Maggots (2017) - full transcript

- You want to?

I got this from my uncle,
he was a cardholder.

I think it's from a science
experiment, it's killer.

- Stop talking about it
and put it in the pipe.

- Tommy.
- Yeah, hun.

- Why don't we go to the
Cougar Bar for dinner?

- I don't know.

Cougar's quite a bit a
ways past Tyler's Gulch,

and I got this fire going

and got all that
meat in the cooler.

Besides, I'm kinda getting
used to this country living.



- Yeah, you know, it's not
all just a roll in the hay

under the stars, there's
actual work involved.

- Whoa, did you see that?

- Yeah, pretty impressive.

- Let's go check it out.

- No, it'll be dark soon.

It'll still be there
in the morning.

- Maybe it's an
alien spacecraft.

- Okay, now I know you're crazy.

Have you not ever seen a
shooting star before?

- You ready for this?

- You know it.

- Yeah, baby!

- Ready?
- Yeah!



- Let's go!

- You coming?

- No way, I'm not
going in there.

- Come on in, you chicken!

- Reid?

Reid, get out of the water!

- Come whenever, come on.

- No, seriously, get
out of the water!

No, I'm being serious, Reid,
get out of the water!

Oh my God.

- Come on!

- Damn chainsaw.

What the hell is
going on out there?

Peggy Sue!

What are you barking at?

Shut up!

Stupid dog.

Always barking at the squirrels.

Eh, she's a good ol' dog anyway.

- Whoa!

Can you believe this?

- What is this,
what happened here?

- You weren't kidding, that's
one serious shooting star!

It's all busted
into little pieces.

- Everything, we will destroy.

- It's still warm.

- Honey, I don't think
you should pick that up.

- Eh, what's the harm.

- No, what if it's radioactive

or it's got space
germs or something?

- You're always talking crazy.

- I'm just saying you don't
know where that thing's been.

- You crack me up sometimes.

- Look, let's just drive
back to Tyler's Gulch

and we'll report it.

- Well what's the rush?

- Well, it's creepy.

- I thought we didn't
have to do group

on this trip?

This sucks.

- Give us a break, man.

- Hey, I've got things I'd
like to be doing myself.

We've got rules, you know.

- Nobody's out here.

We should be able to
do whatever we want.

- Yeah, I blow this off and
one of you jerks rats me out.

Isn't that how
things usually work?

- I ain't saying nothing.

- Like you did with those
cellphone photos I took of you?

- Your pictures sucked, man.

I didn't want you to have those.

I turned all that lot away.

- The song and dance I had to
do to get out of that one.

- What picture?

- Don't worry about it, babe.

- Shelly.

Your turn.

- I don't know.

I stopped growing
in the sixth grade.

- And what about you, Chester?

- I actually thought about
this a lot on the way up here,

and, I don't know,

it's kinda like we all have
to pitch in to survive.

My mom told me once in
the first grade that...

- Don't start with
the mom crap again.

- Can it, Larry.

- Everybody has to
move on at some point.

Ain't that right, Christy?

- I was done anyways.

- Okay.

Thanks for sharing.

Let's hit the road.

- Do you mind?

- Oh, yeah.

Would be a lot easier if you'd
let me smoke in the car.

- Hotel's just up the street.

- More coffee, Jim?

- Yeah, thank you.

- So, you're gonna take the
boat out this weekend?

- Yeah, if I get through
some of this paperwork.

- Then you should, you
should go out there

and enjoy the weather.

- I think I will.

- Hello!

What can I do for ya?

- Sign at the motel
said to check in here.

- One room or two?

- Two.

- Alright.

Fill these out for me.

- Can you give us directions

to a place called Shaman's Pass?

- Well if you're camping, honey,
why're you renting rooms?

- It's more like a day job.

We're from the
university up north.

We're doing research.

- Well, Shaman's Pass is
a little tricky to find

if you're not from
around these parts.

You know who you wanna talk to?

See this guy over here?

He'll get you there.

So, Ms. Lambert?

- You can call me Edith.

- Alright.

You're in room 102.

And...

- Heath.

- You're in room 104.

- Thank you.

- And I'm Dani.

I'm always around, if
there's anything you need.

- Why everything
has to be broken?

How did these get bent?

Good God.

Everything's falling apart.

I spend all my time
fiddling with this crap.

How is that?

Ah, bent.

Always bent.

Chester.

Don't even think about it.

- Come on, start.

Oh, damn tractor, I
just put gas in you,

last week, oh!

