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Logging the Loglines
All loglines copyright © Des Nnochiri, 2008-2009
An alcoholic single parent must overcome the memory of the death he caused through medical malpractice to outwit an eco-terrorist cell threatening the passengers and crew of Flight 401.
A gawky teenage genius sells his soul to the Devil, to prevent a priapic Demon Lord from ruining his sister's wedding.
A presidential candidate and one-time porn star attempts to stay one step ahead of a character-assassinating investigative journalist, and a cartel which has paid her $100 million to tank the election.
A discredited science professor, engaged in an illicit affair with his wife's sister, must destroy all traces of the project that ruined his career, to prevent flesh-eating zombies from taking over the world.
A retired serial killer who used to smuggle guns to Somali rebels must join forces with a Somalian pirate, on a mission to close an inter-dimensional portal that could suck all the water from the world's oceans.
When a ruthless arms smuggler kidnaps the governor's daughter and stashes her in an abandoned warehouse, her only hope of release from the explosive device she's wired to is a bomb disposal expert who's lost his nerve.
A corrupt ex-cop has 48 hours to recover $100 million of merchandise stolen from the designer drugs cartel he's already $50,000 in hock to.
With a federal task force already closing in, what hope does a criminology professor with a criminal past of her own have of exposing corruption in the dealings of a sadistic small-town sheriff?
A mystery thriller addict with a tenuous grip on reality believes that a serial killer suspect, released from custody due to lack of evidence, is responsible for killing the mayor's wife. Problem is, no one else does.
A money-hungry research scientist leads a desperate search for a kidnapped child whose DNA holds the key to a vaccine for the deadly virus cloud released over Washington by the ruthless energy conglomerate that funded his work.
A super-powered mutant, incapable of operating in daylight, has 12 hours of darkness to honor her pledge to protect humanity's last outpost from an invading horde of shape-shifting alien carnivores.
A shell-shocked fighter pilot accepts one last mission: to escort an armada of refugees from a space station caught in the vortex of a black hole, past the marauding fleet of an empire to which he swore an oath of allegiance, many years ago.
An android who wants to be human must reconstruct a memory fragmented by wormhole shift, and find the invasion plans entrusted to her by the ambassador from Rigel 12, before the Devourer of Worlds homes in on the plans' beacon, and discovers the Earth.
An animated superhero from the 1950s who can be rendered powerless by the color yellow must destroy an army of killer bees created by a sadistic toy manufacturer - before the rift between our world and his closes, forever.
A bumbling wizard, seeking to prove his loyalty to The Order, must retrieve the secret of their power from the 8-year old nephew of a billionaire megalomaniac, before the pre-Christmas shopping season begins.
An emotionally scarred empath seeks to rehabilitate the ninja assassin who murdered her fiance on the eve of his graduation - to avoid exposure as a fraud.
A sentient zombie with an allergy to wheat has 3 days to get the better of a jealous deity threatening to blanket a Nebraska farming community in eternal darkness.
A dyslexic schoolteacher, in hock to a local gangster she's paid to conceal her condition from the School Board, agrees to guide a robbery gang led by the mobster's trigger-happy son - who insists she open the coded locks herself.
A color-blind house painter who's accepted a job to redecorate the White House has 2 hours to outwit an unstoppable android assassin hacked into Air Force One - and restore the color scheme of the Oval Office, before the President's return.
A misanthropic park ranger agrees to escort the beautiful financier of a ruthless terrorist cell responsible for his brother's death, across the Mexican border, before the group leader's release from Federal prison, in two days.
A self-centred novelist with income tax problems is stuck babysitting the nymphomaniac daughter of the Mob boss who loaned him $500,000 to pay off the sado-masochistic extortionist who reported him to the IRS.
A gun-shy ex-cop in hock to the police commissioner agrees to deliver a dossier of evidence against a gold-digging serial widow whose billionaire husband has been diagnosed with incurable cancer.
48 hours till Lammas Day, when Death comes to claim 100 souls, a disgraced master magician fights to free himself from the clay prison created for him by an evil archaeologist who hopes to trade the lives of 100 students for immortality.
12 hours till the next full moon, a reluctant werewolf sells his services to a sadistic game-hunter, for a chance to become human again.
A retired bush pilot accepts one last mission, in exchange for a cure to her pain-killer addiction: to spray insecticide over a swarm of super-intelligent killer bees, headed for Houston, Texas.
