Blood Cult (1985) - full transcript
A mysterious serial killer is killing several female co-eds on and off a college campus in Oklahoma and the only clues are gold medallions left by the bodies. A grizzled police detective sets out to find the killer, but is unaware that all the killings are connected to a Satanic cult. The detective, Ron, turns from the hunter to the hunted when he sees that no one around him can be trusted, not even his own daughter.
(eerie music)
(suspenseful music)
(door creaking)
(door clattering)
(ominous music)
- Hey Tanny, is that you?
Tanny, did you remember to get the pizza?
Did you get me the anchovies?
Hey, Tanny, are you guys home?
(stairs creaking)
Come on you guys, are you all back yet?
Answer me.
(doorknob clacking)
Tanny!
(girl screaming)
(tense music)
Help!
Help!
Help me!
Help, help!
Help me!
Help someone!
(girl panting)
(door clattering)
Help!
Help, help, help me!
(cleaver thudding)
Help!
Help!
Help me!
(girl panting)
Help!
Help!
Help!
Help!
Help me!
Help!
Help!
Help!
Help!
(cleaver thudding)
(tense music)
(water splashing)
(cleaver thudding)
(hand thudding)
(ominous music)
(stairs creaking)
(ominous rhythmic music)
(suspenseful music)
(dramatic music)
♪ Ah ah ♪
(suspenseful music)
(tense music)
(suspenseful music)
(ominous music)
(rocking chair creaking)
- Debbie, is that you?
Are you still awake?
(rocking chair creaking)
(tense music)
(suspenseful music)
(dramatic music)
(girl screaming)
Help!
Help!
(girl screaming)
No!
No!
(screaming) No!
Get away from me!
No!
No!
Stop!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
(girl screaming)
Oh, stop!
Oh please don't.
Please don't hurt me.
What are you doing?
Why?
Why are you hurting me?
Please, please don't kill me, please.
Please, please!
Please don't.
No, no!
Please, oh no!
(head thudding)
(suspenseful music)
(siren blaring)
- [Officer] 10-4, yes, sir,
it's the bedroom with her.
- [Dispatcher] The west side.
- It was after the second body
(tense music)
was found that I personally
took over the investigation
of the sorority house murders.
(police radio chattering)
To my knowledge, there
had never been so savage
a series of murders in
this part of the state.
We were most likely dealing
with a serial killer
who would probably strike again
and my guess was on campus.
- [Dispatcher] One Baker six, 2347.
- [Ron] Both murders bore similarities,
most obvious being the golden amulets
the killer left on each body.
That, and the fact that he dismembered
each of his victims, indicated
that we were dealing with a psychopath,
a killer who would be
very difficult to catch.
- Oh, Sheriff.
- [Ron] It was at that time
that I also began to suspect
that our county medical examiner,
Dr. Hans White, was being
sloppy in his investigation.
- Didn't take anything.
- [Ron] In both cases
so far he had handled
evidence or removed it
completely from the crime scene,
when did it happen,
before my deputy or I had
had a chance to examine it.
At first I put it down to nervousness,
the pressure of working
on a highly unusual case.
To think straight.
But as time went on, I got the feeling
that it might've been intentional.
You're a big help.
That wasn't like the doc I knew then,
but I didn't know then what I do now.
- By the way.
- [Ron] I knew that I
would have to come up
with some answers quickly.
I was in the midst of an election campaign
for the senate, and unless
I produced a suspect soon
I knew my campaign would sink.
- Just remember that when you
are senator, Wilbois, okay?
- Sure will.
(Hans laughing)
(tense music)
The golden amulets were the
only concrete clues we had
in the beginning.
And it was my daughter, Tina,
who worked in the college library
who made the first break in the case.
Where's Tina?
Is she around today?
- Well, hi, Sheriff.
Yes, she should be right
around there restacking.
- Thank you.
Hi.
- Oh, Daddy, you startled me.
- Did I?
- Yes, you did.
So how goes it?
- Well, okay.
- "Well, okay," now it's me.
"Well, okay" means things
ain't going so great.
- I ain't doing too great.
- Okay, so what's the bad news?
- There's been another
murder this morning.
- Oh God.
You know who it was?
- A Tri-Delt, got her
right in the sorority house
with the roommate in the bed next to her.
- Oh God.
Who was it?
- We don't know but we're checking it out.
Did you find out anything about
those trinkets I gave you?
- Yeah, a little but, come on.
I sure hope this cretin doesn't
come running to our dorm.
You know, when this gets out,
the girls are gonna be
taken out like flies.
- Well, some of them already have.
- I just hope he doesn't
come spooking around.
- You can always come back home
for awhile you know, honey.
- And desert the girls?
Not yet, pal.
I looked up everything
I could on the occult
and God symbolism and I couldn't find much
until I found this.
- [Ron] Yeah?
- [Tina] Well, it's a relatively new book.
We've had it in the library
for about a month I guess.
- You did it!
Good for you, kid.
Where did it come from?
- It's the insignia of
a relatively new cult
of witches, about 1700.
And it's seems that
they're rather obscure,
American in origin.
And it seems they
started out as a backlash
against the witch trials in Salem,
that's in Massachusetts.
- Yes, I know.
- [Tina] Was that found next to the body?
- [Ron] Yes.
- [Tina] And was there
a body part missing?
- We think the murderer
meant to take her head
but he didn't have time.
- Well then, Daddy, it all makes sense.
Look, read this right here.
- "This dog-centered revenge cult
"implemented its revenge
through the ritual sacrifice
"of a manikin constructed from body parts
"of various persons who had offended them.
"The sacrifice was always through fire,
"and to facilitate the demonic powers,
"the manikin's components
were dyed red and ocre.
"The burnings were designed to doom
"designated magistration
officials and were always done
"in heavily wooded areas
within the boundaries
"of jurisdiction of the
intended magistration officials.
"The sacrifices were
intended as retribution
"for those responsible
for putting to death
"real or suspected witches
"and were generally thought
to have been effective."
- Now see, doesn't that make sense?
I mean, maybe this guy's putting together
some sort of weird sacrifice.
- A blood cult where they put together
sort of a Frankenstein and then burn them.
- Sounds like it to me,
except Frankenstein came
about 150 years before.
- Oh, you've done a lot of
research here, young lady.
- [Tina] And it says here
that after each death,
they leave an amulet near the body, look.
- Son of a bitch.
- Kind of bizarre to
think some weird person
is bringing back some old witch cult.
And I bet that's what it is.
- I'm really proud of you, honey.
You do real good work
checking out all this.
- Well, I learned from the best.
- What'd you say?
- I said that you're a good teacher.
All those days and nights on the job
while I was growing up,
all the time you were away from home,
well, I kept my eyes and ears open.
I picked up a thing or two along the way.
- I guess you did coming up with all this.
It just seems so incredible.
- Yeah, but that's all I could find.
- Mmm, well, it's a start.
It's more than I had when
I first came in here.
Can I take this book along?
- Daddy, you no I can't let that out.
- Tell them the police have
it for an investigation.
(somber music)
- Oh, Mr. Wilbois, hey nice day.
- [Ron] Yeah, great.
- Uh huh, yeah there was
another murder last night
at the Tri-Delt house.
I think you heard about that, right?
- Oh yeah, I heard.
- (chuckles) How you doing, honey?
(both chuckling)
Oh, I see you got the
book on the witch cult.
Give you any ideas?
- Yeah, it sure did.
We're gonna check them out.
- [Joel] Oh, thought you
might find it interesting.
- [Tina] Oh, he helped
me find the book, Daddy.
- Mmm, I bet he did.
- So you got any leads
on this new one, Sheriff?
Is it the same M.O. as the others?
- Mmm, we've got some clues.
- They're serial killings,
aren't they, like in that book.
- Well, that cult in this book
was a great many years ago,
but it was, we think, a serial killer.
I gotta go now, dear.
- I'll see you later, Daddy.
- And think about coming back home.
- [Tina] I will, Daddy.
Bye bye.
- He wants you to come back home.
- Don't be such a smart ass.
Do you think that I'd go
home when I have my own room
in the dorm and I can sneak you up there
any time I want?
- Oh you think I'd just come
run anytime you call, huh?
- Well, I think you do,
don't you?
- No I don't.
- You do.
(both chuckling)
- Lunch?
(Tina laughing)
(tense music)
- Central State College is
by far the largest employer
in the county, and with two
of its coeds brutally murdered
right on campus, it was not
long before Dean Charles Bailey
left word that he wanted to see me.
Is he in?
He's expecting me.
- Yes, go on ahead, he's right in there.
- [Ron] I knew what he wanted.
But what I didn't know then
was that he might've known more
than he was telling me.
(light knocking)
- Oh, Sheriff, come in.
Sit down.
- Thank you, sir.
- I hear that we had
another unfortunate occurrence last night.
- Yes, sir.
- Well, what can be done about this?
You have any idea who's doing it?
- I wish to hell I knew, sir.
- Well, I don't mind telling you
I'm nervous about it, very nervous.
- [Ron] Yes, sir, I can imagine.
- And for the past three
days I've done nothing else
but to answer the phone
and to the irate calls
from the parents, the press,
the board of regents.
(phone ringing)
See, there it goes again.
Gloria, hold all calls for awhile.
I'm in a very important meeting.
Yes.
Well, Ron, where do we stand on all this?
This obviously can't go on.
- I wish I knew, sir.
We've got ourselves some
kind of a ritualistic killer
goes around chopping up coeds
and stealing their body parts.
My guess is it's some sort of a game,
a scavenger hunt having something to do
with an old witch cult.
- Good Lord, on this campus?
Oh, you've got to do something about it.
What are you doing to stop it?
- Well, I've got some extra deputies
watching all the sorority
houses and now the dorms.
But who's to say he'll hit
there again if he does return?
- I had no idea that it was this bad.
I'm simply going to have
to close down the campus.
So near the end of the semester.
- Wouldn't do that, sir.
I wouldn't close down the university
because if you do that, you
might queer any of our chances
we have to catch this fella.
- What am I to do?
- Well, we've got some leads.
Give me some time, Dean.
Keep things as normal as possible
and I think we'll have our best chance
to stop this quickly.
- Ron, I've always trusted you,
supported you in the past, haven't I?
- Yeah.
Yes, sir.
- And the college has always supported you
and all your campaigns
in every way, hasn't it?
- You're my biggest contributor.
- But have you been a team player?
- I don't understand.
- A team player, what
is best for all of us.
- Dean, if you're gonna bring up
that police protection issue,
I voted my conscience on that
and I've repeatedly told you
that I must represent all
the people in the county.
I try to be fair, but I'm
over-budgeted and understaffed.
I think this campus is
pretty well protected.
- Well, the point is this
college pays a lot of taxes.
Now, there are many things
that we would like to do
to make this town a better
place in which to live.
