Killer Shorts Names 2025 Finalists
Killer Shorts has named the Top 10 Finalists in each of their three categories, selected from over 1,200 submissions to this year's competition.
Main Category
TANIA LUNA, Baby Tooth
CAMARA AARON, Dou-dou
JASON TOSTEVIN, Eat Me
MARY KURYLA, Invasive Species
MARISA GREEN, KEGEL
ANDREW WILLIAM WEAVER, Maya’s Room
EVA LOUISE HALL, Pluck
EVAN SCHULLERY, Squeak
JOSHUA POTTER, The Sixth Passenger
WALKER MACDONALD, Twice Shy
Cassie Strickland Is Not Under the Bed by VINCE GATTON & ALLAN PIPER, Dead Inside by JO BUDZILOWICZ, Indian in a Box by NISHANTH R. & NATHAN XIA, Killer Clown on Roller Skates by CATHERINE CASEY and Quiet Minds by TOBY MARKS also received honorable mentions.
1-Page Category
KIMBERLY DIVAD, A GAME
JULIA DIDDY, Aqua Tofana
THOMAS SCHRACK, Baby Monitor
SARAH RICHARDSON, Deliverer
MOSES NEBRASKA, doorslash
ADRIAN KENNEDY, Home Birth
BRITTNEY COON, SCREAMS & LAUGHTER
DESIREE MIDDLETON, Stall Me
LISA JAY, Submerged
PHILLIP DISHON, Surprise, Surprise
Fallen Man by ANNIE WILDER, Hanzo’s Hideout by STEPHEN CHEN, Michael and his Monster by JAMES FERDA, Resting Bitch Face by AZZURRA NOX and The Red-Eye Effect by JASON TURER also received honorable mentions.
Prose Category
MICHAEL KEENER, ... within a dream
MONTSERRAT LUNA-BALLANTYNE, Dear Nora
ROB ULITSKI, Decay
ANDY FARRANT, Hotline to Heaven
KAMARIA WILLIAMS, Hypnagogic
CALEB DILLON, Identity Theft
ALLIE NELSON, Last Seen
AKUORKOR ALLOTEY, Quis ut Deus
CARTER FRIEND, THE NUT CRACKER
MATTHEW JACKSON, The Stream
A Lullaby for Night by JASON TOSTEVIN, All That’s Left by JEREMIAH BLACKMAN, God’s Future Soldiers by JERRY J SAMPSON, Sole Survivor by ROBERT CREEKMORE and The Whole Truth by BRIAN BRENNAN also received honorable mentions.
Updated: 03/11/2025
Additional Contest Info: The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!PITTSBURGH PHIL
Biopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a.
FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
When strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home.
FURGROW BIRDS SPIRITUAL ROSE
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
Furgrow Birds back to the beginning
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
GALERIJ
As an art authenticator collects twelve 17th century Dutch Brohm family portraits, she learns the dangers of reuniting the portraits—the Galerij—when an art expert warns her the collection will revive the Brohm family and unleash them into present day society, where they'll resume control over and castrate European trade.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