- Do you guys have any socks
or underwear or anything?

- No, we don't carry
anything like that.

- Do you know what
size bra I wear?

- I don't mind leading
you guys up there.

I need to get back to the
station pretty quick, though.

- We really appreciate it.

- Why you so interested anyway?

I mean, don't these things hit
the atmosphere all the time?

- Most burn up when they enter
the Earth's atmosphere.

Due to the apparent
size of this one,

we were hoping to find
an intact meteorite.

I saw one in the museum once.

Strange-looking hunk of rock.

Makes you wonder what's
really out there.

- Can I get you
guys anything else?

- I think we're fine, darling.

You guys want something?

- Nah, I'm fine.

- Thanks.

- I remember reading about
a dog being killed by one.

Can you imagine that?

A piece of rock
falling from the sky

and just kills the poor critter.

- Where can we grab
some lunch around here?

- There's a diner up the
street on the right-hand side,

you can't miss it.

- I'm gonna be in the truck.

Hurry it up in here.

- How you doing?

- How's everybody doing today?

- Excellent, we're just
here to get some lunch.

- Alright, right this way.

- Come on then, go on, go on.

Go eat, come on.

- We better head up there.

- Do you guys have a
bathroom in here?

- Yeah, it's right
down that hall, hun.

- I'm already getting tired
of the mountains, dude.

I really hope the food
here doesn't suck too.

- You really need to
learn everything.

♪ I'm so lonely, baby ♪

♪ I'm so lonely ♪

♪ Well I'm so lonely,
I could die ♪

♪ You still can find some room ♪

- Not gonna tell on me
or anything, are you?

- Not unless there's
some for the both of us.

- Help yourself.

- Thanks.

So what kind of
liquor did you get?

- 151.

- That'll get the job done.

So, what do you think
of that Chester guy?

- The glue sniffer?

- Yeah.

- Just my type.

- Ugh, sometimes I wonder
what you just got going on

inside your little ol' head.

My God, that was just a
guy from the Census.

They're just trying
to count heads.

They don't care about that
corn liquor we got brewing

out there in the shed.

Are you listening to me?

Uh, Peggy Sue?

Get over here now.

Peggy Sue.

Peggy Sue!

Yeesh!

- This is it.

Shaman's Pass, about
a mile up the road

and make a right
before you get there.

- Yeah, there,
through the brush?

- Will you be okay
finding your way back?

- Yeah, we'll be fine.

- What were you doing in there?

- Nothing.

- You know, I could see
myself living in the country.

What do you say I
sneak back into town

once I put the kiddies to bed.

Maybe you and I could grab
a drink, or something?

- Mm.

- Dani.

Have you seen Big Jim?

- He was in here just a bit ago.

- Well where the hell is he?

We've got monsters out
there on the loose.

- Monster?

What do you mean, monster?

- They ate my Peggy Sue.

- Oh my God.

- It's like a big
worm with teeth!

- Rance.

It might be a good idea to
hang off the moonshine.

- Oh Dani, it ain't got
nothing to do with moonshine!

Hey you, we've got to get the
state troopers or something.

- Well I'd really like
to help you, Pops,

but we've got some
camping to do.

- Camping?

You can't take anybody camping,

there's monsters out there.

- It's okay.

- They ate my dog, didn't
you hear anything?

- I have monster repellent!

- You damn fool!

- We'll be fine.

- You're not gonna be fine.

- Hey, just lay off
the moonshine a bit.

We'll be fine, okay?

- I gotta do something, Dani.

They ate my dog, they
ate old Peggy Sue.

- Hey, let's go!

- It was much bigger than
I would have predicted.

- More water?

- Yeah, that stuff
really hits the spot.

- You want some?

Be that way, bitch.

- Larry!

- Was that a cop?

- Relax, sweet cheeks,
it's just a forest ranger.

- Probably Yogi,
chasing Boo Boo.

- I'm getting some
biological activity.

Look on your computer and
tell me what kind of reading

you're picking up.

It's a really high
concentration of formic acid.

- You think there might be
life where this is from?

- That's a good question.

We need to get some
samples back to the lab.

- You need to get on that.

- Could you stop at
the next gas station?

I gotta pee.

- In case you haven't noticed,

there hasn't been anything
like civilization

since we passed
that trailer park,

if that even counts
as civilization.

- That was like an hour ago.

- So, you have been
paying attention.

Look, we're not gonna
see another gas station

until we're headed back home.

- No way.

You shoulda told me that.

- Yeah, well, I just work here.

- Wow.

