptions, the only clues - 00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:46.210 anyone has of the killers come from frightened witnesses. 00:36:45.619 --> 00:36:47.632 These eyewitness accounts variously describe - 00:36:47.640 --> 00:36:49.946 the murderers as "ordinary looking people," - 00:36:49.950 --> 00:36:51.713 "misshapen monsters," - 00:36:51.755 --> 00:36:53.657 "people who look like they're in a trance," - 00:36:53.661 --> 00:36:57.229 and "things that look like people but act like animals." 00:36:57.491 --> 00:36:59.551 Some eyewitnesses tell of seeing victims - 00:36:59.554 --> 00:37:02.510 who look as though they had been torn apart. 00:37:02.839 --> 00:37:06.257 This whole ghastly story began developing two days ago - 00:37:06.261 --> 00:37:08.567 with the report of the slaying of a family of seven - 00:37:08.617 --> 00:37:10.817 in their rural home near... 00:37:11.172 --> 00:37:13.385 Since then, reports of some senseless killings - 00:37:13.389 --> 00:37:15.190 began snowballing in a reign of terror - 00:37:15.294 --> 00:37:17.378 which has hopscotched in an incredible, - 00:37:17.628 --> 00:37:18.928 disconnected manner throughout - 00:37:18.978 --> 00:37:21.578 much of the eastern and midwestern United States. 00:37:21.665 --> 00:37:23.665 Efforts to keep track of the murder reports - 00:37:23.474 --> 00:37:25.472 by the placing of markers on a map - 00:37:25.484 --> 00:37:27.460 seem to indicate a general spreading - 00:37:27.374 --> 00:37:31.326 from the extreme southeastern United States to north and west. 00:37:31.376 --> 00:37:33.352 Our newsmen, who have been on the telephone - 00:37:33.355 --> 00:37:35.349 talking with officials of other cities - 00:37:35.353 --> 00:37:38.150 have determined that none of this kind of mass murder - 00:37:38.179 --> 00:37:40.785 has yet been reported west of the Mississippi river, - 00:37:40.878 --> 00:37:44.692 except in the extreme south... eastern portion of Texas. 00:37:45.376 --> 00:37:46.439 Similar killings have been reported - 00:37:46.443 --> 00:37:48.419 around the Houston and Galveston areas - 00:37:48.422 --> 00:37:49.428 but nothing like the... 00:37:49.686 --> 00:37:51.637 - I found a gun and some bullets out there. 00:37:52.717 --> 00:37:55.326 - It was only late yesterday... - Oh, and these. 00:37:55.376 --> 00:37:58.576 - ...came clear we were facing some kind of national emergency. 00:37:58.626 --> 00:38:00.826 When the first reports began filtering in, - 00:38:00.876 --> 00:38:02.876 newsmen and law enforcement agencies - 00:38:02.955 --> 00:38:05.651 were of the opinion... - This place is boarded up pretty solid now. 00:38:06.981 --> 00:38:08.953 We ought to be all right here for a while. 00:38:10.020 --> 00:38:12.617 We have the gun and bullets, - 00:38:12.671 --> 00:38:14.622 food and the radio. 00:38:16.673 --> 00:38:20.604 Sooner or later, someone's bound to come and get us out. 00:38:21.659 --> 00:38:24.660 - So again, we join with law enforcement agencies - 00:38:24.690 --> 00:38:26.682 in urging you to seek shelter in a building. 00:38:26.691 --> 00:38:28.668 Lock the doors and windows securely. 00:38:28.572 --> 00:38:30.246 - Hey, that's us. We're doin' all right. 00:38:30.251 --> 00:38:31.947 - Be cautious of any suspicious strangers, - 00:38:31.951 --> 00:38:34.352 and keep tuned to your radio and television - 00:38:34.257 --> 00:38:35.675 for survival instructions - 00:38:35.678 --> 00:38:38.004 and further details of this continuing story. 00:38:38.213 --> 00:38:40.092 - Look, I don't know if you're hearing me. 00:38:41.076 --> 00:38:42.660 But I'm going upstairs now. 00:38:44.695 --> 00:38:47.642 If anything should try to break in here, I can hear it from up there. 00:38:47.645 --> 00:38:49.622 I'll be down to take care of it. 00:38:51.439 --> 00:38:52.682 Everything is all right for now. 00:38:52.686 --> 00:38:56.112 I'll be back to reinforce the windows and doors later. 00:38:56.463 --> 00:38:58.668 But you'll be all right for now, okay? 00:39:00.871 --> 00:39:01.880 Okay? 00:39:05.633 --> 00:39:07.359 - Civil defense officials in Cumberland - 00:39:07.363 --> 00:39:09.285 have told newsmen that murder victims - 00:39:09.289 --> 00:39:14.087 show evidence of having been... partially devoured by their murderers. 00:39:52.818 --> 00:39:55.565 Consistent reports from witnesses to the effect that people - 00:39:55.368 --> 00:39:57.754 who acted as though they were in a kind of trance - 00:39:57.844 --> 00:40:00.316 were killing and eating their victims, - 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:03.384 prompted authorities to examine the bodies of some of the victims. 00:40:03.387 --> 00:40:07.348 Medical authorities in Cumberland have concluded that in all cases - 00:40:07.366 --> 00:40:11.693 the killers are eating the flesh of the people they murder. 00:40:12.027 --> 00:40:14.599 Repeating this latest bulletin just received moments ago - 00:40:14.649 --> 00:40:16.149 from Cumberland, Maryland: - 00:40:16.103 --> 00:40:18.338 Civil defense authorities have told newsmen - 00:40:18.346 --> 00:40:20.343 that murder victims show evidence - 00:40:20.351 --> 00:40:23.636 of having been partially devoured by their murderers. 00:40:23.640 --> 00:40:26.717 Medical examination of victims' bodies shows conclusively that - 00:40:26.720 --> 00:40:30.623 the killers are eating the flesh of the people they kill. 00:40:31.265 --> 00:40:35.221 And so this... incredible story becomes... more ghastly with each report. 00:40:35.224 --> 00:40:37.743 It's... difficult to imagine such a thing actually happening - 00:40:38.010 --> 00:40:41.478 but these are the reports we have been receiving and passing on to you, - 00:40:41.482 --> 00:40:44.809 reports which have been verified as completely as is possible - 00:40:44.841 --> 00:40:46.200 in this confused situation. 00:40:46.450 --> 00:40:48.350 It IS happening. And it would appear that - 00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:51.400 no one is safe from this wave of mass murder. 00:40:59.907 --> 00:41:02.358 - Hold it! Don't shoot! We're from town. 00:41:02.363 --> 00:41:03.667 - A radio! 00:41:04.368 --> 00:41:06.870 - The Butler county sheriff has verified that reports - 00:41:06.873 --> 00:41:11.688 of murder victims being partially eaten by their slayers is true. 00:41:11.838 --> 00:41:14.038 No further details available at this time. 00:41:14.096 --> 00:41:17.098 - How long've you guys been down there? I could've used some help up here. 00:41:17.102 --> 00:41:19.341 - That's the cellar. It's the safest place. 