
A Made For TV horror film directed by Wes Craven. Corporate executive Miles Creighton (Michael Beck) dies and is cryogenically frozen, in the hope that he can be revived. Ten years later, the procedure is a success, and he returns — but without his soul.
The movie also stars Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson, Dick O'Neill, Alan Fudge, Paul Sorvino, and Craig Richard Nelson.
It aired on May 22, 1985 on CBS.
Tropes for the film:
- Came Back Wrong: A man named Miles Creighton is revived from cryonic preservation ten years after being frozen due to having an organ rejection and lack of anti-rejection medication that wasn't available then. With technology now advanced enough to resurrect people preserved this way, Miles is brought back to life, but has undergone an unpleasant change of personality, becoming cruel and sadistic, with the implication that he has lost his soul.
- Evil-Detecting Animal: Hep, the Creighton's dog, barks and acts aggressively towards Miles after his revival, as it can sense the monster that Miles has become.
- Hellish Pupils: Miles displays these twice: first when he wakes up after being brought back from his cryogenic sleep, and when he dies for good in front of his mother in the ending.
- Here We Go Again!: The final scene is set at the cryogenics facility, where another alarm goes off as another storage tank, like the one Miles was in the beginning, malfunctions and begins to thaw. This is followed by several more storage tanks malfunctioning.
- Monster from Beyond the Veil: Miles Creighton, after being brought back from the dead.
- The Nothing After Death: When a priest asks Miles what there is after death, he says, "Nothing. You die and there's just darkness." (It may or may not be true, as Miles is an Unreliable Expositor since he Came Back Wrong).
- One-Word Title: Chiller.
- The Soulless: After being brought back from the dead, Miles starts engaging in evil behavior, including rape. A priest states that this is because he's technically "dead" and his soul is now gone.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Based on the reactions of people who knew Miles when he was alive, he was nothing like the monster that he became post-revival.
