Shrieker

Shrieker may refer to:

Films

Fictional animals

Shrieker (film)

Shrieker is a 1998 horror movie directed by David DeCoteau.

Plot

Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at a University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".

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Shrieker (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the shrieker is a plant.

Publication history

The shrieker first appeared in Dungeons & Dragons in The Strategic Review #3 (August 1975).

The shrieker appeared in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual (1977).

The shrieker appeared in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1977, 1981, 1983) and the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991).

The shrieker appeared in second edition under the "fungus" entry in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989), and reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).

The shrieker appeared in third edition under the "fungus" entry in the Monster Manual (2000), and in the 3.5 revised Monster Manual (2003).

Description

The shrieker resembles a large fungus. The shrieker shares a symbiotic relationship with the violet fungus in order to catch food. The shrieker emits a high-pitched wail to lure prey, and when it comes, the violet fungi attack with their tentacles.