The Terror Within II story

movie: The Terror Within II (1991) · 1991-01-18

The last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutants break inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the Earth's surface. It is the sequel to the 1989 film The Terror Within.

14 total · 3 choice · 3 major · 8 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
human vs. monster	choice	The unlucky survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic were besieged by murderous humanoid mutants.
human-made pandemic	choice	The story follows what is perhaps the last human colony as they seek to produce a vaccine for a deadly covert biological war released virus, while simultaneously trying to not all get killed by wasteland roaming murderous mutants.
post-apocalyptic dystopia	choice	The story is set in a near future where a weaponized, human-made virus has left almost all world's population dead. Some of last survivors struggle to find a vaccine for the virus while at the same time being besieged by killer mutants.
humanoid mutant	major	A human-made virus mutated some of its carriers into murderous mutants that reproduced by inseminating normal human females.
monster	major	A hideously disfigured, murderous mutant was going around killing people.
romantic love	major	David and Jennifer were mutually besotted. Kyle and Robin had the hots for each other.
biological weapons	minor	The opening crawl text explains how "covert biological warfare" resulted in the release of a virus "so devestating that only a handful of humans survived."
brother and sister	minor	Jennifer and her brother Aaron were being stalked by a hideous mutant monster.
coping with the death of a family member	minor	Jennifer pointedly mourned the death of her brother, Aaron, who died at the hands of a hideous mutant monster.
giving birth	minor	Jennifer gave birth to a mutant baby just weeks after becoming pregnant.