But most of the time, I get the feeling
that you are not with us
on many of these things.
- You mean, not a team player.
- Right.
You see, I owe it to my students
and to their parents and the board
to protect them as much as I possibly can
and not only against this killer,
but for the future and
the future of the school.
We do not need serial
murders on this campus.
- Well, I don't need any
problems right at this time
with an election coming up before long.
If you just give me some time,
I'm sure I can crack it.
(tense music)
- You're a strong-minded
man, aren't you, Ron?
Have to do it your way.
- I'll give you this much.
If you keep this campus open,
I'll give you the killer
before the new year begins.
I'll stake my reputation on it.
- [Charles] It is your reputation, Ron.
And if you blow this, you
will never get another dime
from this college.
- I know.
- [Charles] It's a deal.
But there had better not
be any more killings.
(lively rock music)
(people chattering)
(tense music)
(cans clattering)
(ominous music)
(man grunting)
(eerie music)
(cleaver thudding)
(suspenseful music)
(dog howling)
(cleaver thudding)
(lively rock music)
(people chattering)
- Jill?
Jill, you there?
Guys, hey guys, come here!
(suspenseful music)
Hey, guys!
(lively rock music)
(people chattering)
- All right, Mace, let's
go over this again.
The suspected weapon was a knife.
- Yeah, or meat cleaver.
That's what the doc said
just like other two.
- Maybe they knew this guy.
- Could be.
(police radio chattering)
But all three seem to boil down to this.
The killer walks right
in, kills a young girl,
takes part of her body, and leaves,
teasing us with a coin
he leaves on each body.
That's weird.
- Any ideas?
- You're asking me?
- Well, we've got to
come up with something.
- What about this witchcraft angle,
the coins or trinkets.
- That's got to be the key.
Could this be some kind
of Dungeons & Dragons game
or some scavenger hunt going
on around here somewhere?
You heard anything?
- Nope.
I do remember hearing a few years ago
about this group going
around trying to resurrect
Peter Lorre's body.
But I'm not sure how that came out.
- I don't think I want to (chuckles).
(siren blaring)
I scribbled out some people
you might want to contact about this.
Maybe they can help.
- [Mace] I'll keep my ears open, Sheriff.
- Do that because politically,
well, this would be very, very good for us
if we could wrap this thing up quickly.
- I like the witch angle
and the game angle.
I'm gonna ask around.
- I want every sorority
house and each dorm
on that campus staked out every night
until we catch that guy.
- [Mace] Yes, sir.
- There will not be
another murder, understood?
(chickens clucking)
(rooster crowing)
(dog barking)
- [Gracie] Sparks, cut that out now.
Get away from the chickens.
Sparks, cut that out, you hear me?
Now, get in here.
(dog growling)
(dog screeching)
(birds chirping)
(sheep bleating)
Sparks, where are you?
Come here!
(tense music)
Honey?
- [Mr. Moore] Yes, dear.
- [Gracie] Would you go out
and check on Sparks.
(rooster crowing)
- [Mr. Moore] How come?
- [Gracie] Well, I don't hear him.
He was out there and now I don't hear him.
- [Mr. Moore] Okay, I'll go.
- [Gracie] Well now,
just go out and check.
He was out there making lots of noise.
Now I don't hear him.
Now, maybe he's got a chicken.
- Okay, okay, I'll go.
(door thudding)
(birds chirping)
(sheep bleating)
(rooster crowing)
(sheep bleating)
(rooster crowing)
(chickens clucking)
Dear, will you come out
here and bring a shovel?
(burger sizzling)
(people chattering)
- Hi, how are you doing today?
- Fine, how are you?
- Fine, what are you gonna have?
- I'll have some broccoli
and a beef patty.
(dishes clattering)
Thanks.
- Thank you.
- [Man] Uh, yeah, more than likely.
(people chattering)
- Hi, how are ya?
- Hi.
- [Cashier] The blue plate
special and a Coke, 2.90 please.
Thank you and have a good day.
- Hey, you, too.
Hi.
(shouting a foreign language)
(eerie music)
(girl screaming)
(girl screaming)
(shouting a foreign language)
(woman screaming)
(eerie music)
- Foy not foie.
Because it is in French.
(gentle music)
Lighten up, Linda.
We're talking banana mush here.
No, no, I don't wanna talk
about the pig situation right now.
- [Joel] What is this?
- Some Vual night.
(Joel chuckles)
No, it's not the end of the world
if Jeanie does move out of the dorm.
Look, we've got a lot of
farm girls on this camp.
Trust me, honey, we're up
to our asses in pigs here.
- (laughing) I'm sorry.
- [Tina] Listen, could I
talk to you about this later?
It's my lunch hour and
I don't wanna blow it.
- Now she tells me.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I've gotta call you back, okay?
Yes (giggling), yeah, aloha to you, too.
Okay, bye.
God.
- Now where were we?
Hey, there's somebody being
just cuter than hell over here.
- Look, if Jeanie leaves the dorm,
it's the fifth girl since Jill died.
- Leaving you without a pig to your name.
- Did anybody ever tell you
that you are seriously ill?
- Mmm hmm, but you weren't
complaining at the time.
- Look, I've got a lot of responsibility.
- Yeah, I know that, but everybody
gets a lunch hour, right?
- Don't.
- So what are you gonna do about it?
I mean, we talking Nancy
Drew time here or what?
You think sticking around
you're gonna help your old man
pull it out of the fire?
- Daddy can handle it.
- Oh yeah, he's done a
hell of a job so far.
Well, what's he done?
If I hadn't found that
book, he would have a clue.
- A lead, smart ass, a lead.
He's got lots of clues.
- You haven't let me spend the night here
since before this murder started.
- It's the end of the semester.
The girls have finals.
I've got--
- Yeah, and I'm waking up in the morning
and you're not here and
the first thing I hear
is that another woman's
been killed on the campus.
- Sorry, honey.
I can take care of myself.
- Right.
Well, since I've got all
this spare time at night
on my hands, I might as well
find something to fill it.
And as far as I can tell, I'm
better at cops and robbers
than your old man is, so.
- Oh no.
Oh no.
Don't you dare.
Don't you dare.
I've been wondering all my life
if my father's gonna walk
in alive in the morning
and I'm not gonna start with you now.
- You sure that deep down inside
you wouldn't enjoy seeing
somebody show him up on this?
- Oh God, wouldn't that be swell?
Wouldn't that just be terrific?
My father's career ruined.
Gosh, what more could a girl want?
- Well, it'd serve him right, wouldn't it?
You know, for making you
stay alone all those nights.
- Lunch is over.
- [Joel] Lunch hasn't started.
- Don't even think about it.
(phone ringing)
- "Burning effigies made of
body parts out in the country."
"Witchcraft."
There's got to be some
connection there somewhere.
Oh good, you're there.
Can you come in for a second?
Thanks.
(police radio chattering)
- [Dispatcher] One Baker six, 2347.
- [Mace] Yes, sir.
- What have you found out
about that last murder?
- Same as the others basically.
The doc's doing the autopsy now,
but looks another coed.
- [Ron] So it's another serial.
- Looks like it.
- Anything missing?
- [Chase] Her hand was cut off.
Some student found one of the fingers
in her salad bowl.
- (gagging) Jesus!
I suppose a trinket was left on the body.
- Yes, sir, in the dumpster.
Oh yeah, the dean called.
Said he wanted to talk to you
as soon as you had a minute.
- Oh, I know what he wants.
I can wait on that call.
I don't know what we're gonna do.
If this doesn't stop, we'll
all be looking for jobs.
You remember any reports lately
on disturbances out in the country
or noises, fires?
- [Mace] No, not so's I remember.
- Well, check it out, will you?
I've been reading in this book
that a witch cult used to
leave amulets near their bodies
of their victims.
Would use their victims in sacrifices
and these sacrifices
would always be out in
the country somewhere.
There would always be fire, loud chanting.
Case, this is our only real lead.
- I'll check it out, Sheriff.
- Well, go on, get busy!
- Yes, sir, right away.
- [Dispatcher] 2347--
- [Ron] How does
this dog-centered angle fit in?
Why the amulets?
- Oh, Sheriff, I almost forgot.
I got a call yesterday.
I just thought it was a crank or a drunk
so I didn't pay much attention.
But a lady did call in
from way out the west end
saying she thought she
had poachers on her land.
She wanted us to come and investigate.
- And so?
- Yes, sir, but she sounded drunk to me.
- Mmm, think I'll go make a quick call
on Miss Gracie Moore,
Hard Rock Ranch, see if
she does have any poachers.
Quick campaign call couldn't
hurt with elections coming up.
(lively music)
(police radio chattering)
(rooster crowing)
(sheep bleating)
(chickens clucking)
- Who in the hell is that?
(door alarm buzzing)
- [Ron] Ms. Moore, Gracie Moore?
- Yes, sir, I certainly
am Ms. Gracie Moore.
Why, what a pleasure it is
to have you come way out here, sir.
You know I recognized you, I really did
from them posters all over town.
Well, you're Sheriff Wilbois, ain't ya?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Well, I never dreamed that you'd come
way out here yourself, in person.
I really didn't.
Oh, wait'll my husband hears about this.
You'll have his vote for sure now.
He wasn't gonna vote for you, you know.
- [Ron] No?
- No, he wasn't, not till
you got them damn posters
off our land.
(Ron chuckling)
He said less'n you
could, the hell with ya.
But seeings as how you
come out here yourself.
- Yes'm.
About that complaint because we got one.
Was it you made that call yesterday?
- [Gracie] Yes, I did.
- Well, what's the problem?
- Well, I am so glad that you came out
because that young man
that took my call yesterday
laughed at me like I wasn't
serious or something.
- He did?
Well, I'll have to have a talk about him.
- I wish you would.
It was very embarrassing.
Well, he sounded like
that I was bothering him.
And that's no way for a
policeman to act, is it?
- No, ma'am, no it isn't.
But about your complaint,
what did you tell him?
- Well, I told him
(rooster crowing)
about those noises over in the woods.
Spooky ones, out there
in the woods every night.
- [Ron] How long
has this been going on?
(tense music)
- [Gracie] Oh, couple of
days, maybe a week now.
Now, my husband thinks that those poachers
is using spotlights to attract the game.
- [Ron] Spotlights?
- Yeah, big ones, light
up the whole damn sky.
Well, you come on out here
at night and you'll see it.
It's like there was a big
bonfire over there or something.
Well, didn't your deputy
tell you all this?
I told him all about it.
- No, he didn't.
- Damn!
Well, anyway, that's not
the worst part of it.
Now, poachers is poachers.
(rooster crowing)
And even on this private land,
we know that they come across the fence
to shoot their game and so on.
But when they start killing
your household pets,
well, it's time to put a stop to it.