00:41:19.353 --> 00:41:21.688 - You mean you didn't hear the racket we were making up here? 00:41:21.691 --> 00:41:23.693 - How were we supposed to know what was going on? 00:41:23.697 --> 00:41:25.294 Could've been those things for all we knew. 00:41:25.398 --> 00:41:27.007 - That girl was screaming. 00:41:27.011 --> 00:41:29.137 Surely you must know what a girl screaming sounds like. 00:41:29.140 --> 00:41:30.446 Those things don't make any noise. 00:41:30.579 --> 00:41:32.702 Anybody would know somebody up here needed help. 00:41:32.805 --> 00:41:35.461 - Look, it's kinda hard to hear what's going on from down there. 00:41:35.473 --> 00:41:37.395 - We thought we could hear screams, but - 00:41:37.445 --> 00:41:38.745 for all we knew, that could have meant - 00:41:38.799 --> 00:41:40.380 those things were in the house after her. 00:41:40.405 --> 00:41:42.102 - And you wouldn't come up and help? 00:41:42.152 --> 00:41:43.752 - Well, if there were more of us... 00:41:43.805 --> 00:41:45.628 - The racket sounded like the place was being ripped apart. 00:41:45.636 --> 00:41:47.600 How were we supposed to know what was going on? 00:41:47.646 --> 00:41:48.654 - Now wait a minute. 00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:51.618 You just got finished saying you couldn't hear it from down there. 00:41:51.622 --> 00:41:53.757 Now you say it sounded like the place was being ripped apart. 00:41:53.761 --> 00:41:56.091 It would be nice if you'd get your story straight, man. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.621 - All right, now you tell me. 00:41:59.601 --> 00:42:02.615 I'm not gonna take that kind of a chance when we've got a safe place. 00:42:02.941 --> 00:42:04.980 We luck into a safe place, and you're telling us - 00:42:04.984 --> 00:42:08.906 we've gotta risk our lives just because somebody might need help, huh? 00:42:08.910 --> 00:42:11.629 - Yeah. Something like that. - All right, why don't we settle this... 00:42:11.636 --> 00:42:12.636 - Look, mister! 00:42:12.914 --> 00:42:15.082 We came up, okay? We're here. 00:42:15.161 --> 00:42:17.163 Now I suggest we all go back downstairs - 00:42:17.167 --> 00:42:19.168 before any of those things find out we're in here. 00:42:19.171 --> 00:42:21.102 - They can't get in here. 00:42:21.127 --> 00:42:22.490 - You got the whole place boarded up? 00:42:22.498 --> 00:42:23.774 - Yeah, most of it. 00:42:23.816 --> 00:42:26.622 All but a few spots upstairs. They won't be hard to fix. 00:42:26.630 --> 00:42:29.623 - You are insane. The cellar is the safest place. 00:42:29.627 --> 00:42:31.604 - I'm telling you, they can't get in here. 00:42:31.607 --> 00:42:34.609 - And I'm telling you, those things turned over our car. 00:42:34.612 --> 00:42:36.589 We were damned lucky to get away at all. 00:42:36.510 --> 00:42:40.786 Now you tell me those... those things can't get through this lousy pile of wood? 00:42:41.049 --> 00:42:44.601 - His wife and kid's downstairs. The kid's hurt. 00:42:46.406 --> 00:42:47.990 - Well, I still think we're better off up here. 00:42:49.632 --> 00:42:51.629 - We could strengthen everything up, Mr. Cooper. 00:42:52.050 --> 00:42:54.401 - With all of us working, we could fix this place up in no time. 00:42:54.405 --> 00:42:56.373 We have everything we need up here. 00:42:56.377 --> 00:42:59.053 - We can take all that stuff downstairs with us. 00:42:59.058 --> 00:43:00.617 Man, you're really crazy, you know that? 00:43:00.634 --> 00:43:02.567 You got a million windows up here. 00:43:02.571 --> 00:43:03.701 All these windows. You're gonna... 00:43:03.710 --> 00:43:06.073 You're gonna make 'em strong enough to keep these things out, huh? 00:43:06.078 --> 00:43:07.841 - I told you, those things don't have any strength. 00:43:07.849 --> 00:43:10.813 I smashed three of them and pushed another one out the door. 00:43:10.821 --> 00:43:14.381 - Did you hear me, what I told you? They turned over our car. 00:43:14.390 --> 00:43:16.170 - Oh hell, any good five men can do that. 00:43:16.174 --> 00:43:17.491 - That's my point... 00:43:17.495 --> 00:43:19.700 Only there's not going to be five, or even ten. 00:43:19.705 --> 00:43:22.393 There's gonna be twenty, thirty, maybe a hundred of those things. 00:43:22.397 --> 00:43:23.611 And as soon as they know we're here, - 00:43:23.615 --> 00:43:25.157 this place is gonna be crawling with them. 00:43:25.161 --> 00:43:28.688 - Well, if there're that many, they'll probably get us wherever we are. 00:43:29.167 --> 00:43:31.184 - Look. The cellar. 00:43:31.606 --> 00:43:33.469 The cellar. There's only one door, right? 00:43:33.573 --> 00:43:36.058 Just one door. That's all we have to protect. 00:43:36.062 --> 00:43:39.280 Tom and I fixed it so it locks and boards from the inside. 00:43:39.305 --> 00:43:41.127 But up here, all these windows... 00:43:41.165 --> 00:43:43.486 Why, we'd never know where they were gonna hit us next. 00:43:43.490 --> 00:43:44.929 - You've got a point, Mr. Cooper. 00:43:45.341 --> 00:43:47.922 But down in the cellar, there's no place to run to. 00:43:47.951 --> 00:43:52.290 I mean, if they did get in, there'd be no back exit. We'd be done for. 00:43:52.916 --> 00:43:54.971 We can get out of here if we have to. 00:43:54.975 --> 00:43:57.905 And we got windows to see what's going on outside. 00:43:57.643 --> 00:43:59.620 But down there, with no windows, - 00:43:59.623 --> 00:44:01.653 if a rescue party did come, we wouldn't even know it. 00:44:01.662 --> 00:44:04.296 - But the cellar is the strongest place. 00:44:04.300 --> 00:44:05.655 - The cellar is a death trap. 00:44:06.406 --> 00:44:10.366 - I don't know, Mr. Cooper. I think he's right. 00:44:10.720 --> 00:44:12.113 You know how many's out there? 00:44:12.179 --> 00:44:14.046 - I don't know, I figure maybe six or seven. 00:44:14.067 --> 00:44:18.019 - Look. You two can do whatever you like. 00:44:17.631 --> 00:44:21.600 I'm going back down to the cellar and you better decide. 00:44:21.608 --> 00:44:23.422 'Cause I'm gonna board up that door, - 00:44:23.430 --> 00:44:25.644 and I'm not gonna unlock it again no matter what happens. 00:44:25.648 --> 00:44:26.886 - Now wait a minute, Mr. Cooper. 00:44:26.890 --> 00:44:30.396 - No, I'm not gonna wait! I've made my decision, now you make yours. 00:44:30.404 --> 00:44:32.655 - Now wait a minute! Let's think about this! 00:44:32.689 --> 00:44:35.285 We can make it to the cellar if we have to. 00:44:35.636 --> 00:44:39.491 And if we do decide to stay down there, we'll need some things from up here. 00:44:39.597 --> 00:44:42.548 So let's at least consider this awhile! 00:44:45.989 --> 00:44:47.206 - If you box yourself in the cellar - 00:44:47.210 --> 00:44:49.649 and those things get in the house, you've had it. 00:44:49.653 --> 00:44:51.979 At least up here, you have a fighting chance. 