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Best Horror Screenplays
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AT THE MERCY OF FAITHIn the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised. Script Excerpt |
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ConsumedTrapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate. Script Excerpt |
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SplashdownA mysterious space capsule adrift in the Pacific Ocean pulls a disillusioned Air Force pilot into battle against a shadowy paramilitary force hell bent on utilizing the astronauts' otherworldly cargo to enslave humanity. Script Excerpt |
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and The Devil called!The Devil is so confident of being accepted by God`s chosen-one he appears as himself with gifts and, `you will be my bride`, when rejected he sends in his tri-stepped-headed charcoaled alien goons to examine her brain. Script Excerpt |
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VisionsA teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her strange father may be the killer. |
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The 49th DayA young girl’s imaginary friend starts killing her family off, one by one. But how can you stop Death when she wants to play? (This script has won multiple grand prizes and was selected for The 2016 BloodList.) Script Excerpt |
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MorbidlyA young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret. Script Excerpt |
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THE SCRIPTA mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists that Aiden O’Brien, a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.” Script Excerpt |
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The ZombaysA young, hip African American couple abducted into a top-secret government program to create zombies for military purposes escape to the suburbs where a successful food truck business that serves human flesh to an unsuspecting public brings unwelcome attention from the military that seeks to destroy them. |
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Misfortune CookiesAccidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways. Script Excerpt |
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DeadheadA teenage rock band trapped inside their stranded tour bus must fight for their lives against a deranged fan. Micro budget, single location, set entirely inside a bus. |
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RestorationAs an introverted art restorer succumbs to the evil temptations of an ancient painting, otherworldly forces attempt to stop her from unleashing the painting's unholy power. Script Excerpt |
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Conduit of EvilAn EMT attempts to save the life of a vicious killer — but the killer's evil spirit passes into him, and through him into his 8 year old nephew. |
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The Meat EatersA teenage fast food manager must lose his virginity to join a cult that eats a powerful aphrodisiac -- a "living meat" that won't stay on the plate. |
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Mistresses of SleepA young lady receives an invitation from three mysterious hypnotists to unlock the secret of her recurring nightmares of death and destruction. |
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The Devil's ChairIn a backwoods graveyard on Halloween a group of unruly teenagers sit in a legendary chair reserved solely for the devil which causes hell’s minions to systematically come after the disrespectful teens in the order they sat making for a terrifying gore-filled night. *EVIL DEAD meets FINAL DESTINATION* |
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Dark DestiniesThis cheeky feature-length anthology is about folks that are fated for evil. *BLACK MIRROR meets CREEPSHOW* |
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Project EradicateFive thieves pull off a daring jewelry store heist and escape through the sewer where they cross paths with a researcher and police officer documenting the disappearance of city workers. A horrific terror hunts them as they search for a way out of the maze of tunnels. Script Excerpt |
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NORTH 40A Special Ops soldier, whose grief over the loss of a son has torn his family apart, takes them on a vacation hoping to relive happier times, when a perilous situation forces them to pull together to survive. Ordinary People meets Straw Dogs in this Hitchcockian thriller. |
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Head GamesA desperate woman with the ability to make people believe they're seeing things that aren't there uses her ability on the people she believes are responsible for her sister’s murder. Script Excerpt |
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The AWNINGTroubled commuters take shelter from a sudden downpour on a Chinatown street corner, only to be tormented by the elderly man in their midst selling unique umbrellas and dispensing cryptic wisdom. Script Excerpt |
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PhoebeA young woman battling depression reluctantly agrees to join three friends on a backpacking trip. Deep in the wilderness, her spirits are lifted when she discovers a mysterious sinkhole -- and then meets the girl who died there. |
