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Killer Mermaid
by
Edward Abramson & Michael Karp
Logline: When a marine biology student falls for a deceased
1960s Beach movie starlet who’s been resurrected as a Killer-Mermaid in a
Voodoo ceremony gone wrong, he must face his fear of water and risk almost
certain death to confront the Killer-Mermaid he loves.
Comp: There’s Something About Mary, but with horror
touches. A horror comedy!
Synopsis: 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 1960s beach movies
like Beach Blanket Bingo. Unfortunately, Nick suffers from hydrophobia,
an anxiety disorder that plagues many people who suffer from this extreme
fear of the water. Nick can’t enter any body of water without immediately
going into a panic attack. And not only is Nick afraid of the water, he is also afraid of women.
Killer Mermaid revolves around the ghost of ‘60s beach movie starlet, KAREN
SLATER. When Karen’s controlling Hollywood agent, DON BULASKY finds out about
her love 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 surfer Nazi 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! Nick would love to save his friends from getting
eaten in the pool, but he is afraid of the water.
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creature is 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.
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 and 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 ‘60s 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!
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