Monster of Terror Page #3

- Susan, dear.

- I heard her moving about.

- Mother, please open this door.

- It's all right. I'll talk to her.

- I've tried to...

- I know, dear. Now, you go along.

I'll talk to her.

Letitia, I must speak to you.

It's very important.

Letitia!

But no one ever goes

to the greenhouse at night.

If there was no one inside,

why was there a light?

- A light?

- The entire greenhouse...

the only word I can think of is glowed.

I've seen a glow like that before,

in a radiation lab.

I don't understand. What were

you doing outside last night?

- I was watching your father.

- Father?

- What was he doing?

- Burying Merwyn.

- Something else has happened, too.

- What?

I was attacked on the heath.

I'm sure it was Helga.

Oh, Steve.

What's happening?

- Why is the greenhouse locked?

- It never has been before.

- Well, it is now.

- Well, it shouldn't be.

- Have you been in it lately?

- Not since I've been back.

Come on.

Letitia, now listen to me.

It's very important.

I should have done this before.

I'm going to take you

to the village, to see the doctor.

Letitia.

How long have these windows

been whitewashed?

- They've always been whitewashed.

- There.

- I've never seen that lock before.

- Is there any other way in?

Steve, I don't think we should.

The answer to what's going on

may be inside. We've got to get in.

I know a way.

When I was a child, I'd hide from

Merwyn when Mother sent him for me.

I used to get in somewhere here.

Here it is.

- I see it, but I don't believe it.

- How could plants grow like this?

It's fantastic!

Yeah.

How can this happen?

- What was that?

- I don't know.

Remember the cry we heard

at dinner last night?

I heard one just like it this morning.

What's in there?

It used to be a potting shed.

Oh, come on, Steve!

It's dark in there,

except for a kind of glow.

Oh, Steve! Please come away!

We can't. There's something going on

that's affecting all your family.

We shouldn't.

If Father finds out he'll be furious.

Let him. We're not leaving with

questions unanswered. Stay here.

No.

- I'm coming with you.

- OK. Come on.

- What is it?

- Those flickering colours.

It must be some kind of energy.

Uranium!

This room is being exposed

to some form of radiation.

It's horrible.

It looks like a zoo in hell.

Oh, come on, Steve! Come on!

It's all right!

A menagerie of horrors.

What were they?

Genetic mutations,

probably caused by radiation.

It's a scientific fact that

exposure to radioactive energy

can change characteristics

of living things.

It's what happened to these plants,

to those creatures.

The scent in here. It's so sweet.

It's sickening.

It's the effect of decay.

- Steve, what is it?

- There's something down here.

This stone's like the ones

in the potting shed.

What is it, Steve?

I don't know. I've never seen anything

like it before. I wonder if it's an element.

It's giving off heat!

Looks like it's been cut away

from some larger stone.

There's one under every plant.

This is the answer. No doubt about it.

- The stones?

- Yeah.

They make everything in here

grow this way?

Yeah, and in there, too.

Oh, but Steve!

If it does this to plants...

Exactly, if it affects plants this

way after hours and days of exposure,

what would it do to a human being?

Mother and Helga.

They worked in here.

Merwyn must have come in contact

with these stones,

or the larger one

from which they were cut!

I wonder where the larger stone could be.

I don't know. In the cellar, perhaps.

- The cellar!

- There are many rooms down there.

Come on.

- You all right?

- Yes.

Letitia.

Letitia!

That's the door.

- You stay here.

- You won't find the way.

- I will. Now, go upstairs.

- Oh, Steve. Be careful.

Don't worry.

Where's Reinhart?

I've been looking for him.

- What happened? Where have you been?

- The greenhouse.

- I put a lock on.

- I knew another way in.

- You had no right.

- Why have you kept it a secret?

- Was Reinhart with you?

- Yes.

- Is he still there?

- No.

Where is he? Where is he?

- You're hurting me!

- Tell me where he is.

- He's in the cellar.

- The cellar!

- Father!

- Stay there!

Get out of this room.

I said, get out.

No. Not until you listen

to what I have to say.

- I'm in no mood for words!

- Would you prefer death?

- Don't threaten me.

- Everything in this house will die.

Get rid of that stone and the smaller ones,

or this house will become like the

burned-out area, those monstrosities.

- You don't know what you're saying.

- It destroyed Merwyn.

You want it to destroy your wife,

Susan, destroy you?

- No.

- Listen to that humming sound.

Look at the way it glows.

- It's only a stone. It's harmless.

- You don't believe that, Mr Witley.

You know what it can do.

You know Mrs Witley needs a doctor!

Susan. Are you all right?

- Susan!

- Oh, Steve.

What happened?

It's all right. I got you now.

Susan, are you all right?

- What happened to your mother?

- I don't know.

I heard her smashing things.

I tried to get her to come out.

And then the door burst open

and I screamed.

I don't remember anything after that.

Can you get up now?

- I think so.

- Come on.

- Are you OK?

- I'll be all right.

I must find Letitia.

- I must help.

- No. Come on.

Letitia!

Letitia!

Come on.

Letitia!

Let's try this way.

Letitia!

Father?

It's only the wind. Come on.

Letitia.

Steve!

No!

Reinhart, get my daughter out of here.

Please take Susan away.

The evil that Corbin created

has finally come to root here.

I refused to listen to her entreaties.

Now Letitia's paid with her life

for Corbin's blasphemies.

And my own, too.

Mr Witley, blasphemy

had nothing to do with it.

In my heart, I must have known

that she was right.

It is as she said.

A curse is set upon this house.

How could I have been so blind

as not to know

that stone was sent from

the other side by the hand of Corbin,

reaching out from beyond the grave?

- A curse?

- What do you know of this house?

- Or the people who've lived in it?

- The stone was not sent by anyone.

It's easy for you to say that,

but you didn't see it that Sunday morning,

screaming out of the heavens to crash

and bury itself in the heath.

It fell from the sky!

Then it was a meteorite.

I thought it was a gift from Heaven.

The people from the village came to see,

but they wouldn't come near it.

They knew because the fear

of Corbin was still in them.

The next morning, the heath

was covered with a lush vegetation

that should never have grown there.

Why did you bring it into the house?

Why?

Because I thought,

as Corbin knew I would...

I thought I'd found a way to turn

the wasteland into a place of beauty.

Great vineyards, gardens.

That was my dream.

I thought the name of Witley

would mean something once again,

and Corbin's iniquities

would be atoned for.

Everyone he came in contact with

was touched by it.

Father, please come back into the house.

Susan! Stephen,

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