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GreenmanA rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world. |
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Tales Of The BizarreAn anthology of four comedic tales of sci-fi/horror/fantasy. A mudered wife resurrects through her garden; a small space alien is mistaken for an action toy; A base commander dares to challenge a UFO; A young man makes a pact with a witch. Script Excerpt |
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Christmas IslandSissy and Kenneth return to their home in the northern woods for their mother's funeral, to find that their parents plan to snatch their bodies. |
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The Red KeyWhen his daughter goes missing without a trace, a New York City ex-convict sets out to track down her abductor but soon finds himself caught up in a bloody supernatural conspiracy masterminded by a sinister and powerful magician. |
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WAKEAfter faking his death, a man attends his own wake in order to find perpetrators of a conspiracy that targeted him, but in doing so, he gets far more than he ever could have imagined. Script Excerpt |
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DuplicitousA father takes his young disabled son to the country to reconnect in an old Victorian, but their stay becomes one of regret after a malevolent presence is awakened. Script Excerpt |
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The Devil's From TomorrowAfter a near fatal accident a young man sees his own future through twisted visions so real he can't separate them from reality. Now he must find a way to stop the accident and four murders... including his own. |
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Bad SpiritThe spirit of an evil teen killed while plotting a school massacre returns to take care of unfinished business starting with his family. But first he must get by his twelve year old telekinetic brother who knows he’s back. Script Excerpt |
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THE DEEP ENDCharacter-driven psychological horror thriller set in a suburban house, with a disturbed female lead and a shocking twist ending, inspired by Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". Two children seem to be haunted by the ghost of their dead mother's secret lover, as seen through the eyes of a young, troubled woman hired as a nanny while their father leaves town on business. Their suburban house evolves into a nightmare world of psychological evil that seems to emanate from the back-yard pool. Hook: is there a ghost in the house, or is the nanny imagining it and going mad? Script Excerpt |
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A Cry From the GraveA young woman's sorority initiation becomes a dangerous obsession to find a killer. Script Excerpt |
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The PUZZLE MAKERA career driven NSA analyst gifts his autistic daughter an antique jigsaw puzzle, but when she begins to assemble the pieces, it conjures the evil spirit of its creator, a dark entity who plagues their family. Script Excerpt |
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Hot Rod MonstersIn 1950’s Southern California, a juvenile delinquent battles his fear of the opposite sex and fellow teenagers - who happened to have been turned into monsters - to rescue the hottest girl in school from a mad doctor. |
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A Good SoulA sitcom actor risks losing his soul for the chance to prove that he can be more than the lovable big brother he played on TV. His quest for a darker role leads him into the world of underground clubs where he is tricked into playing the killer of a snuff film. |
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BELLE AND THE BLOOD BEASTA revisionist horror take on the classic fairy tale for young adults -- equal parts romance, action and gore. Belle, a modern, independent beauty rebelling against the man's world of 17th-century France, is forced to live in an enchanted castle to save her father's life. She becomes the defiant prisoner of the Blood Beast, a lonely nobleman cursed with a monstrous body and a predatory savagery powerful enough to hunt and kill twenty men. Both are transformed by a strange, complex love that's threatened by outside forces led by Victor, a cold-blooded cadet captain so obsessed over Belle that he'll destroy them both. Who the true beast is evolves in dark, twisted ways. A romantic horror-thriller date movie, R-rated for violence, not a Disney family movie. More in the style of "Red Riding Hood", "Gretel and Hansel" and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". Script Excerpt |
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Autumn BloodBad Apples Don't Fall Far From The Tree... A social worker, tormented by his own abused past, gives aid to an abused, pregnant teen that threatens to become a taboo relationship. The fact that his live-in mother likes to kill socially irredeemable door to door salesmen only makes life worse. When fate deals him a lottery win, his seemingly mundane life falls apart. Script Excerpt |