An ace journalist, traumatized by his experiences in Iraq, is all that stands between the small town he retires to, and an approaching squad of ruthless mercenaries, led by a psychotic ex-Special Forces colonel.
A gun-shy ex-commando is all that stands between the small fishing community established by his scientist wife, and a flesh-eating mutant grizzly she helped create.
A homeless ex-pro quarterback must try his arm against an axe-wielding barbarian warlord, brought to our world by a temporal rift, created by his physicist ex-wife.
A disgraced political activist makes a pact with the leader of a fanatical terrorist cell: to negotiate the safe release of hostages, in a staged kidnapping, in exchange for the blueprints to the Capitol Building.
A half Navajo preacher faces a long night of darkness, as a squatters' camp is beseiged by a marauding band of skinwalkers, set free by the shrine he destroyed, in error.
A small-town sheriff vows on his wife's deathbed to bring to justice his outlaw brothers, before a federal posse closes in, and reveals his secret past.
A disfigured gunslinger has seven hours to put paid to the Ghost Rider who took his right arm, before the gates of Hell reopen, and Satan comes to claim them both.
A former Texas Ranger accepts $800 from a community of ranchers to kill the ruthless railroad tycoon who got him his previous job.
A White House lobbyist's lost memories of a drunken night hold the key to thwarting a daring plan to assassinate the President.
A SWAT team sergeant has 3 hours to recover an address book containing information vital to the sadistic bomber threatening to blow up his daughter's elementary school.
An unemployed ex-con gets an unlikely job: to help the profiler whose evidence led to his wrongful conviction for manslaughter stop a remorseless killer, with tragic links to his own past.
A bio-chemist and single mother has 3 hours to save the lives of her twin sons - and the 50 other students held by a maniacal ex-colleague, with a deadly new toxin.
An Assistant DA must give up the last dose of the designer drug she's addicted to - to a serial killer suspect whose lost memory holds the key to the survival of his latest abductee - the pusher who sold it to her.
A police detective and compulsive gambler who invests his life savings in a pyramid scheme run by a sociopathic extortionist has 6 hours to stop him, before the global finance system goes into meltdown.
An airline pilot in hock to the Mob agrees to provide getaway transport for a super-intelligent bank robber whose latest scheme threatens to bankrupt organised crime in the city.
A shopaholic forensic scientist has 3 hours to find an antidote to the lethal toxin a sadistic poisoner is using to hold the city to ransom - a compound she took money from him to develop.
An acrobat with a morbid fear of heights is forced out of retirement to defuse a chemical bomb set up in a dirigible floating from a mast on the tallest building in the city by an Animal Rights terrorist with a warped sense of humor - before it releases a neurotoxin that will wipe out the city's human population at 12 noon on April 1st.
An acrophobic acrobat must defuse a floating bomb set up by a warped Animal Rights terrorist before it wipes out the city's human population at 12 noon on April 1st.
A recently blind architect must guide a team through an undocumented section of his latest building, before it becomes a staging post for the armies of a ruthless alien seductress.
An angler who can't swim must retrieve a submerged power source and stop a sociopathic artificial human from destroying the world's fish stocks.
A crusading attorney, in prison for a crime he didn't commit, forms an alliance with the Mob boss who framed him, to bring down an abusive prison warden who is killing inmates for spare parts surgery.
A powerless angel matches her wits against a homicidal actor whose serial murders are the ascending points of a ritual that will bring about the Apocalypse.
A bricklayer with a criminal past is all that stands between a roomful of kindergartners and their death at the hands of the psychopathic babysitter who is holding them hostage.
A baker with terminal cancer accepts a job catering for a ruthless bandit who promises financial security in exchange for the access codes to his estranged bank manager wife's main vault.
A barber with income tax problems accepts a job from the IRS to steal the financial records of a malevolent carnival barker whose show is a front for an elaborate white slavery ring.
A misanthropic cave-dweller has 3 days to infiltrate a sinister cartel threatening to spill toxic chemicals into the water supply of the society that exiled him.
An absent-minded coroner misplaces an alien corpse which holds the key to averting a comet strike that will obliterate half the continent, in 8 hours.
A clumsy cat-burglar is blackmailed by a vicious rogue cop into stealing the security plans for the weekend visit of the Chinese premier.
A color-blind coin collector must find a mystic amulet he mistook for a worthless penny, before a demonic clergyman uses it to consummate an ancient curse that will destroy mankind.
