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Aqua Tofana
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A post-election domestic dispute escalates quickly.
by Julia Diddy
RequestStall Me
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
While celebrating their twenty first birthday, two club goers face the deadly consequences of breaking the rules.
by Desiree Middleton
RequestBaby Monitor
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A panicked mother discovers her baby is no longer in her crib, yet the baby monitor shows her in an identical crib somewhere else.
by Thomas Schrack
Requestdoorslash
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
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by Moses Nebraska
RequestThe Red-Eye Effect
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Honorable Mention
While looking through their recent photos, Anne and Zoë begin to notice something deeply unsettling about the images...
by Jason Turer
RequestMichael and his Monster
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Honorable Mention
A monster discovers his kid has grown up.
by James Ferda
RequestHanzo's Hideout
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Honorable Mention
A young boy’s game of hide and seek among department store clothing racks is disrupted by an insidious force.
by Stephen Chen
RequestResting Bitch Face
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Honorable Mention
They asked her to smile, one time too many.
by Azzurra Nox
RequestFallen Man
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Honorable Mention
Two friends driving on a deserted road at night see a man fall out of the sky and stop to help—with terrifying consequences.
by Annie Wilder
RequestCHOP CHOP
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
A quaint old-fashioned butchers shop... That is open 24 hours?
by Anoop B. Singh
RequestExecution
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
A young figure skater reaches breaking point during a training session with his abusive instructor.
by Callum Henderson
RequestThree on a Roof
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
Two teenagers take shelter on a sunny roof from a famished vampire until the sky darkens and another monster is revealed.
by Miles Randall
RequestFRACTURED
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
An unexpected present from his ex-wife fractures a father and his girlfriend.
by Jonathan Clark
RequestNight Bus
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
A man must hold his nerve alone against the creeping darkness as he waits for the last night bus.
by Jonny Wright
RequestDON'T FORGET TO SCREAM
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
A young mother sings a nursery rhyme to her baby one night during a violent storm.
by Eilidh Smith
RequestAfterdeath
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
After her mother dies, a woman is confronted by an eldritch creature.
by Tanner Call
RequestKiss Her Once for Me
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
A familiar Christmas carol's wisdom leads down sick and depraved paths
by Ian Baaske
RequestDoll House
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
A young girl receives a dangerous doll house for her birthday.
by Will DeFrangesco
RequestTwo Little Pigs
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
Two women, separated and trapped by a masked killer, struggle to escape with their lives.
by Shaun Baland
RequestKiller Jorts
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
Killer fashion from the 80’s makes a deadly comeback
by Shaun Baland
RequestViral
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
When #jitterbug erupts on social media, people are literally dancing in streets, but when the trend goes viral, a dancing pandemic spreads. It's BIRDBOX but for the ears.
by Caleb Dillon
RequestUninterrupted Sleep
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
A woman's sleepless night takes a turn for the worse when her relaxation app reveals an unwelcome surprise.
by Jeremy Jackson
RequestRetraction
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
Newspapers have an obligation to print the truth.
by Moses Nebraska
RequestCarved
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 6 | Semifinalist
Pushed past the breaking point, a distraught housewife takes pulpy revenge on her cheating husband on Halloween night.
by Shaun O’Loughlin
RequestDear Nora
Short Story (Prose) | 11 Pages | Word Count: 2,900 📖 | Season 6 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
A desperate mother experiencing increasingly strange events in her new home reaches out to an advice columnist for help.
by Montserrat Luna
RequestLAST SEEN
Short Story (Prose) | 9 Pages | Word Count: 3,058 📖 | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
An old, lonely man working at a deserted gas station must protect his secret from a woman looking for her missing sister. But, he's not the only one with secrets...
by Allie Nelson
RequestQuis ut Deus
Short Story (Prose) | 8 Pages | Word Count: 3,690 📖 | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A priest takes confession. The man on the other side—and his deeds—seem strangely familiar.
by Akuorkor Allotey
RequestWithin a Dream
Short Story (Prose) | 12 Pages | Word Count: 3,400 📖 | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A haunted father who's spent a lifetime replaying his brother's childhood abuse discovers a mysterious dream guide offering a second chance. But to save his son from his brother's fate he must relive and rewrite the past.
by Michael Keener
RequestThe Nut Cracker
Short Story (Prose) | 25 Pages | Word Count: 5,995 📖 | Season 6 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
An orphaned young dancer finds refuge in the cabin of an ex-soldier at the height of the bubonic plague. She begins to fall for him but can't help questioning why this is the one place the rats don't dwell -- and what's that strange noise coming from the basement?
by Carter Friend
RequestThis Is Not The End
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 5 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
When a low income, immigrant couple spend their life-savings on a procedure to upload the cancer stricken wife’s consciousness into the AfterLife servers, things don’t turn out how they planned.
by Victor Ridaura
RequestThere's Something Off About Gertrude...
