Best Thriller Screenplays
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DARK WATERSCharacter-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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UNDER OLYMPUSA disgraced security expert who lost his family wanders the Caribbean islands on his boat as a criminal fixer for the underworld, until he's given a job as head of security at an isolated luxury resort on Olympus Island. He discovers an underground medical clinic, a cover for a criminal operation making illegal designer babies for wealthy guests. He's forced to escape the island, protecting the lives of two women and and an unborn child -- his own. Available as both a feature script and a pilot/bible for a limited series. Script Excerpt |
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SHEILA'S WEBA psycho-sexual thriller about a Key West sculptor, yachtsman and society drop-out who falls in love with the troubled daughter of a powerful Tennessee Williams-styled family and becomes embroiled in a complex web of madness and murder. A twisted, Hitchcockian tale of a single man's nightmare of sex, romance and paranoia based on Patricia Highsmith's theme in "Strangers On A Train". Script Excerpt |
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CAUGHT IN THE ACTFilm noir domestic-crime thriller of love, passion, betrayal and revenge in Bel Air. A devious, corrupt L.A. businessman hires a talented young actor to seduce his beautiful wife as grounds for divorce, but when the actor and the wife fall in love, their arrangement spirals out of control into a double murder conspiracy. Script Excerpt |
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S.O.B.A Texas police dispatcher adverse to guns and violence discovers that his runaway teenage daughter has been kidnapped by human traffickers. He transfers as a cop to El Paso’s vice squad on a relentless mission to find her; his journey into the heart of darkness, the S.O.B. world of “sexually oriented businesses”, and his sinister evolution into a criminal mind and a man of violence. Script Excerpt |
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SKYHANGERAction thriller set in a European ski resort. An American cat burglar with a recent fear of heights pulls off one last rooftop heist and steals a mysterious package. Crossing the Alps to deliver them to a mysterious banker, he's stalked by a clever female assassin. He evades her, using an innocent ski instructor and her students as a ruse, and boards a cable car. The assassin boards with them, when the lift is derailed in mid-air -- a skyhanger with unexpected twists. Script Excerpt |
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WILD CARGOUpdated take on "Key Largo", character-driven underdog actioner for a male star. A maverick ex-convict drifter and habitual thief, alienated from society and prone to violence, bonds with the pacifist woman owner of a Louisiana monkey sanctuary. When animal smugglers invade her wildlife preserve, the ex-con is forced into a confrontation that finally redeems his lost humanity. Script Excerpt |
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In a world of AI-hyped spectacles, a retired boxing legend must reclaim his glory against a brash social media influencer to fund his granddaughter's life-saving treatment, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that could destroy them both.
Wendigo
After a series of brutal killings in Algonquin Provincial Park linked to a missing hiker transformed into a mythical Wendigo, an elite military team must join forces with local rangers and a Native American tracker to stop the ancient creature's reign of terror before more innocent lives are lost.
The Huntsman
A battle-hardened Starship crew faces their greatest test when a routine extraction mission unleashes a mind-altering alien force, fracturing loyalties and awakening a cosmic mystery that could reshape the fate of the universe.
The Rulers Of The Islands
World-shaping for the fourth time, they sight Hawaii, a crown jewel in the Pacific: a prize to fight for? or to bring peace to our world from, instead.
THE NEO-PAGANS
A talented forensic sketch artist has the gift of “seeing” murderers with her hands.
THE BANNER
Though haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an AI Bot to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of 'Fake'.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class project.
