Up from the Depths (1979)
A forest ranger with a tragic past must fight a beast of legend who has been released and is hunting again.
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Characters/Groups
Danny St. Clair - Cerina Vincent
Justin Rowley - Dominic Zamprogna
Joseph Riverwind - Eric Schweig
Julie Cassidy - Miranda Frigon
Lt. Morris Black - Sean Campbell
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Detailed Synopsis
Ben Wheelock and Lark Rainwater are walking in the woods. Ben radios in to base camp and tells them to get the truck and meet them at the top of the ridge. Ben, Lark and a few other people blast open a cave entrance using dynamite and enter the cave. They find pictographs of a winged monster attacking a human which Ben takes a sample of the paint and gives to Lark to get a radiocarbon date. The group moves further into the cave where they find bones. They hear a noise and a creature appears from deeper in the cave. They try and run out of the cave but are killed.
Two months later Danny St. Clair, a local forest ranger is in her fire lookout tower with her pet bird named Hoppy. She is drinking from a bottle of vodka and reminiscing of the time her and her friend Julie Cassidy went out drinking. Danny receives a video call from her supervisor Rick Baily to sluice off ten million gallons a day from the Devil's Gate dam and also look for the missing camper family the Carl and Evelyn Nash. Danny passes out and is awoken by Hoppy telling her he wants to go home. Danny walks around the tower when she hears a noise. She finds large claw marks on the supply shed. Justin Rowley arrives at Julie's tower. Justin asks Danny what the claw marks are from and she tells him she thinks she was visited by a bear. Justin wants to hang out with Danny, but she is hesitant. They both go to the dam so Danny can sluice out the water. Danny admits to Justin that ever since the accident she feels her karma has flipped and she has a feeling of dread. Justin tells her not to focus on it as it wasn't her fault since Julie was driving. Danny agrees to let Justin stay over night. Justin makes a toast to Danny but she is distant and then Danny admits to Justin she was the one driving Julie's jeep during the crash. Justin tells her it doesn't matter because she was already dead and it didn't make sense to go to prison when she was already dead. They then have sex.
The Creature returns and climbs the roof of the tower and cranks the emergency siren. Justin climbs up the tower but the Creature is already gone. The Creature then pushes