Skeleton Man

Skeleton Man is the antagonist of the 2004 Sci-Fi Pictures movie of the same name.

BACKGROUND
The story starts off with an archaeologist looking at some artifacts he has dug up from an Indian burial ground. Among these items is the skull of an Indian chief. Skeleton Man appears through a portal and kills the archaeologist. Skeleton Man then chases the archaeologist's assistant to a power plant, killing her and the two workers.

Mounting a horse, Skeleton Man slays a soldier and pursues his partner. Before he is killed, the second man records a video of the encounter and sends it to headquarters. They in response deploy an elite Delta Force unit of commandos to neutralise the threat.

A female soldier falls behind and is stabbed through the chest. The squad then finds an elderly Indian man who reveals how Skeleton Man was a genocidal warrior who slayed his tribe and is now hunting the soldiers, but they all do not listen.

Elsewhere, Skeleton Man murders the employees at an oil pumping station. Two sentries are then killed in the nighttime and the team scout also vanishes.

The next day the Delta Force encounters the undead warrior. The heavy gunner attacks him but is killed and the team opens up but does not affect him. A Citizen's Militia support helicopter is shot down. The heavy gunner's body is searched for but it has disappeared. The team finds their scout, who was killed by friendly fire (Cottonmouth Joe having captured him and put him in a location to be shot). They try to trap their opponent but run out of ammo. Another soldier is killed as is the sniper whose head is crushed by a tomahawk.

The two remaining soldiers try to trap the killer again, but this fails. Skeleton Man instead goes to a nearby chemical plant where he indiscriminately slaughters several workers, two guards, the manager and several scientists. The soldiers arrive at the plant which is surrounded by police personnel. Captain Leary, one of the surviving soldiers, uses a sheriff's semi-automatic shotgun to hunt the killer. After a cat-and-mouse chase through the chemical plant, Captain Leary lures Cottonmouth Joe into a generator room and blows him up with electric current.

As the film's credits begin to roll, they suddenly reverse and show Skeleton Man back on his horse in the woods, thus indicating that he has survived.