- What do you mean, Ms. Moore?
- Well, yesterday, we,
my husband and I that is,
well, we heard some strange
noises coming from outside
over by the barn.
Now, Carlton, that's my husband,
he used to be a veterinarian, you know.
Well, he said it sounded
like the dog, name's Sparks,
was Sparks that is.
It sounded like he was
over by the chicken coop
having at the hens and
the hens were squawking
and Sparks was a-yellin' and
there was a terrible big row.
But then all of a sudden
(dog barking)
Sparks let out this big ol' yell
sounded like a scream or something.
And then there was nothin', just silence.
Well, I got to worrying
when Sparks didn't come back
to the house.
So anyway, well, Carlton
he goes over there.
(tense music)
And that's when he seen it.
- Seen what, Ms. Moore?
- Sparks, right on the ground there dead.
Over there by the chicken coop.
He was lying in a pool of blood,
his head cut off.
- [Ron] His head cut off?
- That's when I got a
shovel and buried him.
It's gotta been them poachers.
Now, who else would wanna
kill poor ol' Sparks?
- [Ron] I don't know, Mrs. Moore.
- Well, he was scaring off their game.
That's the way we figure it.
- Where'd you bury the dog, ma'am?
- Over back of the barn
all except his head.
I never could find his head.
Now, isn't that funny, Sheriff?
I don't know why they wanna
take something like that.
- Neither do I, Ms. Moore.
Can't tell what some
people will do these days.
Now, these sounds and the
fires out in the woods
you say they happen only at night?
- Yes, sir, only at night.
- [Ron] What time of night, early, late?
- Oh late.
Well, we go to bed
pretty early around here
especially at this time of year,
but for the last few nights,
it's been waking us up
about oh two, three
o'clock in the morning.
It's hard to get back to sleep
when you're woke up in
the middle of the might.
- [Ron] Yeah, it sure is.
And you think I could
see and hear all this
if I came out at night?
- [Gracie] Plain as day.
- Well, Ms. Moore,
I think I'll take
(tense music)
a little trip out there tonight,
do some snooping around.
You tell your husband
if I find any poachers,
I'll run 'em off.
- Oh will you, Sheriff?
Oh, we'd be so grateful.
I'll tell Carlton.
He'll be so glad that you were out here.
- Well, thank you, Ms. Moore.
(tense music)
- Oh, Sheriff.
One more thing.
If you find Sparks' head
while you're out there
looking around, you will
bring it back home, won't ya?
My husband and I just won't rest easy
until we've got Sparks buried,
well, all of him, all together.
You know what I mean.
- Yes, ma'am, I know what you mean.
(birds chirping)
(sheep bleating)
(book thudding)
- One minute, I'll be right with you.
Now, what can I do for you?
Oh, Daddy, hi, I didn't know it was you.
- I hope you don't treat all
your customers like that.
- [Tina] Oh no, only the obnoxious ones.
(Ron chuckling)
You brought the book back.
- Not a scratch on it.
Anybody miss it?
- No, but you could've gotten me
in a hell of a lot of trouble.
Was it any help?
- Real helpful.
You said it was a new book.
How long has it been here?
- About a month.
Tell you exactly.
It came in on the 16th
and it was published
at the end of this year.
- It can't be checked out.
Do you remember anybody reading it?
- Oh, that's hard to say.
Anybody can come and get it off the shelf.
Joel was looking at it for quite awhile.
In fact, he's the one that
told me about the amulet.
- He did, eh?
Hmm.
You ever hear anything about
a witch cult around here?
- No, only in this book.
- [Ron] Are the kids
into any kind of a game
like Dungeons & Dragons?
- On this campus?
- There's one with anchovy,
the Hawaiian special
with extra poi.
How are you doing?
- [Both] Mmm.
- Hi, honey.
- [Ron] Oh.
- Hi, Sheriff, how was this book?
Pretty interesting, huh?
- Yes, it was interesting.
- [Joel] Just like the killer, isn't it?
- There are some similarities.
- Look, you two, I have to get these books
in the stacks before closing.
If you wanna talk, you can
follow me back there and talk,
if you're quiet.
Oh, Daddy, bring the book on the cult.
- So, Sheriff, you're here
to check up on Tina, right,
make sure she's safe?
- Don't be such a smart ass, Joel.
Daddy's here to return
the book he borrowed.
- I don't have to check up on Tina.
I trust her.
- Now, you two be nice, okay?
- There was another murder
on campus, isn't that right?
- Boy, you know everything, don't you?
- Well, it's not exactly a secret.
It's a Kappa.
They found her in the
garbage behind the cafeteria
with her hands missing.
- Real reporter here.
- [Tina] Now look, I'm not
gonna sit here and listen
to you two bicker.
Daddy, now, you said you had a lead.
- Well, maybe.
We had a complaint from some farmer
way out in the west end.
A lot of big commotions out there at night
and fires way off in the woods.
- I had heard you were out
there today snooping around.
- I was out there following up on a lead.
- Now, Daddy, do you think
that all these lights
and this commotion out in
the woods can be connected
with the murders?
- Oh yeah, according to the book,
see these cults are--
- Joel, would you please
- Well, these big covens,
they meet out in the woods,
- let Daddy finish?
- garden, body parts.
All right.
- Well, he's right.
If this murderer got his
ideas out of this book,
and they're cutting body parts
off sorority coeds for some
kind of a special ritual
out in the woods, that may be it.
- Sacrifice by fire.
- Oh come on, you can't believe all this.
All this drivel happened
hundreds of years ago.
- Well, I can take it
seriously when there are
four unsolved murders and no suspects.
- Hey, Sheriff, look, I
know that area pretty well.
Why don't you let me go
out there with you tonight?
- Don't you even think about it.
- I can handle it thanks.
- Daddy, you read what this book says.
It said that they were out to
get magistrates and officials.
A sheriff is a magistrate
and you are a sheriff.
Do me a favor, don't go out there tonight.
- I thought you didn't
believe in all this stuff.
- Well, I don't believe in it.
But just do me a favor
and I'd feel a lot easier
if you didn't go.
- Case closed.
You two wanna have dinner with me
before I ride out there tonight?
- Oh, Daddy.
- Meet me at the diner in half an hour.
Can you finish up by then?
- Yeah, I guess so.
- You, too, Joel.
And thanks, kid, for the loan of the book.
- Bye bye, Daddy, see you soon.
(tense music)
(upbeat country music)
(people chattering)
So what are you gonna eat?
- I'm gonna order some coffee.
- [Dot] Can I get you
anything else, Sheriff?
- Some coffee after my wine,
thank you.
- Okay, thank you.
How 'bout you?
Can I get you anything else?
- No thank you.
- Okay, thank you.
(people chattering)
- [Tina] It's a good thing
we're not in the cafeteria.
That place is like a morgue.
- [Ron] I'll bet that finger
salad didn't do their business
any good over there.
- And I bet the food hasn't
gotten any better either.
Where's Joel?
He was supposed to be
here half an hour ago.
- Don't be so eager, honey.
He'll be here.
Don't let him know you care so much.
The more interested a girl gets,
the less interested the guy gets.
- Daddy, you haven't been
interested in a woman
since prehistoric ages.
Things have changed a little bit.
- Touche.
May I have my coffee now,
please, Dot?
- Just a minute please.
- Daddy, you know if you
are considering going out
to the west end tonight, I certainly wish
you'd take some of your men with you
just in case.
- [Ron] Honey, I've got them
staked out all over the campus.
They're needed there tonight.
Now, I don't want to
hear any more about it.
- I know.
So many parents are taking
their kids out of school.
You know, there's only about
a third left in the dorm.
- [Dot] Here you are, Sheriff.
If you need a refill
just call me.
- Thank you, Dot.
You gonna stay at the
dorm or have you thought
about coming home for awhile?
- Hi.
- Hi.
(both chuckling)
Uh, I think I'd better stick
it out at the dorm, Daddy.
I mean the girls that
are left really need me.
It's the end of the semester.
- Dorm mother or not, I'd
like to have you at home
with me for awhile.
- Oh that would be
a great idea.
I mean, what would everybody think?
The sheriff's own daughter's
afraid to stay on campus.
- She's got a point there, Sheriff.
- Mmm, that's good.
It's gonna be a long night.
- Hey, Sheriff, honest,
I really wouldn't mind
coming out to the woods with you tonight.
What do you say?
- [Joel] Forget it.
You want some dinner?
- Oh no, no, I ate already, thanks.
Look, I wouldn't be in the way.
And you really shouldn't
be going out there
by yourself, you know.
- I'll be fine.
As a matter of fact,
you'd just be in the way.
- Oh no, no, I know those woods.
I grew up in the west end, Sheriff.
And look, you don't want your old man
going out there alone at night, now do ya?
- No, I don't.
Now, I don't want you going out
and I certainly don't want Joel going out,
but I hate the idea of
you going out alone.
So please, Daddy, for me, why
don't you let him go with you?
- [Ron] Well, okay.
(lively country music)
(thunder rumbling)
God, I can't see tonight.
- [Joel] What do we do now?
- The lady said the sounds and the lights
come from straight ahead.
(tense music)
But it's only a little after eight.
(sighs) We got a long night ahead.
- Yeah.
So what do you think
we're gonna find here?
- I'll be damned if I know.
(Joel chuckles)
(Ron sighs)
- Got a headache, Sheriff?
- Yeah, hell of a headache.
I think I'll take about 40 winks.
It'll go away.
Wake me if you see anything.
- [Joel] Yes, sir.
(dog barking)
(thunder cracking)
(suspenseful music)
- [Ron] Where the hell did he go?
- Sheriff!
It started, those sounds
and you can see the lights over there.
Come on!
- [Ron] Let's go!
(tense music)
I think the light's
coming from way over there
beyond those trees.
- Yeah.
But let's take this path.
It looks better.
You hear anything?
- Not now, but I did.
Come on.
(suspenseful music)
Come on.
Come on.
Sheriff, you all right?
- Yeah, yeah, I'm just
bit dizzy, that's all.
- You don't look so good.
- Nah, I'm just
(thunder cracking)
not as young as I used to be.
(man howling)
You hear that?
I thought I heard something over there.
(woman howling)
(thunder cracking)
- Shit, what was that?
- Hell if I know.
I think it came from over there.
- Yeah, okay, you get it together.
I'll check it out.
- All right, I'll catch up.
(thunder rumbling)
(bird chattering)
(Ron grumbling)
(wind whistling)
(ominous music)
(people chattering)
(suspenseful music)
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
- [Woman] I think I cannot make it.
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- [Cult Member] (drowned
out by music) Caninus.
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- You lead with strength.
(fire crackling)
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
- Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- [Cult Member] Almighty one.
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
(wind whistling)
Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- Bring her over.
- [Cult Member] Go.