00:44:56.041 --> 00:44:58.271 - Yeah, it looks like 'bout eight or ten of them now. 00:44:58.283 --> 00:45:02.273 - That's more than there were. There're a lot out back, too. 00:45:44.630 --> 00:45:47.631 - Harry? Harry, what's happening? 00:45:47.635 --> 00:45:48.661 - It's all right! 00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:04.656 - Now take it. 00:46:44.633 --> 00:46:46.175 We've gotta fix these boards. 00:46:47.034 --> 00:46:48.047 - You're crazy! 00:46:48.618 --> 00:46:51.473 Those things are gonna be at every window and door in this place! 00:46:51.490 --> 00:46:52.632 We've got to get down into the cellar. 00:46:52.645 --> 00:46:55.050 - Go down into your damn cellar and get out of here! 00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.569 - I'm... I'm taking the girl with me. - You leave her here. 00:47:00.573 --> 00:47:03.249 Keep your hands off her, and everything else that's up here too. 00:47:03.253 --> 00:47:05.913 Because if I stay up here, I'm fighting for everything up here, - 00:47:05.917 --> 00:47:08.360 and the radio and the food is part of what I'm fighting for. 00:47:08.598 --> 00:47:10.078 Now if you're going down in the cellar, get. 00:47:10.282 --> 00:47:12.908 - The man's insane. He's insane. 00:47:13.075 --> 00:47:16.068 We've... we've got to have food down there. We've got a right. 00:47:15.684 --> 00:47:18.465 - This your house? - We've got a right. 00:47:18.498 --> 00:47:19.666 - You going down there with him? 00:47:19.916 --> 00:47:21.116 - W... Well I... 00:47:21.145 --> 00:47:23.667 - Yes or no? This is your last chance. No beatin' around the bush. 00:47:24.655 --> 00:47:26.631 - Li... Listen, I got a kid down there. 00:47:26.681 --> 00:47:28.661 She can't possib... I couldn't bring her up here. 00:47:28.670 --> 00:47:31.304 She can't possibly take all the racket from those... - 00:47:31.308 --> 00:47:33.063 those things smashing through the windows. 00:47:33.067 --> 00:47:34.498 - Well, you're her father. 00:47:34.601 --> 00:47:37.607 If you're stupid enough to go die in that trap, that's your business. 00:47:37.611 --> 00:47:39.950 However, I am not stupid enough to follow you. 00:47:40.650 --> 00:47:43.601 It is tough for the kid that her old man is so stupid. 00:47:43.631 --> 00:47:46.607 Now, get the hell down in the cellar. 00:47:46.619 --> 00:47:49.096 You can be the boss down there. I'm boss up here. 00:47:51.601 --> 00:47:52.673 - You bastards! 00:47:55.401 --> 00:47:57.890 You know, I won't open this door again. I mean it. 00:47:58.115 --> 00:48:01.121 - Mr. Cooper, with your help we could... - With my help. 00:48:01.125 --> 00:48:05.047 - Let him go, man. His mind is made up. Just let him go. 00:48:07.258 --> 00:48:08.258 - Wait a minute. 00:48:10.297 --> 00:48:12.281 Judy? Come on up here, honey. 00:48:19.117 --> 00:48:21.080 - You're gonna let them get her too, huh? 00:48:21.126 --> 00:48:23.081 - It's all right, honey. Go ahead. 00:48:33.294 --> 00:48:36.266 If we stick together, man, we can fix it up real good. 00:48:37.229 --> 00:48:39.285 There's lots of places we can run to up here. 00:48:39.995 --> 00:48:42.970 Mr. Cooper? We'd all be a lot better off - 00:48:42.973 --> 00:48:45.944 if all three of us were working together. 00:48:47.382 --> 00:48:48.432 - Hey. 00:48:48.933 --> 00:48:50.133 Hey, kid. 00:48:58.763 --> 00:49:00.097 He's wrong, you know. 00:49:00.650 --> 00:49:02.642 I'm not boxing myself in down there. 00:49:03.192 --> 00:49:06.892 - To repeat, this radio station will remain on the air day and night. 00:49:09.662 --> 00:49:13.276 - Well, we're safe now. It's... boarded up tight. 00:49:14.365 --> 00:49:15.790 - What about Tom and Judy? 00:49:15.852 --> 00:49:17.611 - They wanna stay up there. Let 'em. 00:49:21.992 --> 00:49:26.995 There are... two other people upstairs. A man and a girl. 00:49:26.998 --> 00:49:28.962 - We heard the screaming. 00:49:29.025 --> 00:49:30.451 - Yeah, but I didn't know who they were, - 00:49:30.476 --> 00:49:33.377 and I wasn't about to take any unnecessary chances. 00:49:33.448 --> 00:49:35.199 - Of course not, Harry. 00:49:49.238 --> 00:49:51.757 - Is she all right? - I don't know what it is. 00:49:51.765 --> 00:49:53.899 She feels warm. Maybe it's shock. 00:49:55.479 --> 00:49:57.230 - Where'd you get the bandage? 00:49:57.284 --> 00:50:00.631 - Some laundry in a basket. I tore a sheet. 00:50:08.182 --> 00:50:10.187 - Let them stay upstairs. 00:50:11.583 --> 00:50:12.592 Let them. 00:50:13.625 --> 00:50:16.097 Too many ways those monsters can get in up there. 00:50:17.631 --> 00:50:19.619 We'll see who's right. 00:50:19.640 --> 00:50:22.679 We'll see, when they come begging me to let them in down here. 00:50:23.821 --> 00:50:25.943 - That's important, isn't it? - What? 00:50:25.985 --> 00:50:27.952 - To be right. Everybody else to be wrong. 00:50:27.967 --> 00:50:30.043 - What do you mean by that? 00:50:33.301 --> 00:50:35.698 - Does anyone up there know why we're being attacked? 00:50:37.598 --> 00:50:39.650 - Whatever it is, it isn't just happening here. 00:50:39.696 --> 00:50:42.642 It's some kind of mass murder. It's going on everywhere. 00:50:43.314 --> 00:50:46.294 - The radio said to stay inside... - A radio? 00:50:46.307 --> 00:50:47.678 - Radio, upstairs. I heard the news bulletin. 00:50:48.087 --> 00:50:51.080 - There's a radio upstairs and you boarded us in down here? 00:50:51.088 --> 00:50:53.110 - I know what I'm doing. - What did it say? 00:50:53.114 --> 00:50:55.628 - Nothing! Nothing. They don't know anything yet. 00:50:55.478 --> 00:50:58.741 That... there's mass murder everywhere, and - 00:50:58.749 --> 00:51:00.668 people are supposed to look for a safe place to hide. 00:51:00.672 --> 00:51:02.652 - Take the boards off that door. 00:51:03.640 --> 00:51:05.641 - We are staying down here, Helen. 00:51:05.645 --> 00:51:08.625 - Harry, that radio is at least some kind of communication. 00:51:08.642 --> 00:51:10.330 If the authorities know what's happening, - 00:51:10.339 --> 00:51:13.640 well, they'll send people for us, or they'll tell us what to do. 00:51:13.674 --> 00:51:15.433 How are we going to know what's going on, - 00:51:15.537 --> 00:51:17.513 if we lock ourselves in this dungeon? 00:51:27.663 --> 00:51:29.673 We may not enjoy living together... 00:51:31.648 --> 00:51:33.979 But dying together isn't going to solve anything. 00:51:34.854 --> 00:51:36.867 Those people aren't our enemies. 00:51:37.388 --> 00:51:38.618 - Mr. Cooper! 00:51:40.811 --> 00:51:43.629 Mr. Cooper? They have found a television set upstairs. 00:51:46.284 --> 00:51:48.185 - Let's go up. Tom! 00:51:48.665 --> 00:51:49.644 - Yes? 00:51:50.645 --> 00:51:53.608 - If Judy would come downstairs for a few minutes, - 00:51:53.617 --> 00:51:55.630 Harry and I could come upstairs. 