La Fiebre del Loco[1] (The Abalone Fever in Spanish) is a 2001 Chilean comedy film directed by Andres Wood.

The film's tagline was "Amor y avaricia en un mundo de buzos y moluscos" (Spanish for: Love and greed in a world of scuba and mollusks).

The film centers on the conflicts between visiting prostitutes and fishermen's wives in a small fishing village in rural Southern Chile.

Chaos erupts when the Chilean government temporarily lifts the ban on the collection of this prized mollusk, which is believed to have aphrodisiacal effects.

[4] Realization and demonstration, on October 29, 2001, of the first digital cinema transmission by satellite in Europe[5][6][7] of a feature film (La Fiebre del Loco) by Bernard Pauchon,[8] Alain Lorentz, Raymond Melwig[9] and Philippe Binant.