Slaughter of the Innocents

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Isaac</div> <div> Executive Producers....Leonard Shapiro & Alan M. Solomon</div> <bR> <div> Dramatis Personae</div> <div> Stephen Broderick...Scott Glenn</div> <div> Jesse Broderick.....Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus</div> <div> Agent Lamar.........Sheila Tousey </div> <div> Mordeaki Booth......Zitto Kazann</div> <div> Susan Broderick.....Darlanne Fluegel</div> <div> Library Janitor.....Zakes Mokae</div> <div> John Willson........Kevin Sorbo</div> <div> Stanley Moorhead....Henry Brown</div> <div> Dr. Mort Seger......Armin Shimerman</div> <div> Cindy Lockerby......Jan Gardner</div> <div> Stephanie Lockerby..Elizabeth Johnson</div> <div> Ellen Jenkins.......Terri Hawkes</div> <div> Warden Bates........Tim Colceri</div> <div> Bobby Martel........J. Stephen Brady</div> <bR> <div> Critique: This is perhaps the best monster. The first scene is remarkable. A great deal of tension is built up by the fact that we like Jesse, even though he wrecks the film, and he has decided to go smoke out the monster on his own. Snorkel coat    A little too much chat at the end.</div> <bR> <div> Plot Summary: Timberlake, Utah 7:32 PM. A woman driving on a rainy road glimpses a figure wrapped in a cowl by the side of the road. Stephanie, her child, has been brutally murdered. Cleveland, Ohio. Little leaguer Jesse reports that something strange has come up on his computer. Jesse's father shows up at the end of his little league game. Jesse mentions the Provo canyon massacre--a case that had been closed five years before. The provo mom mentions the old lady picking something on the side of the road. The mother at Timberlake saw the same thing: Jesse thinks this is no coincidence, and his detective father seems to agree. Broderick charters a jet to Utah. Sub-normal Bobby Martel is a convicted murderer and is sentenced to die at 6 AM at the Draper pennitentiary. It's 12:24. The physical evidence was overwhelming: Martel's finger prints were found on the window and his pubic hair was found in the nine year old victim's mouth. The pubic hair looked to the forensics people to be his. (Roxanne is his partner). Jesse notes that someone like him wouldn't have taken off his boots. Broderick gets hold of Mort Sieger, a forensics person, who checks out the pubic follicle for DNA. The warden won't consider postponing. Broderick goes to speak to Martel. Martel says "I saw God--I saw God with the children." Martel is led off and executed by lethal injection. We see him struggling and then lie still. Broderick later gets a phone call confirming that the DNA evidence doesn't match. The cops are now interested in proving Martel was at least an accessory. Martel had regularly been a peeping Tom there. Martel watched as the killer killed the younger child, and then sodomized the older child. The killer had been wearing sandals--Bobby had been wearing boots, and there were no marks left by him. The evidence is that Martel had watched the scene from outside and masturbated after the killer had left. Broderick brings Jesse along to the murder scene. Jesse finds sage in the bend in the road where the mother had seen the old woman bending over. Jesse describes how the murderer reached inside the child's open chest and snapped off a rib. Jesse repeats a line from scripture concerning sage. Oh ye dry bones, ye innocent bones hear the world of the lord I shall bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you and ye shall live again and ye shall know that I am lord. The madman dreams of having his genitals doused in boiling water, no doubt by his father while he read from the bible. The madman pulls up in a '60s VW van--throws a store keeper into some horns, saying "ye shall gether the species two by two", he pulls two stuffed owls from the wall. Jesse wants to come with Broderick to Saltlake city, and mom reluctantly agrees. Jesse notes that the killer wasn't running when he left the store--Jesse finds this frightening. Christy Cohen's mother drives up to a store and leaves her child in the car with the window open. The storekeeper sees him and gives chase but it's too late. Broderick is called back to Utah and Jesse is left behind. A police officer follows up on a report of bad smells and screaming children. He enters a run down house (is that sage by the door?) When there's no response he enters a house with lots of sage hung up. He gets hold of the child and holds off two cult types dressed in