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AT THE MERCY OF FAITHA 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter. 18 years later the psychopathic demons from his past, viciously returns to wreak havoc on his home - and to rip-out-his-soul - for the god of their hell. Script Excerpt |
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HenriettaOhio, 1887. A multiracial family is devastated by illness after 11 year old Rhett believes she has summoned a demonic power. While her doctor stepfather quarantines the house for cholera, Rhett must fight through an otherworldly dreamscape to protect her mother and brother. (harryaspinwall.com/henrietta) Script Excerpt |
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VisionsA girl 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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RestorationDiscovering a centuries-old religious painting that shouldn't exist, an introverted art restorer slowly succumbs to the evil temptations of the mystical canvas, even as otherworldly forces strive to prevent her from revealing the artwork's unholy secret. Script Excerpt |
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FEEDERA dysfunctional family moves from Los angeles to picturesque Murphy Springs, Colorado with hopes of a fresh start, but those plans are foiled when they discover that this quaint mountain refuge holds dark secrets that could tear them apart. |
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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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TRAUMATIZEDThe sole survivor of a serial killer, tortured by visions of her ordeal, decides to conduct her own investigation only to realize that her former captor, whom she thought dead, might still be alive and after her. |
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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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ConsumedTrapped beneath a collapsed building, a grieving wife struggles to protect her treacherous husband from a horde of parasitic monsters. 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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GRIMOIRELife is short, Hell is forever Script Excerpt |
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We Shall Not Go HungryIn Viking Age Iceland, Sigrun and her two brothers are reunited with their estranged father, only to fall prey to a horrific curse. After their father goes missing, Sigrun must protect her brothers by any means necessary, but uncovering her family’s history of dark magic may lead her to become the very thing she’s fighting. (harryaspinwall.com/wsngh) Script Excerpt |
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The Meat EatersA fast food manager must lose his virginity to join a cult addicted to eating a powerful aphrodisiac -- a "living meat" that won't stay on the plate. |
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The Last GuardDetective Alvarez is trapped in an abandoned silo on a remote island, with a hostage and a bag of loot - surrounded by a squad of rogue soldiers and an ancient curse, her corruption and lies brutally unravel, as the shadows crawl and darkness descends... |
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JunkGene, a TV-obsessed recluse, is shocked out of hiding when his favorite childhood actress, Evelyn, reinvents herself as a raunchy popstar. With the help of Katherine, another delusional superfan, he ventures through a bleak near-future on a disastrous crusade to remind the world that it needs the old Evelyn back. |
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Let the Devil InDesperate to help her Iraq veteran husband overcome PTSD, a woman moves to a remote mountain town where an evil presence attempts to entice him into violence. |
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and The Devil called!The Devil walks the cold dark corridors awaiting the capture of God's Chosen-one to re-ignite the flames of Hell. Script Excerpt |
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SummonsThrust into an underground war between monsters of legend, Deirdre must entrust her safety to strangers who believe her to be the last known person to see their lost leader alive. Desperate to locate him, they help her navigate her memories from hallucination. |
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SpoofsAn 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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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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Dream CatchersIn medieval Scotland, a man searching for redemption becomes the target of torment as his power to heal becomes a catalyst for fear. |
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Jericho's PaintingA girl struggling to overcome the death of her mother finds herself falling for a mysterious young artist, unaware that he has sinister- and possibly infernal- intentions. |
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HIGH STAKESIn 1992, two perpetually-stoned perpetual students discover a nest of vampires have cornered the local marijuana trade, and they realize it’s up to them to save the weed – and save the world. |
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The Work of ZombiesWhen an ambitious reporter sensationalizes her reporter of zombies robbing banks in Savannah a transplanted Cajun cop must call on his own youthful voodoo training to combat the crazed priest behind the crime spree. |
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FALLOUTLocked in separate booby-trapped rooms, two women are given 90 minutes to decide which of them will live, or they'll both die, but as secrets are revealed, the line between who is worthy and who isn't begins to blur. Script Excerpt |
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Blood of the ManorAn orphaned teen discovers the ancestral Gothic manor she inherits is her only protection from a deranged familial spirit out to kill her. Script Excerpt |
