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George Washington Slept Here!
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
On a weekend getaway to a historic lodge, a young couple clashes with their history obsessed host, who may just have bigger plans for their stay.
by Sam Robotham
RequestForecast
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
A single father fears for his life when a new drone delivery service sends him packages predicting his death.
by Travis Watson
RequestDUMMY
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
When CPR dummies start disappearing, one instructor embraces a sudden change in his home life.
by Andrew Kaberline
RequestDolls in the Walls
Horror Short Screenplay | 22 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
Married vloggers renovate their first home, revealing secrets in the walls that force them to fight for the house they love, while still creating the content their audience demands.
by Matt McCarthy & Katherine Cox
RequestDeedle, Diddle
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
A couple is roused awake in the night by wind chimes that go deedle, diddle.
by Richard Karpala
RequestDarwin's Tavern
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
As a desperate young man finds refuge in a vacant tavern, he meets a mysterious old bartender who may be the only key to help him find his missing girlfriend.
by Richard Stringham
RequestBaby
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
When two millennial women catch up over a glass of wine, one begins to suspect that the other -- a harried new mother -- has really seen some sh*t during her maternity leave... just as unearthly noises start to come over the nearby baby monitor.
by Rob Pilkington
RequestAssisted Living
Horror Short Screenplay | 25 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
Shy widow Esther is encouraged by her best friend Maude to enter their retirement community's rollicking dating scene -- but when a masked killer starts picking off residents, getting back out there might just prove deadly.
by Anna Robertson
RequestAssimilated
Horror Short Screenplay | 16 Pages | Season 2 | Semifinalist
When her immigrant parents' accents mysteriously disappear, Lindsey uncovers a horrifying truth.
by Christopher Guerrero
RequestAn Apple a Day
Horror Short Screenplay | 19 Pages | Season 1 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
In a macabre twist on the “Apple a Day” nursery rhyme, a medieval farm boy must escort his sister through an onslaught of malevolent plague doctors after his teasing pushes her to take a forbidden bite from the daily apple offering meant to ward them off.
by Allen Roughton
RequestThe No-No Man
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 1 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
A boy, being abused by his dad, receives help from an animated TV show character who comes to life and takes vengeance on the boy’s behalf.
by CJ Whitehead
RequestThe Butter Street Hitchhiker
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 1 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
Haunted by his past, a driver picks up a ghostly hitchhiker who will answer his deepest, darkest question if he drives him to his destination.
by Chris Hicks
RequestThe Rickety Man
Horror Short Screenplay | 9 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A distant and grieving widower learns one of his children is grieving in her own, terrifying way.
by Jeremiah Lewis
RequestSecond Skin
Horror Short Screenplay | 9 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
When his older brother is drawn into the neighbouring woods one night, a young boy suspects that the person who returns is no longer his brother.
by Gary Davies
RequestIntruder
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A woman wakes in the middle of the night to a disturbing text from her roommate.
by Maria Wilson
RequestFreezer
Horror Short Screenplay | 19 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Inspired by true events: After her youngest son dies in a household accident, a strange miracle leads an impoverished single mother to grim lengths to keep her family together.
by Chris Wiltz
RequestFinal Final Girls
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Things go awry for a horror superfan when he uses a monkey's paw to find out which of his favorite final girls would win in an all-out battle royale.
by Ben DeLoose & Matthew Chilelli
RequestFALL
Horror Short Screenplay | 21 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
As teenage bullies force two younger kids to climb a 1000-foot TV tower, everyone begins to lose their grip on the situation and it spirals out of control.
by Danny Newell
RequestConsumed
Horror Short Screenplay | 35 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A lonely young woman, tormented by bullies and her overbearing mother, attempts to miraculously transform herself using a bizarre, cutting-edge infomercial product, but with disastrous and horrific results.
by Brian K
RequestBaby Doll
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 1 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A young babysitter is terrorized by a sinister doll that she fears has come to life.
by John Burr
RequestWigilia
Horror Short Screenplay | 22 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A newly pregnant Magda brings an unwelcome guest to Christmas Eve dinner.
by Richard Karpala
RequestZombies on a Bus
Horror Short Screenplay | 18 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
"Speed" meets "Snakes on a Plane" but with zombies.
by Janet L. Loftis
RequestYou're It
Horror Short Screenplay | 4 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A short screenplay contest judge reads a cursed script and becomes haunted by the horror it unleashes.
by John Licata
RequestWe Wish You A Merry Christmas
Horror Short Screenplay | 7 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
When a group of carolers come to her door, a woman trying to relax is not prepared for how seriously they take their song.
by Sarah Emery & Carl Firth
RequestUnfinished Business
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
Work at Purgatory Inc. gets personal for intake officer Catherine after being assigned a recently deceased Bus Driver who caused a severely fatal accident on the other side.