Drop her here.
(ominous music)
(stick thudding)
- Members, brothers, and sisters, welcome.
- [Cult Members] Welcome.
- And of Caninus, our lord and master,
we will obey.
- [Cult Members] We will obey.
- The Caninus command.
And what does Caninus command?
(dog growling)
- [Cult Members] Caninus
commands death and loyalty.
- Death and loyalty.
And what have we here?
- [Cult Members] We have
death and resurrection.
(tense music)
- Death and glorious resurrection.
For when our mission is completed,
our lord and master will guard
and protect his children.
Yes, there is but one thing still missing
to make his plan complete.
(thunder cracking)
A body to make the sacrifice complete.
(suspenseful music)
And soon we will fulfill
Caninus' command and we
will have our sacrifice.
And soon we will control this place
and he will protect his children.
- [Cult Members] Amen.
(dog growling)
(dog panting)
(dog barking)
(dog growling)
Heal off.
Heal master.
For this man is no
threat, let him come near.
Does our guest wonder why and who we are?
Then come near and listen to our message
and listen to our destiny.
- Doc, Doc, why?
- Yes, Ronnie, it's me.
- Dean Bailey, not you!
- [Charles] Yes, Ronnie, all of us.
We're all here together.
We're all hoping you'll come, too.
And the great lord and
master the god-devil Caninus
will protect you and guide
you in everything you do.
Amen.
Come with us.
Come.
- Even your family is with us,
your own flesh and blood, your daughter.
Behold.
This is a foreshadowing
of what is to come.
Rise, rise, daughter,
and do the master's will.
(ominous vocalizing music)
- It is my duty to complete the sacrifice.
It is my duty to my lord and
master to provide the body
to complete the sacrifice.
I will fulfill his bidding.
To this end, I will sacrifice my life
for his lord and master.
- Tina, Tina!
Why, why, Tina?
- She is beyond your
authority, Ron Wilbois.
She is the master's now.
She will do his will.
Join us, join us and you, too,
will fulfill your destiny.
The great lord and master
Caninus will protect you.
Come, come with us.
(thunder rumbling)
(tense music)
(tense music)
- Sheriff?
- Where you been?
- I was out looking for
the source of that sound,
but I couldn't find anything.
- Well, it was right here,
right here all the time.
Oh man.
- Nothing here
but an old trash fire.
- Old trash fire?
- I think we got a little
carried away out here.
God, what happened to your head, Sheriff?
- I don't know, I don't know.
- [Joel] We better get you back to town.
- [Ron] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Oh.
(Joel grunting)
(dog barking)
(somber music)
(tense music)
- [Tina] Boy, he sure
doesn't look too good.
(Joel grunting)
- Drive me.
- [Hans] Don't try to talk, Ron.
Just take it easy.
- [Tina] Is he gonna be all right, Doctor?
- [Hans] Oh, he's gonna be all right.
He would be a lot better, though,
if he would stop running into tree trunks.
- Tina, you okay?
- [Tina] I'm fine, Daddy.
I'm fine.
It's you that are in the hospital.
Are you okay?
- Hospital?
Hospital.
- Yeah, don't you remember?
- Hmm, no, he won't remember
not for awhile, not with that concussion.
- Who's that?
What's he doing here?
- [Tina] It's Dr. White, Daddy.
You remember that's Dr. White.
- He's bad.
He'll hurt you, Tina.
He's bad.
- Don't worry.
He is on sedatives now.
This can happen after a concussion.
He will be back to normal as
soon as the drugs wear off.
- Tina, you okay?
(tense music)
- [Tina] I'm fine, Daddy, I'm perfect.
- But you were out in the field
with all those people.
- No, Sheriff, she was home.
I was in the field.
We were out in the field, remember?
- No, I don't remember.
They'll kill you.
Be careful, Tina.
- It's okay, Ronnie, relax.
Let him get some rest.
(tense music)
Come on.
- Be careful, Tina.
- I'll be fine.
Now, you take care of yourself.
I'll see you soon, okay?
- Sure that.
(gentle music)
- Well, Ronnie old boy, you're
looking better I must say.
- Thanks, Doc.
- What a bump you took.
Good thing I didn't need
to take any stitches.
Do you remember what happened?
- No, not really.
- You really laid it onto me yesterday.
What did I do?
- (chuckles) I don't know.
I don't know.
- The kid told me you
ran into a tree branch
down by the landfill.
It knocked you out and
then he had to take you
and carry you back a
half a mile to the car.
- I don't remember that.
- Well, let me take a listen.
- I see we didn't have any more killings
while I was out.
- No?
Been pretty quiet though.
Oh, by the way, I got
most of the lab tests back
on the victims, and all
the killings were done
by multiple stabbings
and large loss of blood
plain and simple,
it is like that.
- Doc, Doc, this may sound
like a strange question,
but do you like dogs?
- Sure, I thought you knew that.
Race champion dobermans.
- [Ron] I don't remember you
ever telling me about that.
- Why sure I did.
Right now I have two champs in my kennel
and I'm about ready to breed another one.
- That so?
Dobermans, eh?
- Oh, best hobby in the world.
Love it.
And there's something about dogs,
man's best friend.
- Yeah.
- Well, you're fit as a
fiddle and I'll call the nurse
and have the bandage taken off
and you can go home any time I wish,
unless, of course, you
want to stick around
for a little R and R (laughing).
- Well, thanks for your hospitality, Doc,
but I'd just as soon sleep
in my own bed tonight.
- Well, as you wish, I know.
But you have to do me
and give me one promise.
Take it easy, hmm, at least for a while.
- Sure will.
- Because you know you
have an election coming up
and I want you to be in good shape.
- Yeah, sure need to be in good shape.
(tense music)
Get me the university
research library please.
Thank you.
- Hello.
- [Ron] Hi, Tina.
- Oh, hi, Daddy.
How are you, where are you?
- At the hospital but I'm
about to get out of here.
- Well, you were pretty far
out of there this morning.
- Yeah, I heard.
- You kept on telling me that Doc White
was going to kill me,
(tense music)
to watch out.
What do you mean?
- Well, I just want you to be careful.
I do.
And I just want you to
be especially careful.
I had, well, I guess it was a dream.
Anyway, as long as the
murderer is still out there,
maybe you ought to come back home.
- So close to the end of the semester?
- Today.
- There's no way, Daddy.
The girls have their finals tomorrow
and I promised to tutor them tonight.
Oh, not tonight.
Any night but tonight.
I promised as soon as I get out of here
and get off work, I'm gonna go to the dorm
and we're gonna order a pizza.
But can I take a rain check?
- Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
- Okay, and listen, don't worry about us.
We'll be fine.
We'll be in the women's dorm.
- Well, remember, be very careful.
I love you, too.
Bye.
Tonight, the women's dorm.
(suspenseful music)
- [Woman] Never knew you to sing.
- Hey, hey.
- Hey.
Come on.
- [Man] Come on back out here.
- [Man] Hey, wait.
(men drowned out by music)
(Ron sighs)
- It's Tina.
What's she, and leading
Joel into the dorm again?
20 after 12.
3:20.
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
(suspenseful music)
(suspenseful rhythmic music)
♪ Ah oh ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
- [Woman] I know he's gone.
♪ Ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
(eerie music)
- [Joel] Oh!
(metal clattering)
(cleaver thudding)
(intruder grunting)
(glass shattering)
♪ Oh ah ♪
(bed clattering)
(door thudding)
(loud knocking)
- Open up!
Up up in there!
(bed clattering)
(cleaver thudding)
Police, open up!
(cleaver thudding)
Open up in there!
Police open up!
(cleaver thudding)
(Ron grunting)
(cleaver thudding)
(cleaver clanking)
We stopped him.
Don't move.
Not you!
- I have completed the sacrifice.
I have completed the sacrifice
for his lord and master.
- [Ron] No, Tina, no, not you.
Tina--
- Stay away from me.
Stay away.
Don't you come near me.
- [Ron] Tina, you didn't kill...
- Oh, I didn't kill.
We all killed.
We are safe now.
We're protected by him.
- Why, darling, why you?
- [Tina] I must bring an
offering for the sacrifice.
I must bring one like the
rest, like the others.
- [Ron] Tina, darling, what others?
Who?
- [Tina] All the others.
- [Ron] Why did you do it, Tina, why?
- Because of you, Father.
Because you will have
success if you believe
in his lord and master.
- Tina.
- Stay away from me.
- Tina, please!
- Don't come near me.
- Tina, please, darling.
- Stay away!
(suspenseful rhythmic music)
(doors thudding)
(Tina crying)
- [Ron] Tina!
- [Tina] No!
- [Ron] Tina, wait!
- [Tina] Stay away from me!
- Tina.
- Stay away from me!
- [Ron] It'll be all right.
(Tina screaming)
(Tina crying)
(dumpster clattering)
- Tina.
I'll take care of it.
- [Tina] No!
No, stay away from me!
- [Ron] Tina.
(Tina crying and shouting)
- [Ron] See ya.
- Please.
- No, no!
No.
- [Ron] Don't go up there, Tina.
- [Tina] Don't come up here.
- Wait until you--
- Ron!
(Tina crying)
- [Tina] Stay away from me.
Please don't come near me.
- [Ron] It'll be all right, Tina.
- [Tina] Stay away from me.
- [Ron] Tina.
- No.
- You weren't brought up
to do this sort of thing.
Tina, your mother
- No.
- wouldn't approve of this.
- No.
- It wasn't my fault she died.
- No, no.
- Tina!
- Don't come near me.
- [Ron] Tina, please darling.
- [Tina] Stay away from me!
(Tina crying)
- You know, we can fix it.
Now, I can help you and I will.
Don't go any higher, Tina.
No!
No, Tina, please!
Oh, oh, Tina.
It's not fair.
Tina, it's gonna be all right, Tina.
- No.
- [Ron] Tina.
- No!
Don't come up here please.
- [Ron] Tina, you and I
can fix everything.
- No!
- [Ron] Remember what fun we used to have
when you were a little girl?
We had a great time, Tina.
(Tina crying)
Tina, we'll have
even more good times.
This isn't the end.
It wasn't your fault, Tina.
Tina, remember that please.
It wasn't your fault.
(Tina crying)
Thank God, Tina.
We've got each other.
Come on, Tina, please.
Just for me.
Come on.
I'll take care of you.
It'll be all right, Tina.
Oh my baby, darling.
Please, Tina.
Tina, oh please, Tina.
Yes, Tina, it'll be all right.
Please, Tina, yeah, please.
Don't push me, Tina.
Tina, don't push me away.
I wanna help you.
Come on, Tina.
Please, Tina.
(Tina sobbing)
I'll help you.
- [Tina] No!
- Tina, Tina!
For god's sake, oh!
Tina (crying).