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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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SnowWhen a fierce snowstorm blankets the area, four stranded travelers find themselves in a remote town battling an insidious force more terrifying than the elements. |
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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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Across the VeilBetrothed as a part of a peace treaty, Nylas, prince of the Unseelie, and Aislynn, princess of the Seelie, court each other between two different worlds. When a long-time foe threatens Aislynn and the peace their families have worked so hard for, Nylas must tread carefully so as not to start an all out war. |
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Sabre IceScientists thaw a frozen cavewoman and unknowingly implant modern brain matter from a convicted serial killer—an attribute they must embrace when their other experiment, two genetically-enhanced sabretooth tigers, break loose within the compound. |
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Mistresses of SleepA young lady receives an unusual invitation to visit one of three mysterious hypnotists to unlock the secret of her recurring nightmares of death and destruction. |
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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. Hot rods, teen sexual angst and science gone wild. Script Excerpt |
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Dark TrinityAn abused woman and her young daughter attempt to flee their tormentor, only to unleash a greater evil that threatens to consume them. |
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Funny BoneyardA young entrepreneur plugs his last dime into Heaven-Wise Acres, a cemetery-of-the-absurd theme park. To everyone's surprise it's a huge hit...until things go horribly wrong. |
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THE POOLCharacter-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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SINderCinder unites with Fairy against Cinder’s evil step-family, led by Fairy’s murderous sister, Greta. The two women and their army of females, trade slippers, and carriages for swords and bows and arrows to keep Greta and her wicked daughters from stealing the throne. |
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Who's Beside You Now?A young seminarian volunteers for an experimental medical procedure to restore his failing sight and hearing. The procedure’s a success but now he sees and hears creatures that normal people can’t, including a terrifying being who fights to cross over from another realm to possess him and rule mankind. To stop the entity, the seminarian must learn metaphysics and agree to sacrifice his life. |
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DeathwindTake a deep breath ... just hope it doesn't kill you. A vast area of Central America is sealed off, its inhabitants evacuated and villages razed. Offshore, an American fishing vessel is attacked without explanation. Together these scenarios set in motion a horrifying trail that begins in a biological research station in 1990s Libya and leads to a race to save humanity from a looming pandemic. |
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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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IniquitousWhen a spell releases an ancient demon, it attempts to bring its fellow minions from hell, through a human woman. And four friends must use a mysterious necklace, to stop the entity from opening a gateway to our world. Script Excerpt |
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BELSNICKLEWhen it seems an evil folklore character begins killing people in a rural town during Christmas week, a young, inexperienced sheriff with his job on the line tries to stop him. |
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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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Perfect ProphetA 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 sequel, Prophet Reborn, published in 2018 and 2020. Script Excerpt |
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The Black Sea Of RosesA couple stumbles upon an abandoned cabin. This is not like any cabin -- it's haunted by a family who are stuck in a dark world. Only the couple can save them because little do they know, they are related to this family. But first, they have to walk through the black sea of roses and come face to face with the spirits |
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MOVING DAYWhen a grifter takes a moving job at a remote mansion for a wealthy recluse, he's tempted by rare valuables in storage, but as an impromptu heist gone wrong leads to a tense stand off, he finds spiritual redemption if not material gain, is well within reach. Script Excerpt |
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WAKEAfter three attempts on his life, an ordinary man enlists the aid of a mysterious stranger to fake his death, changing his identity and appearance, but when he attends his own wake to uncover the truth, he gets far more than he ever could have imagined. Script Excerpt |
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ZwarmHi-tech nanobots designed to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones malfunctions and ends up trying to repair all imperfect humans worldwide by turning them into drones. |
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Touch-UpA portrait photographer acquires a computerized photo touch-up program with the power to change a person’s real-life appearance. Initially, he uses it to help the maimed and disfigured. But, his services soon grow in demand among inner-city gangstas - and bugs in the program appear, forcing him to use the program in horrifying new ways. |
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PinewoodA mentally unstable ex-con works with a private eye to find out who really killed his childhood friend. Unfortunately, the evidence goes into dark forces neither one is ready to deal with. |
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The MergingAn ancient alien device is brought on board an earth space ship and goes on a killing spree. When it lands on earth, all life is dinner. |
