Loch Ness Terror

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Loch Ness Terror
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Written by Jason Bourque
Paul Ziller
Directed byPaul Ziller
Starring Brian Krause
Niall Matter
Amber Borycki
Carrie Genzel
Don S. Davis
Music by Pinar Toprak
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersLindsay MacAdam
Kirk Shaw
CinematographyAnthony C. Metchie
EditorGordon Williams
Running time91 minutes
Production companiesInsight Film Studios
Lochness Production
CineTel Films
Original release
Network Sci-Fi Channel
Release5 January 2008 (2008-01-05)

Loch Ness Terror (titled Beyond Loch Ness on the Sci-Fi Channel) is a 2008 horror television film directed by Paul Ziller and written by Ziller and Jason Bourque.

Contents

Plot

James Murphy (Brian Krause) is a rugged cryptozoologist who, thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, was attacked by the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father and research assistants, and left James with a deep facial scar. Currently, James is hunting for Nessie when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Ashburn, on Lake Superior. He encounters Josh Riley (Niall Matter), owner of a bait shop. Josh's ex-girlfriend, Zoe, is going camping along with Brody and two others on Pike Island on the lake.

Josh's uncle, Sean, attempts to prove Nessie's existence but is eaten instead.

James hires Josh as a guide while his mother, Sheriff Karen Riley, eventually finds Sean's remains. She begins to suspect that an underwater predator is on the loose. The creature attacks and kills her deputy's sister as she returns from grocery shopping. When one of the campers disappears (after being eaten by the creature), the others are unable to escape and one is killed while Brody is injured.

Hearing about James, Karen warns him to stay away from Josh, but the pair still work together. They find a corpse and James takes the head before Karen's deputy, Neil Chapman, arrives. James reveals that Sean has contacted him prior about Nessie and, seeing the corpse, believes there might be a nest somewhere. Before the two set off, James is arrested, leaving Josh to go alone.

James manages to convince Karen that a 40-foot plesiosaurus is behind the killings, after they send a skin sample to the Zoological Institute on the mainland that matches no known species of reptile. Josh arrives on the island and encounters packs of baby plesiosaurs. He is rescued by Zoe and Brody and he leaves them at a magnetite mine for safety, not knowing it is the nest. Brody is killed by a pack of baby plesiosaurs. Sheriff Riley, Murphy and Deputy Neil Chapman spot Josh's flare and track the creature and her offspring to the magnetite mine on the island.

Sheriff Riley and Josh manage to kill some of the offspring, Neil dies after running out of ammunition and being attacked by the babies. Josh lures Nessie away from Zoe and traps her in a container filled with magnetite. James stabs the creature with a cyanide-filled syringe, then helps Josh by getting him out of harm's way and throws his cigarette lighter into the container, igniting the explosive magnetite and destroying the creature and her remaining offspring. Josh and Zoe are reunited and Sheriff Riley asks if James will now start to "hunt for Bigfoot", to which he replies that he will instead probably find a nice small town to call home. Josh asks if he means Ashburn, to which he laughingly replies "yeah."

Cast

Production

The television film was produced by Lindsay MacAdam and Kirk Shaw for Insight Film Studios as Loch Ness Terror. [1] It was financed by Sci Fi Channel and directed by Paul Ziller.

Release

It aired on 5 January 2008 in the USA at [2] and was released on 9 July 2008 in Canada on DVD.

Soundtrack

The Turkish classic musician Pinar Toprak composed and performed the score.

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References

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  2. "ABC FAMILY, AMC, SCI FI & USA ALL BOOK JANUARY PREMIERES". Futoncritic. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2016.