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BEST THRILLER:
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HE ONLY KNOWS, by Richie Mitchell
Religious thriller. A sprinkler installer becomes world famous for stopping
a serial rapist, then ends up running for his life from the media and a
growing cult that proclaims he killed the Devil. Optioned by Casper Lundbak Prods. against $95,728
purchase; interest from Viggo Mortensen to star.
MALLED, by Lauren Peterson
Welcome
to the Mall of the Future…now try to get out alive. Six teenagers have to fight for
their lives to escape a new hi-tech “smart” shopping mall when its Big
Brother security system mistakes them as a threat and traps them
inside. First-place winner,
2007 WriteSafe.com Competition; Finalist, 2009 Bridge International
Screenplay Competition.
SINNER CIRCLE, by Stephen GM Ford
Romantic
thriller. A former government
operative goes undercover inside a crime family to avenge the murders of
his son and brother, until he unexpectedly falls in love with the family
patriarch’s free-spirited but tragic daughter – forcing him to choose
between love and revenge.
SLIPPING, by Jeff Connell
Psychic thriller.
A young, female FBI profiler, with a psychic gift of seeing through
killers’ eyes, discovers that the latest suspect in a series of brutal
slayings somehow holds the key to a dark secret from her childhood and to
her destiny.
SKIN, by Dan McGuire
Beauty-and-the-beast
crime thriller. A heroic
fireman, disfigured horribly from severe burns, undergoes an experimental
face transplant from the skin of a dead man, in order to win the girl he
secretly loves. But his new
face is that of a wanted murderer who has been terrorizing her, uncovering
a secret that plunges them both into danger.
THREES, by Luis Cruz
In a small town, a family is butchered and a
little girl goes missing. The young police chief, conflicted over personal
secrets of his own, enlists his old mentor, a washed-up, ex-NYPD detective,
to catch the murderer and find the missing child – spiraling them toward a
deadly confrontation with their pasts, the truth, and a serial killer.
THE OBLIVIONS, by Gilles Fourquet
An undercover CIA agent discovers a French secret
society plotting to undermine the U.S. economy. He must expose who is behind the plot, which involves an
international cartel of powerful moguls, and stop them before it’s too
late.
FORTY WINKS, by Mitch Moldofsky
Erotic thriller.
A dream researcher in a future sleep lab, where technicians watch
people’s dreams while they sleep, corrals her husband into being a
subject. She views a dream she
isn’t prepared for: a steamy
extramarital affair, followed by a grisly murder – her own.
HIGHWAY HUNTERS, by Todd Lowe
Tarantino-styled thriller. The paths of four killers – a husband-and-wife team who
murder hitchhikers for kicks and two criminals on the run – collide
together, with an avenging female FBI agent caught in the middle. A thrill ride of blood and guts on
the highways of the deep South.
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, by Brian Yarbrough
On a night of forgettable indiscretions, a betting man
signs up for a real-life assassination game. Five years later, reformed of his ways, this successful,
devoted family man wants out.
But you don’t quit the game – you win or you die.
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