by Kimberley Elizabeth
RequestThe Legend of the Rabbit Man
Horror Short Screenplay | 9 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
The gruesome legendary origins of the rabbit's foot charm become terrifying murderous reality for a small group of co-eds in an isolated cabin. Hilarity ensues.
by Darren Joe
RequestThe Key
Horror Short Screenplay | 6 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A Latino barber’s shop faces foreclosure. But when he finds a keyhole in the back of a wealthy customer’s head, he thinks he might have the answer to all his problems.
by Jorge Lucas
RequestSmiley Ike
Horror Short Screenplay | 34 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A homicide detective investigates a spate of murders and disappearances where the only evidence is skin. Meanwhile, his own family suffers torment at the hands of a mysterious force centered around his adopted daughter and her beloved rag doll.
by Trevor Lawrence
RequestSlaughter Hearse
Horror Short Screenplay | 28 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
On Halloween night, a woman has a terrifying Uber ride...inside a hearse.
by Evan Baughfman
RequestSaskia
Horror Short Screenplay | 30 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
Two Tradesmen trapped in a remote Island cottage, find themselves stalked by a mysterious threat.
by Connor Savage
RequestNoise Complaint
Horror Short Screenplay | 23 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A disgruntled transcriptionist struggles to meet a deadline, as the noise pollution in her building infects her with madness.
by Matt McCarthy & Katherine Cox
RequestMy Djinn
Horror Short Screenplay | 23 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
Following the death of his estranged father, a man inherits a djinn, putting himself and the lives of everyone around him in danger.
by Rubel Rafael Ahmed
RequestMi Cariño
Horror Short Screenplay | 19 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A young, newly hired nurse at a run-down nursing home begins to suspect that one of her patients is being terrorized by a spirit from their past—only to uncover a darker, much more disturbing reality.
by Christian Jacob Ramon
RequestGanglers
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A jaded correction officer transporting a busload of restrained inmates must choose whether to defend the prisoners she despises when they are attacked by creatures with a twisted sense of justice.
by Mark Renshaw
RequestFOG OF WAR
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A young soldier in WWI falls deeper and deeper into delusion. After his entire family is killed by a bomb and his brother dies on the battle field at Verdun, he starts having visions of a boar-like creature roaming the battlefield at night, devouring the souls of dead soldiers.
by Steven Lundgren
RequestFingers
Horror Short Screenplay | 25 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
Spurred on by a tall story from his deadbeat Uncle, eight-year-old Tom takes it upon himself to confront a local legend and make a terrifying sacrifice for his family.
by Lachlan Marks
RequestField Test
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
After a successful heist, two thieves steal the wrong van and find themselves unwitting test subjects for a horrific government experiment.
by Chris Hicks
RequestFACELIFT
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
Essie receives a mysterious mask that will help her regain her beautiful, youthful looks. But there are strict rules to be followed, the violation of which may lead to sinister consequences.
by Virat Pal
RequestEterni-Tree
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A surviving son is stuck with the remains of his abusive father who chose to be interred in the Eterni-Tree, a commercial bio urn, and soon finds himself in a battle against the aggressive sapling.
by Doug Mallette
RequestDrone
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A drone hobbyist must fight for his survival after the person he was spying on takes him captive.
by John Arvai
RequestDead by Dawn
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A disgraced ex-priest has one night to escort a new born baby, a prophesized holy child, to the safe confines of a church as a city of evil creatures and crazed cultists are hell bent on devouring the newborn to gain immortality.
by Johnny Gao
RequestDead Body Cam
Horror Short Screenplay | 19 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A corrupt police officer who lost his partner has to deal with having a new colleague in the form of a body cam amidst a zombie outbreak.
by Brian Lisi
RequestCold Call
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A Woman home alone is plagued by an unhinged Cold Caller who will stop at nothing to make a sale
by David Bryant
RequestBy Moonlight
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
After surviving a brutal countryside car crash, a pair of newlyweds experience terror by the light of the full moon.
by Brandon Laraby
RequestBreeder
Horror Short Screenplay | 35 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
The manager of a rural animal control facility discovers a horrifying connection between identical litters of puppies left on her doorstep and her father’s new girlfriend.
by Alex Payne
RequestBorder Control
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
A documentary crew embeds with border control, their secret plan to expose the ill treatment of those crossing reveals a hellish truth far worse than they expected.
by Michael Rogers
RequestBoneseed
Horror Short Screenplay | 21 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
An abused young girl befriends the skeletal remains of a murdered man — now fused within the trunk of an old tree — and helps investigate his murder.
by Joshua David Matthews & Brett Brooks
RequestBLANK
Horror Short Screenplay | 29 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
When a woman experiences dissociative episodes, she and her boyfriend come to believe that a new personality is growing within her brain and destroying her original mind.
by Avishai Weinberger & Tova Weinberger
RequestBael
Horror Short Screenplay | 21 Pages | Season 1 | Semifinalist
When a father-daughter road trip takes a dark turn, sacrifices must be made.
by Brandon Weavil
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