The Nature of the Beast (European title: Bad Company UK: title Hatchet Man) is a 1995 horror mystery film written and directed by Victor Salva. It stars Eric Roberts and Lance Henriksen.
The story is set in Southern California and a close-up of a beeper halfway through the film reveals that the action takes place in July 1993.
Jack Powell (Lance Henriksen) is a businessman with a wife and kids who live in San Diego. He's on his way home when he pulls over to the side of the road to check out a crime scene. The sheriff tells him a cut-up body has been found stuffed into the trunk of a Chrysler, and advises him not to stop and "make any new friends." Policemen slam the trunk, revealing a name has been etched across the top: "Hatchet Man."
Further on down the road, Jack comes upon a hitchhiker and keeps on going. At a diner, he runs into the same man, who introduces himself as Adrian (Eric Roberts). Jack apologizes for not stopping and offers to buy Adrian lunch. Their waitress, Patsy (Eliza Roberts), is dubbed "Jingle Bells" by Adrian because of the silver bracelets she wears on one wrist. Patsy talks excitedly about a briefcase full of $1.25 million in mob money that was stolen from a Las Vegas casino the previous day. Jack looks around nervously and slides his briefcase underneath the table. Adrian advises Jack that he can usually tell all he needs to know about a man within 2 minutes of meeting him, like is he a loser, is he a football star, or mr class president. Jack doesn't seem convinced before Adrian asks him what he's got in his briefcase. When Adrian gets up to make a move on Patsy in the kitchen, Jack ditches him and makes his escape.
Nature of the Beast is a TV movie starring Autumn Reeser and Eddie Kaye Thomas. It premiered on ABC Family in 2007. It was directed by Rodman Flender.
A woman discovers her fiance is a werewolf. Instead of being scared, she accepts him and wishes to help him kill the Alpha werewolf that bit him in the past, allowing him to be cured (Betas like himself can be cured by killing the Alpha if they have not taken a human life). Much to their shock, they find his best friend from College is the Alpha wolf, who forced him to transform to attack her. However, his love for her prevents him from harming her, allowing his human consciousness to take hold and allow him to kill the Alpha. At their wedding, he jokes about something sexual, prompting her to call him a beast.
The Beast may refer to:
Daniel Eugene Osman (February 11, 1963 – November 23, 1998) was an American extreme sport practitioner, known for the dangerous sports of "free-soloing" (rock climbing without ropes or other safety gear); and "rope free-flying" or "rope jumping" (falling several hundred feet from a cliff then being caught by a safety rope), for which his record was over 1000 feet/300 meters. He was known for living a bohemian lifestyle, working as a part-time carpenter and living in Lake Tahoe, CA. He was the star of several rock climbing videos, which brought free-soloing to a wider audience. Dan had one daughter, Emma Osman.
Dan Osman appeared in Eric Perlman's Masters of Stone series, free soloing Atlantis (5.11+) on The Sorcerer in Needles and Airy Interlude (5.10b, then 5.9) on The Witch, also in Needles (in California's Sierras). He also is featured crashing a bmx bicycle, ziplining off The Witch, taking a gigantic 192 foot whipper just for the fun of it (in Yosemite), and perhaps most impressively, on-sight free-soloing Bolder Display of Power (5.11).
[Swallow]
It seems to me you waited till the time came
I believe, you returned for us at last
It seems to me you tested me so many ways
I believe, every test I passed
It seems to me that every test I passed
[The Man]
If you go deep down inside my eye's, do you see a saviour, a prophet or even a priest?
Or do you only see the blackness there, that's the nature of the beast
The one that you should fear the most, may be the ones you fear the least
If you know me then you have to know, the nature of the beast
There are hungry devils everywhere, it's on my heart they feast
Let me rise above the carcass of this all too mortal beast
If I had the chance I'd fly away, I'd see myself released
I'd fly above the carcass of this poor, pathetic beast
[Swallow]
I don't know why you try to make me doubt you
I don't know why when I believe my spirit so
Some day soon, they'll no longer threaten you
Till that day all my prayers are yours
Until then, all my prayers are yours
[The Man]
The things that you despise the most maybe the ones that can stand the least
There are lots of things you've yet to learn about the nature of the beast
There's always wars and plagues and death, the terrors have never ceased
There's nothing you or I can do about the nature of the beast
[Swallow]
I'm not afraid, you taught me that
[The Man]
You fool why can't you see
[Swallow]
I'm not listening to a word you say, It was God sent you to me
[The Man]
What's the only sound left in this world, when every other sound has ceased?
It's the breathing in and the breathing out
It's still, it's still, in me
It's still the nature of the beast
There are hungry devils everywhere, it's on my heart they feast
Let me rise above the carcass of this pitiable beast
If I had the chance I'd fly away, I'd see my soul released
I'd fly above the carcass of the nature of the beast
[Swallow]
There's a prayer for the lost and for the lonely
There's a prayer to make the blind one's see
But if you, you are not what you must be
Then it's true you haven't got a prayer for me
And I, I haven't got a prayer:.. I have nothing
[The Man]
So many things in your life that your bound to regret
Why didn't I do this? Why didn't I do that?
So many chances you've lost that you'll never forget
So many unspoken vows, so many unopened doors
So many unbroken chains, so many unsettled scores
Why didn't I take it? Why didn't I make it come true?
[Swallow]
No one's ever looked at me
[Swallow & The Man]
No one's ever looked at me
The way your looking at me now
The mob arrive outside the barn. The children block the entrance and the man
hears them. Cornered and with no way out the man pulls out the gun and grabs
swallow as his hostage. He changes his mind and pushes her out of the barn,
closing the door behind her. He pours gasoline around the barn and lights a
match.
The barn bursts into flames with the man still inside it.
The scene moves to the barn after the fire has burnt out. Amos finally
catches up with Swallow. Boone tells her that the man in the barn was not
Jesus. Amos tells her he did not tell anyone about the man in her barn.
The sheriff tells them that the man has gone, there was not a trace of him in
the barn.
Poor baby & Brat sing
"The thunder is rolling, the sky is black
It's gotten so dark somehow
He said there'll be trouble, but I know he'll be back
And I hope that he's home by now
He should have been home by now"
Brat asks Swallow "he's free now, isn't he?"
Swallow replies "He'll be back, I just know he will"
Brat tells how he preyed for a Christmas bonfire and got the biggest one of
all.
Swallow, Boone, Brat and Poor Baby stand in the remains of the burnt out barn
and sing Whistle down the wind...