00:51:56.410 --> 00:51:58.073 - Okay. Yeah. Right away. 00:52:01.099 --> 00:52:02.095 Will you do it? 00:52:03.092 --> 00:52:04.131 - Do I have to? 00:52:04.184 --> 00:52:07.861 - Look, honey. Nothing's gonna get done with them down there and us up here. 00:52:08.607 --> 00:52:10.684 Do this. For me. 00:52:11.234 --> 00:52:12.234 - Okay. 00:52:13.634 --> 00:52:14.660 - Okay, open up. 00:52:36.574 --> 00:52:38.646 - I'll take good care of her, Helen. 00:52:41.694 --> 00:52:43.627 - She's all I have. 00:52:45.433 --> 00:52:47.179 - Why don't you go upstairs now? 00:53:14.996 --> 00:53:17.034 - Her brother was killed. 00:53:17.622 --> 00:53:19.802 - Hey... give me a hand with this thing! 00:53:20.636 --> 00:53:22.633 - I gotta go help Ben with the television. 00:54:06.089 --> 00:54:08.131 - Don't be afraid of me. 00:54:08.398 --> 00:54:11.425 I'm Helen Cooper. Harry's wife. 00:54:19.617 --> 00:54:22.652 - This place is ridiculous. Look at this. 00:54:22.673 --> 00:54:24.666 There's a million weak spots up here. 00:54:26.995 --> 00:54:28.929 Give me one of those. 00:54:32.973 --> 00:54:34.949 - Her brother was killed. 00:54:42.297 --> 00:54:44.314 - And they talk about these windows. 00:54:45.285 --> 00:54:46.936 I can't see a damned thing. 00:54:47.286 --> 00:54:49.312 There could be 15 million of those things out there. 00:54:49.652 --> 00:54:51.620 That's how much good these windows are. 00:54:55.957 --> 00:54:58.925 - Why don't you do something to help somebody? 00:55:03.659 --> 00:55:06.606 - Here, I have it. Drag a couple of those chairs together. 00:55:06.648 --> 00:55:07.698 - There's a socket over here. 00:55:13.609 --> 00:55:16.619 - Now, you'd better watch this and try to understand what's going on. 00:55:18.271 --> 00:55:19.834 I don't want anyone's life on my hands. 00:55:19.875 --> 00:55:21.626 - Is there anything I can do to help? 00:55:21.630 --> 00:55:23.597 - I don't wanna hear any more from you, mister. 00:55:23.614 --> 00:55:25.619 If you stay up here, you take orders from me! 00:55:25.644 --> 00:55:27.645 And that includes leaving the girl alone. 00:55:27.674 --> 00:55:28.691 - It's on! It's on! 00:55:29.600 --> 00:55:30.604 - There's no sound. 00:55:31.626 --> 00:55:32.664 Play with the rabbit ears. 00:55:33.639 --> 00:55:36.615 - ...reports, incredible as they seem, - 00:55:36.620 --> 00:55:38.671 are not the results of mass hysteria. 00:55:38.975 --> 00:55:41.989 - "Mass hysteria." What do they think, we're imagining all this? 00:55:41.993 --> 00:55:42.677 - Shut up. 00:55:42.681 --> 00:55:44.640 - ...in all parts of the country. 00:55:45.048 --> 00:55:48.296 The wave of murder which is sweeping the eastern third of the nation - 00:55:48.300 --> 00:55:50.527 is being committed by creatures - 00:55:50.530 --> 00:55:53.173 who feast upon the flesh of their victims. 00:55:53.632 --> 00:55:56.617 First eyewitness accounts of this grisly development - 00:55:56.621 --> 00:56:00.643 came from people who were understandably frightened and almost incoherent. 00:56:01.190 --> 00:56:04.308 Officials and newsmen at first discounted - 00:56:04.312 --> 00:56:07.492 those eyewitness descriptions as being beyond belief. 00:56:07.613 --> 00:56:09.660 However, the reports persisted. 00:56:09.677 --> 00:56:12.625 Medical examinations of some of the victims - 00:56:12.628 --> 00:56:16.613 bore out the fact that they had been partially devoured. 00:56:18.318 --> 00:56:20.632 I think we have some late word just arriving - 00:56:20.669 --> 00:56:22.670 and we interrupt to bring this to you. 00:56:24.659 --> 00:56:26.660 This is the latest disclosure in a report - 00:56:26.664 --> 00:56:29.632 from National civil defense headquarters in Washington. 00:56:30.553 --> 00:56:33.650 It has been established that persons who have recently died - 00:56:33.655 --> 00:56:38.065 have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. 00:56:38.623 --> 00:56:40.317 A widespread investigation of reports - 00:56:40.567 --> 00:56:43.667 from funeral homes, morgues and hospitals - 00:56:43.621 --> 00:56:47.628 has concluded that the unburied dead are coming back to life - 00:56:47.632 --> 00:56:49.645 and seeking human victims. 00:56:50.629 --> 00:56:53.434 It's hard for us here to believe what we're reporting to you, - 00:56:53.438 --> 00:56:54.698 but it does seem to be a fact. 00:56:56.615 --> 00:56:58.482 When this emergency first began, - 00:56:58.520 --> 00:57:01.663 radio and television was advising people to stay inside, - 00:57:01.667 --> 00:57:04.103 behind locked doors, for safety. 00:57:04.106 --> 00:57:06.516 Well, that situation has now changed. 00:57:06.520 --> 00:57:09.634 We're able to report a definite course of action for you. 00:57:09.646 --> 00:57:12.597 Civil defense machinery has been organized to provide - 00:57:12.614 --> 00:57:15.620 rescue stations with food, shelter, - 00:57:15.624 --> 00:57:18.671 medical treatment and protection by armed National Guardsmen. 00:57:19.305 --> 00:57:22.644 Stay tuned to the broadcasting stations in your local area - 00:57:22.648 --> 00:57:24.629 for this list of rescue stations. 00:57:24.632 --> 00:57:27.642 This list will be repeated throughout our news coverage. 00:57:27.650 --> 00:57:30.689 Look for the name of the rescue station nearest you, - 00:57:30.698 --> 00:57:34.641 and make your way to that location as soon as possible. 00:57:34.662 --> 00:57:37.546 - So we have that truck. If we can get some gas, we can get outta here. 00:57:37.555 --> 00:57:40.331 - There's a pump out by the shed. - I know. That's why I pulled in here - 00:57:40.335 --> 00:57:41.628 but it's locked. 00:57:41.632 --> 00:57:43.683 - ...called this afternoon by the president. 00:57:43.687 --> 00:57:47.318 Since convening, this conference of the presidential cabinet, - 00:57:47.322 --> 00:57:50.615 the FBI, the joint chiefs of staff, the CIA - 00:57:50.619 --> 00:57:53.312 has not produced any public information. 00:57:53.325 --> 00:57:56.226 Why are space experts being consulted - 00:57:56.230 --> 00:57:58.606 about an earthbound emergency? 00:57:58.607 --> 00:58:01.608 So far, all the betting on the answer to that question - 00:58:01.612 --> 00:58:04.922 centers on the recent explorer satellite shot to Venus. 00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:09.203 That satellite, you recall, started back to Earth, - 00:58:09.206 --> 00:58:10.641 but never got here. 00:58:10.678 --> 00:58:13.021 That's the space vehicle which orbited Venus - 00:58:13.026 --> 00:58:15.658 and then pur... was purposely destroyed by NASA, - 00:58:15.661 --> 00:58:17.690 when scientists discovered it was carrying - 00:58:17.694 --> 00:58:20.620 a mysterious, high-level radiation with it. 00:58:21.054 --> 00:58:23.609 Could that radiation be somehow responsible - 00:58:23.617 --> 00:58:25.681 for the wholesale murders we're now suffering? 