Colonel Parker (Michael Ironside) and Sergeant Burrows (Bruce Payne) are two veterans who have come to the Alaskan wilderness to hunt, guided by Jeri Drumbeater (Vivian Wu). But these two have a dark past and some evil reasons for being on the hunt.

“Ah. Oh, hello, creeps! It’s your old pal, the big scare-huna, enjoying a little surf and sand. Hey, babe, want me to rub a little sun tan lotion on you? Mm. Boy, do I love the beach. Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey, you, watch it! Boy, I hate getting sand kicked in my face. I’m not your average 98-pound weakling, you know. For one thing, I don’t weigh that much. I tell you kiddies, I’m going to get that guy! Which brings to mind the two men in tonight’s terror tale. They’re on a little shriek and destroy mission of their own, in a nasty undertaking I call “Comes the Dawn.””

What Jeri doesn’t know is that they’ve already killed her ex-girlfriend, Mona (Susan Tyrrell), who tried to turn them in to the police for being poachers. But what they don’t know is that Jeri is a zombie, killed in Desert Storm by an artillery strike called in by Parker. She’s been waiting for him for years, living among the vampires that make Alaska their home.

This episode was directed by John Herzfeld, who directed and wrote 2 Days In the Valley. It was written by Scott Nimerfro, who also wrote ten other episodes.

It’s based on “Comes the Dawn!” from Haunt of Fear #26, which Otto Binder wrote and Jack Davis drew. The synopsis is close: “A man barricades himself in an Arctic cabin to hide from the vampire outside…but there’s no daylight.”