Written by Mr. Mouseburger 27th Feb 2006

Kindly submitted by Kooshmeister

Dr. Reginald Landers is the local sawbones on a small island off the eastern coast of Ireland, whose patient Ian Bellows has turned up dead in a cave, having had his skeleton completely removed. Unable to determine what became of Ian's bones, Reginald seeks the help of pathologist Dr. Brian Stanley and bone disease expert Dr. David West, who return to the island with him.

Their investigations lead them to the mansion of Dr. Lawrence Phillips (q.v.), a "top man in cancer research", whose effort to cure cancer has resulted in the creation of a bunch of nasty little creatures called Silicates. The creatures have a single tentacle, which they use to inject a bone-dissolving enzyme into their victims, so that they can slurp out the liquefied skeleton.

When first encountering one of the monsters at the mansion our heroes attempt to flee, only to find the escape route is blocked by a second Silicate. Reginald grabs an emergency fire axe off of the wall behind him, and ignoring Brian's warning of "Don't get too close!", he walks up to the nearest Silicate and proceeds to hit it with the axe, which proves to be spectacularly unsuccessful. As he raises the axe for a second attempt, the Silicate responds by grabbing his ankle with its tentacle.



This unbalances Reginald and he falls on top of the creature, and begins writhing and screaming. The audience is not witness to the actual dissolving of his skeleton, as it occurs off-screen but they are party to the loud slurping noises, and they can see the horrified reactions on his friend’s faces to know that this is not a pleasant way to meet your maker. The last we see of Reginald are his feet: his boneless corpse has inexplicably moved all the way around the corner of the narrow hallway (which saves cash on the special effects budget!) that the characters are in.


Landers gets grabbed by the tentacles - ouch!