| Director | Ryland Brickson Cole Tews |
|---|---|
| Genre | horror film |
| Runtime | 78 min |
| Country | United States |
| Budget | $7,000 |
The main protagonist, Seafield, is an eccentric, alcoholic sea captain, who lost his father to a lake monster. He assembles a team of specialists consisting of weapons expert Sean Shaughnessy, sonar operator Nedge Pepsi, and former United States Navy officer Dick Flynn. They arrive at Lighthouse Island in Lake Michigan, intending to kill it. Their first two attempts fail, and the monster attacks Dick during the second but he survives.
They meet with Seafield's brother Ashcroft to brainstorm a new plan. One night they encounter the monster, who leaves them a note, saying it will see them in their dreams. While dreaming, Seafield witnesses Dick being sexually assaulted by the monster, and it later appears with an egg, which it calls a peace offering. In the morning, Seafield finds the egg and has Sean shoot it. During their third attempt, Dick throws the egg's pieces into the lake as bait after hearing voices calling out for the egg. The monster later kills Sean in a rage after finding the egg's remains.
During Sean's funeral, Dick is angered after discovering the monster's offspring was his unborn son and leaves the team. Back at base, Seafield tells Nedge the truth. He is neither a captain nor rich, as he previously claimed. Upset, Nedge leaves him. At night, Ashcroft tells Seafield that he is cursed; the only way to break the curse, he warns, is to kill the monster. Seafield attempts to reenlist Dick and Nedge, but they deny his offer. Seafield then encounters Sean's ghost, who pursues him to a boat headed for Lighthouse Island. During this time, Ashcroft is attacked and killed by the monster on Lighthouse Island.
Back on the boat, Seafield realizes the boat is heading backwards. He attempts to get it back on course, but the boat starts to malfunction. He fixes it and heads to Lighthouse Island. En route, he finds Ashcroft's severed head, who tells him the reason they didn't have a mother was because their father killed her. Arriving at the island, Seafield heads down into the catacombs and finds his father's ghost army. He asks them for help in killing the monster, which they accept. The monster defeats them, telling Seafield to fight it himself. Heading towards the entrance to the monster's lair, he again encounters Sean's ghost, who attacks him. Finding a sword that Dick lost during one of their failed attempts, he slices Sean in half, but Sean regenerates and continues pursuing him. He successfully avoids Sean and enters the monster's lair.
In the lair, Seafield encounters the monster, a female semi-humanoid creature, and attacks her. After a brief skirmish, the monster reveals that she and Seafield are siblings. Their father, a drunk, never knew their mother's true nature until one day when their father arrived at a Milwaukee liquor store five minutes after closing. Sobering up, he was horrified by their mother's true form and killed her. Once the monster came of "killing age," she killed him in revenge. The monster admits that she wanted to put their violence behind them, impregnating a nearby naked man (Dick), as a peace offering to Seafield, but he rejected it by destroying the egg.
Seafeld seems to accept the monster's story and goes for a hug. Instead, he reaches for a pair of hidden knives and kills her. It is then revealed that the monster had lied about the entire story, as she had told Seafeld the wrong closing time at the liquor store. He celebrates his victory only to be harpooned in the eye by Sean's ghost, who thanks him and passes into the afterlife as Seafield transforms into a ghost.