Ten-Best Script Listings

 

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BEST HORROR:

THE DEAD, by Steve Hayes

 

Zombie ensemble piece a la Dawn of the Dead and I Am Legend.  Survivors of a mass zombie takeover struggle to find safety from the Living Dead and a crazed “holy man” in a small airport, the last bastion of the last humans on earth.  Second-place winner of the 2007 International Sci-Fi and Horror Festival.

 

BORN OF EARTH, by Joseph Thompson

 

SOLD to Skeleton Factory, currently in release.  When a blue-collar man’s wife is slaughtered and his children kidnapped by a cadre of horrifying creatures, he teams up with a theology professor to save them.  Together they unearth an ancient Sumerian text that calls for global war between mankind and demons “born of earth.”

 

DEAD OF NIGHT, by Joseph Thompson

 

A young girl, driven by years of abuse by her stepfather, murders him and tries to bury his body on an island haunted by an ancient evil that possesses and resurrects the victim – whom she must kill again to stop the evil spirit from spreading off the island.

 

SACRIFICED, by Robert Bridge

 

Detective supernatural horror a la Angel Heart and Devil’s Advocate.  Mark left the priesthood to be a cop specializing in religious-related crime.  Investigating pedophile priest murders, he encounters a mysterious lawyer who may hold the key to solving the crimes…and who may be the Devil incarnate.  When Mark enters his cryptic underworld, he discovers the truth leads to a self-revealing nightmare.

 

AMONG THE DEAD, by Kimberly Britt

 

Psychological horror a la Rosemary’s Baby.  A psychiatrist refuses to believe her patients’ claims of being terrorized by a supernatural being, until the same one appears to her.  As her dreams and reality interweave, and two patients die, she must find a way to save a third patient’s life – and her own.

 

FEAR GOD, by Jill Carlton

 

OPTIONED by 21st Century Foy Prods., currently available.  Teen horror in a camping retreat with a twist ending.  College anthropology majors researching folklore at an isolated cabin are besieged by murderous, shape-shifting demons that feed on childhood fears – until they discover that some among them are spawns of the same legendary “Fear Gods” terrorizing them.

 

CLOWN PHOBIA, by Michael Dugan

 

Comedic horror.  A vanful of youth missionaries break down on a deserted highway and seek help at a remote farm house that appears to be a clown college full of fun-filled jesters.  But as night falls, the clowns – who turn out to be escaped convicts and drug dealers operating a crystal meth lab – become anything but funny.

SOLACE, by Katrina Rodriguez

 

Optioned by Worldwide Screen Actors Online (Australia). At an Outward Bound-styled wilderness boot camp for troubled teens, the desperate spirit of an alleged suicide victim seeks the help of a young girl to expose the truth about her murder.

 

SHADOW OF THE RIPPER, by Thomas Schafer

 

A young man experiments with a Ouija board and unleashes the ghostly presence of his great grandfather – Jack the Ripper. The infamous slasher sets out to inhabit the youth’s body, the last of his bloodline, to seal his own immortality.

 

VIRUS, by Graham Flashner

 

In the aftermath of a Columbine-styled shooting, the ghost of a high-school mass murderer haunts the internet as a virus that infects students, turns them into psychotic school killers and threatens the whole community.  When one of them, a bright cybergeek who lost his brother, fights back and almost succumbs, his father intervenes to save his last surviving son.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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