Intermedio (film)
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| Intermedio | |
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| Directed by | Andrew Lauer |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Intermedio is an American Horror film.
[edit] Cast
It stars;
- Edward Furlong... Malik
- Cerina Vincent... Gen
- Amber Benson... Barbie
- Callard Harris... Wes
- Steve Railsback... Old Mysterious Man
[edit] Synopsis
In a small southern California town, Malik (Edward Furlong) along with his former girlfriend Gen (Cerina Vincent) her friend Barbie (Amber Benson), and another friend named Wes (Callard Harris) decide to take a weekend getaway to an old ghost town where Malik and Gen played when they were younger.
The arrive at a long abandoned prospecting settlement which is said to contain miles of underground tunnels, some of which lead to the Mexican border less than a mile away. The four friends climb down into the tunnels, and are observed by a mysterious old man (Steve Railsback) from a short distance away. He tugs on a mysterious amulet hanging from a chain around his neck and pours what appears to be blood on the ground.
In the tunnels, Malik, Gen, Barbie, and Wes stumble into two Mexican drug dealers, named Zee and Jorge, along with their contact Al, who are hauling some packets of contraband across the border. The drug dealers force the four teenagers to tag along with them. Suddenly mysterous ghost-like creatures begin to attack them, forcing the teenagers and drug runners to join forces and run to the nearest hatch to try to escape. The mysterious old man is seen stroking his necklace, summoning the mysterious creatures, and one of the drug dealers is killed.
Barbie is then sliced in half at the waist when she attempts to stand on Wes' shoulders to open another hatch. Most of Wes' fingers are severed as well. The remaining survivors manage to climb a ladder into a boarded up shack when Al is dragged by one of the creatures back into the caves. Wes is then killed when one of the creatures bursts through the boarded up door and stabs him in the neck, leaving only Gen and Malik. They struggle to get out of the shack and back into the tunnels to find another way out.
They soon discover a room filled with dozens of bodies that have been killed over the years. A ghostly teenage boy then appears and leads them to a path. Eventually the two safely escape the tunnels only to discover that they have lost the keys to their car, and they ask the owner of a nearby house for a ride. The owner turns out to be the mysterious old man, although neither of the survivors know he is the one behind the attacks.
As the old man drives the two away in his truck, he offers them some beer. Gen drinks it and soon goes unconscious. The old man meanwhile stabs Malik in each of his legs and then knocks him out with chloroform.
Malik and Gen wake up back in the room filled with dead bodies, and after they each painfully remove the barbed wire binding their wrists, Gen discovers a small, narrow tunnel. They crawl under it and end up in the house of the old man. The same ghostly teenage boy shows them a passage underneath a bed. The old man soon finds the open passage and follows them into it.
Once again, the old man summons the ghostly creatures to attack the two survivors as they flee. Soon Malik and Gen cross paths with the old man, who attacks them. The old man is about to murder Gen when the ghost yells at him to stop. Gen then takes the opportunity to attack the old man. Malik meanwhile is helpless due to his injured legs. Gen manages to get ahold of the necklace and destroys it, and the creatures show up and kill the old man.
Later, Gen cuts herself with a knife, dripping her blood onto a rock as she bids her deceased friend Wes goodbye. She meets up with Malik and they once again safely make it to the surface. It is soon daylight when they flag down another pickup truck and ask the driver man for a ride, though still wary from their ride with the old man, they jokingly tell the old man that they'd prefer to sit in the back.
Malik and Gen are then safely in a motel room, relived that their ordeal it over. Malik then muses over the old man's ability to control spirits, wondering whether they could then control them too, which Gen simply shrugs off. The movie ends showing the dead Wes and Barbie staring at Malik and Gen through their motel room window.
