Snootchie-bootchies!

Jason Mewes, best known as potty-mouthed dope dealer Jay in early View Askew films such as Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy, leads a cast of dudes I’ve never heard of in Spotlight Pictures’ horror-on-the-high-seas thriller The Watermen.

The synopsis reads:

When a group of young, rich friends led by the dynamic Trailor (Mewes) set out for a deep sea fishing trip aboard a million-dollar dreamboat, an electrical fire rocks the ship, destroying their electrical system and engine, leaving them marooned with no communications in the deep Atlantic. Little did they know that their actions disturbed the native folk who despise outsiders.

These watermen are the anomalous sea clan locally known as the “Guineamen” who inhabit the nearby marshy islands. They’re a preternatural and isolated community of fishermen who date back to Cornwallis’ army of 1781. They rarely interact with the outside world and are rumored to have webbed feet. And now the young friends find themselves starring into the salty eyes of these ancient clan men.

A bad situation turns worse when they are drugged and captured by the watermen. They awake horrified and confused; they realize they are trapped on a small island, and their plans for escape turn to plans of attack. It’s a fight for survival as the friends try to escape the remote island and merciless clutches of the watermen. Will they survive?

Mewes, a seriously underrated actor, has starred in David Arquette’s directorial debut The Tripper, John Gulager’s Feast, and the 2007 vampire horror-comedy Netherbeast Incorporated.

The Watermen is written and directed by Matt L. Lockhart.