A champagne colored four door sedan, the rental car variety,
drives across the Pinellas Bayway. around 4 A.M followed by an equally rented
minivan. After missing several turns and passing Eckerd College five times they
manage to find the marina.
"Jim, wake up," Tom says. Jim pulls a beach towel
over his head. Tom yanks the towel from him and Jim falls on to the backseat
floorboard .
"Come on man, we gotta unload the equipment," Tom
snaps. Jim crawls out of the car with expert practice. He stumbles to the
trunk, they unload the tripods and bags without saying a word. Jim lights a
cigarette and slumps on to the the bench in front of the closed office. He
falls asleep, the cigarette hangs from his lips. Tom watches. The cigarette
falls on to Jim's belly. Tom watches it burn until Jim jumps up screaming. Tom
chuckles.
"Come on guys, get a move on, it's late and we are
losing the light," commands Craig as he hops out of the driver's seat of
the minivan. He zips up his fly. The back passenger sliding door opens and the
cast sleepily emerge. Craig opens the front passenger side door and Zandii, the
star of the film and her own universe exits the vehicle. She looks around for
her adoring fans and paparazzi and does a runway walk to the docks. The rest of
the cast follows her, Fifi gets out last. Craig throws her the keys and she
goes to the trunk and gets the bags of costumes then locks up the minivan. The
procession follows Craig down the docks until he finds the slip with the boat
they rented: a 35 foot Rabco custom made cabin boat with dual 400 horsepower
motors. Craig searches through his fishing vest, his outback shirt, and his
cargo pants until he finally pulls out the boat key and promptly drops it on
the dock. He bends over to pick it up and knocks it in the water.
"Damn, that was our only key. What are we gonna do
now?" Craig shouts. Tom puts down his bag, lays down, reaches in the water
and retrieves the key.
"The key chain floats for a reason," Tom explains
as he hands the keys back to Craig. Everyone boards the boat and Tom, Jim, and
Fifi store the gear and get everything prepared.
"Where are the drinks? Where is the cooler?"
Zandii demands. Craig sends Tom and Fifi back to the minivan to retrieve the
cooler. Zandii, Skip, and Craig all get drinks before Tom and Fifi can even get
the cooler from the dock to the boat. Ponie and Jim waited until the cooler is
on the boat.
"I don't drink. It ages the skin and weakens the mind.
My body deserves to remain perfect," Bud boasts.
Craig fumbles with the boat controls, alternating between
too much power, unexpected neutral, haphazard reverse, drifting, lurching
forward, scraping the boat along the sock, and bumping the boat across from
them in order to leave the marina. He powers the boat through the channel
leaving an impressive wake causing everyone's boats to bounce against their
moorings as he passes. He obliviously smiles and waves at all the other boaters
who call out to him. He heads out into the open water of the gulf.
"I don't feel so hot," Zandii complains and goes
into the head. The heat and lack of circulating air adds to her queasiness and
she vomits. Craig pilots the boat out for forty-five minutes before cutting the
engine. He surveys the group: Zandii is still in the head, Skip is passed out
on the bow, Ponie doing shots, Jim is asleep in the cabin, Tom and Fifi are
staring at the water, and Bud is sunbathing on the deck.
"O.K., everyone, we are here. It is time for us to
shoot the main climax of this film," Craig announces. Tom pours a beer on
Jim to wake him and then helps Zandii out of the head. She makes it to the deck
and lurches over the edge to vomit some more. The cast removes their swimsuits
and listen for directions from Craig.
"This is the big climax scene," Craig directs.
Ponie helps Zandii get to the front of the boat and in
position. Fifi goes to get Bud ready for his action scene. Zandii falls off the
railing onto the deck, rolls over and starts vomiting over the edge again. Fifi
tries everything she can think of as a fluffer to get Bud ready, but nothing
works. Jim and Tom set up the cameras and microphones. Fifi still has no
results with Bud.
"Come on! Is he ready yet? We have to get this shoot in
the can!" Craig shouts.
"He just won't stay hard! I've tried everything,"
Fifi laments.
"Damn it! Do I have to do everything myself?"
Craig complains. "You are the star of this movie, Bud. I need you to get
your head in the game!" Fifi gets back to work on Bud, then Ponie tries,
then even Skip tries, but Bud is unwavering.
"I'm trying my best. This has never happened
before," Bud laments.
"Except all those other times," Tom corrects.
"That's it Bud, just go into the cabin by yourself
until you are ready to perform. Skip, you get to do the climax scene.
Congratulations, you are a star," directs Craig. Skip smiles as Bud goes
below deck. Zandii gets in position and Skip starts his scene. Zandii reaches
around and holds on to Skip's back for leverage and balance. Skip screams out
in pain from his sunburn. Craig directs to keep it 'good and real'. The final
orgasm is shot and Zandii vomits all over Skip and they both fall on the deck.
"Perfect! We'll keep it just like that. I am sure some
pervert will love it!" Craig announces. Tom shakes his head as he and Jim
wrap up the equipment. Fifi cleans the deck again. Skip and Zandii jump in the
water to clean off.
