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A Manifestation
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Two friends track down a forbidden YouTube video that promises to make anything from a dream into reality-- but what happens when it's a nightmare?
by Phillip Walton
RequestA Hand to Hold
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
Irish comedy-horror. When overbearing Patrick dies, his long-suffering wife Moira thinks she's finally escaped his clutches, but sadly she can't escape from his tight grip. Patrick doesn't believe in 'till death us do part' - and he's found an elaborate way to return from the grave.
by Eliza Power
RequestA Better Place
Horror Short Screenplay | 19 Pages | Season 5 | Semifinalist
A ghost-hunting team is invited to investigate paranormal phenomena at an old movie house where they make first contact with the other side and learn a horrible truth.
by Scott Carelli & Nick Jimenez
RequestA Shade of Scarlett
Short Story (Prose) | 20 Pages | Word Count: 8,849 📖 | Season 5 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
A man's obsession with a red dress takes a strange turn when the mannequin wearing it comes to life.
by Derek Ladd
RequestThe Kitchen Drawer
Short Story (Prose) | 10 Pages | Word Count: 3,303 📖 | Season 5 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
Two brothers reveal their dark secrets, piecing together the supernatural reason for their mother's disappearance years ago that now threatens them with the same horrific fate.
by Jon Douglas Rainey
RequestThe Mercy
Short Story (Prose) | 11 Pages | Word Count: 6,400 📖 | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A disfigured cat haunts a roommate just wanting a cheap place to rent. As he descends further into madness, will he be able to rid himself of this fickle feline?
by Troy Roemer
RequestThings Are As They Should Be
Short Story (Prose) | 10 Pages | Word Count: 2,529 📖 | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A lie brings two siblings together as they inherit their childhood home. But they soon discover that finding out the truth between those four walls will not set them free.
by Pamela Raymond
RequestThe Birdhouse
Short Story (Prose) | 5 Pages | Word Count: 1,290 📖 | Season 5 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
After a devastating miscarriage, Mira buys a wish-fulfilling birdhouse that comes with a bargain. But when she fails to uphold her side of the pact, the consequences twist the price of motherhood bliss to horror.
by Vasanthi Varadarajan
RequestFollowers
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
A young girl’s pursuit for new followers may not be what she hoped for.
by Chris Vanderhorst
RequestDuck Duck Goose
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
In a circle, a group of children sit in terror as a grotesque monster partakes in a sinister game of Duck Duck Goose.
by Jess Bartlett
RequestPhantom Cry
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
A strange sound emanating from their baby’s crib forces two parents to confront a paranormal phenomenon.
by Alison Pringle
RequestThe Ballerina
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A bewitched ballerina dances, hoping to break her curse.
by Jackie Perez
RequestPlateau
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A mother and daughter play hide and seek in the desert.
by Joseph X Casillas
RequestPastime
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
It's in his blood.
by Traci Loper
RequestNo Life Detected
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A astronaut, completely alone in the vacuum of space, investigates the knocking at his spaceship's airlock.
by Sanchez Taylor
RequestCluck Cluck
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A worker in a chicken processing plant has a horrifying encounter with a chicken.
by Rene Claveau
RequestBubbles
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Joey and Mikey just want to drink beer and look at old Playboys in the woods like any normal teenage boys, until they have an unwelcome visitor.
by Andrew Wilczak
RequestA Confession
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Interviewed for a true crime podcast, a mother learns the horrible truth about her daughter’s murder.
by Joshua Heaton
RequestStorage Room
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
A few students and a teacher are in a storage room hiding from a school shooter. A knock on the door confronts them with a difficult choice.
by AR Ugas
RequestMRI
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
Claustrophobia may not be the only thing a patient has to fear when getting an MRI.
by Sandra Wade
RequestLove Is in the Air
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
Tony's dreams of his happily ever after are about to vanish into thin air.
by Yvette Ross
RequestBookworm
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
A cocky, young librarian discovers why you should never enter the restricted section after hours.
by Christian Curry Akuna
RequestAfter the Storm
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
The early arrival of an impending storm, creates panic in a small, suburban town.
by Chelsea Spirito
RequestWatch My Baby, Please
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Semifinalist
Mothers meet in a park... One has what the other wants.
by Arran Crawley
RequestSnip
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Semifinalist
Amber has a rhyme for every toenail that Mommy snips. But that last line is a killer...
by Spike Black
RequestKitty's Like...