Horror Short Screenplay | 22 Pages | Season 5 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
Inexplicable occurrences begin to happen after a young nurse becomes the caretaker of a coma patient.
by Jake Moses
RequestNosebleed
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 5 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
When hackers take all the Taylor Swift tickets, Santa Claus goes on a bloody crusade to save Christmas for the children.
by Kristen McNaule
RequestYAOGUAI
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
After experiencing unsettling encounters en route to her audition, a dancer realizes that she has much more to worry about than just her performance.
by Mimi Lee & Vanessa Võ
RequestThe Knocker Upper
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
In 1830s Manchester, a young mother, haunted by the malevolent presence of the mysterious ‘knocker upper’, must confront her darkest fears to protect her family amid the relentless struggles of urban cotton mill workers.
by Sara Caldwell
RequestThe Kilima Chain
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Twelve slaves chained in place below deck of a ship at sea, an undead virus overtaking one host after another on its way towards the final two links on the chain - a young couple with an unborn child.
by Josh Folan
RequestThe Fairchild Equation of Artemis Frost
Horror Short Screenplay | 16 Pages | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A disenfranchised, forever-masked germaphobe seeks the help of an 80's television actress whilst being tormented by their landlord...who just might be The Devil.
by Gary Scott Irons
RequestPareidolia
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Jay makes a fateful trip back to Rendlesham forest, where he confronts traumatic memories of a seemingly extra-terrestrial encounter as a child during a family camping trip.
by Anoop Singh
RequestInpatient
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Recovering from a traumatic birth and haunted by her past, a mother must protect her daughter from a malevolent creature that attacks her deepest vulnerabilities.
by Simon Laurence Doyle
RequestBlack Puma
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A thief who escapes his abduction in a remote West Texas cabin returns for frontier justice when he should have just left well enough alone.
by Ren Hsieh
RequestYou're on Mute
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Honorable Mention
An ambitious young professional's life spirals out of control as she fights for her career and sanity over a video conference call.
by Joshua Heaton
RequestThe Avon Lady
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 5 | Honorable Mention
Two women on the fringes of 1950's American society collide in an inconspicuous Avon home visit where everything but the purchasing of lipstick occurs.
by Guillermo Ortiz & Geena Karsama
RequestSkin For Skin
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 5 | Honorable Mention
In the brutal 1800s American Frontier, two fur trappers craft a scarecrow from human skin, awakening a vengeful spirit. With the line between man and monster fading, they must face their dark deeds before the ruthless creation seeks its revenge.
by Jean-Paul DiSciscio
RequestNiño de Vidrio (Child of Glass)
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 5 | Honorable Mention
A lonely Mexican boy searches for someone to play with and finds an unlikely companion in the mountains of his small town.
by Gerardo Maravilla
RequestALPHA OMEGA
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 5 | Honorable Mention
In a chance meeting with an enigmatic old man about his unique fraternity pin, a college student finds himself in a fight for his life as he is slowly sucked into the old man's terrifying tale.
by Clint Ford
RequestYou're Not There Yet
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A young woman, exhausted from trying to perfect the dystopian standard of female beauty, is set on a path where she may risk life itself for a few moments of nirvana.
by Toni Cunningham
RequestWhoDiedHere.Com
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A Very-Suburban-Couple™ attempting to use the supernatural website Whodiedhere.com to exorcise a houseful of pesky poltergeists are shocked to find their names on the site's list of doomed spirits.
by Dayna Noffke
RequestWhen the Flame Goes Out
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A small-town church's traditions turn terrifying when a young woman's baptism becomes a bloodbath.
by Jason Sheedy & Joshua David Matthews
RequestWhen the Bough Breaks
Horror Short Screenplay | 7 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
While on a solo camping trip to "find himself," a man slowly drifts into madness as the isolation fuels his paranoia.
by Kelly Asher
RequestWax
Horror Short Screenplay | 16 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
After the death of her estranged mother, Jamie receives a candle that will cause her more pain and terror than she has ever known.
by Daisy Ryan
RequestVirginia Freyre
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A TikTok ghost hunter finds more than she bargained for.
by Ian Baaske
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