Eel Girl

Eel Girl

Year: 2008

Runtime: 5 mins

Language: English

Director: Paul Campion

HorrorScience Fiction

In a secure military laboratory, a scientist becomes increasingly obsessed with the enigmatic half‑eel, half‑human creature he studies. When the creature beckons him with a haunting, siren‑like call, his devotion blurs the line between curiosity and danger, threatening both his sanity and the secretive facility.

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1

Officer enforces two-person rule and orders a scientist to accompany

In a secret navy facility, an armed security officer orders a scientist to accompany her immediately. She makes it clear the two-person rule must be followed and that the scientist has no option but to comply. The officer’s authority overrides the protocol in the moment.

Secure observation room, navy research facility
2

Two-person departure observed on security monitor

The remaining scientist watches as the officer and her chosen colleague depart the room via security monitors. Left alone, he seizes the moment to act on his own agenda. The monitor marks their exit as the tension inside the facility begins to mount.

Security monitoring room
3

Remaining scientist starts override commands

With the corridor empty, the lone scientist activates override commands on the facility’s computer system. A warning begins to blare, signaling that his unauthorized access is triggering alarms. He braces himself for the consequences of tampering with security.

Control room / console
4

Observation room scene and vantage point

The scientist steps to the large observation window and gazes into a dark, tiled chamber below. A big bath sits at the center, filled with black viscous liquid, while lights flash red and green as warnings proliferate. He watches intently, primed for whatever comes next.

Observation room; view into bath chamber
5

The Eel Girl emerges from the darkness

The door opens and a webbed hand appears, followed by the pale Eel Girl stepping into the room. She moves around the bath with unsettling ease, her gills and fins lending an otherworldly air to the encounter. The scientist continues to observe, captivated and wary.

Bath chamber
6

Eel Girl enters the bath

She slides into the thick black liquid, sinking below the surface and reappearing only as ripples and silhouettes. The room’s warnings intensify, but the scientist remains fixated on the disturbingly graceful creature. A sense of inevitability hangs in the air.

Bath chamber
7

Eel Girl surfaces and signals through the glass

The Eel Girl climbs out of the bath and moves toward the observation window, placing her hands against the glass and meeting the scientist’s gaze. She answers his silent question with a penetrating look, an unspoken invitation or threat that he cannot ignore. The moment heightens the tension between them.

Observation window
8

Connecting door opened; she steps into the guard room

She signals with her eyes, and the scientist moves to the security door that connects their rooms. He unlocks and opens it, allowing her to step into his space. The breach of the boundary marks the start of an imminent, dangerous encounter.

Security door corridor / lab room
9

The scientist meets and embraces the Eel Girl

Inside the adjoining room, the pair come together in a tense embrace. She threads a hand through his hair as the moment shifts from cautious intimacy to swift danger. In a swift, brutal act, she uses her jaw to overpower him and swallows him.

Secure room adjoining the bath
10

The predator completes the kill and seals him inside

She returns to the bath, lying back with her belly visibly enlarged. The scientist has been consumed, his presence implied to still be within her as she caresses her swollen abdomen. The scene ends with the eerie sense that a life has become part of the creature.

Bath chamber
11

Vomited remnants of clothes signal aftermath

As part of the swallowing act, she vomits the shredded clothes, leaving scattered remnants near the edge of the bath. The room grows silent except for the hum of the facility’s systems and the ongoing pulse of warnings.

Bath chamber
12

Warning systems and the room settle into a tense quiet

Warning lights flicker above the door, alternating red and green as the facility remains on edge. The Eel Girl settles back into the bath, her enlarged belly a grim testimony to the act that just occurred. The scene closes with the implication that the breach has changed the balance of power within the room.

Door frame and bath chamber

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