This is chock-full of
complex organic compounds.

That can only come from life.

- Yeah, like I said, it could be

some kind of Earthly
contaminant.

- You yourself said you've
never seen anything like that.

Well, a proper lab analysis

of the deuterium-to-hydrogen
ratio should give us that.

Could an alien life form
have hitched a ride here?

- Transpermia hypothesis?

It's not likely any
life form could survive

the hazard journey
through space.

- Not if the rock acted
as an insulator.

How do you explain
freshly-fallen meteorites

with a layer of
frost around them?

In theory, an organism
could survive,

and that mucus could
be from one of them.

- Yeah, but theories
are dime a dozen.

- On the other
side of the world,

another air incident;
ABC's Gail McCarthy

reports from Saigon.

- Whelan.

- Rance, I didn't expect to
see you for another month.

- I need your help.

- Sure, what do you need?

- There's this great big slug
up at my place, huge thing.

It's bigger than my truck.

- Okay, time to bring out
the heavy artillery, huh?

Snail poison, aisle three.

That ought to do the trick.

- This ain't no
damn garden slug,

this thing is this huge
caterpillar thing.

It's got big teeth!

- Okay.

We've got a bunch of other
concession sides over there.

- You got one of
those pump sprayers?

- Yeah, in the back.

- Your biggest one.

- 40 ounce, I think.

- Well hell, that ain't
gon' do nothing!

No, you got one of
those gas compressors?

- Rance, how big
are these things?

- Man, I told you this
thing's as big as my truck!

It ate my dog!

My little Peggy Sue.

I'm gonna kill that
son of a bitch.

How about that compressor?

- Hey, baby.

What's going on?

What?

She said what?

I was out shooting ball with
the fellas the other night.

Come on baby, don't
listen to her!

That is not my baby.

- What?

- The chair goes here.

- That's too bad.

- Come on, chop chop,

let's get this campsite set up.

Christina!

- Okay, I think what
we came here for.

Let's wrap it up.

- Oh, man, no!

Oh, man!

- This is it?

Sitting here watching
you do nothing?

- I am not doing nothing.

- Couldn't we be doing
this at the house?

- You're missing the point.

Look, this experience
is supposed to be

about making you
guys work together,

in an effort to develop social
skills and self-confidence,

through getting you out of
your comfort zone and creating

physically-and emotionally-challenging
circumstances,

which develop your problem-solving
and coping strategies.

At least that's what
the guidelines say.

- Do the guidelines
say you're a tool?

- Grow up, Larry.

Grow up.

- Sounds like a bunch
of psychobabble to me.

- Look, I didn't say
I bought into it,

I'm just telling you that
that's part of the program.

- She used to live out
in these very woods.

In a little cottage not far
from where we are right now.

She peddled tonics,
herbal remedies,

and everyone in town could
swear the old hag was a witch.

- Yeah?

Well, I gotta tap a kidney.

- Then the town's little
girls started going missing,

one by one.

Try as they might, they
could not find them.

And they searched everywhere.

In the houses, the barns,
the fields, even the woods.

Nothing.

It's as if they just
vanished into thin air.

And although she
denied knowledge

of the girls' disappearances,

the brave souls who questioned
Mary couldn't help but notice

that she looked somehow younger.

Then one faithful night, the
miller's daughter was cast

under a spell, and he followed
her to the witch's cottage,

whereupon he found the bodies
of all the missing girls,

completely drained
of their blood,

the very thing that
restored Mary's youth.

When word got back
to the village,

they banded together and
stormed the cottage.

And as they burned
her at the stake,

she placed a curse
on all of them,

and to this day, they say if
you say her name three times

in the mirror, she'll
appear before you,

right before she rips your
eyes out of the socket.

- Charming.

- I think you should say it.

Are you afraid?

- Of course not.

- Say it.

- Get real.

- Say it!

- You're being silly.

- Say it!

- Bloody Mary.

Bloody Mary.

- Get it off!

- They ate my dog,
old Peggy Sue.

You ate my dog!

Son of a bitch!

Maggot, you!

Ah, gotcha!

They'll believe me now,

that's for sure.

- You gotta apply
pressure on that wound

and stop the bleeding.

Here, breath with me.

- We'll use my sweater.

- Here.

- We'll use my sweater.

Help me.

- What the hell
were those things?

- We can talk about that later.

We gotta get back to
town in the morning.

- Who the hell are you, man?

- The guy that just
saved your life.

Do you even know
where you're going?

- I just wanna go home.

