( there be spoiler ) usual slasher film with the story take place in and around this god forsake mine outside the almost deserted town of sutterille . after receive a letter map and gold nugget from her brother jared and shadrach smith and clair and her husband nick breman and carrie bradac and sean hines and drive to the village together with four other friend and armature gold prospector alx and tori and steve wastell and sangie and and hayden and rox ann and rick majeske and elina to stake their claim . it later turn out that the fact that jar disturb the long forgotten gold mine cause the ghost of the notorious jeremiah stone and vernon well and to come back to life and with that restart his reign of terror . stone and or 49er and be about the most ridicule slasher or killer in motion picture history . stone look like he be bury for year under a few ton of coal run around with this hook slice people in two . after do in almost the entire cast local hermit aunt nelly and ( karen black ) and who daughter eve ( alexandra ford ) be also one of stone victim and tell those still alive that unless they return the gold back to the stone mine the crazed miner will never rest until he kill all those who still have it . aunt nelly be give just enough time to tell her story before she turn into a human torch by stone and end up jump into a nearby stream . the movie go on endlessly with the killer miner on the rampage look like he about as scary a burnt toast and just a dark . even those in the film seem to show no real fear of him . in one scene when he break into aunt nelly house everyone inside all charge and instead of run away and him cause the ghost miner to lose his right arm while stone spend the rest of the movie with a miner pick attach to his stump . besides actress karen black the film miner massacre also have veteran actor john phillip law and richard lynch a the town sheriff murphy and old man prichard . passable stuff but nothing special the movie have a predictable end with the entire gold mine go up in flame . the audience give a hint by the maker of miner massacre that the end to this mindless lunacy be nowhere in sight and may very well resurface in the very near future in a possible sequel and god help u all .