(dumpster clattering)
(tense music)
Tina, no.
Tina, no.
No, Tina.
No, it can't be.
(tense dynamic music)
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
(dynamic suspenseful music)
♪ Ah ♪
(suspenseful music)
(door creaking)
(door clattering)
(ominous music)
- Hey Tanny, is that you?
Tanny, did you remember to get the pizza?
Did you get me the anchovies?
Hey, Tanny, are you guys home?
(stairs creaking)
Come on you guys, are you all back yet?
Answer me.
(doorknob clacking)
Tanny!
(girl screaming)
(tense music)
Help!
Help!
Help me!
Help, help!
Help me!
Help someone!
(girl panting)
(door clattering)
Help!
Help, help, help me!
(cleaver thudding)
Help!
Help!
Help me!
(girl panting)
Help!
Help!
Help!
Help!
Help me!
Help!
Help!
Help!
Help!
(cleaver thudding)
(tense music)
(water splashing)
(cleaver thudding)
(hand thudding)
(ominous music)
(stairs creaking)
(ominous rhythmic music)
(suspenseful music)
(dramatic music)
♪ Ah ah ♪
(suspenseful music)
(tense music)
(suspenseful music)
(ominous music)
(rocking chair creaking)
- Debbie, is that you?
Are you still awake?
(rocking chair creaking)
(tense music)
(suspenseful music)
(dramatic music)
(girl screaming)
Help!
Help!
(girl screaming)
No!
No!
(screaming) No!
Get away from me!
No!
No!
Stop!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
(girl screaming)
Oh, stop!
Oh please don't.
Please don't hurt me.
What are you doing?
Why?
Why are you hurting me?
Please, please don't kill me, please.
Please, please!
Please don't.
No, no!
Please, oh no!
(head thudding)
(suspenseful music)
(siren blaring)
- [Officer] 10-4, yes, sir,
it's the bedroom with her.
- [Dispatcher] The west side.
- It was after the second body
(tense music)
was found that I personally
took over the investigation
of the sorority house murders.
(police radio chattering)
To my knowledge, there
had never been so savage
a series of murders in
this part of the state.
We were most likely dealing
with a serial killer
who would probably strike again
and my guess was on campus.
- [Dispatcher] One Baker six, 2347.
- [Ron] Both murders bore similarities,
most obvious being the golden amulets
the killer left on each body.
That, and the fact that he dismembered
each of his victims, indicated
that we were dealing with a psychopath,
a killer who would be
very difficult to catch.
- Oh, Sheriff.
- [Ron] It was at that time
that I also began to suspect
that our county medical examiner,
Dr. Hans White, was being
sloppy in his investigation.
- Didn't take anything.
- [Ron] In both cases
so far he had handled
evidence or removed it
completely from the crime scene,
when did it happen,
before my deputy or I had
had a chance to examine it.
At first I put it down to nervousness,
the pressure of working
on a highly unusual case.
To think straight.
But as time went on, I got the feeling
that it might've been intentional.
You're a big help.
That wasn't like the doc I knew then,
but I didn't know then what I do now.
- By the way.
- [Ron] I knew that I
would have to come up
with some answers quickly.
I was in the midst of an election campaign
for the senate, and unless
I produced a suspect soon
I knew my campaign would sink.
- Just remember that when you
are senator, Wilbois, okay?
- Sure will.
(Hans laughing)
(tense music)
The golden amulets were the
only concrete clues we had
in the beginning.
And it was my daughter, Tina,
who worked in the college library
who made the first break in the case.
Where's Tina?
Is she around today?
- Well, hi, Sheriff.
Yes, she should be right
around there restacking.
- Thank you.
Hi.
- Oh, Daddy, you startled me.
- Did I?
- Yes, you did.
So how goes it?
- Well, okay.
- "Well, okay," now it's me.
"Well, okay" means things
ain't going so great.
- I ain't doing too great.
- Okay, so what's the bad news?
- There's been another
murder this morning.
- Oh God.
You know who it was?
- A Tri-Delt, got her
right in the sorority house
with the roommate in the bed next to her.
- Oh God.
Who was it?
- We don't know but we're checking it out.
Did you find out anything about
those trinkets I gave you?
- Yeah, a little but, come on.
I sure hope this cretin doesn't
come running to our dorm.
You know, when this gets out,
the girls are gonna be
taken out like flies.
- Well, some of them already have.
- I just hope he doesn't
come spooking around.
- You can always come back home
for awhile you know, honey.
- And desert the girls?
Not yet, pal.
I looked up everything
I could on the occult
and God symbolism and I couldn't find much
until I found this.
- [Ron] Yeah?
- [Tina] Well, it's a relatively new book.
We've had it in the library
for about a month I guess.
- You did it!
Good for you, kid.
Where did it come from?
- It's the insignia of
a relatively new cult
of witches, about 1700.
And it's seems that
they're rather obscure,
American in origin.
And it seems they
started out as a backlash
against the witch trials in Salem,
that's in Massachusetts.
- Yes, I know.
- [Tina] Was that found next to the body?
- [Ron] Yes.
- [Tina] And was there
a body part missing?
- We think the murderer
meant to take her head
but he didn't have time.
- Well then, Daddy, it all makes sense.
Look, read this right here.
- "This dog-centered revenge cult
"implemented its revenge
through the ritual sacrifice
"of a manikin constructed from body parts
"of various persons who had offended them.
"The sacrifice was always through fire,
"and to facilitate the demonic powers,
"the manikin's components
were dyed red and ocre.
"The burnings were designed to doom
"designated magistration
officials and were always done
"in heavily wooded areas
within the boundaries
"of jurisdiction of the
intended magistration officials.
"The sacrifices were
intended as retribution
"for those responsible
for putting to death
"real or suspected witches
"and were generally thought
to have been effective."
- Now see, doesn't that make sense?
I mean, maybe this guy's putting together
some sort of weird sacrifice.
- A blood cult where they put together
sort of a Frankenstein and then burn them.
- Sounds like it to me,
except Frankenstein came
about 150 years before.
- Oh, you've done a lot of
research here, young lady.
- [Tina] And it says here
that after each death,
they leave an amulet near the body, look.
- Son of a bitch.
- Kind of bizarre to
think some weird person
is bringing back some old witch cult.
And I bet that's what it is.
- I'm really proud of you, honey.
You do real good work
checking out all this.
- Well, I learned from the best.
- What'd you say?
- I said that you're a good teacher.
All those days and nights on the job
while I was growing up,
all the time you were away from home,
well, I kept my eyes and ears open.
I picked up a thing or two along the way.
- I guess you did coming up with all this.
It just seems so incredible.
- Yeah, but that's all I could find.
- Mmm, well, it's a start.
It's more than I had when
I first came in here.
Can I take this book along?
- Daddy, you no I can't let that out.
- Tell them the police have
it for an investigation.
(somber music)
- Oh, Mr. Wilbois, hey nice day.
- [Ron] Yeah, great.
- Uh huh, yeah there was
another murder last night
at the Tri-Delt house.
I think you heard about that, right?
- Oh yeah, I heard.
- (chuckles) How you doing, honey?
(both chuckling)
Oh, I see you got the
book on the witch cult.
Give you any ideas?
- Yeah, it sure did.
We're gonna check them out.
- [Joel] Oh, thought you
might find it interesting.
- [Tina] Oh, he helped
me find the book, Daddy.
- Mmm, I bet he did.
- So you got any leads
on this new one, Sheriff?
Is it the same M.O. as the others?
- Mmm, we've got some clues.
- They're serial killings,
aren't they, like in that book.
- Well, that cult in this book
was a great many years ago,
but it was, we think, a serial killer.
I gotta go now, dear.
- I'll see you later, Daddy.
- And think about coming back home.
- [Tina] I will, Daddy.
Bye bye.
- He wants you to come back home.
- Don't be such a smart ass.
Do you think that I'd go
home when I have my own room
in the dorm and I can sneak you up there
any time I want?
- Oh you think I'd just come
run anytime you call, huh?
- Well, I think you do,
don't you?
- No I don't.
- You do.
(both chuckling)
- Lunch?
(Tina laughing)
(tense music)
- Central State College is
by far the largest employer
in the county, and with two
of its coeds brutally murdered
right on campus, it was not
long before Dean Charles Bailey
left word that he wanted to see me.
Is he in?
He's expecting me.
- Yes, go on ahead, he's right in there.
- [Ron] I knew what he wanted.
But what I didn't know then
was that he might've known more
than he was telling me.
(light knocking)
- Oh, Sheriff, come in.
Sit down.
- Thank you, sir.
- I hear that we had
another unfortunate occurrence last night.
- Yes, sir.
- Well, what can be done about this?
You have any idea who's doing it?
- I wish to hell I knew, sir.
- Well, I don't mind telling you
I'm nervous about it, very nervous.
- [Ron] Yes, sir, I can imagine.
- And for the past three
days I've done nothing else
but to answer the phone
and to the irate calls
from the parents, the press,
the board of regents.
(phone ringing)
See, there it goes again.
Gloria, hold all calls for awhile.
I'm in a very important meeting.
Yes.
Well, Ron, where do we stand on all this?
This obviously can't go on.
- I wish I knew, sir.
We've got ourselves some
kind of a ritualistic killer
goes around chopping up coeds
and stealing their body parts.
My guess is it's some sort of a game,
a scavenger hunt having something to do
with an old witch cult.
- Good Lord, on this campus?
Oh, you've got to do something about it.
What are you doing to stop it?
- Well, I've got some extra deputies
watching all the sorority
houses and now the dorms.
But who's to say he'll hit
there again if he does return?
- I had no idea that it was this bad.
I'm simply going to have
to close down the campus.
So near the end of the semester.
- Wouldn't do that, sir.
I wouldn't close down the university
because if you do that, you
might queer any of our chances
we have to catch this fella.
- What am I to do?
- Well, we've got some leads.
Give me some time, Dean.
Keep things as normal as possible
and I think we'll have our best chance
to stop this quickly.
- Ron, I've always trusted you,
supported you in the past, haven't I?
- Yeah.
Yes, sir.
- And the college has always supported you
and all your campaigns
in every way, hasn't it?
- You're my biggest contributor.
- But have you been a team player?
- I don't understand.
- A team player, what
is best for all of us.
- Dean, if you're gonna bring up
that police protection issue,
I voted my conscience on that
and I've repeatedly told you
that I must represent all
the people in the county.
I try to be fair, but I'm
over-budgeted and understaffed.
I think this campus is
pretty well protected.
- Well, the point is this
college pays a lot of taxes.
Now, there are many things
that we would like to do
to make this town a better
place in which to live.
But most of the time, I get the feeling
that you are not with us
on many of these things.
- You mean, not a team player.
- Right.
You see, I owe it to my students
and to their parents and the board
to protect them as much as I possibly can
and not only against this killer,
but for the future and
the future of the school.
