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FISH FRENZY
By Daniel Broderick

GENRE: Horror, Comedy
LOGLINE:

Sharknado meets Frankenfish in this disaster/horror send up. An overly dedicated female Ichthyologist tries to save the residents of Catalina Island from a fish apocalypse that she created.

SYNOPSIS:

Charity Melville, late 20’s, ichthyologist, working with her assistant Leroy on Catalina Island, to enhance the communication abilities of several fish. Her star: Moby, an elephant nose fish, with a larger brain-to-body weight ratio than humans and, thanks to Charity, antennae in his brain and rear-end electrical receptors that significantly enhance his abilities to communicate with all fish and magnify his natural ability to send out electrical charges.

After Moby and other fish are flushed down the toilet by the boss’s dim-witted son, the chase (and the mayhem) are on. A teen observing some harmless koi is the first victim. Then it's off to Avalon Harbor for attacks on a glass bottom boat ride, an undersea submarine, and even the Catalina Island Express boat falls victim to an attack by schools of flying fish and ravenous barracudat.

Always two steps behind, Charity seeks help from Jenny, a California Fish and Game warden. Good luck with that. Moby continues to spread havoc. A night time attack on a spearfish charter by some loutish tourists. Then the owner of an exotic fish store meets his demise, along with his store and half the pier on which it was located.

Moby and his minions head to the back side of the island where there's a fraternity/sorority fish fry in full swing. Moby enhances his legions with some moray eels, resulting in more blood and more deaths. He is even able to outwit some fishermen seeking to blow him up. Their dynamite only results in human deaths.

Time for the U.S. Navy to enter the picture. Not only will they find and capture Moby, but they'll clean up the rusting barrels of toxic DDT that have plagued the waters (and fish) of Catalina for decades. Too good to be true? Well, duh, yeah.

Moby continues on his bloody path, enticing a small party of scuba divers into a cave where they become the main course. But the Navy captures him and begins shock training to teach him how to lead fish into the toxic zone surrounding the sunken barrels, so that the now-poisoned fish can be recaptured and released off the coasts of enemy nations, devastating their economies. Once released, however, Moby turns the tables, sending the Navy Commander to his doom.

On the hook for all the damage Moby has caused, Charity’s boss seeks revenge. Charity and her buds, however, just want to make things right. The boss finds him first. Armed with a speargun. It's a mano-a-fin showdown. But as Moby slowly exits triumphantly, Charity leaps into the water. She caused all this; she has to fix it. But Moby can’t forgive and forget his personal Dr. Frankenstein. As Charity sinks to the bottom, the cavalry in the persons of Jenny and Leroy save her and miraculously capture Moby. Back at the lab everything is going swimmingly -- until dim wit returns and, you guessed it, holds another fish funeral. We end with Moby eyeing his new playground: the Southern California coast.

FISH FRENZY

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