Led by a PTSD challenged ex-navy SEAL, a small group of tourists at a remote vacation resort find themselves in a fight for their lives when a massive swarm of mosquitoes begins to prey on them. (Silver Winner, Summer 2022, Nature without Borders International Film Festival, and Finalist, 2022, A Night of Horror International Film Festival.)

SYNOPSIS:

Screenplay Awards Network: "This concept is straightforward, urgent, and terrifying. It adds a new twist to the man vs. nature genre. Mosquitoes have never truly been a real antagonist, so seeing that here feels original and refreshing." (This is a minimal location thriller/horror script in the vein of Tremors and can be shot almost entirely in one location.)

Three families on summer vacation. On a beautiful island. Sunshine, warm water, a remote beach. What can go wrong?

Mosquitoes. More than usual. The worst the island has ever seen. Their resort, Tranquility Reef, soon becomes anything but, as people start disappearing.

Coincidence? Elizabeth, the resort manager, doesn't think so. She begins to suspect the worst, and tries to warn the island. Colin, the mayor, has other ideas, like a re-election that depends on tourist dollars.

Yemin, young 20s, manages the dive shop. He follows the old ways taught to him by his Mayan grandfather. Like planting Saving Trees. He's not sure why. Neither are we.

The three visiting families don't know each other, but soon will be fighting for their lives together.

Blake (the lead) and Marisa are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. He's an ex-SEAL firefighter from Chicago. She's pregnant. This could be their last vacation for a while. A long while.

Julian, Anna and six-year-old Isabella are from Germany. She's a marine biologist studying coral. She's supposed to meet another researcher there, only he's disappeared.

Frank, Carol and seventeen-year-old Jeri are from Texas. Carol wanted to go to Monte Carlo. Frank wants to drink. Jeri wants to be anywhere but here.

What begins with an occasional bite soon becomes a deadly swarm. And as we hear at the very end, not just on the island.

In the end, Blake overcomes his PTSD and helps the families work together to survive. But the viewer is left to wonder if the world at large will be able to survive as well, before it's too late.

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