Colonel Miller

Colonel Peter Miller, or simply known as Miller, is the secondary antagonist of the 1995 film Project: Metalbeast. He was portrayed by Barry Bostwick.

Bio
Peter Miller was an anxious CIA Colonel. Miller was assigned to a project that involved creating super soldiers with Werewolf blood. In 1974, he had assigned CIA Agent Donald Butler to retrieve said blood. He does so by killing a werewolf. Butler was anxious to use the blood on himself, even with ill advisement from Miller and the horrid side effects that had been calculated by a doctor.

Butler took the blood and injected himself with it. Miller learned of this and threatened to shut down the project, even with the promising results. Butler soon became ravenous and attacked staff, until turning into a full fledged werewolf. Having heard the screams of a Doctor, Miller found and shot Butler with 3 silver bullets. Still alive, Miller sent Butler‘s living “Corpse” and the victims‘ corpses to a cryo-lab to be frozen. He also ordered the doctor who witnessed the incident to be killed.

20 years later, Miller had heard of a Scientist who was creating a metallic tissue to cure skin cancer. He saw this as an opportunity to re-open the project. Miller had given the scientist the idea to operate on a cadaver. He chooses Butler, who wasn’t actually dead. She attaches the tissue onto Butler, who awakens from cryogenic sleep. Butler’s memory frozen, Miller shows him images of his Werewolf mission. This awakens his inner werewolf senses. He slowly changes into a metallic werewolf and goes on a killing spree throughout the facility.

Near the end of the film, Miller’s true self is revealed. He double crosses most of the staff, whom sought to kill the metallic werewolf. He wanted to keep it alive and control it. He shoots the General in the knees and leaves him for dead, and tries to stop the protagonists from getting the materials they needed to kill the beast. A worker allows two of the staff to escape with the materials, and guards the door from Miller. Miller non-fatally shoots the man. Miller continues to pursue the two staff, who escape to the Cryo-lab.

Miller gives a monologue to the staff members. However, just as he prepares to kill the two, he is attacked by the Metalbeast. It slashes his face and disarms him. He tries pleading with it, to no avail. It claws him into the air and he collided against a wall. It then proceeds to bite him. Still alive, Miller is finished when he is impaled on the creature‘s Claws.