Comes the Dawn story
Colonel Parker and Sergeant Burrows are a pair of veterans of Operation Desert Storm who have traveled to Alaska to do some illegal grizzly bear poaching. The soldiers meet local game warden and fellow veteran Jeri Drumbeater, who takes them to an abandoned weather station supposedly used as a hibernation site for bears. Instead, the hunters find themselves becoming the hunted when the station turns out to hold a nest of ravenous vampires. Directed by: John Herzfeld. Story by: William Gaines.
12 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| vampire | choice | In a surprise twist, it turned out that Jeri commanded a hoard of bloodthirsty vampires. Jeri turned the vampires loose on two poachers, one of whom resolved to wait them out until sunrise, somehow not realizing that their northern location was in the midst of period of 24-hour darkness. |
| betrayal | major | Jeri led the poachers to believe that grizzly bears were hibernating inside the abandoned weather station. In reality, it was all a ruse. The weather station was home to a colony of bloodthirsty vampires that were under Jeri's command. Her plan all along was to unleash the vampires on the poaches, and so she did. |
| coping with being disfigured | major | Jeri was horribly scarred from friendly fire she sustained in the Gulf War. |
| greed for riches | major | The story follows two hunters in their efforts to poach a grizzly bear. They planned to sell its gall bladder on the black market for a pretty penny. In the end, however, it was the hunters who became the hunted. |
| poaching | major | Colonel Parker and Sergeant Burrows traveled to Alaska with designs on poaching a grizzly bear. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Jeri held a grudge against her fellow Gulf War veterans Colonel Parker and Sergeant Burrows over physical injuries she suffered at the hands of friendly fire. To exact her revenge, she set on them the hoard of bloodthirsty vampires under her command. |
| childish bullying | minor | In his sketch, the Crypt Keeper confronted a beach bully. |
| endangered species | minor | Jeri asserted that grizzly bears and brown bears were endangered. |
| girlfriend and girlfriend | minor | Jeri was romantically involved with the bartender lady, Mona. |
| historical event | minor | Three American veterans of the Gulf War spoke of their experiences fighting the Iraqi Army. [Gulf War] |