Killer Shorts Names Season 6 Contest Winners
Kegel by Marisa Green has been named the Main Category Winner of the Season 6 Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition. The 1-Page and Short Category winners have also been announced.
Main Category
Overall WinnerKegel by Marisa Green
After plain Jane is ghosted one too many times, she muscles a feral vagina-driven revenge spree.
"It's difficult to be original in the world of horror, as everything is a riff on something that's come before, but I truly have never read anything like this one." Jed Shepherd, Writer/Exec Producer of HOST
2nd Place Winner
Squeak by Evan Schullery
After being tossed into the backyard, the beloved squeaky toy of an abused golden retriever gets infested by a mysterious fungus and seeks revenge.
"It's tightly written, smartly paced, and manages to juggle tones with ease: bio-horror meets vengeance meets pitch-black comedy…Genius." – Sophie Carroll, Director of Creative, DUST & ALTER
3rd Place Winner
Baby Tooth by Tania Luna
A young boy turns to supernatural forces in a twisted attempt to mend his broken family.
"This was wonderful. So sweet. So thoughtful. It's poignant without being overt. Perfect length. I want to see this. Gateway horror." – Aaron B. Koontz, Paper Street Pictures
1-Page Category
Overall WinnerSurprise, Surprise by Phillip Dishon
A man's low-key birthday celebration comes to an unexpected end.
2nd Place Winner
Submerged by Lisa Jay
When a woman encounters a distressed boy by a riverbank, she does her best to help until she realizes she's put herself in danger.
3rd Place Winner
Home Birth by Adrian Kennedy
A woman grieving the death of her husband finds new life in new life.
Short Story (Prose) Category
Overall WinnerHotline to Heaven by Andy Farrant
A psychic medium with real horrifying visions of the afterlife finds the only way to monetize his skill is by lying.
2nd Place Winner
Identity Theft by Caleb Dillon
After visiting a high school reunion and not being recognized, a man slowly begins to realize he is being erased from his own life.
3rd Place Winner
Dear Nora by Montserrat Luna-Ballantyne
An advice columnist corresponds with a mother who's experiencing increasingly strange events in her new home.
Updated: 04/21/2025
Additional Contest Info: The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
THE CALL CENTER
Locusts invade the building, the adherence schedules are off kilter, and one of the night managers is watching TV and preaching the word.
CITY DWELLERS (The Millennials)
A Veteran FBI Agent outsmarts a cult of young cyber crooks.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The culture of women and cursing is discussed at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their eccentric neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other twisted souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A satirical view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world renowned heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.