What if you lived in a small coastal town where a madman was determined to share his gift of eternal life with his community? What if a serum designed to dramatically alter DNA had the power to attach itself to docile marine life, creating a creature capable of tremendous violence and destruction? HAL JOHNSTON, a brilliant scientist at Raydon Labs in Northern California, tries to create a life extending medication when his beloved wife HOLLY is stricken with terminal cancer. Denied treatment by their medical insurance company, HAL steps up his research on his "Blue Gem Serum" by adding...

"All across the nation, such a strange vibration.........................." Word spread across the United States. Young Americans were drawn to a revolutionary underground youth subculture that was developing in an area of San Francisco, California known as Haight/Ashbury. It was 1967 and youths cast off their conservative social values and "dropped out" to form their own world, one of peace, love and tranquility. It became known as "The Summer of Love." They sought utopia in a world of turmoil including a horrific war in Vietnam. They were known as Hippies. Sexual and social inhibitions were...