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Enjoy Your Stay
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A couple's vacation takes a sinister turn when they discover they may never check out.
by Victoria Harris
RequestDO-GOODER
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 5 | Semifinalist
You never forget your first loose tooth.
by Matt Gilbert
RequestAnnunciation
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 5 | Semifinalist
When an unearthly visitor arrives in a small medieval town, the villagers must determine if they are being offered heavenly salvation -- or something much more sinister.
by Francesca Pazniokas
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
RequestThey will be Monsters
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
An introverted boy, separated from his deceased conjoined twin but sharing her beating heart, is raised as his dead sister by his deranged mother. To reclaim his gender identity, he embarks on a murderous journey to embody his sister's heart.
by Tony French
RequestThe Evil That Men Do
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Gina wants to get laid. Too bad her cantankerous mother is around, making sure that can't happen. But, what if she convinces her boyfriend Joe to dispose of her? Based on a true story.
by Steve Hanisch
RequestThe Coward
Horror Short Screenplay | 25 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A lonely alcoholic takes a truck driving job to escape society, but the sinister cargo living in the trailer he's hauling has other plans for him.
by Aaron Leck
RequestThe Call Out
Horror Short Screenplay | 7 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A roadside assistance mechanic late for a date finds more than she bargained for when she’s ambushed by monsters on her last call out.
by Jess C Wheatley
RequestTallahassee Twin
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A mattress salesman feels threatened by a competitor who sells a mystical type of bed.
by Andrew Kaberline
RequestSwell
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Don's a swell guy. He works with Nancy, a nice gal. Don gives Nancy a mysterious, glowing amulet for her birthday. What could go wrong?
by Ned Thorne
RequestSinthwave
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A misfit teen fights for their life when they're targeted by a ruthless slasher whose supernatural powers stem from the Synthwave tune that scores their every sinister move.
by Ramón Paradoa
RequestShe Comes To Me
Horror Short Screenplay | 25 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Two years after Regina's death, her boyfriend, Connor, is visited by her little brother with news that every night he sees her standing outside of his bedroom window.
by Lashawn Kelley
RequestRat King
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A young boy falls in love with a dead rat. It begins to rot him, setting off a frenzy in his village with disastrous consequences.
by Nina Devine
RequestPegs
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
After reading about infamous illusionist-turned-killer 'Pegs' during a garden camp out, two sisters fight to escape the ghostly killer when they become her next victims.
by Ethan Evans & Jess Bartlett
RequestPangs
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A birthday sleepover becomes a battleground for pre-teen frenemies when one of them gets their first period and starts transforming into a vampire.
by Jessica McLaughlin
RequestNobody Knows
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Kevin, haunted by a sinister past, faces a mysterious masked man who threatens to expose his hidden secrets. When Maddie, a figure from his dark history, resurfaces, Kevin's life spirals out of control, culminating in a chilling climax. The film explores the blurred line between reality and madness as Kevin confronts a disturbing revelation.
by Jesse Foy
RequestMidway
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Following a botched robbery, a criminal finds himself in a nightmarish dive bar with no idea how he got there.
by Paul Sheridan
RequestLinnea
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Linnea's back on the convention circuit, and she's just dying for everything to change.
by Ben Woodiwiss
RequestItch
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Itch follows Jules, fresh out of a long term relationship and dipping her toe into the casual dating pool, only for her first fling to land her with what she dreads may be an STD. Determined not to be hampered, Jules plans a second date with the adorkable Thomas, but dinner is interrupted by a concerning call from the doctor, and a hunt for romance becomes a hunt for the nearest exit…
by Joe Savage
RequestIn With the Storm
Horror Short Screenplay | 23 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A seemingly typical tropical storm brings some not-so-typical intruders to a father and daughter's suburban home.
by Cara Marshall
RequestEssex Bird
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
At a nightmare school disco, misfit Robin is haunted by the spectre of heteronormativity: the Essex Bird.
by Kathryn Webb
RequestErosion
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A man living in a home at risk from coastal erosion refuses to accept the inevitable as his marriage crumbles along with it to the point his own body begins to disintegrate.
by Tony Hipwell
RequestDoors
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A selfish empty-nester pressures his wife to downsize their beloved farmhouse, until he discovers she’s taken his request literally.
by Gina DeAngelis
RequestDo Us Part
Horror Short Screenplay | 18 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
An apocalypse-hardened woman fights her way across a zombie infested city, hoping that the outbreak can deliver her a miracle.
by Richard Doyle
RequestClown Eyes
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Step right up and win a prize, it just might be your demise.
by Jeff Speed
RequestCHUM
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Class tension boils over in a coastal Maine vacation house when a group of yuppies anger a violent lobsterman and trigger a vengeful rampage.
by Nate Krieger
RequestCAN'T UNSEE
Horror Short Screenplay | 24 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A high-flying businessman with a secret interest in violent internet videos begins seeing things after watching a strange and mysterious link.
by Lee Bacon
RequestBEASTS
Horror Short Screenplay | 24 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
As Yakama women continue to go missing near a tribal casino in the Pacific Northwest, two suspects are confronted by an ancient entity.
by Julia Diddy
RequestBack Bone
Horror Short Screenplay | 18 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A lonely monster befriends a deaf boy and his dogs. Now that his dream of companionship has come true, how far will the monster go to keep it?
by Orlagh Billing
RequestAnteater
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A very badly behaved boy, whose behaviour grows only more obscene the more he is punished, must face the consequences imposed by his father; a man with an unusual approach to discipline, and an even more unusual approach to spirituality.
by Deane McElree
RequestAfter Midnight
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A young mother and daughter on the run , must come to terms with a dark family secret that threatens their relationship before the clock strikes midnight.
by Sunny King
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