What Waits Below
4.8
“Underground, no-one can hear you die!”
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen including scientist Leslie Peterson are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.
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Cast
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Robert Powell
Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen
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Shaka Zulu
Timothy Bottoms
Major Elbert Stevens
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Lisa Blount
Leslie Peterson
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Anne Heywood
Frieda Shelley
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Richard Johnson
Ben Gannon
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A.C. Weary
Lt. George Barwell
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Liam Sullivan
Lemurian Elder
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Jackson Bostwick
Hunter Prime
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Richard Beauchamp
Santos Arias
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Gary Carlos Cervantes
Hector Lopez
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Dick Curtis
Lemurian
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William Gribble
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Don Sharp Director · Robert Vincent O'Neil Screenplay Christy Marx Screenplay
United States release November 19, 1984 · Produced in United Kingdom, United States
Production
Adams Apple Film Company
Production
United Kingdom · United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 19, 1984
Theatrical
Germany
November 21, 1985 · Theatrical
November 25, 2016 · Physical · Uncut
United Kingdom
May 31, 1985 · Theatrical
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