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LIFEMAREA couple eliminated an abandoned museum to build a house for themselves on that area. Unknowingly an evil spirit was residing in that museum and killed the husband and haunted the wife for her decision to build her house there. Ria the wife was fooled by the evil spirit to rebuild the museum to be freed from harassment, however, she handled it herself risking her life. |
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Angel FaceAfter a foolish prank goes horribly wrong, disfiguring a teen for life, a high school graduation party aboard a secluded houseboat is the perfect place for revenge. |
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The CambionIn this preternatural amalgam of "Psycho" and "Repulsion," a sociopathic woman becomes either obsessed with or possessed by a cambion, who’s both an ancient biblical demon of lust and her homicidal muse, compelling her to prey upon her suitors until the fiancée and brother of one of her lecherous victims discover her horrific crimes. |
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IT CAME FROM THE SHADOWSDiana's parents had always wanted to own a circus, so when the opportunity arose they took it. But this circus was different, it was ancient and shrouded in secrecy. The performers were all loyal to the true owner who would do anything to get his circus back even if it meant murder. Script Excerpt |
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THE CLICK-CLACK MANMurray screamed in desperation as the train headed straight for Darius who had just managed to stand, the train hit him head-on pulling him underneath the carriage breaking every bone in his body tossing him around like a ragdoll. Script Excerpt |
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BLOODLINESNate watched in horror as Hugo's bones started to crack causing him to grimace in pain. His jaw dislocated and his face contorted pushing outwards to form a muzzle. His fingers snapped backward and forward as they lengthened and his fingernails were torn apart as claws forced their way through his flesh. Long sharp teeth ripped through his gums filling his mouth with blood. Script Excerpt |
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Fright GamesSet in the year 2064, five years after a Zombie Pandemic, reality TV is the new rage. An innocent man is convicted of a serious crime but offered the chance of freedom to play the games. A fast paced, action Horror with more twists than Squid Games, The Running man, The Walking dead and Knives out. |
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POLLING PLACEWhen a bitter family feud escalates, a rebellious tech exec and his girlfriend head to a remote firehouse during a blizzard to defiantly vote against his father's mayoral bid, only to be trapped by a masked axe-wielding killer. Script Excerpt |
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MASSAGE PARLOREager to bond with his white-collar colleagues, a newlywed man accompanies them on a celebratory trip to a seedy spa, but when masked assailants emerge to drug, kidnap, and blackmail them, he must team with a plucky masseuse to thwart the twisted game of their mysterious captors. Script Excerpt |
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Satanic SantaA Holiday getaway for a couples quickly turns fatal as rituals and truths surface. |
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House on Haunted Hill: ResurrectionFrederick Loren, after serving two decades for the murder of his wife, reopens the notorious mansion for a haunted house party, aiming to expose the psychics he's invited. Unbeknownst to him, the malevolent presence of Inquisitor Torquemada and his relentless henchmen emerges, turning the night into a relentless battle for survival and sanity. Script Excerpt |
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ABRAHAM VAN HELSING AND THE HUNT FOR DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDEDr. Abraham Van Helsing the renowned scientist, doctor, and spiritualist returns to pursue a friend, the brilliant physician Dr. Henry Jekyll; obsessed with the idea that good and evil can be liberated from a human being. Now his extreme theory has yielded a malevolent formula that has set a monster lose upon the world. Can the man who hunted down Jack the Ripper, hunt down Edward Hyde? |
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PORTAL TO HELLPORTAL TO HELL: the existence beyond the mind. a spirit. a ghost. a poltergeist. Script Excerpt |
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On A Road Less TraveledAt the height of World War II, a troubled teen is sent away to her estranged Aunt and Uncle’s inn deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Upon discovering long-dormant family secrets, she becomes convinced the inn is haunted. |
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The Phantom of the OperaThe blossoming romance of Victome Raoul de Chagny and young soprano Christine Daae is pushed to their limits when a mysterious spectre haunts the Palais Garnier. Gaston Leroux’s classic novel is faithfully brought to life. |
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Howlingween 5: Trip AlongFate has dealt another terrible hand to the Forran family. Only wishing to enjoy a road trip across America, the family encounters a human-like wolf, the brainchild of a disturbed seven-year-old boy. Script Excerpt |