00:58:26.644 --> 00:58:28.691 Newsman Don Quinn in Washington - 00:58:28.695 --> 00:58:30.600 has posed those questions... 00:58:30.604 --> 00:58:32.634 - It's obvious. Our best move is to try to get out of here. 00:58:32.647 --> 00:58:34.606 - How are you gonna get over to that pump? 00:58:34.648 --> 00:58:35.736 - Look! 00:58:36.424 --> 00:58:39.221 - You're coming from a meeting regarding the explosion of the Venus probe, - 00:58:39.225 --> 00:58:40.205 is that right? 00:58:40.217 --> 00:58:42.669 - Uh, yes, yes, that was the subject of the meeting. 00:58:42.672 --> 00:58:45.098 - Do you feel there is a connection between this and the phenomenon... 00:58:45.103 --> 00:58:47.687 - There's a definite connection. A definite connection. 00:58:47.692 --> 00:58:50.638 - In other words, you feel that the radiation on the Venus probe is enough - 00:58:50.651 --> 00:58:51.873 to call thes... cause these mutations? 00:58:51.877 --> 00:58:53.644 - There was a very high degree of radiation. 00:58:53.652 --> 00:58:56.641 - Well, just a minute. Uh... I'm not sure that that's certain at all. 00:58:56.645 --> 00:58:58.838 I don't think that has been... - It's the only logical explanation - 00:58:58.843 --> 00:59:00.614 that we have at this time. 00:59:00.647 --> 00:59:02.606 - In other words, it is the military's viewpoint that this... - 00:59:02.610 --> 00:59:04.683 the radiation is not the cause of the mutation? 00:59:04.687 --> 00:59:07.980 - I can't speak for the entire military at this time, gentlemen. 00:59:08.643 --> 00:59:10.694 I must disagree with these gentlemen presently, - 00:59:10.698 --> 00:59:13.657 until we, until this is irrefutably proved. 00:59:14.091 --> 00:59:15.892 - Everything is being done that can be done. 00:59:15.896 --> 00:59:17.693 - We'll have to hurry for our next meeting. 00:59:19.635 --> 00:59:21.903 - Professor, you feel that there is a definite connection between...? 00:59:21.911 --> 00:59:25.130 - A definite connection as far as Dr. Keller and myself... 00:59:25.134 --> 00:59:28.644 - Doctor, please, I... I thought we decided that is not proved yet. 00:59:28.694 --> 00:59:30.628 - Was it... was the satellite... 00:59:30.636 --> 00:59:33.621 When the satellite was exploded... - It was an unusual amount of radiation, - 00:59:33.624 --> 00:59:36.189 enough to cause mutation under certain circumstances. 00:59:36.322 --> 00:59:38.627 - Could have happened to have a bearing on it. 00:59:38.673 --> 00:59:40.632 - It does seem to have a bearing. 00:59:40.653 --> 00:59:43.642 - Will there be a reply for the...? - Later! 00:59:44.201 --> 00:59:45.643 - There will be a reply? - Yes. 00:59:45.646 --> 00:59:46.644 - Later this afternoon? 00:59:49.490 --> 00:59:51.633 - There will be, there'll be a report this afternoon? 00:59:51.637 --> 00:59:53.680 - Perhaps there will be a report later... 00:59:54.384 --> 00:59:55.481 - Will you close the window? 00:59:55.485 --> 00:59:57.644 - We are doing everything possible to solve the problem. 01:00:01.194 --> 01:00:03.594 - Hoping to get some further explanation on this... 01:00:03.660 --> 01:00:06.603 - We've heard all we need to know. We have to try to get out of here. 01:00:06.619 --> 01:00:09.654 - He said the rescue stations have doctors and medical supplies. 01:00:09.658 --> 01:00:12.501 If we can get Karen there, we can get help for her. 01:00:12.551 --> 01:00:14.651 - ...is one of the world's foremost authorities - 01:00:14.701 --> 01:00:16.601 on space science and technologies... 01:00:16.607 --> 01:00:18.612 - Willard. I saw a sign that said Willard. 01:00:19.046 --> 01:00:21.539 - It's only about 17 miles from here. 01:00:21.542 --> 01:00:23.356 - You know this area? You from around here? 01:00:23.369 --> 01:00:24.632 - Judy and I are both from around here. 01:00:25.236 --> 01:00:27.287 We were on our way up to the lake to go swimmin'. 01:00:27.608 --> 01:00:30.601 And Judy had a radio, and we heard the first reports about this. 01:00:30.614 --> 01:00:33.115 So we knew the old house was here and we came in, - 01:00:33.119 --> 01:00:34.611 found the lady upstairs, dead. 01:00:35.182 --> 01:00:36.959 Then these other people came. 01:00:36.709 --> 01:00:38.509 We went down into the basement and - 01:00:38.563 --> 01:00:40.631 put a bar across the door, and it is pretty strong. 01:00:40.939 --> 01:00:43.369 - How could we possibly get away from here? 01:00:43.490 --> 01:00:45.521 We've got a sick child, two women, - 01:00:45.571 --> 01:00:47.671 one woman out of her head, - 01:00:47.725 --> 01:00:50.452 three men, and the place is surrounded with these things. 01:00:50.589 --> 01:00:51.670 - ...for NASA. 01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:55.020 Dr. Grimes, your entire staff, I know, - 01:00:55.075 --> 01:00:57.847 has been working very hard to find some solution - 01:00:57.855 --> 01:01:00.352 to these things that are happening. 01:01:00.361 --> 01:01:01.650 Do you have any answers at this time? 01:01:02.353 --> 01:01:04.284 - Yes, we have some answers. 01:01:04.334 --> 01:01:06.434 But first let me stress the importance - 01:01:06.488 --> 01:01:10.448 of seeking medical attention for anyone who's been injured in any way. 01:01:10.552 --> 01:01:14.309 We don't know yet what complications might result from such injuries. 01:01:14.380 --> 01:01:15.639 - How bad has your kid been hurt? 01:01:18.389 --> 01:01:19.389 - Uhm... 01:01:20.624 --> 01:01:23.630 - Look. You go down there and tell... Wasn't it Judy? 01:01:23.655 --> 01:01:26.956 Yeah, you tell Judy to come up here and you stay with the kid, all right? 01:01:26.982 --> 01:01:30.583 - ...destructive action taken with regard to the Venus probe. 01:01:31.271 --> 01:01:34.635 In the cold room at the university, we had a cadaver. 01:01:34.669 --> 01:01:39.058 A cadaver from which all four limbs had been amputated. 01:01:39.604 --> 01:01:41.359 Sometime early this morning, - 01:01:41.388 --> 01:01:44.603 it opened its eyes and began to move its trunk. 01:01:44.606 --> 01:01:48.153 It was dead, but it opened its eyes and tried to move. 01:01:50.630 --> 01:01:53.972 - They want you upstairs. Did she ask for me? 01:01:54.093 --> 01:01:55.786 - She hasn't said anything. 01:01:56.494 --> 01:01:58.432 - I don't understand. 01:01:59.188 --> 01:02:03.114 Baby? It's mommy. 