
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.
“Hydrophobia”
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 plain 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, appearing 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 partygoers 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! But when the girls (ALEX & CINDY)
that Nick
& Daryl have their eyes on 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’s friends are about to
find
out in
Hydrophobia, it’s time to
be
afraid of the water… again!
Contact:
Edward Abramson pulpfictionman@mac.com
pulpfictionman2001@yahoo.com
(702) 837-1216
http://www.myspace.com/hydrophobia_themovie
Michael Karp mckarp@aol.com
(818)
515-8917
https://michaelkarp.net
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