The next scene is in the cabin, where they find Bud on the
bed watching videos of children's puppet shows. Bud is sent up on deck to keep
an eye on Zandii, who is still too nauseous to perform. Skip cries and screams
as Ponie manhandles his sunburn during their scene. When the filming is all
done, Craig heads the boat back to shore, Bud goes back to the cabin to finish
watching his show, Skip has Fifi belatedly apply sunscreen on his peeling back,
Ponie, Jim and Tom drink and make fun of everyone else. They get back to the
coastline and Craig spends the next three and a half hours looking for the
channel back to the marina because he didn't take in to account that the boat
was drifting the entire time they were filming. He pulls the boat back into its
slip and hits the seawall so hard it knocks a hole in the stern. They unload
the boat and drive off, as they leave, the unsecured boat starts drifting away
from the dock.
As they are driving along Gulf Boulevard a man staggers
across the street in front of the van. Craig slams on the brakes to avoid
hitting him. The man runs up to the window and starts beating on it with his
fists. Craig slams open the door into the man, pulls out his taser and zaps
him. The man convulses and walks away to the beach. Craig gets back in the van
and drives off.
"Stupid drunks really mess up the serenity of the
beach," Craig complains.
They return to the hotel, change, and meet back at the tiki
bar. Skip stays in his room nursing his sunburn. Zandii takes a bunch of random
pills she gathered from everyone and goes to sleep. Craig is on the phone
trying to get a putt-putt golf course to allow them to film there. They order
appetizers and drinks. Everyone else in the bar is fixated on the news
broadcast on the televisions around the bar.
"... the assailant and victims were brought to Palms of
Pasadena Hospital, where they are being treated. There is no apparent motive
for his killing spree in Tyrone Mall this afternoon. Witnesses report that the
man appeared disoriented before he started his attack. The altercation began
when the man began stealing food from the people in the food court and he
fondled several women. He then apparently, as described by witnesses, attempted
to eat the people he had previously attacked," the newscaster recites.
"That is messed up," Tom comments.
"Whatever. We have real problems. That damn little
putt-putt place won't let us use their site. We need to find someplace to shoot
tomorrow. Go get some of those damn tourist brochures from the lobby,"
Craig directs.
In the lobby Tom grabs one of each brochure. Firetrucks,
ambulance, and several police cars speed down Gulf Boulevard with full sirens.
People gather and watch from in front of restaurants and hotels. Tom walks up
to the closest crowd.
"I've been out, uhm, fishing all day; what is going
on?" Tom asks.
"Eh? Apparently some party down the beach went out of
control and turned into a riot, eh. They set one of the hotels on fire, eh. And
started shooting each other. It has just been getting worse and worse,
eh," she explains.
Tom goes back to the tiki bar and tells the others his news.
Craig sorts through the brochures, pulling out the ones for putt-putt golf and
water parks. Bud goes to the bar to order the next round of drinks. Three girls
come up to the bar from the beach. They order drinks and start flirting with
Bud. Needing to show off for the others, Bud makes a point of flirting back.
The girls lean on Bud, pressing their hands all over his body, they lick and
kiss him in turn. He invites them back to his room and they leave the bar
together.
"What? No he doesn't. I own that and he only uses it
when I say so! Tom, get your camera, some film permission forms, and tape
whatever the hell he thinks he's gonna do!" Craig demands.
Tom goes to his room, gets ready and goes to Bud's room. Tom
knocks, no answer. He knocks again, then opens the door and goes in. One girl
is eating the food from the mini-fridge, as the other two have backed Bud into
a corner, where they are hitting him.
"What is going on here?" Tom questions. They all
look over at Tom. The girl from the mini-fridge snarls and jumps at Tom. He
slams the door into her, cutting a huge gash across her temple, she slumps in
the corner. The other girls go back to their assault on Bud. They pull his
pants down. One jumps on him and bites his shoulder as the other grabs his leg
and bites on his thigh. Tom puts his camera bag down and beats the girls off
Bud with his tripod. They push the girls into the bathroom. They barricade the
bathroom door with the dresser.
"We need to get you a band-aid and better choice of
women," Tom says. Tom bandages Bud and go back to the tiki bar. Craig
looks up at them puzzled, then focuses on his phone call.
"Everything on the news is getting worse. Apparently,
similar riots started in downtown and Tampa," Fifi explains.
"And I can't get anyone on the phone," Craig complains.
Bud goes to the bathroom. When he comes out he heads into
the kitchen. The dishwasher tries to get him to leave. Bud stares at him, not
understanding the Spanglish, the cook tries to assist the dishwasher in
evicting Bud from the kitchen but his Greeklish makes no more sense. Bud pushes
them out of his way and eats the food from the grill. The busboy joins them and
they manage to get Bud out. In the tiki bar, Bud grabs a waitress and bites
into her breast. He starts eating her. She screams and tries to get away from
him. A group at the bar jump the bartender and begin eating her. All the
customers react: screaming, running, and fighting for their lives.
Craig pulls Bud from the waitress and ushers everyone up to
his room. They tie Bud to the bed with bondage gear. Craig sends Tom and Jim to
get Zandii and Skip.