We do not need serial
murders on this campus.
- Well, I don't need any
problems right at this time
with an election coming up before long.
If you just give me some time,
I'm sure I can crack it.
(tense music)
- You're a strong-minded
man, aren't you, Ron?
Have to do it your way.
- I'll give you this much.
If you keep this campus open,
I'll give you the killer
before the new year begins.
I'll stake my reputation on it.
- [Charles] It is your reputation, Ron.
And if you blow this, you
will never get another dime
from this college.
- I know.
- [Charles] It's a deal.
But there had better not
be any more killings.
(lively rock music)
(people chattering)
(tense music)
(cans clattering)
(ominous music)
(man grunting)
(eerie music)
(cleaver thudding)
(suspenseful music)
(dog howling)
(cleaver thudding)
(lively rock music)
(people chattering)
- Jill?
Jill, you there?
Guys, hey guys, come here!
(suspenseful music)
Hey, guys!
(lively rock music)
(people chattering)
- All right, Mace, let's
go over this again.
The suspected weapon was a knife.
- Yeah, or meat cleaver.
That's what the doc said
just like other two.
- Maybe they knew this guy.
- Could be.
(police radio chattering)
But all three seem to boil down to this.
The killer walks right
in, kills a young girl,
takes part of her body, and leaves,
teasing us with a coin
he leaves on each body.
That's weird.
- Any ideas?
- You're asking me?
- Well, we've got to
come up with something.
- What about this witchcraft angle,
the coins or trinkets.
- That's got to be the key.
Could this be some kind
of Dungeons & Dragons game
or some scavenger hunt going
on around here somewhere?
You heard anything?
- Nope.
I do remember hearing a few years ago
about this group going
around trying to resurrect
Peter Lorre's body.
But I'm not sure how that came out.
- I don't think I want to (chuckles).
(siren blaring)
I scribbled out some people
you might want to contact about this.
Maybe they can help.
- [Mace] I'll keep my ears open, Sheriff.
- Do that because politically,
well, this would be very, very good for us
if we could wrap this thing up quickly.
- I like the witch angle
and the game angle.
I'm gonna ask around.
- I want every sorority
house and each dorm
on that campus staked out every night
until we catch that guy.
- [Mace] Yes, sir.
- There will not be
another murder, understood?
(chickens clucking)
(rooster crowing)
(dog barking)
- [Gracie] Sparks, cut that out now.
Get away from the chickens.
Sparks, cut that out, you hear me?
Now, get in here.
(dog growling)
(dog screeching)
(birds chirping)
(sheep bleating)
Sparks, where are you?
Come here!
(tense music)
Honey?
- [Mr. Moore] Yes, dear.
- [Gracie] Would you go out
and check on Sparks.
(rooster crowing)
- [Mr. Moore] How come?
- [Gracie] Well, I don't hear him.
He was out there and now I don't hear him.
- [Mr. Moore] Okay, I'll go.
- [Gracie] Well now,
just go out and check.
He was out there making lots of noise.
Now I don't hear him.
Now, maybe he's got a chicken.
- Okay, okay, I'll go.
(door thudding)
(birds chirping)
(sheep bleating)
(rooster crowing)
(sheep bleating)
(rooster crowing)
(chickens clucking)
Dear, will you come out
here and bring a shovel?
(burger sizzling)
(people chattering)
- Hi, how are you doing today?
- Fine, how are you?
- Fine, what are you gonna have?
- I'll have some broccoli
and a beef patty.
(dishes clattering)
Thanks.
- Thank you.
- [Man] Uh, yeah, more than likely.
(people chattering)
- Hi, how are ya?
- Hi.
- [Cashier] The blue plate
special and a Coke, 2.90 please.
Thank you and have a good day.
- Hey, you, too.
Hi.
(shouting a foreign language)
(eerie music)
(girl screaming)
(girl screaming)
(shouting a foreign language)
(woman screaming)
(eerie music)
- Foy not foie.
Because it is in French.
(gentle music)
Lighten up, Linda.
We're talking banana mush here.
No, no, I don't wanna talk
about the pig situation right now.
- [Joel] What is this?
- Some Vual night.
(Joel chuckles)
No, it's not the end of the world
if Jeanie does move out of the dorm.
Look, we've got a lot of
farm girls on this camp.
Trust me, honey, we're up
to our asses in pigs here.
- (laughing) I'm sorry.
- [Tina] Listen, could I
talk to you about this later?
It's my lunch hour and
I don't wanna blow it.
- Now she tells me.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I've gotta call you back, okay?
Yes (giggling), yeah, aloha to you, too.
Okay, bye.
God.
- Now where were we?
Hey, there's somebody being
just cuter than hell over here.
- Look, if Jeanie leaves the dorm,
it's the fifth girl since Jill died.
- Leaving you without a pig to your name.
- Did anybody ever tell you
that you are seriously ill?
- Mmm hmm, but you weren't
complaining at the time.
- Look, I've got a lot of responsibility.
- Yeah, I know that, but everybody
gets a lunch hour, right?
- Don't.
- So what are you gonna do about it?
I mean, we talking Nancy
Drew time here or what?
You think sticking around
you're gonna help your old man
pull it out of the fire?
- Daddy can handle it.
- Oh yeah, he's done a
hell of a job so far.
Well, what's he done?
If I hadn't found that
book, he would have a clue.
- A lead, smart ass, a lead.
He's got lots of clues.
- You haven't let me spend the night here
since before this murder started.
- It's the end of the semester.
The girls have finals.
I've got--
- Yeah, and I'm waking up in the morning
and you're not here and
the first thing I hear
is that another woman's
been killed on the campus.
- Sorry, honey.
I can take care of myself.
- Right.
Well, since I've got all
this spare time at night
on my hands, I might as well
find something to fill it.
And as far as I can tell, I'm
better at cops and robbers
than your old man is, so.
- Oh no.
Oh no.
Don't you dare.
Don't you dare.
I've been wondering all my life
if my father's gonna walk
in alive in the morning
and I'm not gonna start with you now.
- You sure that deep down inside
you wouldn't enjoy seeing
somebody show him up on this?
- Oh God, wouldn't that be swell?
Wouldn't that just be terrific?
My father's career ruined.
Gosh, what more could a girl want?
- Well, it'd serve him right, wouldn't it?
You know, for making you
stay alone all those nights.
- Lunch is over.
- [Joel] Lunch hasn't started.
- Don't even think about it.
(phone ringing)
- "Burning effigies made of
body parts out in the country."
"Witchcraft."
There's got to be some
connection there somewhere.
Oh good, you're there.
Can you come in for a second?
Thanks.
(police radio chattering)
- [Dispatcher] One Baker six, 2347.
- [Mace] Yes, sir.
- What have you found out
about that last murder?
- Same as the others basically.
The doc's doing the autopsy now,
but looks another coed.
- [Ron] So it's another serial.
- Looks like it.
- Anything missing?
- [Chase] Her hand was cut off.
Some student found one of the fingers
in her salad bowl.
- (gagging) Jesus!
I suppose a trinket was left on the body.
- Yes, sir, in the dumpster.
Oh yeah, the dean called.
Said he wanted to talk to you
as soon as you had a minute.
- Oh, I know what he wants.
I can wait on that call.
I don't know what we're gonna do.
If this doesn't stop, we'll
all be looking for jobs.
You remember any reports lately
on disturbances out in the country
or noises, fires?
- [Mace] No, not so's I remember.
- Well, check it out, will you?
I've been reading in this book
that a witch cult used to
leave amulets near their bodies
of their victims.
Would use their victims in sacrifices
and these sacrifices
would always be out in
the country somewhere.
There would always be fire, loud chanting.
Case, this is our only real lead.
- I'll check it out, Sheriff.
- Well, go on, get busy!
- Yes, sir, right away.
- [Dispatcher] 2347--
- [Ron] How does
this dog-centered angle fit in?
Why the amulets?
- Oh, Sheriff, I almost forgot.
I got a call yesterday.
I just thought it was a crank or a drunk
so I didn't pay much attention.
But a lady did call in
from way out the west end
saying she thought she
had poachers on her land.
She wanted us to come and investigate.
- And so?
- Yes, sir, but she sounded drunk to me.
- Mmm, think I'll go make a quick call
on Miss Gracie Moore,
Hard Rock Ranch, see if
she does have any poachers.
Quick campaign call couldn't
hurt with elections coming up.
(lively music)
(police radio chattering)
(rooster crowing)
(sheep bleating)
(chickens clucking)
- Who in the hell is that?
(door alarm buzzing)
- [Ron] Ms. Moore, Gracie Moore?
- Yes, sir, I certainly
am Ms. Gracie Moore.
Why, what a pleasure it is
to have you come way out here, sir.
You know I recognized you, I really did
from them posters all over town.
Well, you're Sheriff Wilbois, ain't ya?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Well, I never dreamed that you'd come
way out here yourself, in person.
I really didn't.
Oh, wait'll my husband hears about this.
You'll have his vote for sure now.
He wasn't gonna vote for you, you know.
- [Ron] No?
- No, he wasn't, not till
you got them damn posters
off our land.
(Ron chuckling)
He said less'n you
could, the hell with ya.
But seeings as how you
come out here yourself.
- Yes'm.
About that complaint because we got one.
Was it you made that call yesterday?
- [Gracie] Yes, I did.
- Well, what's the problem?
- Well, I am so glad that you came out
because that young man
that took my call yesterday
laughed at me like I wasn't
serious or something.
- He did?
Well, I'll have to have a talk about him.
- I wish you would.
It was very embarrassing.
Well, he sounded like
that I was bothering him.
And that's no way for a
policeman to act, is it?
- No, ma'am, no it isn't.
But about your complaint,
what did you tell him?
- Well, I told him
(rooster crowing)
about those noises over in the woods.
Spooky ones, out there
in the woods every night.
- [Ron] How long
has this been going on?
(tense music)
- [Gracie] Oh, couple of
days, maybe a week now.
Now, my husband thinks that those poachers
is using spotlights to attract the game.
- [Ron] Spotlights?
- Yeah, big ones, light
up the whole damn sky.
Well, you come on out here
at night and you'll see it.
It's like there was a big
bonfire over there or something.
Well, didn't your deputy
tell you all this?
I told him all about it.
- No, he didn't.
- Damn!
Well, anyway, that's not
the worst part of it.
Now, poachers is poachers.
(rooster crowing)
And even on this private land,
we know that they come across the fence
to shoot their game and so on.
But when they start killing
your household pets,
well, it's time to put a stop to it.
- What do you mean, Ms. Moore?
- Well, yesterday, we,
my husband and I that is,
well, we heard some strange
noises coming from outside
over by the barn.
Now, Carlton, that's my husband,
he used to be a veterinarian, you know.