01:02:03.415 --> 01:02:04.728 - I hurt. 01:02:05.987 --> 01:02:09.155 - I'll come back down as soon as I find out what they want. 01:02:09.596 --> 01:02:11.446 - Thank you, Judy. 01:02:12.126 --> 01:02:16.098 - The bodies should be disposed of at once, preferably by cremation. 01:02:16.119 --> 01:02:19.604 - Well, how long after death, then, does the body become reactivated? 01:02:19.643 --> 01:02:21.649 - It's only a matter of minutes. - Minutes? 01:02:22.253 --> 01:02:24.046 Well, that doesn't give people time to make any arr... 01:02:24.049 --> 01:02:27.609 - No, you're right. It doesn't give them time to make funeral arrangements. 01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:31.657 The bodies must be carried to the street and, and... and burned. 01:02:32.491 --> 01:02:36.359 They must be burned immediately. Soak them with gasoline and burn them. 01:02:36.513 --> 01:02:40.086 The bereaved will have to forgo the dubious comforts - 01:02:40.090 --> 01:02:41.670 that a funeral service will give. 01:02:42.633 --> 01:02:45.601 They're just dead flesh. And dangerous. 01:02:45.668 --> 01:02:48.615 - Judy, I need you to find some bedspreads or sheets - 01:02:48.619 --> 01:02:50.295 to tear up into small strips, okay? 01:02:51.037 --> 01:02:53.154 - Is there a fruit cellar here? - Yes. 01:02:53.171 --> 01:02:54.602 - We need some bottles or jars - 01:02:54.605 --> 01:02:57.198 to make Molotov cocktails to hold them off while we try to escape. 01:02:57.202 --> 01:02:59.595 - Hey! There's a big can of kerosene down there. 01:02:59.607 --> 01:03:02.159 - I'll see what I can find. - I'll look for the bottles. 01:03:02.167 --> 01:03:04.147 - There's a big key ring down there. 01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:06.586 There may be a key to the gas pump on it. 01:03:06.611 --> 01:03:07.653 - I'll check. 01:03:08.021 --> 01:03:10.943 - We can toss the cocktails from a window upstairs. 01:03:10.968 --> 01:03:13.536 Meantime, a couple of us can go out and try to get the gas, - 01:03:13.601 --> 01:03:14.973 then we can come back for the rest of the people. 01:03:14.981 --> 01:03:16.653 - But that'll leave a door open someplace. 01:03:17.099 --> 01:03:19.850 - Yeah, that's right. It better be this door. 01:03:19.884 --> 01:03:22.043 It's closer to the truck. 01:03:22.101 --> 01:03:25.124 Before we go out, we'll put some supplies behind the cellar door. 01:03:24.686 --> 01:03:26.666 While we're gone, the rest of you can hold up in there. 01:03:27.084 --> 01:03:29.068 - I found some fruit jars in the cellar. 01:03:29.098 --> 01:03:32.078 And there's a key on here that's labeled for the gas pump out back. 01:03:33.623 --> 01:03:36.633 - I'm not really that used to the truck. I found it abandoned. 01:03:37.600 --> 01:03:39.392 - I can handle the truck, no sweat. 01:03:42.640 --> 01:03:44.958 - You're it, then. You and I'll go. 01:03:50.606 --> 01:03:52.674 We'll put whatever lumber we find behind the cellar door. 01:03:53.657 --> 01:03:56.651 You can go upstairs and toss the cocktails from a window. 01:03:57.626 --> 01:03:59.619 Tom, you and I will have to unboard this door. 01:03:59.648 --> 01:04:00.690 After you toss the cocktails, - 01:04:01.298 --> 01:04:03.687 you hustle back down here and lock this door. 01:04:03.712 --> 01:04:06.571 It's no good to board it up because we'll have to get back in quickly. 01:04:07.601 --> 01:04:10.611 After we get the gas and get back into the house, - 01:04:10.624 --> 01:04:13.175 then we'll worry about getting everybody into the truck. 01:04:14.088 --> 01:04:15.614 Now, let's move it. 01:04:15.617 --> 01:04:18.678 - ...no place to flee for safety, except for the rescue stations - 01:04:18.682 --> 01:04:20.070 which have been set up. 01:04:20.603 --> 01:04:23.663 Indications are that before this emergency is over, - 01:04:23.667 --> 01:04:27.619 we will need many, many more such rescue stations. 01:04:36.338 --> 01:04:37.693 - You always have a smile for me. 01:04:38.698 --> 01:04:41.657 How can you smile like that all the time? 01:04:42.830 --> 01:04:44.677 How many do you have done? 01:04:48.098 --> 01:04:50.465 Come on, honey, we gotta move. 01:04:50.553 --> 01:04:52.078 - Tom, are you sure about the phone? 01:04:52.099 --> 01:04:56.100 - The phone is dead out. All you get is a recorded message. 01:04:57.229 --> 01:05:01.305 - If I could only call the folks. They're going to be so worried about us. 01:05:02.230 --> 01:05:03.884 - Everything'll be all right. 01:05:03.935 --> 01:05:07.194 As soon as we get to Willard, we'll call them. They might even be there. 01:05:08.190 --> 01:05:09.182 - I know. 01:05:13.429 --> 01:05:14.746 - Tom...? - Uh-hum? 01:05:16.596 --> 01:05:19.096 - Are you sure we're doing the right thing, Tom? 01:05:19.171 --> 01:05:20.663 - What, about getting outta here? - Yeah. 01:05:21.151 --> 01:05:23.664 - Well, the television said that's the right thing to do. 01:05:23.672 --> 01:05:25.693 We've got to get to a rescue station. 01:05:26.631 --> 01:05:27.652 - I don't know. 01:05:27.681 --> 01:05:30.207 - Come on, honey. You're starting to sound like Mr. Cooper now. 01:05:30.211 --> 01:05:32.620 - But why do you have to go out there? 01:05:32.624 --> 01:05:36.095 - Look, I know how to handle that truck. And I can handle the pump. 01:05:36.096 --> 01:05:38.805 Ben doesn't know anything about that stuff. 01:05:39.684 --> 01:05:41.622 - But we're safe in here. 01:05:41.626 --> 01:05:44.780 - For how long, honey? We're safe now. 01:05:44.850 --> 01:05:46.605 But there's gonna be more and more of those things. 01:05:46.652 --> 01:05:49.031 - I know. I know all that. 01:05:53.074 --> 01:05:54.378 - Hey, listen. 01:05:55.428 --> 01:05:58.028 Remember when we had the big flood? 01:05:58.041 --> 01:06:02.550 Remember how difficult it was for us to convince you that it was right to leave? 01:06:02.588 --> 01:06:05.551 Remember? Remember we had to go to Willard then? 01:06:05.644 --> 01:06:07.357 Well, this isn't a passing thing, honey. 01:06:07.697 --> 01:06:11.568 It... it's not like just a wind passing through. 01:06:11.657 --> 01:06:14.632 We've got to do something, and fast. 01:06:20.435 --> 01:06:23.302 - I just don't want you to go out there, that's all. 01:06:23.496 --> 01:06:25.629 - Hey... smile, honey. 01:06:27.080 --> 01:06:28.956 Where's that big smile for me? 01:06:31.472 --> 01:06:33.002 Boy... 01:06:33.052 --> 01:06:35.952 You sure are no use at all, are you? 01:06:36.048 --> 01:06:38.928 We've got work to do, honey. 01:06:38.778 --> 01:06:40.778 And you... you... 01:06:56.964 --> 01:06:58.931 - We better get her downstairs. 01:06:59.188 --> 01:07:01.213 - We have to go downstairs now, Barbra. 