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God's Work: Devil's in the DetailsA poker game between old friends turns deadly when their childhood priest shows up, convinced one of them is possessed, but after an impromptu exorcism escalates, it becomes unclear just who is doing the devil's bidding and who is doing-- God's Work. |
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PERIPHERYBaffled by unidentified corpses, including his own doppelganger, a world-weary detective with failing eyesight must utilize unique visions into an alternate universe to stop a serial killing cult leader. |
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SLAVE PATROLA runaway slave must evade an evil posse of undead bloodsuckers and rescue his family from the plantation master, a powerful vampire out for revenge. |
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The MOTORMANA desperate group of late-night commuters, stranded in a subway tunnel, are systematically terrorized by an evil entity that knows their darkest secrets. |
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TRANSYLVANIA AIR FLIGHT 1313A cop transporting a thief back to Europe gets more than he bargained for when, once airborne and under a full moon, the prisoner changes into a werewolf, beginning a horrifying rampage at 30,000 feet. |
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God's WorkAn elite unit of Roman Catholic exorcists take on their most challenging target yet, the perfectly possessed president of the United States. |
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ABRAHAM VAN HELSING AND THE HUNT FOR JACK THE RIPPERIn this prequel to Dracula, Francis Tumblety a.k.a. Jack the Ripper kills Dr. Abraham Van Helsing’s son, steals his post-mortem knives and uses them to kill five prostitutes in 1888 Whitechapel, London. Now Van Helsing lives for one thing - to hunt down Jack the Ripper. Script Excerpt |
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CONSCIENCEA newlywed man discovers that his elderly father-in-law is actually a cunning sociopath planning to kill him before the weekend is over. |
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OUT of BODYWhen brutal thieves storm his bank and knock him unconscious, a timid bank manager awakens to discover he's having an out-of-body experience and must use his unique vantage point and newfound powers to thwart the heist and free hostages. Script Excerpt |
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Hell SailA wealthy man and head of his own law firm has a company investigator keep tabs on his trophy wife he suspects is involved with one of his young attorneys. But when the investigator gets the goods on the two he blackmails them into a murder plot to collect half of the husband’s insurance policy. Script Excerpt |
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Beyond the ForestA put-upon teenage girl uncovers a mystical relic and uses it to contact an ethereal entity who offers to help protect her from bullies. |
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ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE PIGS!THEY WANT YOU FOR BREAKFAST. |
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The HealerA down-on-his-luck trauma ward surgeon is given a limitless power to heal by an enigmatic stranger, but there's one catch: He must kill one person every 30 days in order to maintain it. Script Excerpt |
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SEANCEA psychic is forced to use his unique skills to locate drug money, but when a slain kingpin's evil spirit possesses him, he must channel this vengeful entity to save his family and his soul. Script Excerpt |
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MAUSOLEUMIn a plague-ravaged future, a scrappy duo of grave diggers battles an elite team of tomb raiders for entrance into a fortified crypt, but once trapped inside, they must face off against a sinister threat from beyond. Script Excerpt |
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CAULDRONSquabbling siblings, in search of their long-lost parents, take a house-sitting job in the countryside, only to find they've been lured into a trap by a wicked witch. Script Excerpt |
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SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTIONBank robbers, holed up at a roadside diner, face off against a mysterious customer while the cops surround them, but when hostages begin bursting into flames, they must confront an insidious evil within. Script Excerpt |
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The SOMMELIERAt his family's secluded vineyard, a restaurateur must outwit a sociopathic wine expert, solve his father's murder, and rescue his fellow guests, after a tasting event turns into a deadly game of revenge. Script Excerpt |
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CREATURES of HABITAfter changing therapists, an OCD afflicted mythology professor sheds his repetitive routines, but when monsters emerge from the woods and abduct his friends, he suspects his compulsive behaviors may actually be rituals intended to ward off an ancient supernatural force. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 4: Beastly MistA surprisingly intelligent swarm of flesh-eating insects is terrorising a small tourist community in Florida, leaving skeletons in its wake. It's left to a professor of entomology and the Forran family to battle the swarm. Script Excerpt |