An emotionally gullible child prodigy on her way to a chess tournament takes a nightmare ride with a paranoid cabbie who is convinced that she's the Anti-Christ - and intends to kill her before midnight, on Christmas Eve.
A deadbeat father in debt to a merciless drugs baron agrees to "babysit" the governor's kidnapped daughter for 24 hours, until the ransom drop.
A detective who sold his soul to cheat Death must help Satan put down a renegade demon princess who has opened a doorway to Hell, and started the Apocalypse two weeks early.
A doctor with a criminal record must stand alone against the voodoo doll-maker who holds their isolated community hostage to terror every Halloween.
An exotic dancer must return to the small town that cast her out, but whose magical tradition holds the key to uncovering a maniacal breeder's nest of dragons - before they grow to maturity, and destroy the world.
A pizza delivery girl and incurable gossip embarks on a day of mounting terror, as her psychotic dispatcher sends her from one nightmare scenario to another.
An elevator attendant trapped for 11 hours with an overzealous "exterminator" whose multiple murders on the hotel premises he hasn't reported, hoping to interview the killer for a best-seller, must negotiate for his own release.
An eye surgeon with an addiction to designer drugs has 8 days to recover the E-Type Jaguar he traded to a dealer, and which holds the medical records of a greedy executive whose successful surgery will make or break his clinic.
An activist discovers that the oil company which bankrolled her breakthrough Environment Day TV documentary is also funding the research of an entomologist whose strain of super-resistant locusts will be released to coincide with the broadcast.
An English professor with dyslexia releases a paper whose syntax will unleash a plague of psychotic elves on Easter Sunday - if it's read aloud by 11 of her students.
An estate agent with commitment issues must give up every Wednesday to act as a Big Brother to the twin sons of a malevolent earl whose purchase of a rural mansion could make or break his business.
A former felon has five hours to convince the hated manager of the station that was forced to hire him as part of a rehab program, that they're hosting a telethon for the front man of an extremist group that's going to blow up the studio on live TV.
A fanboy's tenuous grip on reality is exploited by a seductive female fan intent on going down in history as the first to kiss and kill a box office star when he visits a children's hospital in their hometown, in five days.
A firefighter, decorated for heroism in several infernos he started himself, must lead the effort to stamp out his latest flames - which have opened the way for a Fury bent on wreaking havoc on the descendants of those who exiled it to Limbo, 4,000 years ago.
A flight attendant has five hours to thwart the plans of her new lover - a bio-terrorist who has made her the vector for a fever virus which could wipe out all life as we know it.
A forest ranger's Internet addiction holds the key to stopping a ruthless alien promoter that wants to use Earth's woodlands as the setting for a deadly intergalactic fignt game.
When the inmates at a maximum security jail are killed by a mystery virus, a geneticist has 3 days to isolate a vaccine from the DNA of the sole survivor - a psychotic gangster who killed the woman they both loved.
A golf caddy with gambling debts is coerced by the IRS to spy on one of his clients - a Messianic designer whose best-selling video game hides a hack that will bring down the Federal Tax database on Good Friday.
A clumsy geisha has 3 days to gather a fighting force to take on the spirit warriors unleashed when she broke a mystic jar holding the ghost of a maniacal general of the armies of Hell.
A former gun-runner is forced to supply a gang of mercenaries the tools needed to take down a giant scorpion terrorising the mining colony essential to weapons production for a corrupt governor he helped put in power.
A burnt-out galactic hero must risk his sanity to take down a group mind bent on domination by fixing the Galaxy Council elections through hypnosis and fear.
A wounded black-ops killer receives a prosthetic arm with a murderous will of its own - and a mission to assassinate the delegates to a law-enforcement conference in his new home town.
Two mismatched homicide detectives have 48 hours to extract the truth from a suspect who has confessed to a murder yet to take place - the killing of everyone in the world, in two days time.
A homicidal movie director with a grudge assembles a cast of enemies on a closed set, using the six days to wrap to stage a series of fatal "accidents."
After witnessing a murder in a hotel room, a migrant housekeeper plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the killer - an agent of Homeland Security.
A hyper-mall manager with huge gambling debts is blackmailed into faking a four-hour hostage crisis, as cover for a heist by the crime boss he owes money to.
A guidance counselor and one-time prostitute must use the tricks of her old trade to save a runaway from a holistic guru whose mind-control cult will honor a suicide pact in 3 days.