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Best Thriller Screenplays
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PESTILENCEZoe Ohrbach and Brian Snyder are Silicon Valley techies struggling through a pandemic of a new variant of Mad Cow affecting deer, moose, elk, etc. Despite warnings, people continue hunting and eating toxic venison. It was only a matter of time before the disease jumped to humans—a zoonotic “spillover.” Like all prion diseases, it is incurable, untreatable and unpreventable. The new disease, called “Acquired Prion Sociopathy Syndrome (APSS) causes first psychopathy and, inevitably, death. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe Adapted from my novel, Twisted Fate, showcased online pre-publication: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ |
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IMPERVIOUSEccentric billionaire, convinced that nuclear war is imminent, lures his family and workers into a subterranean bunker. But his builders released a life form living underground for 280 milion years to hunt the humans. |
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Redwood TombMarried assistant DA falls for a free-spirited Santa Cruz artist who is unknowingly entangled with a charismatic serial killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone https://www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/saturday-night-off-2/ |
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Riviera DriveThree felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent gang-banging past to save his family. |
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Space ReservedLow budget erotic vengeance thriller: one room, four characters, no escape. Young ad exec driving his date home takes a space reserved for another unit and is taken captive by two women. |
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Post Your Script Here!Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale, a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages, leaving nowhere for the perpetrators of the nation's greatest corporate crime to turn, or hide - no 'out'.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
WEIGHT of the WORLD
As seniors vanish and messages appear in mirrors, a skeptical detective is drawn into a parallel world where the forgotten are reborn—and learns she might just be the last warning before humanity is rewritten.
The Sky’s Edge
At the dawn of the aviation age, America's greatest daredevil aviator recounts his meteoric rise from working-class mechanic to national hero as fierce rivalries, personal tragedy, and an obsession with conquering the impossible drive him toward one final, calculated defiance of death.
Six Hundred Years of Love
The Fountain meets Blade Runner 2049: a man risks his life to save the same woman twice — first in Renaissance Italy, then in a post-human future that threatens human extinction.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
After witnessing a deadly shootout, a teenage girl, afraid of her rage in a violent future, magically connects with the spirit of her murdered grandmother to fight a vast web of hate and violence.
Virgin, Warrior, Priest, Hero
A psychological epic following one woman's thirty-year evolution through obsessive faith, trauma, violent delusion, and finally grace - fractured versions of a soul struggling to overcome a world that misreads and mistreats her.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
A Duluth private investigator, needing to pay off his bookie, agrees to payment on completion of a prominent politician’s wife’s case; now he has only three days to find an Ohio plumber that the client only met on the internet over a dozen years ago.
Dellwood
A successful but unhappy novelist reluctantly returns to his childhood town to attend a friend's funeral and reminisces about his experiences playing basketball on a city court to escape his abusive home.
Whirlabout
A New York actor returns to his decaying hometown to care for his father, only to uncover dark family secrets, confront a lifetime of abuse, and face a harrowing moral reckoning that could either destroy—or finally heal—his fractured family.
