The Film

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Eleven years ago, a cave-in on the north side of a mine trapped six miners. Six days later, rescue teams found five dead miners and the comatose Harry Warden, who survived by killing the other miners with a pickaxe. Tom Hanniger, the mine owner's son, was blamed for the mine disaster because he forgot to vent the methane lines. The following year on Valentine's Day, Warden wakes from his coma and kills many people. At the abandoned mineshaft that was the site of the disaster, a party is in full swing, attended by many teens, including Axel Palmer, his girlfriend, Irene, Tom Hanniger, and his girlfriend, Sarah. Sarah goes in alone and gets lost looking for Axel and Irene. She runs across a teen and a few seconds later he is killed. She is confronted by Warden in full miner's garb, carrying a bloody pickaxe, and she flees. The police arrive and shoot Warden, who makes his getaway back into the mine. Ten years later, Tom's father, from whom Tom has been estranged, dies and Tom inherits the mine. The retired sheriff says that he and Tom's father killed and buried Warden, but when Axel, Tom, Sarah and Axel's father go to the burial spot, Warden's body is no longer there.