Well, he said it sounded
like the dog, name's Sparks,
was Sparks that is.
It sounded like he was
over by the chicken coop
having at the hens and
the hens were squawking
and Sparks was a-yellin' and
there was a terrible big row.
But then all of a sudden
(dog barking)
Sparks let out this big ol' yell
sounded like a scream or something.
And then there was nothin', just silence.
Well, I got to worrying
when Sparks didn't come back
to the house.
So anyway, well, Carlton
he goes over there.
(tense music)
And that's when he seen it.
- Seen what, Ms. Moore?
- Sparks, right on the ground there dead.
Over there by the chicken coop.
He was lying in a pool of blood,
his head cut off.
- [Ron] His head cut off?
- That's when I got a
shovel and buried him.
It's gotta been them poachers.
Now, who else would wanna
kill poor ol' Sparks?
- [Ron] I don't know, Mrs. Moore.
- Well, he was scaring off their game.
That's the way we figure it.
- Where'd you bury the dog, ma'am?
- Over back of the barn
all except his head.
I never could find his head.
Now, isn't that funny, Sheriff?
I don't know why they wanna
take something like that.
- Neither do I, Ms. Moore.
Can't tell what some
people will do these days.
Now, these sounds and the
fires out in the woods
you say they happen only at night?
- Yes, sir, only at night.
- [Ron] What time of night, early, late?
- Oh late.
Well, we go to bed
pretty early around here
especially at this time of year,
but for the last few nights,
it's been waking us up
about oh two, three
o'clock in the morning.
It's hard to get back to sleep
when you're woke up in
the middle of the might.
- [Ron] Yeah, it sure is.
And you think I could
see and hear all this
if I came out at night?
- [Gracie] Plain as day.
- Well, Ms. Moore,
I think I'll take
(tense music)
a little trip out there tonight,
do some snooping around.
You tell your husband
if I find any poachers,
I'll run 'em off.
- Oh will you, Sheriff?
Oh, we'd be so grateful.
I'll tell Carlton.
He'll be so glad that you were out here.
- Well, thank you, Ms. Moore.
(tense music)
- Oh, Sheriff.
One more thing.
If you find Sparks' head
while you're out there
looking around, you will
bring it back home, won't ya?
My husband and I just won't rest easy
until we've got Sparks buried,
well, all of him, all together.
You know what I mean.
- Yes, ma'am, I know what you mean.
(birds chirping)
(sheep bleating)
(book thudding)
- One minute, I'll be right with you.
Now, what can I do for you?
Oh, Daddy, hi, I didn't know it was you.
- I hope you don't treat all
your customers like that.
- [Tina] Oh no, only the obnoxious ones.
(Ron chuckling)
You brought the book back.
- Not a scratch on it.
Anybody miss it?
- No, but you could've gotten me
in a hell of a lot of trouble.
Was it any help?
- Real helpful.
You said it was a new book.
How long has it been here?
- About a month.
Tell you exactly.
It came in on the 16th
and it was published
at the end of this year.
- It can't be checked out.
Do you remember anybody reading it?
- Oh, that's hard to say.
Anybody can come and get it off the shelf.
Joel was looking at it for quite awhile.
In fact, he's the one that
told me about the amulet.
- He did, eh?
Hmm.
You ever hear anything about
a witch cult around here?
- No, only in this book.
- [Ron] Are the kids
into any kind of a game
like Dungeons & Dragons?
- On this campus?
- There's one with anchovy,
the Hawaiian special
with extra poi.
How are you doing?
- [Both] Mmm.
- Hi, honey.
- [Ron] Oh.
- Hi, Sheriff, how was this book?
Pretty interesting, huh?
- Yes, it was interesting.
- [Joel] Just like the killer, isn't it?
- There are some similarities.
- Look, you two, I have to get these books
in the stacks before closing.
If you wanna talk, you can
follow me back there and talk,
if you're quiet.
Oh, Daddy, bring the book on the cult.
- So, Sheriff, you're here
to check up on Tina, right,
make sure she's safe?
- Don't be such a smart ass, Joel.
Daddy's here to return
the book he borrowed.
- I don't have to check up on Tina.
I trust her.
- Now, you two be nice, okay?
- There was another murder
on campus, isn't that right?
- Boy, you know everything, don't you?
- Well, it's not exactly a secret.
It's a Kappa.
They found her in the
garbage behind the cafeteria
with her hands missing.
- Real reporter here.
- [Tina] Now look, I'm not
gonna sit here and listen
to you two bicker.
Daddy, now, you said you had a lead.
- Well, maybe.
We had a complaint from some farmer
way out in the west end.
A lot of big commotions out there at night
and fires way off in the woods.
- I had heard you were out
there today snooping around.
- I was out there following up on a lead.
- Now, Daddy, do you think
that all these lights
and this commotion out in
the woods can be connected
with the murders?
- Oh yeah, according to the book,
see these cults are--
- Joel, would you please
- Well, these big covens,
they meet out in the woods,
- let Daddy finish?
- garden, body parts.
All right.
- Well, he's right.
If this murderer got his
ideas out of this book,
and they're cutting body parts
off sorority coeds for some
kind of a special ritual
out in the woods, that may be it.
- Sacrifice by fire.
- Oh come on, you can't believe all this.
All this drivel happened
hundreds of years ago.
- Well, I can take it
seriously when there are
four unsolved murders and no suspects.
- Hey, Sheriff, look, I
know that area pretty well.
Why don't you let me go
out there with you tonight?
- Don't you even think about it.
- I can handle it thanks.
- Daddy, you read what this book says.
It said that they were out to
get magistrates and officials.
A sheriff is a magistrate
and you are a sheriff.
Do me a favor, don't go out there tonight.
- I thought you didn't
believe in all this stuff.
- Well, I don't believe in it.
But just do me a favor
and I'd feel a lot easier
if you didn't go.
- Case closed.
You two wanna have dinner with me
before I ride out there tonight?
- Oh, Daddy.
- Meet me at the diner in half an hour.
Can you finish up by then?
- Yeah, I guess so.
- You, too, Joel.
And thanks, kid, for the loan of the book.
- Bye bye, Daddy, see you soon.
(tense music)
(upbeat country music)
(people chattering)
So what are you gonna eat?
- I'm gonna order some coffee.
- [Dot] Can I get you
anything else, Sheriff?
- Some coffee after my wine,
thank you.
- Okay, thank you.
How 'bout you?
Can I get you anything else?
- No thank you.
- Okay, thank you.
(people chattering)
- [Tina] It's a good thing
we're not in the cafeteria.
That place is like a morgue.
- [Ron] I'll bet that finger
salad didn't do their business
any good over there.
- And I bet the food hasn't
gotten any better either.
Where's Joel?
He was supposed to be
here half an hour ago.
- Don't be so eager, honey.
He'll be here.
Don't let him know you care so much.
The more interested a girl gets,
the less interested the guy gets.
- Daddy, you haven't been
interested in a woman
since prehistoric ages.
Things have changed a little bit.
- Touche.
May I have my coffee now,
please, Dot?
- Just a minute please.
- Daddy, you know if you
are considering going out
to the west end tonight, I certainly wish
you'd take some of your men with you
just in case.
- [Ron] Honey, I've got them
staked out all over the campus.
They're needed there tonight.
Now, I don't want to
hear any more about it.
- I know.
So many parents are taking
their kids out of school.
You know, there's only about
a third left in the dorm.
- [Dot] Here you are, Sheriff.
If you need a refill
just call me.
- Thank you, Dot.
You gonna stay at the
dorm or have you thought
about coming home for awhile?
- Hi.
- Hi.
(both chuckling)
Uh, I think I'd better stick
it out at the dorm, Daddy.
I mean the girls that
are left really need me.
It's the end of the semester.
- Dorm mother or not, I'd
like to have you at home
with me for awhile.
- Oh that would be
a great idea.
I mean, what would everybody think?
The sheriff's own daughter's
afraid to stay on campus.
- She's got a point there, Sheriff.
- Mmm, that's good.
It's gonna be a long night.
- Hey, Sheriff, honest,
I really wouldn't mind
coming out to the woods with you tonight.
What do you say?
- [Joel] Forget it.
You want some dinner?
- Oh no, no, I ate already, thanks.
Look, I wouldn't be in the way.
And you really shouldn't
be going out there
by yourself, you know.
- I'll be fine.
As a matter of fact,
you'd just be in the way.
- Oh no, no, I know those woods.
I grew up in the west end, Sheriff.
And look, you don't want your old man
going out there alone at night, now do ya?
- No, I don't.
Now, I don't want you going out
and I certainly don't want Joel going out,
but I hate the idea of
you going out alone.
So please, Daddy, for me, why
don't you let him go with you?
- [Ron] Well, okay.
(lively country music)
(thunder rumbling)
God, I can't see tonight.
- [Joel] What do we do now?
- The lady said the sounds and the lights
come from straight ahead.
(tense music)
But it's only a little after eight.
(sighs) We got a long night ahead.
- Yeah.
So what do you think
we're gonna find here?
- I'll be damned if I know.
(Joel chuckles)
(Ron sighs)
- Got a headache, Sheriff?
- Yeah, hell of a headache.
I think I'll take about 40 winks.
It'll go away.
Wake me if you see anything.
- [Joel] Yes, sir.
(dog barking)
(thunder cracking)
(suspenseful music)
- [Ron] Where the hell did he go?
- Sheriff!
It started, those sounds
and you can see the lights over there.
Come on!
- [Ron] Let's go!
(tense music)
I think the light's
coming from way over there
beyond those trees.
- Yeah.
But let's take this path.
It looks better.
You hear anything?
- Not now, but I did.
Come on.
(suspenseful music)
Come on.
Come on.
Sheriff, you all right?
- Yeah, yeah, I'm just
bit dizzy, that's all.
- You don't look so good.
- Nah, I'm just
(thunder cracking)
not as young as I used to be.
(man howling)
You hear that?
I thought I heard something over there.
(woman howling)
(thunder cracking)
- Shit, what was that?
- Hell if I know.
I think it came from over there.
- Yeah, okay, you get it together.
I'll check it out.
- All right, I'll catch up.
(thunder rumbling)
(bird chattering)
(Ron grumbling)
(wind whistling)
(ominous music)
(people chattering)
(suspenseful music)
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
- [Woman] I think I cannot make it.
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- [Cult Member] (drowned
out by music) Caninus.
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- You lead with strength.
(fire crackling)
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
- Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- [Cult Member] Almighty one.
- [Cult Members] Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
(wind whistling)
Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
Almighty Caninus.
- Bring her over.
- [Cult Member] Go.
Drop her here.
(ominous music)
(stick thudding)
- Members, brothers, and sisters, welcome.
- [Cult Members] Welcome.
- And of Caninus, our lord and master,
we will obey.