01:07:03.311 --> 01:07:05.536 - She's right. You have to go downstairs now. 01:07:05.607 --> 01:07:07.649 Just for a little while, until we get back. 01:07:08.632 --> 01:07:13.392 Then we can all leave. - Oh, I'd like to leave. Yes. 01:07:32.607 --> 01:07:34.599 - Good luck. - Yeah. 01:08:24.187 --> 01:08:26.075 - You ready upstairs? - Yeah. 01:08:26.078 --> 01:08:28.104 - Okay, toss 'em! 01:09:08.023 --> 01:09:09.973 - Go ahead! Go on! 01:09:25.635 --> 01:09:26.622 - I'm going with him! 01:09:26.976 --> 01:09:28.598 - Get back in the cellar! - I'm going! 01:09:28.648 --> 01:09:30.848 - It's too late. It's too late! 01:09:38.616 --> 01:09:39.666 - Well, is she coming? Come on. 01:09:41.684 --> 01:09:42.667 Get in! 01:10:55.787 --> 01:10:57.613 Come on! - This key won't work. 01:10:57.616 --> 01:10:58.671 - Watch it. 01:11:04.606 --> 01:11:06.681 Watch the torch! 01:11:13.251 --> 01:11:14.305 - We've gotta get away from the pump! 01:11:26.693 --> 01:11:27.664 Hang on! 01:11:29.055 --> 01:11:31.089 - Stop! I'm telling you guys to get out of the truck! 01:11:50.127 --> 01:11:51.823 - Come on, let's get out of here! 01:11:53.510 --> 01:11:54.527 Come on, come on! 01:11:55.426 --> 01:11:56.440 - My jacket's caught. 01:13:03.471 --> 01:13:04.772 - Let me in! 01:13:05.190 --> 01:13:06.890 I'm coming in! 01:13:07.057 --> 01:13:09.141 Cooper! Cooper! 01:14:12.670 --> 01:14:15.604 I ought to drag you out there and feed you to those things. 01:15:45.694 --> 01:15:47.682 - Isn't it three o'clock yet? 01:15:52.650 --> 01:15:55.667 There's supposed to be another broadcast at three o'clock. 01:15:55.675 --> 01:15:57.609 - Ten minutes. 01:15:57.803 --> 01:15:58.878 - Oh. 01:15:59.128 --> 01:16:01.628 Only ten more minutes? 01:16:01.693 --> 01:16:04.619 We don't have very long to wait. 01:16:04.841 --> 01:16:06.166 We can leave. 01:16:07.667 --> 01:16:09.525 Or we better leave soon. 01:16:10.171 --> 01:16:12.117 It's ten minutes to three. 01:16:17.808 --> 01:16:19.696 - You know anything about this area at all? 01:16:20.067 --> 01:16:22.221 I mean, is Willard the nearest town? 01:16:24.234 --> 01:16:25.276 - I don't know. 01:16:28.264 --> 01:16:30.256 We were... - 01:16:32.235 --> 01:16:35.282 just trying to get to a motel before dark. 01:16:36.299 --> 01:16:38.270 - You said those things turned your car over. 01:16:38.383 --> 01:16:41.325 You think we can get it back on its wheels and drive it? Where is it? 01:16:41.329 --> 01:16:43.367 - Seems like it was pretty far away. 01:16:44.688 --> 01:16:46.647 Seems like we ran. 01:16:47.294 --> 01:16:49.607 - Forget it. It's at least a mile. 01:16:49.644 --> 01:16:51.611 - Johnny has the keys. 01:16:51.670 --> 01:16:54.066 - You gonna carry that child a mile? 01:16:54.070 --> 01:16:55.666 Through that army of things out there? 01:16:55.670 --> 01:16:57.470 - I can carry the kid. 01:16:57.666 --> 01:16:59.617 What's wrong with her? How'd she get hurt? 01:17:01.067 --> 01:17:04.271 - One of those things grabbed her. - Bit her on the arm. 01:17:06.026 --> 01:17:07.009 - What's wrong? 01:17:07.968 --> 01:17:10.026 - Who knows what kind of disease those things carry? 01:17:11.010 --> 01:17:13.964 Is she conscious? - Barely. 01:17:13.993 --> 01:17:16.023 - She can't walk. She's too weak. 01:17:19.403 --> 01:17:21.641 - Well, one of us could try to get to the car. 01:17:21.740 --> 01:17:23.620 - You gonna turn it over by yourself? 01:17:23.624 --> 01:17:26.995 - You can't start the car. Johnny has the keys. 01:17:30.638 --> 01:17:33.596 - You have a car? Where? Where is it? 01:17:33.621 --> 01:17:37.601 - You won't be able to start it. - Yeah. I know. But where is it? 01:17:50.628 --> 01:17:51.636 - Good lord. 01:18:01.886 --> 01:18:04.086 - ...being monitored closely by scientists and - 01:18:04.136 --> 01:18:07.036 all the radiation detection stations. 01:18:07.063 --> 01:18:10.656 - At this hour, they report the level of the mysterious radiation - 01:18:10.668 --> 01:18:13.172 continues to increase steadily. 01:18:13.627 --> 01:18:15.631 So long as this situation remains, - 01:18:15.644 --> 01:18:18.307 government spokesmen warn that dead bodies - 01:18:18.311 --> 01:18:21.653 will continue to be transformed into the flesh-eating ghouls. 01:18:21.657 --> 01:18:25.678 All persons who die during this crisis, from whatever cause, - 01:18:25.683 --> 01:18:28.650 will come back to life to seek human victims, - 01:18:28.658 --> 01:18:32.600 unless their bodies are first disposed of by cremation. 01:18:32.667 --> 01:18:34.871 Our news cameras have just returned - 01:18:34.917 --> 01:18:38.626 from covering such a search and destroy operation against the ghouls. 01:18:38.630 --> 01:18:40.676 This one conducted by sheriff Conan McClellan - 01:18:40.693 --> 01:18:42.677 in Butler County, Pennsylvania. 01:18:42.693 --> 01:18:44.656 So now let's go to that film report. 01:18:45.648 --> 01:18:48.648 All law enforcement agencies and the military - 01:18:48.656 --> 01:18:52.628 have been organized to search out and destroy the marauding ghouls. 01:18:52.645 --> 01:18:54.666 The survival command center at the Pentagon - 01:18:54.678 --> 01:18:58.600 has disclosed that a ghoul can be killed - 01:18:58.616 --> 01:19:02.613 by a shot in the head or a heavy blow to the skull. 01:19:02.679 --> 01:19:04.651 Officials are quoted as explaining - 01:19:04.659 --> 01:19:08.622 that since the brain of a ghoul has been activated by the radiation, - 01:19:08.664 --> 01:19:12.672 the plan is, kill the brain and you kill the ghoul. 01:19:13.965 --> 01:19:17.916 - Want anything from the supply wagon, cous? - No, we're all right. 01:19:18.673 --> 01:19:21.203 Hey, Cass, put that thing all the way in the fire. 01:19:21.207 --> 01:19:23.670 We don't want it getting up again. - All right, I gotcha. 01:19:23.673 --> 01:19:25.670 - Chief McClellan, how's everything going? 01:19:25.674 --> 01:19:28.679 - Oh, things aren't going too bad. Men are taking it pretty good. 01:19:29.621 --> 01:19:31.654 You want to get on the other side of the road over there. 01:19:32.117 --> 01:19:34.596 - Chief, do you think we'll be able to defeat these things? 01:19:34.650 --> 01:19:37.613 - Well, we killed 19 of them today, right in this area. 01:19:37.634 --> 01:19:40.660 Those last three we caught trying to claw their way into an abandoned shed. 01:19:40.664 --> 01:19:43.639 They must have thought somebody was in there. There wasn't, though. 01:19:43.643 --> 01:19:45.202 We heard 'em making all kinda noise, - 01:19:45.206 --> 01:19:47.660 and we came over and beat 'em off, blasted 'em down. 01:19:47.665 --> 01:19:49.686 - Chief, as soon as you're finished, can I see you here? 01:19:49.694 --> 01:19:50.673 - Yeah, okay. 01:19:50.690 --> 01:19:53.686 - Chief, if I were surrounded by six or eight of these things, - 01:19:53.690 --> 01:19:54.920 would I stand a chance with them? 01:19:55.081 --> 01:19:57.140 - Well, there's no problem. If you had a gun, shoot 'em in the head. 01:19:57.287 --> 01:19:59.001 That's a sure way to kill 'em. 01:19:59.005 --> 01:20:01.222 If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. 