‘They came, they thawed, they conquered…’
The Chilling is a 1989 sci-fi horror film about a cryogenic centre where bodies are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.
The movie was directed by Deland Nuse (Return of the Boogeyman) and Jack A. Sunseri (producer of The Dead Pit) from a screenplay the latter co-wrote with actor Guy Michel Messenger.
The film stars Linda Blair (Repossessed; Hell Night; The Exorcist and The Heretic), Dan Haggerty (Axe Giant; Elves; Terror Night) and Troy Donahue (Shock ‘Em Dead; Blood Nasty; Seizure!). It is also known as Gamma 693 and The Thawing.
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Plot:
Halloween night: Dr Miller (Troy Donahue) runs the Universal Cryogenics Laboratory in Kansas City. He is secretly harvesting his patients’ organs and selling them on the black market.
Meanwhile, his secretary, Mary (Linda Blair), and the latest client grieving Joseph Davenport (Jack De Rieux), whose wife and bank robber son are being cared for by Dr Miller, are developing a fledgeling relationship. Unfortunately, an electrical storm brings all the lab’s deep-frozen corpses back to life and they run amok…
“The film is belabored and obvious, but its not everyday you see Grizzly Adams fend off a horde of zombies with a forklift … Though they don’t really do anything interesting, the cryonoids do look sharp with their glowing white eyes, wearing their sleek, TV dinner foil suits.” Peter Dendle, The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia book
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Choice dialogue:
“Sergeant Vince Marlow: Die you green bag of snot!”
Filming locations:
Kansas City, Missouri
Lafayette, Oakland and Walnut Creek, California
Trailer:
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