black. The nets are brought in and the cult members are dragged off. Along with religious paraphenalia, he finds the body of a young man, ritually sacrificed. Broderick notices the sage. Jesse gets to patch in by modem on the information that Broderick sends to his superiors. The murderer gets out a book on flemmish paintings, and then a book on "Mother Less Child" from the library. Broderick comes to the library where the librarian says someone fitting the description of the killer was seen. Broderick heads down to the basement of the library. There is sounds of a revival meeting, but it is just the janitor listening to the radio. Broderick picks out a book out of order--and the killer's prints are on a Hieronymous Bosch paianting. Roxanne heads intothe library late at night and is followed by the monster. She heads into the stacks and pulls out "Motherless child"--the monter's favorite. She hears him and pulls out her gun. Meanwhile, Jesse sees "Pair of giraffes disppears from Saltlake city zoo". Roxanne calls in--she never actually saw him in the library. Jesse decides to call up an airrplane schedule. Sarah Proctor started a Moab cult in the thirties. Sage masks strong smells. Broderick gets a call--they've found the moabs. Jesse has set it up so that his mother thinks he is spending the night with a friend. He gets a ticket and heads alone onto the plane to Utah. Vale, the ex leader of the Moabs, has been found--he's now a white supremicist, and Roxanne thinks the killer won't be connected. The swat team sets up with bullet proof vests and they prepare to take Vale. The supremicists are ready as the lead police car explodes. Unable to contact his father, Jesse shows up at the zoo where the giraffes disappeared and sneaks into the indoor cages and locates the zookeeper, Johnathan Bates, who robbed a bank a while back under another name. Jesse confronts him with the info, and he implausibly spills the beans. Bates says the killer's name is Mordekai Booth. Jesse finds a small sneaker in the locker. Inside, Vale has a nazi uniform on and is blown away--the house collapsing under the hail of bullets. No interrogation there. Having gotten the information about Mordekai and still unable to contact his father, Jesse holes up in the train station (union pacific) bathroom, removing ceiling tiles and sleeping in the space above. He reads a balled up newspaper scrawled on (perhaps in blood) that he found in Mordekai's locker: "The only sustenance ye shall eat as ye walk through the valley of the Gods past the nuns beyond the priest shall be the bitter herb of gomorah if ye are worthy, ye shall enter the castle." Mordekai awakens in pain again and stumbles through his cluttered  room and starts collecting bloody sharp implements. The little girl is there. Jesse calls his computer at home, and through some choice key words is able to ge locate castle rock at Zion national park as a likely castle. He heads off in a rented moped stolen from some idiotic bungie jumpers. He arrives at castle rock--occupied only by horsebacking tourists, and looks for a likely place where a monster might hole up. Jesse runs by a VW bus and up along a short set of train tracks that appear to stop over the cliff. He calls his father, but the transmission breaks up. Broderick has to break into the computer to get the coordinates. After the gung ho activities of the swat team, he feels he has to head off on his own to save his son--he's afraid of stray bullets. Roxanne gets the word from upstairs that she must bring a special team in. Jesse heads along the tracks and opens a large door into a cavern. There he photographs candles, torches, Mordekai's dead father, nativity scenes, mutilated corpses of humans hung in a gastly tableau along with stuffed animals. Then he sees what appears to be noah's ark. Jesse heads into the ark, which is lit by christmas lights and has more corpses hung in it--mostly disembowled. There are also stuffed bears, ram, deer, he then photographs Mordekai, mistaking him for a corpse, a struggle ensues, but Jesse is soon bound and Mordekai has his one male and one female. Broderick finds the abandoned moped. Mordeaki cuts a rope and the ark starts to move, and Mordekai waits for the rain to fall. As the ark heads down the rails, Broderick shoots Mordeaki, but the ark is moving inexorably toward the precipice. Mordeaki absorbs a few more shots and is still spouting prophesy as the ark plunges over the cliff. No rain.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>