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Semifinalist
A couple attempt to interpret the emotions of their new cat, but are unprepared for what kitty actually has to say.
by Katherine Cox & Matt McCarthy
RequestKiller in Tent
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Semifinalist
At a campsite, a masked murderer greets his latest victims
by Evan Baughfman
RequestGourmandise
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Semifinalist
A junior chef's appetite gets the better of him while working the graveyard shift.
by CC McLoughlin
RequestA Little Prick
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Semifinalist
Jenny doesn't want to make waves on the subway and decides to stare straight ahead, but something decides to stare back.
by Wenzler Powers
Request#milk
1 Page Horror Short Screenplay | 1 Page | Season 4 | Semifinalist
No point crying over spilled milk.
by Patty Papageorgiou
Request'97
Horror Short Screenplay | 16 Pages | Season 4 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
When two video rental store employees discover an unmarked tape in their return box, they find themselves both audience and subject in a sinister game with an anonymous filmmaker.
by Sarah Ward
RequestMerrow
Horror Short Screenplay | 22 Pages | Season 4 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
A young boy is forced to grow up after his father brings him on his first fishing trip as part of a disturbing coming-of-age ritual.
by Alexander Seltzer
RequestCooking Lessons with Baba Yaga
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 4 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
An ancient witch and a battered wife cross paths.
by Julia Diddy
RequestWitch Hunt
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
After passing anti-abortion legislation, politician Clara hides away from the media in a remote Scottish AirBnb, only to be tormented by the ghost of her own hypocrisy.
by Zoe Bullock
RequestTOO MANY EYES
Horror Short Screenplay | 25 Pages | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
The staff of a small one-screen theater check-screens a rare cult classic 35mm film before showings the next day, but once the film starts, reality and fiction blend and they are plunged into a fight for their lives.
by Patrick Loveland
RequestStud Muffin
Horror Short Screenplay | 25 Pages | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A social pariah finds himself in grave danger when he drinks a potion that makes him irresistible to the opposite sex.
by Jed Woods
RequestPeople Die
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
One year after surviving a massacre on his college campus, the sole survivor of a notorious serial killer must reclaim his life from the grief and paranoia that haunts him.
by Adam Santa Cruz
RequestIdentidad Raza
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A queer, Latina couple driving through a deserted highway in the middle of the night, stop on the side of the road and quickly discover the desert isn't as devoid of life as they thought.
by Victor Ridaura
RequestThe Call Out
Horror Short Screenplay | 7 Pages | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
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
RequestAll the Rage
Horror Short Screenplay | 16 Pages | Season 4 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
As well-to-do Victorians don the latest fashions in the trendiest color, women work themselves to death in an artificial flower factory to keep up with the demand.
by Maryellen Devivo
RequestTeller
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
A graduate finds himself with one too many connections at a networking event.
by Lia Berger
RequestStray
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
When a curious young woman uncovers the shocking truth about her elderly grandmother's new furry companion, she must navigate a dangerous game of manipulation to save her.
by Jason Rice
RequestSing The Fucking Song
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
A truck driver struggles to enjoy his break when a family insists the entire diner sings "Happy Birthday" to their creepy daughter.
by Johan Spirolazzi
RequestIncognito Mode
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
A conflict-averse man in a comatose marriage begins fantasizing about other women during sex, but things take a nightmarish turn when those fantasies start taking on lives of their own.
by Josh Schenkkan & Michael Mount
RequestHeads
Horror Short Screenplay | 25 Pages | Season 4 | Honorable Mention
When a young man reluctantly gets a vaccination, the side effect is rare, horrifying, and ... loud.
by Charlene Clarke-Todoruk
RequestYou're on Mute
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 4 | Semifinalist
An ambitious young professional's life spirals out of control during the videoconference call from hell.
by Joshua Heaton
RequestWhite Noise
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 4 | Semifinalist
A hypervisual-techno-horror-fairytale following a hopeful little girl caught in the matrix of misinformation created by our horrific habits of social & news media consumption, as she and her family battle the inevitable and uncontrollable monsters we create as technoholics.
by Ash Lazer
RequestTo Live Again a Butterfly
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 4 | Semifinalist
Frightened by his parent’s bitter divorce, and the monstrous nighttime visitor to his room, a desperate young boy twists a sweet bedtime story into a horrifying plan to save his family from both.
by Glenn Forbes
RequestThere's A Monster in My Room
Horror Short Screenplay | 4 Pages | Season 4 | Semifinalist
Little Sarah knows that there’s a monster in her room...
by Yvette Ross
RequestThe Whisper Tree
Horror Short Screenplay | 22 Pages | Season 4 | Semifinalist
In the Appalachian foothills, two sisters attempt to escape their abusive father with the help of a vengeful spirit in the forest.
by Daniel Kiely
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