Tom and Jim wake Skip and they go to Zandii's room. There is
no answer so they break open the door. Zandii is passed out in the bathroom in
a pool of vomit. They pick her up and carry her out of the room. The cleaning
crew charges after them. Jim gets grabbed and they swarm on him. He screams. He
gets back to his feet, pushing them off of him. Tom laughs.
"You bastard! Why are you laughing?" Jim asks.
"I enjoy watching you suffer, ever since you slept with
my wife, my only pleasure has been your pain," Tom answers. One of the
cleaning crew lunges for Jim and they both tumble over the railing and die on
the pool patio below. Tom sees several bodies floating in the pool. People scurry
out and begin eating Jim's remains.
"That felt good to get out of my system. I can't
believe I have been bottling that up for so many years now," Tom
confesses.
"I am glad you feel better, Tom. But those guys are
still coming after us and I can't carry Zandii by myself," Skip reminds
Tom. They grab Zandii and rush to Craig's room. They are let in and Fifi and
Ponie help Zandii shower clean.
"I think she O.D.ed," Tom says.
"Horrible timing. Doesn't that bitch ever think of
anyone else?" Craig complains.
"... an epidemic. People are advised to go to
immediately go to evacuation ...”
"... symptoms of the infected include a ravenous
hunger, violent and aggressive sexual desires ...”
"... local governments are unable to contain the
outbreak. The military and National Guard have ...”
"... sinful heathen sins of lust and gluttony. It is
because we have allowed sinners and heathens ...”
"... looks kids, it is Wobble-Fobble the clown ...”
"Stop changing the channels, Skip. Just pick one, damn
it," snaps Craig. The women come out of the bathroom and fill Zandii in on
the current situation. They check on Bud.
"Look at the erection on him! He has never been that
hard. Or for this long before I get it now. The disease hyper-stimulates their
lizard brain! All they want is food and sex. All other thoughts are gone. You
see, the disease is transmitted via the saliva into the blood stream. The
disease changes the blood chemistry which then gets pumped to the brain. As the
affected blood permeates the brain, the neural synapses are blocked, preventing
the higher brain functions. The victim slowly loses the ability to reason. The
disease works from the frontal lobe back to the cerebellum, where only the
basic survival instincts remain the need to eat, seek shelter and procreate! I
suspect that given enough time, even the synapses in the lizard brain will
cease to function; leaving the victim in a coma until finally death,"
Craig pontificates.
"How do you know all that?" Zandii asks.
"I was a Psychology major in junior college,"
Craig brags.
"I thought you dropped out to make porn?" Tom
asks.
"I never spent so much time with anyone with as much
schooling as you, Craig. I started my career while I was still in High School.
I was gonna go back for my G.E.D. But I guess that is a pointless dream
now," admits Zandii.
"Yes, everything has changed now. It is a new world we
have. The future is no longer what we envisioned. Wait! I have an idea! Sex!
Sex sells! Yeah! This is gonna be a new world with new laws, but people still
have the same needs. There's something for everyone and always someone who
wants to try something different. We have different! Zombie sex slaves! We will
open a zombie brothel! We'll start on a barter system until the economy
reestablishes a currency. We will be rich-ass zombie pimps!" Craig
expounds.
"You're brilliant," Zandii says.
"You're nuts, Craig," Tom says.
"So, let's catch some zombie whores!" Craig
commands.
"Let's at least get some weapons first," suggests
Tom.
"You girls stay here, where you'll be safe," says
Craig; he, Skip and Tom leave.
Zandii and Ponie share some pills and drink. They check on
Bud. They cut his clothes off to get a better view of his wounds and
transformation. It is obvious why he picked his career, his endowment was
massive. The women drink some more and watch television. Many stations have
stopped broadcasting. They play cards for bit, until they have an argument
about the rules. They try calling with their cellular phones and the hotel
phone but none of the lines work. They play quarters, drinking shots from each
others bellybuttons. They start making out. Zandii reaches up and stokes Bud's
member. They take turns humping him, assured of Craig's brilliance. They fully
enjoy their sex slave and pleasure themselves multiple times.
The guys gather large kitchen knives from the hotel kitchen.
Several infected people from the bar chase them out the back door. They run
through the parking lot, people trapped in cars call out to them. Several of
the infected abandon the attack on the vehicles and chase after Craig, Tom and
Skip. They hide in a surf shop until the coast appears clear. They find four
dead police officers by their cars in the road. They guys take the officers
weapons. A group starts to approach them so they run back to the hotel. They go
to Bud's room. The one woman is still very dead slumped in the corner. The
other two are still locked in the bathroom. They guys each take a taser, open
the bathroom door and subdue the naked infected women. They tie them up with
the ropes from Bud's luggage.
The door to Craig's room opens and the guys come back in.
They push the two infected women into the room and put their weapons down on
the dresser. Zandii hugs Craig.
"Brilliant man," says Zandii.
"Craig wouldn't the disease be in all bodily
fluids?" asks Skip.
Zandii fiercely grabs Craig's crotch. She bites into his
neck. Ponie jumps on Tom, biting his face. The bound women bite Skip. The women
eat their fill. They shed the ropes, open the door and step out into their new
world.