Behemoth (2011)

Plot Summary

For eons, it has been dormant beneath the earth. Now, nature has awakened it, and nothing on earth can stop it. For generations, the dormant volcano Mount Lincoln has anchored Ascension, the quiet town in its shadow—until an earthquake rocks the region, splitting open the rocky face of the smoldering mount. When the Richter scale goes off the charts at nearby Northern Tech University, Emily Green heads back to her hometown to survey the damage, and back to her old high school sweetheart, logger Thomas Anderson. The disaster has also drawn undercover government agent Jack Owens. He fears this is only the beginning of a larger threat, something that hasn’t taken place for tens of thousands of years. It’s not another natural disaster. In fact, there’s nothing in nature quite like it. When aftershocks tear at earth, swallowing up the town, the remaining survivors flee. But with Thomas’s younger sister’s disappearing in the panic, he’s not going anywhere until he finds her. Emily and Jack agree to help but not before Jack’s warning. He has found evidence that an ancient beast is ready to rise from its earthen grave—a subterranean creature as massive as the mountain itself. It’s a race against time for the small rescue party as the earth rumbles, as a roar more shattering than the quake bellows from beneath. Mount Lincoln is opening; the Behemoth is rising in a cloud of fire and ash, and only a force as destructive as the great beast itself can stop it. Exploding out of the earth itself comes the most towering creature of them all. Behemoth is coming.