- Look, pull over
after the next turn!

- Now they're gonna
believe me now!

- The wiles of the
Texas Rangers!

- Not to bring up
a sore subject,

other than being the guy who
saved our lives, who are you?

- I came here to investigate
the impact site for a meteor.

I work with the university.

- Those things back there,
what the hell were they?

- I'll have to get back
to you on that one, kid.

- The name's Chester.

- How's she doing?

- I don't know, she's
not saying much.

Shelly?

- Yeah.

- How you doing, babe?

- I've been better.

Where are we?

- We're headed into town.

- These stories based on fact,

and their names, states,
and places are fictitious

for obvious reasons.

The events themselves
are a matter of record.

- Can I tell you something?

- Sure, sweetie.

What is it?

- If you were the
one who's drinking,

why is my stomach killing me?

- Those things have
anything to do

with the meteor you mentioned?

- I'm starting to lean
in that direction, kid.

- Aliens?

- Maybe.

- Cool.

- Those things were
from outer space?

- That's only
speculation right now.

One thing I do know,
wherever they're from,

they've got a taste
for human blood.

- The National
Broadcasting Company

presents Joel McRae in Tales
of the Texas Rangers!

- I got it.

It's at a logging camp.

- Trish, baby?

- Trish?

Baby?

- Just something I got on TV.

Can you get me a beer?

- What am I, a maid?

Get it yourself!

- I don't wanna miss
any of this movie.

This is great, I can't believe
I've never seen this before.

- I want to have an early night.

- Thanks, Trish baby.

- Those people are dead.

- Nothing beats a
good Sasquatch movie.

- Don't forget to
take out the trash.

- As soon as we get into
town, we need to make

some phone calls, call
the army or somebody,

these guys up in the hills
and blow these things out.

Is that the plan?

Why'd they come down
here in the first place?

- Well, they got a
taste for human blood.

Maybe they can smell
it or something.

It's just a couple
blocks to the motel.

- What's there?

- Dani.

- The lady from the diner?

- Yeah, she's the owner.

I gotta make sure she's alright.

- You're crazy, man,
just keep driving!

- Look, we gotta change
vehicles anyway.

Maybe we can use hers.

- It's too dangerous.

We gotta get outta here.

- We'll all get out
of this together.

- Here you go, honey.

- Thank you.

- How's it going?

- You know, I really need
some help at the store,

maybe you can quit
your job at the diner.

- No, you really need
me to keep that job.

Things are tight
enough as it is.

- That didn't sound
like any customer.

Maybe we should call the police.

- Ain't no police for miles,

I can get cleaned out
before they even get here.

- They might have guns!

Wait!

- You guys just gonna
let him do this?

It's suicide.

What the hell is
wrong with you guys,

you don't have the balls
to stand up to this guy?

- I wouldn't go there, Larry.

- What the hell is
that supposed to mean?

- I think you left your
balls at the campsite.

- You don't talk
to me like that.

- Shut up, Larry,
you big whiner!

- Oh, shit!

Where are these
things coming from?

- They're here! They're here!
They're here!

Rance was right!

They're here! They're here!

- Go go go!

- It's not safe!

You gotta come with me!

There's a trail through
the woods to my place!

We gotta go, come on!

- You see anything?

- I can't see any
movement in the dark.

Maybe they're inactive at night.

- Who cares when they're active,

we need to take these things
out and take them out now.

- These things are way too big

to have come here on a meteor!

- Well they've obviously grown
since they've got here.

Maybe something in our
environment serves as a catalyst

and they just grow
exponentially.

You know, like CO2
helps wheat grow?

- Is that you, Daddy?

- We're not talking
about wheat, honey.

- More like maggots on steroids.

- Maybe they got into
some Herakleophorbia.

- You know, I'm not familiar
with that scientific term.

- Just something I read about,

a couple of scientists
put some stuff together,

it makes things go
faster and bigger.

- Oh yeah, HG Wells,
Food of the Gods.

- I saw that movie.

- That's only science fiction.

- I wish those things out there
were just science fiction.

- Well, given their
alien nature,

maybe this rapid
metabolic growth rate

is apart of their normal cycle.

- That still doesn't
get us out of here.

- Okay, if their metabolic
cycle is that fast,

then maybe their
life is shortened?

- That's possible.

- No, I mean shortened,
like way short.

Enough to wait them out.

- Like the mayfly.
- Yeah.

- Listen to this.

We spent a spring
once in Buffalo,

and those things
were everywhere,

and then they just disappeared.

