Mongolian Death Worm is a Made-for-TV Horror Movie by Steven R. Monroe.
When an American oil company starts using an experimental new fracking method in Mongolia (which involves pumping hot water into the Earth to produce shale oil) to do some excavating, it ends up having some very unexpected results. Soon, they're experiencing mechanical problems and delays, employees start disappearing, and the remaining work force, believing the facility to be cursed, stop showing up to work. The guy in charge, Patrick (Drew Waters), begins fearing this could attract the attention of corporate, which might bring to light his shadier actions to them.
Meanwhile, Alicia (Victoria Pratt) and Phillip (Nate Rubin), a pair of doctors from a non-profit medical organization called "Doctors For Hope", get lost on their way to their destination, a Mongolian village called Sepegal, where a new disease is spreading among the locals. They blame it on a venom released into the water by Mongolian Death Worms, which the doctors don't believe a word of.
They hitch a ride with Daniel (Sean Patrick Flanery), one of the locals who's in the area for something he's spent years looking for. Soon, all of these separate events become connected.
The film debuted on Syfy on May 8th, 2010.
Mongolian Death Worm contains examples of:
- Asshole Victim: Kowlan and his henchmen are a bunch of drug dealers who hold Daniel, Alicia, and Phillip hostage. They get eaten by the titular worms.
- Bound and Gagged: Patrick does this to Mr. Bixler in Genghis Khan's Tomb.
- Car Fu: At one point, one of the worms is killed by being run over with a car.
- Eaten Alive: Happens to quite a few people in the movie at the hands of the worms, such as a few plant employees, Mr. Bixler, Kowlan and his men, Patrick, and Officer Timur.
- Friend on the Force: Officer Timur if this for Daniel. He even comes to Daniel's aid in the climax.
- Handgun: Patrick is revealed to have a gun, which he trains on Mr. Bixler to keep him from discovering the crates full of treasure from Genghis Khan's Tomb under the plant. Daniel and Alicia eventually get their own handgun in the oil plant.
- Sand Worm: they are the monsters of the movie.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Officer Timur has a shotgun that he takes everywhere. He uses it to kill the worms at Timur.
- Stuff Blowing Up: At the end of the film, everyone decides that the only way to kill all the worms is to blow up the oil plant above their nest.
