What Waits Below
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Duration Language English | 4.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Horror Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 1985 Initial release October 31, 1985 (Portugal) Screenplay Christy Marx, Robert Vincent ONeill Cast (Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen), (Major Elbert Stevens), (Leslie Peterson), (Frieda Shelley), (Ben Gannon), A.C. Weary (Lt. George Barwell)Similar movies The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , Twelve Monkeys , The Da Vinci Code , John Carter , Battle for Terra , Powder Tagline Underground, no-one can hear you die! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What Waits Below is a science-fiction adventure film (initially released under the title Secrets of the Phantom Caverns) released in 1984. Directed by Don Sharp, produced by the Adams Apple Film Company, the film runs for 88 minutes and starred Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, and Lisa Blount. The tagline for the video release of the film was "Underground, no-one can hear you die".
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Plot summary
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens (Bottoms) and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen (Powell) including scientist Leslie Peterson (Blount) are sent in to find out what happened.
Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.
Cast
Production
Principal photography for the movie took place in a former limestone quarry and in natural caves in Alabama and Cumberland Caverns in Tennessee starting in August 1983. Production was briefly halted in late August when carbon monoxide produced by generators in the Cathedral Caverns location sent at least 17 people to the hospital. Production wrapped in late October 1983.
Release
The film was released on VHS in the United States in November 1985.
References
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