01:20:01.226 --> 01:20:03.226 Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy. 01:20:03.679 --> 01:20:05.917 - Well, chief McClellan, how long do you think it will take - 01:20:05.921 --> 01:20:08.092 until you get the situation under control? 01:20:08.105 --> 01:20:11.122 - Well, that's pretty hard to say. We don't know how many of 'em there are. 01:20:11.126 --> 01:20:13.101 We know when we find 'em, we can kill 'em. 01:20:14.156 --> 01:20:15.577 - Are they slow-moving, chief? 01:20:15.698 --> 01:20:18.690 - Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up. 01:20:18.694 --> 01:20:23.415 - Well, in time, would you say you oughta be able to wrap this up in 24 hours? 01:20:23.453 --> 01:20:26.211 - Well, we don't really know. 01:20:26.216 --> 01:20:29.579 We know we'll be into it most of the night, probably into the early morning. 01:20:29.583 --> 01:20:31.158 We're working our way toward Willard - 01:20:31.247 --> 01:20:33.248 and we'll team up with the National Guard over there, - 01:20:33.252 --> 01:20:35.448 and then we'll be able to give a more definite view. 01:20:35.465 --> 01:20:37.440 - Thank you very much, chief McClellan. 01:20:37.477 --> 01:20:41.403 This is Bill Cardille, WIC-TV 11 news. 01:20:41.457 --> 01:20:43.386 - Thank you, Bill, for that report. 01:20:43.656 --> 01:20:45.698 Official spokesmen declined to speculate - 01:20:45.769 --> 01:20:49.269 just how long it may take to kill off all the flesh-eaters - 01:20:49.290 --> 01:20:50.365 so long as the heavy ra... 01:20:57.319 --> 01:20:58.386 - Is the fuse box in the cellar? 01:20:59.478 --> 01:21:00.486 - I don't know. I... 01:21:04.009 --> 01:21:06.642 It... isn't the fuse... 01:21:07.124 --> 01:21:08.132 The power lines are down. 01:21:11.421 --> 01:21:14.430 Helen, I have to get that gun. 01:21:16.339 --> 01:21:18.606 - Haven't you had enough? 01:21:18.694 --> 01:21:21.698 - Two people are dead already, on account of that guy. 01:21:22.007 --> 01:21:23.665 Take a look out that window. Look at... 01:22:22.057 --> 01:22:23.665 - Get over here, man! 01:22:25.470 --> 01:22:26.632 Come on! 01:22:44.681 --> 01:22:48.664 - Go ahead. Go ahead. You wanna stay up here now? 01:22:48.623 --> 01:22:50.673 Helen, get in the cellar. 01:22:52.758 --> 01:22:55.054 Get in the cellar now! Move! 01:24:41.248 --> 01:24:42.232 - Karen? 01:24:44.827 --> 01:24:48.327 Karen... 01:24:49.434 --> 01:24:50.435 Oh, baby. 01:24:52.851 --> 01:24:53.855 Baby. 01:25:42.161 --> 01:25:43.161 - No! 01:25:44.717 --> 01:25:45.717 No... 01:25:47.185 --> 01:25:48.185 No! 01:25:49.580 --> 01:25:50.580 No! 01:25:52.184 --> 01:25:53.484 No, get out! 01:25:56.041 --> 01:25:59.971 - No... No! Johnny! No... 01:26:03.429 --> 01:26:05.729 Help me, help me... 01:26:05.616 --> 01:26:07.617 Oh somebody help me... 01:30:39.695 --> 01:30:41.403 - Hey, Vince, Bill, - 01:30:41.457 --> 01:30:44.029 you wanna get about four or five men and a couple dogs, - 01:30:44.037 --> 01:30:47.625 there is a house over here behind those trees, we wanna go check it out. 01:30:47.654 --> 01:30:48.692 You still here, Bill? 01:30:48.696 --> 01:30:50.450 - Yeah, chief, we're gonna to stay with it - 01:30:50.454 --> 01:30:51.997 till we meet up with the National Guard. 01:30:52.001 --> 01:30:53.122 - Where'd you get the coffee? 01:30:53.172 --> 01:30:55.172 - One of the volunteers. You're doing all the work, you take it. 01:30:55.225 --> 01:30:57.398 Thank you. We should be wrapped up here, - 01:30:57.401 --> 01:30:58.672 'bout three or four more hours, - 01:30:58.685 --> 01:31:00.619 and we'll probably get into Willard's end. 01:31:00.622 --> 01:31:02.644 I guess you can go over there and meet the national guard. 01:31:02.648 --> 01:31:05.566 Nick, you and the rest of these men wanna come with me? 01:31:05.650 --> 01:31:07.634 - Well, Bill, I'm checking the office to see what's happening. 01:31:07.663 --> 01:31:11.209 - All right, Steve, tell 'em we're gonna stay with it and... 01:31:11.308 --> 01:31:14.301 Everything appears to be under control. 01:32:03.145 --> 01:32:06.066 - They need you down there by the barn. - Okay. 01:32:09.604 --> 01:32:11.617 - You guys can follow the wagon down. 01:32:11.621 --> 01:32:13.672 I only need a few men to check out the house. 01:32:16.664 --> 01:32:19.693 Somebody had a cookout here, Vince. - Yeah, sure looks like it, Con. 01:32:59.615 --> 01:33:00.695 - He's a dead one. Get up here! 01:33:02.645 --> 01:33:04.649 Nick! Tony! Steve! 01:33:04.658 --> 01:33:06.687 You wanna get out in that field and build me a bonfire? 01:33:19.603 --> 01:33:22.578 You. Drag that out of here and throw it on the fire. 01:33:22.660 --> 01:33:23.652 - Nothing down here. 01:33:23.660 --> 01:33:25.648 - All right. Go ahead down and give 'em a hand. 01:33:25.673 --> 01:33:27.002 Let's go check out the house. 01:33:27.007 --> 01:33:28.669 - There's something there. I heard a noise. 01:33:34.003 --> 01:33:36.625 - A'right, Vince. Hit him in the head. Right between the eyes. 01:33:40.117 --> 01:33:43.451 Good shot. Okay, he's dead. Let's go get him. 01:33:43.454 --> 01:33:45.609 That's another one for the fire. 01:34:06.150 --> 01:34:08.629 - A'right, send a wagon through... 01:34:10.888 --> 01:34:13.688 Ben: Duane Jones Barbra: Judith O'Dea 01:34:13.688 --> 01:34:16.488 Harry: Karl Hardman Helen: Marilyn Eastman 01:34:16.507 --> 01:34:19.645 - Keep those dogs back off of those things. 01:34:19.895 --> 01:34:23.395 Tom: Keith Wayne Judy: Judith Riley 01:34:31.653 --> 01:34:37.105 with Kyra Schow, Charles Craig, Bill Heinzman, George Kosana, Frank Doak 01:34:37.163 --> 01:34:42.615 and Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille, A. C. McDonald, Samuel R. Solito, Mark Ricci 01:34:42.673 --> 01:34:48.125 Lee Hartman, Jack Givens, R. J. Ricci, Paula Richards, John Simpson 01:34:48.183 --> 01:34:53.635 Herbert Summer, Richard Ricci, William Burchinal, Ross Harris, Al Croft 01:34:53.693 --> 01:34:59.145 Jason Richards, Dave James, Sharon Carroll, William Mogush, Steve Hutsko 01:34:59.203 --> 01:35:04.655 Joann Michaels, Phillip Smith, Ella Mae Smith, Randy Burr 01:35:20.645 --> 01:35:23.646 - Come ahead with the motorcycle, please. Let's go! 01:35:24.692 --> 01:35:28.192 Special thanks to WIIC-TV, Pittsburgh KQV-Radio, Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Police Department 01:35:28.225 --> 01:35:30.655 - Hey Randy, light these torches over here. 01:35:47.305 --> 01:35:50.705 The End