It's like they hatch, and
they're everywhere you can see,

and then they're gone.

In fact, the locals,
they call them dayflies.

It's really weird.

- Dayfly.

Daddy, I want a dayfly.

- What do you mean, we?

- My husband and I.

- Husband?

- Yeah. Ben.

He died in a car crash in '97.

- I'm sorry to hear that.

- Oh yeah, I'm sorry too.

We have giant worms chasing us

and you guys are talking
about dead husbands?

I don't know if you remember,

but we have bigger
problems to deal with.

- So, wait, these things could
be dead in the morning?

- That girl in there
needs hospitalization.

- I'm well aware of that.

- You know, I go to that
diner every damn day.

That's all I know.

I just always had felt like
there's something more

out there, I don't know what,
but just something more.

Is it all gonna end here?

- Maybe we have a
bigger purpose here.

- Yeah, tell me.

- Saving those kids?

- Do you really think that
they could just die off

like Chester said?

- Anything's possible.

Do you see this? - What?

- It's worse than we thought.

More than one.

- I can see that.

These things are gonna
pose greater threat

than we ever even thought.

- I'm almost afraid
to do the math.

You don't suppose an arrow
dipped in rat poison

would do the trick?

- Well, if you had a
lot of rat poison,

and a whole battalion
of archers,

and that's if rat poison
even has a toxic effect

on their metabolism.

- Flaming arrows?

- Yeah, that could work.

How many arrows do you have?

- How many do we need?

- I'm wrong.

I'm wrong, he always
told me I was wrong.

Oh God.

- Shelly, wake up.

Shelly.

Shelly, wake up!

Wake up!

- I don't know what
the big deal is.

She was already dead.

That creature ate her stomach.

Let's be honest.

We were just waiting for
her to stop breathing.

- Shut up, Larry!

- Get outta here, Larry!

- Already proved that you
don't have a backbone!

- Backbone?

I'll show you backbone!

- We still gonna do this?

- We have to.

- Come on.

- Heath?

They're moving! Heath!

They're moving around up there!

Heath!

Look, we gotta go, come on!

Wake up, we gotta go.

We gotta go!

Come on!

Come on, you guys!

- Come on!

Come on!

- Get back!

Chester!

- Thanks for the help.

- Anytime!

- What are you guys
doing, let's go!

- Come on.

- They're everywhere!

- Christina, come on!

Come on!

Are you kidding me?

- Chester!

Does it look like I've
done this before?

- I'm back!

With a little backbone.

- Let's go!

- Larry, what are we doing?

- I don't know, man, I've just
been killing giant maggots!

- Well shouldn't we have
a plan or something?

- A plan?

What kind of a plan can we make

with these gross things
trying to eat us?

- We should go back to
the old gas station.

- Okay, but what's
the difference

between being here and there?

- Well, there's
gas things there.

Maybe we can lure
theme over there.

What about flaming arrows?

Dani and Heath thought
it would work.

- Yeah.

- We could blow the
whole place up.

- I don't think I'm good enough
to shoot flaming arrows.

- Damn, babe.

From what I saw earlier, you
were looking pretty good.

- We still have that bottle
of 151 in the truck.

- I don't think right now is
a good time to be drinking.

- We could make fiery cocktails,

and I still have that glue.

- Well, this all sounds
like a great plan,

but has anybody checked a phone?

To see if we have service?

To call for help?

- I coulda told you
there was no service.

With this longitude
and latitude,

and the altitude of
these mountains,

the service gets diluted.

And besides, you
can't bounce signal

through the microwave
belt around the Earth.

- I'm so glad you're back.

I was afraid something
happened to you.

- Did you guys see the
last one I took out?

I blasted his green
guts everywhere!

- Yeah man, I thought
it had you for sure!

- Are you guys kidding me?

This isn't a video game, those
things are trying to eat us!

- Nah, I could take
these things off

like fish out of a barrel.

- Reminds me of that game,
Giant Space Slugs From Saturn,

where that Latin dude becomes
the hero, like Clark Kent

in Superman, but ends up saving
Gotham City like Batman.

- Nah, I think it was the
White guy dressed like Rambo!

- No, I think it was more like

the Valley girl turned Elektra.

After all, it is
a woman's world.

Hey!

- Holy shit!

Get those flaming arrows ready!

- Christina, take
your shirt off.

For the flaming arrows!

- I've got the glue!

- Now that's what you
call a fiery cocktail.

- Looks like they're
gonna have something new

on the local diner's menu.

Barbecue maggot steaks.