An exotic animal biologist and her ex-fiancé battle to stop genetically engineered frog-piranha hybrids before they eat their way through a major city.

(Finalist in 2018 Crimson Screen Horror Film Fest and 2018 Oaxaca Film Fest.)

SYNOPSIS:

In this exploitation monster script, an explosion in the fly population wreaks havoc with traffic, aviation, crops and life in general.

DR. LEAH GROSF, a biologist and free-lance rare species acquisition specialist, flies into town on her way to deliver six red-bellied piranhas to a zoo. Her cabbie is none other than GAGE, her ex-fiancé.

Her father, DR. “DOC” GROSF, is a geneticist less concerned with proper protocol than results. Under contract by the government to find a solution to the fly fog problem, Doc does the unthinkable… he splices frog and piranha DNA.

PETA fanatics break into Doc’s lab, abscond with all his aquatic specimens and release them in a small pond. The fast growing frogranha soon turn their teeth on flies, fish and eventually the PETA fanatics.

The police let Leah examine the skeletons and she identifies the bite marks as coming from piranha. With the help of a Police Captain, Leah, Gage and Doc trap the creatures in the pond with lines of salt. They leave the Captain to guard the scene while they seek high doses of caffeine to overload the animals’ metabolism.

While gone, the critters escape their salty confinement by leap-frogging over the carcasses of frogranhas that sacrificed themselves on the salt. They eat the Captain before hopping to a nearby highway. One leads the charge across the lanes of traffic like the Frogger arcade game. A large pile up results and the beasts descend on the stranded commuters in a bloodbath.

Leah and her crew get on an overpass and pour the caffeinated products onto the critters. It backfires. Instead of overloading their metabolism and causing instant death, the frogranhas grow faster.

The swarm moves towards San Diego. The trio hope to stop the carnage at a small bar. When they arrive, the swarm has already eaten their way through the bar. The trio point large fans toward the woods where the swarm headed, and spray fly pheromones developed by Doc. The frogranha turn back, as Leah waits in the bar, ready to ignite kerosene tanks and destroy them. Trapped in the bar, she makes a bad ass jump through a window when the bar explodes.

They quickly discover much of the swarm survived when one bites off Doc’s hand.

With doc safe in the hospital, they confront the military and offer to help them destroy the creatures. A stubborn Colonel ignores their advice and locks them up. Leah confesses to Gage why she dumped him years before, when he proposed. She was afraid she wouldn’t see the world and experience life.

The military’s plan fails. Leah and Gage escape the decimated military encampment and run into an Army Captain willing to listen to them. A plan to use salt from a nearby mine to stop the creatures is hatched. Leah douses the cab with the last of the pheromone spray and they drive through the swarm leading it towards a small lake.

Back at the hospital, the frogranha that bit off Doc’s hand tracks him. He manages to trap it between the bed fame and reclining bed, squishing it.

At the lake, the military drop huge lines of salt to keep the swarm of frogranha contained as they follow Gage’s cab. They trap them near the lake, but the creatures try to escape using the leap-frog tactic again. To prevent them from getting out, Leah locks Gage out of the cab and drives it off a pier, into the lake, luring the creatures into the water with her. A large one lands on top of the cab, crushing it with her inside. A military plane dumps salt in the lake just in time to kill the creatures so Leah can escape the car and swim to shore. Once ashore, she finds Gage trapped under a large, dead frogranha. With a jackknife and a hook from a helicopter he is pulled free and the two goo-covered love birds profess their love for one another.

Months later, newlyweds Leah and Gage visit Doc at his restaurant on the beach, which specializes in suspiciously large frog legs.