13. Comes the Dawn — Episode — Tales from the Crypt

13. Comes the Dawn

Colonel Parker and Sergeant Burrows, two ex-soldiers with a murky past, arrive in the Alaskan wilderness to do some illegal hunting. They get a local girl called Jeri Drumbeater, Parker's subordinate during Desert Storm, to be their scout. Unknown to the two army men, they are about to face consequences for their evil past actions in this dark, cold region.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Colonel Parker ( Michael Ironside ) and Sergeant Burrows ( Bruce Payne ) 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 ( Vivian Wu ), 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. Also starring Susan Tyrrell.

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