Basilisk: The Serpent King2006
“An eclipse awakens an ancient monster whose gaze turns flesh into stone.”
Directed by Stephen Furst
The premise
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.
Horror Vault's take
When an archaeological dig in Libya unearths a two-thousand-year-old serpentine monster alongside its long-dead victims, the find is shipped off to a Colorado university museum — a decision that proves catastrophically short-sighted. A rare solar eclipse triggers something no one in the scientific community was prepared for, and the campus quickly becomes hunting ground for a creature out of ancient legend. Archaeologist Harry McColl must scramble to piece together the secret that imprisoned the beast once before, before the body count climbs any higher. Equal parts mythological adventure and creature-feature chaos, this TV movie leans hard into pulpy B-movie fun.
Content: Creature Violence, Petrification Imagery, Mild Gore
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