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the paracleteguilt is sometimes an illusion |
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Tender NightmareIn the 1950s in St. Petersburg, Florida, four eleven-year-old boys (two sets of twins, one Identical), attempt to track down the source of several mysterious murders in town, finding themselves tangled in the web of a Nazi cabal. |
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COLLEGE 19Two Freshman College students, one has a deadly secret, are stuck in self-quarantine isolation. They’re trying to keep themselves from going nuts, while lusting after girls they can’t have, and worse yet, they have to fend off those who have become the virus mutated, face mask wearing, Zombies! Script Excerpt |
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Your Own Personal HauntingCompelled to a house that terrifies him, a damaged man with OCD is challenged by spirits as he unravels the mysteries of his troubled life Script Excerpt |
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Attack of the KoalasPaul is an ordinary teen living in the suburbs. All he wants is to date his crush Becky. But when mutated koalas get loose, Paul has to protect Becky and his friends before they are eaten. |
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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 BIRTHA young guilt-ridden African-American mother struggles to maintain her sanity and protect her daughter when the spirit of her aborted first pregnancy demands its place among the living. |
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RESERVOIRA young criminal, in mourning after the death of his sister, is thrust into the role of a reluctant Messiah following a violent supernatural occurrence. Script Excerpt |
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THE KLAN KILLERA teenage newcomer to rural Alabama struggles for acceptance and must fight for her life when she confronts the embodiment of a horrifying local legend. |
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Fetish For FearA group of friends, who try to out-scare each other in an abandoned theatre, unknowingly awaken an evil force that preys on their fears, and puts a deadly end to their fun and games. |
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CAULDRONSquabbling siblings, in search of their real parents, take a job house sitting a cottage in the countryside, only to discover it belongs to a wicked witch. Script Excerpt |
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SÉANCEA psychic is forced to lead a spiritual sitting in order to locate drug money for cartel thugs, but when a slain kingpin's evil spirit is unleashed and begins possessing him, he must commune with this vengeful force in order to save his family and his soul. Script Excerpt |
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The SOMMELIERAt his family's secluded vineyard estate, 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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Hobson's ChoiceSuicidal, depressed and tormented by his peers, 14-year-old Marcus Hobson reluctantly enters into a pact with a demon and finds revenge to be other than sweet. |
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BroodA monster in human form is driven to use a human female host to spawn offspring. Script Excerpt |
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Oh DeerWhen an underachieving park ranger and her trainee discover a pack of aggressive, man-eating deer during a training session, they must step up and save the day when the rabid, zombified animals threaten their small town's annual Harvest Festival. |
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The Summer of the Seven SealsA Concert Festival becomes a nightmare weekend, when a group of friends are ritualistically terrorized, from within their own circle. |
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The TombstoneAfter a devastating night, a group of friends begin to die one by one by a masked killer. |
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GEISTGeist is a supernatural horror-thriller. Professor Jones after a failed attempt at suicide, is sent, by a strange counselor, to a beach house to recover. Jones must survive the beach haunted by 4 demonic women who try to kill him and the beach house haunted by a Geist who tries to drive him insane or be thrashed to death in this 'loop' hole. |
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WELCOME TO CAULDRONIn the small town of Cauldron two opposing groups clash over the presence of an old monument- the monument is destroyed and to their mutual terror a horrifying demon is released. One group will strike a deal with the demon while the other will fight to save themselves from death. |
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AlcatraZ or, (the high school zombie field trip)What starts off as a fun filled school field trip to the popular tourist destination of Alcatraz island prison, quickly devolves into a desperate fight for survival as the island staff, school classmates, teachers and many of the tourists on the island begin turning into ghoulish flesh eating zombies. |
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THE VAPEA group of friends fight for their lives after vaping a toxic mixture of fluids created by an evil man desiring to steal their souls. |
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Little RedA traveling florist enters a town while a woman has an interesting dream. |
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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 in entomology and the Forran family to battle the swarm. Script Excerpt |
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Stay OutTwo young lovers sneak into a closed mountain park only to be stalked by a trashy killer couple hiding in the woods. |
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ZOMBIE F.C.The team they thought were dead and buried! Script Excerpt |
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The Seven Summer MusesA group of seven college friends, find themselves involved in a horrific ritual when they have a party in the restaurant where they work. |
