Best Supernatural Screenplays

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Doors of Miracles

A young woman’s faith is tested, she is filled with the Holy Spirit and transcended through the universe to the Heavens to be returned to Earth with the power to heal, a direct link to God, God speaks and The Holy Spirit intercedes her response. 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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Visions

A teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her strange father may be the killer.

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The 49th Day

A 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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Time Before the Fall

A famous movie director harboring dark sins and nightmares of war tries to persuade his granddaughter not to make a biographical drama about his life while subconsciously knowing he needs it for his redemption. His secrets come to light when a young actress channels the spirit of his missing wife. Script Excerpt

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Misfortune Cookies

Accidentally 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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Restoration

As 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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Perfect Contrition

A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys. Script Excerpt

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The AWNING

Troubled 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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Tam Lin

In a modern romantic fantasy based on an ancient Scottish fairy tale, a strong young woman risks everything to save her mysterious lover from the evil Fairy Queen, and bring him back to a world he's never known.

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The Demon of Hope Street

A homeless vet discovers that a deranged street preacher is murdering his followers to send them to heaven — and if he doesn’t stop him, he might be next. Script Excerpt

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QUANTUM LOVE (OR HOW NICK AND VALERIE DESTROYED THE WORLD)

A surreal love story of disaster-movie proportions, its Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Cloverfield, with a touch of Sid and Nancy.

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E Pluribus Unum

Virginia 1860 – when a profitable, free plantation founded by disguised aliens and supported by famous Abolitionists is attacked by pro-slavers, two former slaves - a fighter and a pacifist, leave to seek help from newly-elected President Lincoln. Script Excerpt

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SOUTH WIND COME

Fleeing for their lives from a ruthless assassin in a drug cartel, a teenager and her father receive unexpected help from a mysterious ancestor returning from a two-century sojourn into the dark night of the soul.

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God's Warrior

God chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn her of the formidable opponents which collude to destroy her.

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Duplicitous

A 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 DEEP END

Character-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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The Call

A young, untested convert to the Christian faith, faces and defeats his temptation to steal a wallet containing $1,500 by playing an imaginary baseball game to avoid letting himself and his team of fellow believers down; meanwhile, his adversary, the Devil, and his team, will use every trick in the book to make sure that he does fail. Script Excerpt

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Hy-Brasil

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, a ship captain and his friends embark on a journey to the mythological island of Hy-Brasil, in hopes that its inhabitants will grant them immortality.

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Perfect Prophet

A death metal atheist with a tortured religious past becomes the target of his satanic fan base because they think he's something more. Check out the novel and its sequels, Prophet Reborn & Perfect Sacrifices published in 2020 and 2023. Script Excerpt

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Heaven Spent

A lonely young man, Micah Cohen, considers suicide, only to be visited by an “agent for the afterlife” who mistakenly thinks he’s already gone through with it. Rejuvenated by his new lease on life, Micah's determined to set things right…but when he discovers that Death itself is hunting him down, it’s up to Micah’s guardian angel – a rookie -- to save him. A dark reverse spin on Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

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Gray and Lover - The Hearth Tales Incident

Demons frighten people but fear Gray and Lover. A female steampunk duo are contracted to stop "Demon" from terrorizing Seattle before it finds a famous horror writer conjured by his unfaithful and murderous golddigger wife back in LA. Andromeda Film Festival - Best Screenplay Circus Road Films Screenplay Contest - Semi-Finalist All Genre Screenplay Contest - Official Selection

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The Schoharie

A volunteer firefighter of Native American descent must convince a small town sheriff with a grudge that a vengeful Indian spirit is bent on destroying their town with the flood waters of a nearby creek. Inspired by the actual Schoharie Creek bridge collapse of 1987. Now available as a novel. Script Excerpt

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Homeward Bound

Family and friends on earth eagerly pray for the healing of a woman who lays dying in a hospital room; meanwhile, another group of family and friends eagerly wait for the same woman to arrive in Paradise.

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Ilium Ridge

To brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the First World War is but a game to stave off the boredom of immortality. To Captain Achilles, the Man Who Cannot Be Killed, it is a curse to be avoided at all costs, as the gods, battles and magic of Homer's Iliad are transplanted to the bloody trenches of the last century.

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The East Is Closed

A college student experiences hallucinations that he believes are clairvoyant predictors of future events and finds himself in the middle of a terrorist plot when his brother is implicated in a murder conspiracy involving an L.A. sex cult.??

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THE CLICK-CLACK MAN

Murray 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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THE HIDDEN WORLD

A holiday was exactly what Chris and his family needed. A chance to relax and spend quality time with each other. They couldn't wait to stay in one of the cozy cabins and go hiking in the forest. But this was no ordinary holiday destination, this place had secrets and they were secrets that were not of this world. Script Excerpt

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BLOODLINES

Nate 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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TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN

PERFECTION IS THE PROVINCE OF THE GODS.

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PORTAL TO HELL

PORTAL TO HELL: the existence beyond the mind. a spirit. a ghost. a poltergeist. Script Excerpt

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Rediscovery

Two simple-minded brothers work part time science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time—and now they must figure out where they are, how they got there, and how to get back home.

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The Bench

A suicidal businessman recovers when he meets two men sitting on a bench in a public park; Father God who has His own personal crisis and the Holy Spirit who comforts Him when Jesus joins their conversation. Script Excerpt

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Fangly

5-year-old vampire kid wants to attend day school with his human friends, but sunlight will kill him.

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GOING ALONE

When a biologist working on aN important environmental report dies mysteriously, his estranged daughter takes over his work while an assassin is closing in. Script Excerpt

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Howlingween 2: Clarry the Clown

Holiday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown. Script Excerpt

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Nightmare in a Jar

With her husband out of town on business, Lisa plans to spend time writing, until a woman shows up at her door selling special face cream; from there everything gets dark and freaky. Script Excerpt

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Malleus

Handsome 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 Hacienda

An 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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GOBLIN

Horror 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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Dark of kNight (adaptation)

Adaptation by request of author TL Mitchell's first book in the Werewolf / Vamp series. Those mean old despicable Werewolves... Vampires just hate them. This is why.

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