Killer
Mermaid
by
Edward Abramson
Marine biology student
NICK BIGMAN has a problem. He comes from a long line of
surfers; his father was an amateur surfer, his grandfather ROD
BIGMAN a surf champion who appeared in 1960’s beach movies
like Beach Bongo. Unfortunately, Nick suffers
from hydrophobia, an anxiety disorder that
plagues many Americans who suffer from this extreme fear of
the water. Nick can’t go near any body of water without
breaking into a sweat. If he’s tossed in the ocean or a pool
by a bunch of pranksters, he immediately goes into a panic
attack. Those who suffer from hydrophobia
have been known to drown in a shallow body of water they could
have easily stood up and walked away from, the anxiety’s that
intense.
“Killer Mermaid” revolves around the ghost of 60’s beach
movie starlet, KAREN SLATER. When Karen’s controlling
Hollywood agent, DON BULASKY finds out about her lover affair
with her BEACH BONGO co-star, ROD BIGMAN,
(Nick’s grandfather) her agent drowns her in a jealous rage.
Overcome with grief DON seeks out the help of a local Jamaican
witch doctor to bring his favorite beach movie starlet back to
life.
There’s only one problem. While what comes back resembles the
beautiful Karen Slater, in voodoo mythology if a person dies a
violent death, their soul returns evil incarnate. In Karen’s
case, she’s become a flesh eating astral zombie residing in
the pool of her old abandoned Malibu Beach house. Every spring
Karen needs to feed on twelve poor souls, so she can exist on
this earthly plane for another year. And because she’s an
astral zombie, Karen can materialize anywhere in the house or
pool area where there’s water!
With the help of her keeper, Hollywood agent Don Bulasky,
Karen lures a pair of college kids, who of course decide to
throw a huge Spring break pool party at her Malibu beach
house! Being Spring, it’s feeding time again! To complicate
matters, the protagonist Nick has a fear of the water. So if
he notices strange occurrences or claims to see weird stuff
going on during the mayhem of the pool party, no one’s going
to believe him.
We envision the creature like the first Species,
a sexy femme fatale who lures both men and women into the
pool. She appears as a sexy vixen at first, who then morphs
into an Alien like creature with razor sharp
piranha teeth capable of opening her mouth as wide as a python
to bite a man’s head off!
As the party-goers are knocked off one by one, Nick and his
fun loving dorm buddy DARYL don’t realize what’s going on –
they’re too preoccupied with getting laid! Nick & Daryl have their eyes on
cute girls ALEX & CINDY. But when the girls fall prey to
Karen as they wade in the pool, Nick is forced to confront
both his hydrophobia and this flesh
eating creature who was once Karen Slater, the sexy 60’s beach
movie starlet Nick’s idolized for years.
As Nick and friends are about to find out in Killer
Mermaid, it’s time to be afraid of
the water… again!
Contact:
Edward Abramson +1 (818) 281-7307
pulpfictionman@me.com
Michael Karp michaelkarpvfx@gmail.com
https://michaelkarp.net
+1 (514) 562-8147