Friends and I sat down to watch a silly old horror movie. They picked one out called "Mitchell Mitch," because apparently that's hilarious. They turn it on and instantly I'm in the movie. Notsomuch in the movie like I'm affecting it but felt more like basically watching the movie really close.
Story starts not far off from an old mining town, in a newly unabandoned camp for tourists. The "camp counsler is driving his van towards the campers that have been there a day or so. The tires all blow at once. He starts to complain when we hear gunshots. A moment later, they get a telephone call from the town, saying last night Sheriff had been shot by the local gang. Since it was dangerous out in these dilapidated cabins in the woods now, everyone decideds to hoof it into town, the only road being a twisty abandoned railroad track running through the woods and sandwiched between shallow lakes.
The group heads off, mildly complaining about the walk and then wondering aloud what those gunshot sounds were. I was "watching" from a man's perspective at the beginning of the group. He had an old wooden rifle which had two shots. He wasn't much of a marksmen, he kept saying, but was still pretty good at close range. As we pass a bridge, "I'm" looking down at the bridge tracks and musing that there's no way even a cart could ride on the rails anymore, seeing as the rails were bent and broken up. Just then a lady (the man's wife?) screams and he turns around. She's only point in into the distance to some figures standing in a shallow lake. Camera zooms on them and they are these horrible egret-men, cleaning off in the water. The man clasps his hand on her throat and tells her to be quiet. Everyone else does their best to stifle their screams. She begs the man to shoot them but he says that'd only be a waste as he couldn't hit them and that'd draw attention to the group. Besides, they hadn't hurt anyone had they? No, they are just ugly creatures living their lives as they are wont to do.
As the group walks on word, the man is constantly looking around and rechecking the gun. They are walking through the woods when ahead of them, they see a pod thing erupt from the lake and fly over the bridge. Just then a egret-man screeches and appears out of nowhere. It knocks the pod down and begins to crack it with it's terrible beak thing. At this time, I figured out the story. In the pod were people trying to escape and the egret-man would try to eat them, thus getting the man to shoot it, causing the egret-men to try to kill the group. The four shots we heard at camp earlier were the egret-men killing the gang that shot the sheriff. The gang tried to shoot the egret-men as they died. Group would get to town, learn about it's past and the egret-men. Something would happen, woman (wife?) would be stolen and the main character man would stomp of to save her, defeat the egret-men, and save the town. At the very end, we see a large egg hatching, camera moves to the wall, and the shadow of a small egret-man is seen on the wall. As I said all I "figured out" about the story, the scenes played out in fast forward, but with me narrating it all sounding bored.
My friends were upset I ruined the movie and happened to guess everything right even though it was my first time seeing this movie. They began hitting me and I woke up. Please note that during the entire dream up until "I got it" we had been doing an MST3K thing and commenting on the clothing, accents, effects, and whatnot. The thing I thought was strange was it's clearly a 50's monster movie but the production and everything was that of a 80's horror movie. Egret-men looked great though.
