Steve says that the campers will soon be back and leads the hikers to a nearby spot to bed down for the night. On the mountain, the hikers stumble upon a camp where a fire is burning and coffee cups are ready to be filled, but no one is around. At that moment, a reporter on the bar's television set says a White House bulletin is claiming that chemical waste released into the atmosphere has dangerously depleted the ozone layer, which protects all life on Earth from the sun's radiation. Meanwhile, in the restaurant of Murphy's Hotel, Tucker sits down with Burt, the local sheriff, and tells him that there has been a spate of rattlesnake bites. Steve and his group then set off and, after a short rest, the group is introduced: Professor MacGregor (Richard Jaeckel), an anthropologist Frank and Mandy Young ( Jon Cedar and Susan Backlinie), a bickering married couple a wealthy older woman, Shirley Goodwyn ( Ruth Roman) and her son, Johnny (Bobby Porter) Paul Jenson ( Leslie Nielsen), an advertising executive and psychopath with an angry, derisive sense of humor Bob Denning ( Andrew Stevens) and Beth Hughes (Kathleen Bracken), a teenage couple Roy Moore ( Paul Mantee), a former professional football player sidelined by cancer Terry Marsh ( Lynda Day George), a television reporter and Daniel Santee ( Michael Ansara), a Native American guide and the steadiest person among them. Local ranger Chico Tucker (Walter Barnes) privately tells Steve that there have been all kinds of accidents lately and maybe this hike is not a good idea, but Steve refuses to call it off. Scientists observe that animals over 5,000 feet in altitude have become highly aggressive toward humans.Īt Murphy's Hotel in an alpine village somewhere in Northern California, Steve Buckner (Christopher George) prepares to board a dozen hikers into two helicopters to fly up the mountain to Sugar Meadow, where they will begin a days-long nature hike. The depletion of the Earth's ozone layer by CFC aerosols has been causing increased exposure to UV radiation at high altitudes. A group of hapless hikers must survive the animal onslaught and make their way to safety, even as the psychosis turns them against each other. It co-stars Lynda Day George and Leslie Nielsen.ĭay of the Animals tells the story of a psychosis brought on by depletion of the Earth's ozone layer, affecting all animals at high altitudes. The film reunited Girdler and Montoro with stars Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel from the previous year's Grizzly. Day of the Animals (re-released as Something Is Out There) is a 1977 American natural horror film directed by William Girdler, based on a story by producer Edward L.
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