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BloodthirstyA motley crew of strangers trapped in a secluded London tavern must survive overnight against vicious werewolves. |
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BloodsmokeA new college student is recruited by peers into their war against a vampire threat, but their biggest battle comes when one of their own is bitten and fights with unprecedented reluctance against the change. |
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Dead or AliveThree supernatural stories involving a diverse group of individuals unfold over a fateful night in 1885 Nevada. |
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VegetationAn unusual alien plant comes to earth and wreaks havoc in San Francisco as it takes over the Pyramid Building and Golden Gate Park. (More of an “Alien” feeling then “Little Shop of Horrors”) Script Excerpt |
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Spawn of EvilThe horror by the Nazis, during WWII in Auschwitz, and the post-war, cruel serial murders and graphic sex committed by six sociopathic and psychopathic young Nazis upon Jewish women. Script Excerpt |
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Kiss of SatanSatan and his cult enjoy the spoils of earth until they have to battle a Great Man of God. Script Excerpt |
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JUST LIKE YOUAs a raw firebrand/patient attacks clinical orthodoxy her body is earmarked for rape drug tests by a syndicate whose fiscal architect doubles as the ward's fabled Chief of Psychiatry. 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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ARKHAM HORRORA group of misfits unites to defend a small town from an onslaught of unimaginable horrors. |
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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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THE BLOODY VIALBefore the next full moon, a new Vampire dentist-in-training must choose between giving magical ancient vampire blood to himself, his jealous family vampires and friends, or saving a hot blonde babe from a needy bitten human. Ancient Vampire Blood comes with a bite. |
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Devils Breed: Two young city slickers find their remote hideout farm is surrounded by a Satanic cult and must outwit the Devilish Cult leader and his Witch to survive cannibalism and other horrors. Script Excerpt |
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A PORTRAIT OF AN AUTHORITARIAN DOMINATINGWhen a patient comes for treatment with a psychologist she finds the doctor is more emotionally needy than she is and their relationship has given him the means to destroy her! Script Excerpt |
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Vengeance IslandA young couple are stranded on a remote Alaskan island when their seaplane goes down in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked --- and not just by wolves. |
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La HaciendaA married interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico during the Day of the Dead, a holiday of remembrance for those who've died, to renovate a dream hacienda owned by her parents and they soon discover it's haunted, by not only the couple's own past but also the murderous pasts of its former owners, who have been forgotten for very good reason. Script Excerpt |
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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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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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VIRALThe ghost of a teenager cyberbullied into suicide haunts the internet as a social-network virus that turns abused kids into killers who take revenge against bullies. When a smart but family-troubled geek fights back and succumbs to the cyberghost, his father has to intervene to save his son. 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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THE LIGHT MANA woman at a music festival passes off two children to the light toy vendor. A disturbing twelve-page short that twists as we decide if she helped or hurt them. A professional script analyst says this of The Light Man: "I love the way you play with our expectations -- the way you make us look left, then slap us across the face and tell us to look right. You have a gift for that." |
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Med FrenzyHidden corporate practices and lax governmental controls cause a large population to become afflicted with an unknown skin ailment that cause doctors to label patients psychotic, but a single woman, in her desperate struggle to find relief, discovers the true cause of the disease and an underlying conspiracy. |
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Post Your Script Here!Between and Salt and the Sky
In a Portuguese coastal town in 1942, she had nothing to lose, and he had nothing to live for.
WHO WAS IZOLA WARE CURRY and why did she try to slay the king?
In 1958 while Black America was entrenched in a struggle for civil rights, a Black woman attempts to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr.
KINGDOM OF GAM
ALOS AND RAGS BETTER BE UNITED OR THE DEEP FORCE WILL ANNIHILATE THEM BOTH
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
Daughter of Job
Jemimah's comfortable family life attracts the devil's curse as was the case for Job in the Old Testament but this time mouthed by a local jealous gossip.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all.
LOTUS OPERANDI
This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists.
CURIOUS BUDDIES
It's not your mother's buddy movie.
NOCTUME'S RAINBOW
Kids and their dogs, find the rainbow bridge in a snowstorm.
River of Dreams
Star-crossed lovers, Hamilton Maywood and Lee Ann Hunter, participants in the 1870 great steamboat races, have a second chance to get it right coming back as Greystone Ducette and Elizabeth Rowland, aboard a modern day re-enactment of the boat race.
