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.

 

SHADOW OF THE RIPPER, by Thomas Schafer

 

Psychological horror thriller.  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 body of the youth, the last of his bloodline, to seal his own immortality.

 

SINDROME, by Brian Pittman & Rachel Long

 

Smart, realistic horror thriller ripped from the headlines of corporate corruption.  The son of a pharmaceutical CEO is kidnapped and tormented with mind games until his stubborn father exposes the company’s misdeeds.  Finalist at 2009 Shriekfest.

 

CAMEL, by John Turnbull

 

Creature feature a la Predator.  A jaded commander and his special-forces team are shot down en route to a Mideast search-and-rescue mission and encounter a nightmare of spiderish proportions.  They soon find that the truth behind horrific, bioengineered creatures with high intelligence is closer to home than they would like.

 

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.

BLOOD PROPHESY, by David Morrison

 

A young, successful fantasy writer of Anne Rice-type supernatural novels is haunted by the "fictional" vampires she created and finds herself trapped in an underworld between those who hail her their messiah and those who want her destroyed as a spy from the world of humans.

 

BURNT, by David Hillman

 

Ghost story with teens.  A small group of homeless London teenagers take refuge in an abandoned, haunted theatre and soon discover that those who died there never left, with terrifying consequences.

 

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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