What Waits Below

What Waits Below

Underground, no-one can hear you die!

PG 1984 · 88 min · ★ 4.1 · Horror, Adventure, Science Fiction

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 and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen including scientist Leslie Peterson 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.

Directed by Don Sharp · Written by Freddie Francis

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Robert Powell Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen
Timothy Bottoms Major Elbert Stevens
Lisa Blount Leslie Peterson
Anne Heywood Frieda Shelley
Richard Johnson Ben Gannon
A.C. Weary Lt. George Barwell
Liam Sullivan Lemurian Elder
Jackson Bostwick Hunter Prime
Richard Beauchamp Santos Arias
Gary Carlos Cervantes Hector Lopez
Dick Curtis Lemurian
William Gribble Sgt. Neumann

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