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Spawn of EvilSix boys, sons of Auschwitz Nazi guards, have psychological behavior patterns and are selected for a particular education class; this leads to their post-war behavior of becoming serial killers and rapists of Jewish people and therefore sought by the Jewish hit squad, Nakam. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 3: Red River CountyA tourist-dependent town in Florida boasts of a historic inhabitant as being America's first serial killer, only to suffer his reawakening. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 2: Clarry the ClownHoliday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown. Script Excerpt |
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HowlingweenA dream holiday turns nightmarish when a family encounters a malicious wolf and traders in fresh human organs. Script Excerpt |
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IMPERVOSAn eccentric billionaire and his family struggle to escape from their subterranean luxury bunker when they are stalked by monsters that evolved during the Permian extinction and were set loose by the building of the bunker two miles underground. The monsters hunt the fleeing humans using "blindsight." Script Excerpt |
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Zulu Zulu ZombieLogline: In 1912 a special agent of the Royal British Naval intelligence Division must prevent the Zombie infested Ocean liner Titanic from reaching New York and turning it into a city of four million undead. paypal.me/pools/c/8iqJnELxnh |
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Dead LineThe ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt |
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Vengeance IslandA law student interning with the Public Defender office and his visiting girlfriend are stranded with their pilot on a remote Alaskan island outside Angoon in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked --- not just by wolves but by spirits seeking retribution for a lie the young man told native people while investigating a crime against their daughter. |
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MalleusHandsome rogue, denounced by his vengeful wife as a "wolf by night" in medieval France and burned at the stake, surfaces in modern day Los Angeles and befriends a fatherless teenage boy. Script Excerpt |
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La HaciendaAn interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico during the Day of the Dead to renovate a hacienda owned by her parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past. Script Excerpt |
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GOBLINHorror comedy in the 80's retro style of "Gremlins". Two young, naive newlyweds move into a Victorian house that's in serious need of supernatural pest control. The new bride discovers and befriends a E.T.-type creature who may be a monster but is the key to an ancient mystery that may save their marriage...if they don't kill each other first. Script Excerpt |
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JessGhost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in an old gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises hell in the life of the tour guide, a Stanford student. Script Excerpt |
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Unhallowed Be Thy NameA Massachusetts family unknowingly buys a home that was built on the site where witches were executed. Unbeknownst to them, the sentencing judge was an ancestor and payback is truly what they say! |
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Med Frenzy - A ConspiracyAn undiagnosable skin ailment affects a large population, but after years of suffering, a female victim discovers the underlying cause and a conspiracy between powerful government and industry entities—but who can she trust to investigate her claim? 9 locations |
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Post Your Script Here!The Cowbird
Marion Duke always struggled to overcome poor life decisions - some inherited, some self-inflicted.
Kibou
A tenacious young Japanese-American's loyalties, duties, and illicit interracial relationship are tested to the limits when his family is separated by the US government and imprisoned during a time of fear and paranoia surrounding WWII.
The Wayward Son
Orphaned after his father and other Chinese are murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
Visions
A teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders.
The Paper Route
On the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.
Memories of You
After his wife's death, a distraught man undergoes a radical procedure to be injected with her memories only to learn surprising things about her past even as he is targeted by the corrupt company his wife was investigating.
Child of the Disappeared
Maria Waite is dying and has little time left to come to terms with a tragic past and to find the child that was stolen from her at birth.
IN A PICKLE
PETS, PICKLEBALL AND PAST ROMANCE AWAIT FOUR CAREFREE FRIENDS WHO ARE ENJOYING THE RESORT LIFESTYLE OFFERED BY GRANDE WATERS RESORT, A WORLD-CLASS, 55+ ACTIVE COMMUNITY LOCATED IN THE BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA SONORAN DESERT.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.