- [Cult Members] We will obey.
- The Caninus command.
And what does Caninus command?
(dog growling)
- [Cult Members] Caninus
commands death and loyalty.
- Death and loyalty.
And what have we here?
- [Cult Members] We have
death and resurrection.
(tense music)
- Death and glorious resurrection.
For when our mission is completed,
our lord and master will guard
and protect his children.
Yes, there is but one thing still missing
to make his plan complete.
(thunder cracking)
A body to make the sacrifice complete.
(suspenseful music)
And soon we will fulfill
Caninus' command and we
will have our sacrifice.
And soon we will control this place
and he will protect his children.
- [Cult Members] Amen.
(dog growling)
(dog panting)
(dog barking)
(dog growling)
Heal off.
Heal master.
For this man is no
threat, let him come near.
Does our guest wonder why and who we are?
Then come near and listen to our message
and listen to our destiny.
- Doc, Doc, why?
- Yes, Ronnie, it's me.
- Dean Bailey, not you!
- [Charles] Yes, Ronnie, all of us.
We're all here together.
We're all hoping you'll come, too.
And the great lord and
master the god-devil Caninus
will protect you and guide
you in everything you do.
Amen.
Come with us.
Come.
- Even your family is with us,
your own flesh and blood, your daughter.
Behold.
This is a foreshadowing
of what is to come.
Rise, rise, daughter,
and do the master's will.
(ominous vocalizing music)
- It is my duty to complete the sacrifice.
It is my duty to my lord and
master to provide the body
to complete the sacrifice.
I will fulfill his bidding.
To this end, I will sacrifice my life
for his lord and master.
- Tina, Tina!
Why, why, Tina?
- She is beyond your
authority, Ron Wilbois.
She is the master's now.
She will do his will.
Join us, join us and you, too,
will fulfill your destiny.
The great lord and master
Caninus will protect you.
Come, come with us.
(thunder rumbling)
(tense music)
(tense music)
- Sheriff?
- Where you been?
- I was out looking for
the source of that sound,
but I couldn't find anything.
- Well, it was right here,
right here all the time.
Oh man.
- Nothing here
but an old trash fire.
- Old trash fire?
- I think we got a little
carried away out here.
God, what happened to your head, Sheriff?
- I don't know, I don't know.
- [Joel] We better get you back to town.
- [Ron] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Oh.
(Joel grunting)
(dog barking)
(somber music)
(tense music)
- [Tina] Boy, he sure
doesn't look too good.
(Joel grunting)
- Drive me.
- [Hans] Don't try to talk, Ron.
Just take it easy.
- [Tina] Is he gonna be all right, Doctor?
- [Hans] Oh, he's gonna be all right.
He would be a lot better, though,
if he would stop running into tree trunks.
- Tina, you okay?
- [Tina] I'm fine, Daddy.
I'm fine.
It's you that are in the hospital.
Are you okay?
- Hospital?
Hospital.
- Yeah, don't you remember?
- Hmm, no, he won't remember
not for awhile, not with that concussion.
- Who's that?
What's he doing here?
- [Tina] It's Dr. White, Daddy.
You remember that's Dr. White.
- He's bad.
He'll hurt you, Tina.
He's bad.
- Don't worry.
He is on sedatives now.
This can happen after a concussion.
He will be back to normal as
soon as the drugs wear off.
- Tina, you okay?
(tense music)
- [Tina] I'm fine, Daddy, I'm perfect.
- But you were out in the field
with all those people.
- No, Sheriff, she was home.
I was in the field.
We were out in the field, remember?
- No, I don't remember.
They'll kill you.
Be careful, Tina.
- It's okay, Ronnie, relax.
Let him get some rest.
(tense music)
Come on.
- Be careful, Tina.
- I'll be fine.
Now, you take care of yourself.
I'll see you soon, okay?
- Sure that.
(gentle music)
- Well, Ronnie old boy, you're
looking better I must say.
- Thanks, Doc.
- What a bump you took.
Good thing I didn't need
to take any stitches.
Do you remember what happened?
- No, not really.
- You really laid it onto me yesterday.
What did I do?
- (chuckles) I don't know.
I don't know.
- The kid told me you
ran into a tree branch
down by the landfill.
It knocked you out and
then he had to take you
and carry you back a
half a mile to the car.
- I don't remember that.
- Well, let me take a listen.
- I see we didn't have any more killings
while I was out.
- No?
Been pretty quiet though.
Oh, by the way, I got
most of the lab tests back
on the victims, and all
the killings were done
by multiple stabbings
and large loss of blood
plain and simple,
it is like that.
- Doc, Doc, this may sound
like a strange question,
but do you like dogs?
- Sure, I thought you knew that.
Race champion dobermans.
- [Ron] I don't remember you
ever telling me about that.
- Why sure I did.
Right now I have two champs in my kennel
and I'm about ready to breed another one.
- That so?
Dobermans, eh?
- Oh, best hobby in the world.
Love it.
And there's something about dogs,
man's best friend.
- Yeah.
- Well, you're fit as a
fiddle and I'll call the nurse
and have the bandage taken off
and you can go home any time I wish,
unless, of course, you
want to stick around
for a little R and R (laughing).
- Well, thanks for your hospitality, Doc,
but I'd just as soon sleep
in my own bed tonight.
- Well, as you wish, I know.
But you have to do me
and give me one promise.
Take it easy, hmm, at least for a while.
- Sure will.
- Because you know you
have an election coming up
and I want you to be in good shape.
- Yeah, sure need to be in good shape.
(tense music)
Get me the university
research library please.
Thank you.
- Hello.
- [Ron] Hi, Tina.
- Oh, hi, Daddy.
How are you, where are you?
- At the hospital but I'm
about to get out of here.
- Well, you were pretty far
out of there this morning.
- Yeah, I heard.
- You kept on telling me that Doc White
was going to kill me,
(tense music)
to watch out.
What do you mean?
- Well, I just want you to be careful.
I do.
And I just want you to
be especially careful.
I had, well, I guess it was a dream.
Anyway, as long as the
murderer is still out there,
maybe you ought to come back home.
- So close to the end of the semester?
- Today.
- There's no way, Daddy.
The girls have their finals tomorrow
and I promised to tutor them tonight.
Oh, not tonight.
Any night but tonight.
I promised as soon as I get out of here
and get off work, I'm gonna go to the dorm
and we're gonna order a pizza.
But can I take a rain check?
- Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
- Okay, and listen, don't worry about us.
We'll be fine.
We'll be in the women's dorm.
- Well, remember, be very careful.
I love you, too.
Bye.
Tonight, the women's dorm.
(suspenseful music)
- [Woman] Never knew you to sing.
- Hey, hey.
- Hey.
Come on.
- [Man] Come on back out here.
- [Man] Hey, wait.
(men drowned out by music)
(Ron sighs)
- It's Tina.
What's she, and leading
Joel into the dorm again?
20 after 12.
3:20.
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
(suspenseful music)
(suspenseful rhythmic music)
♪ Ah oh ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
- [Woman] I know he's gone.
♪ Ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
(eerie music)
- [Joel] Oh!
(metal clattering)
(cleaver thudding)
(intruder grunting)
(glass shattering)
♪ Oh ah ♪
(bed clattering)
(door thudding)
(loud knocking)
- Open up!
Up up in there!
(bed clattering)
(cleaver thudding)
Police, open up!
(cleaver thudding)
Open up in there!
Police open up!
(cleaver thudding)
(Ron grunting)
(cleaver thudding)
(cleaver clanking)
We stopped him.
Don't move.
Not you!
- I have completed the sacrifice.
I have completed the sacrifice
for his lord and master.
- [Ron] No, Tina, no, not you.
Tina--
- Stay away from me.
Stay away.
Don't you come near me.
- [Ron] Tina, you didn't kill...
- Oh, I didn't kill.
We all killed.
We are safe now.
We're protected by him.
- Why, darling, why you?
- [Tina] I must bring an
offering for the sacrifice.
I must bring one like the
rest, like the others.
- [Ron] Tina, darling, what others?
Who?
- [Tina] All the others.
- [Ron] Why did you do it, Tina, why?
- Because of you, Father.
Because you will have
success if you believe
in his lord and master.
- Tina.
- Stay away from me.
- Tina, please!
- Don't come near me.
- Tina, please, darling.
- Stay away!
(suspenseful rhythmic music)
(doors thudding)
(Tina crying)
- [Ron] Tina!
- [Tina] No!
- [Ron] Tina, wait!
- [Tina] Stay away from me!
- Tina.
- Stay away from me!
- [Ron] It'll be all right.
(Tina screaming)
(Tina crying)
(dumpster clattering)
- Tina.
I'll take care of it.
- [Tina] No!
No, stay away from me!
- [Ron] Tina.
(Tina crying and shouting)
- [Ron] See ya.
- Please.
- No, no!
No.
- [Ron] Don't go up there, Tina.
- [Tina] Don't come up here.
- Wait until you--
- Ron!
(Tina crying)
- [Tina] Stay away from me.
Please don't come near me.
- [Ron] It'll be all right, Tina.
- [Tina] Stay away from me.
- [Ron] Tina.
- No.
- You weren't brought up
to do this sort of thing.
Tina, your mother
- No.
- wouldn't approve of this.
- No.
- It wasn't my fault she died.
- No, no.
- Tina!
- Don't come near me.
- [Ron] Tina, please darling.
- [Tina] Stay away from me!
(Tina crying)
- You know, we can fix it.
Now, I can help you and I will.
Don't go any higher, Tina.
No!
No, Tina, please!
Oh, oh, Tina.
It's not fair.
Tina, it's gonna be all right, Tina.
- No.
- [Ron] Tina.
- No!
Don't come up here please.
- [Ron] Tina, you and I
can fix everything.
- No!
- [Ron] Remember what fun we used to have
when you were a little girl?
We had a great time, Tina.
(Tina crying)
Tina, we'll have
even more good times.
This isn't the end.
It wasn't your fault, Tina.
Tina, remember that please.
It wasn't your fault.
(Tina crying)
Thank God, Tina.
We've got each other.
Come on, Tina, please.
Just for me.
Come on.
I'll take care of you.
It'll be all right, Tina.
Oh my baby, darling.
Please, Tina.
Tina, oh please, Tina.
Yes, Tina, it'll be all right.
Please, Tina, yeah, please.
Don't push me, Tina.
Tina, don't push me away.
I wanna help you.
Come on, Tina.
Please, Tina.
(Tina sobbing)
I'll help you.
- [Tina] No!
- Tina, Tina!
For god's sake, oh!
Tina (crying).
(dumpster clattering)
(tense music)
Tina, no.
Tina, no.
No, Tina.
No, it can't be.
(tense dynamic music)
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
(dynamic suspenseful music)
♪ Ah ♪