Mind Ripper

Set in a remote desert location, government scientists Alex, Joanne, Frank, Larry and Rob perform reanimation experiments in an underground nuclear facility. The goal is to create a superhuman. Their subject, "Thor", is a specimen from a suicide found in the desert. In the attempts to bring Thor back, an uncontrollable creature is unleashed. The next morning, Alex calls Stockton, one of the overseers of the project, at his home and after an argument, Stockton eventually decides to visit the facility by plane. His son Scott, his daughter Wendy, and Wendy's boyfriend Mark join him.[6]

After Thor is reanimated, he kills Frank and Larry in the test room, leaving Alex, Joanne and Rob to attempt to escape, but Alex erases his handprint for the exit, intending to keep Thor alive, before he is pulled into the vents. Joanne and Rob attempt to find another exit based from old blueprints of the facility, but Rob is killed trying to rewire the power, leaving Joanne by herself. Meanwhile, Stockton arrives at the facility, with the others in tow, and enters the facility. While this is going on, Thor is revealed to be undergoing a form of genetic mutation and needs the sterols from the brainstem to stay alive, to which he sprouts a pincer from his mouth and uses it to take the bound Alex's sterol, killing him.

Stockton and the others split up after Wendy sees the facility's experiments and becomes upset with her father's involvement and she storms off; Mark goes off to find her while Stockton goes to find the scientists and Scott stays in the rec room. Stockton finds Larry's body and heads back to get the others out of the facility. Thor sneaks into the rec room and almost kills Scott, but the microwave timer goes off, the loud noise incapacitating Thor and Stockton is able to save Scott. They eventually come across Joanne and she explains the situation. They attempt to escape, but Thor catches up to them and captures Stockton, taking him into the vent shafts, where he recognizes Stockton from the earlier stages of the experiment and begins to further mutate. Later, Thor attacks the others and kills Joanne, Mark and Scott, before moving onto Wendy, who sprouts a pincer from her mouth; this is revealed to be a dream.

Meanwhile, Joanne and the others try to devise a way to kill Thor by leaving out sterols to lead Thor into a freezer room and trap him in, but the plan goes awry when Thor comes up behind them and kills Mark. Joanne is able to knock him into the freezer, but with the hand codes unavailable, they are seemingly hopeless. However, they find Stockton still alive and use his handprint to escape the facility. They drive away, but Thor has stowed away and attacks them again, but Scott uses a piece of glass to cut off the pincer before Thor can use it. They get to the plane, but Thor attacks them again until Joanne shoots him with a shotgun and he falls off. The survivors fly to safety while Thor is shown motionless where he has fallen, until his hands twitches, indicating he is still alive.

• Lance Henriksen as Stockton
• Claire Stansfield as Joanne
• John Diehl as Alex
• Natasha Gregson Wagner as Wendy Stockton
• Gregory Sporleder as Rob
• Giovanni Ribisi as Scott Stockton
• Dan Blom as Thor
• Adam Solomon as Mark
• John Apicella as Larry
• Peter Shepherd as Frank

The film was written by Jonathan Craven and intended by his father to be a third The Hills Have Eyes film,[7] but along the development Craven decided to rewrite the script and remove any overt references to the previous films.[8][9]

• "Mammals", Lucifer Wong (Wong Music/BMI)
• "Blacknailed Fingers", Terrordactyl (Hatchet Blade/BMI)
• "Back Down", Charley Horse (Hatchet Blade/BMI)
• "Bandit Swings", Terrordactyl (Hatchet Blade/BMI)
• "Bodies Piled Up", Charley Horse (Hatchet Blade/BMI)

All music property of Hellnote Recordings

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