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Genre: Horror
Title: Hands That Shed Innocent Blood
Logline: A terrified young woman struggles to understand her recurring nightmares that recall, reveal, and foreshadow the vicious murders of real children.
Synopsis:
Since she was only eight years old, twenty-three year old Molly has been terrorized by nightmares of an evil man who dwells in a cabin in the woods, where he viciously murders unsuspecting children, at their parents’ requests. Convinced that she is dreaming about something real; Molly feels compelled to understand these dreams, and stop these horrifying murders. As the nightmares continuously gain a stronger foothold on her conscious and subconscious thoughts, she begins to have hallucinations that make her question her own sanity. Nevertheless, she remains determined to go to any extreme necessary to break free from the emotional torment that has been haunting her for over fifteen years.
This script has finished in ninth place in the national Writer’s Digest 78th Annual Writer’s Competition, in the television/movie script category which includes all genres. If you are interested in representing me, please contact me. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Title: Creating Perfection
Logline: A man is suffering from terrifying psychotic hallucinations, upon realizing this, he manages to manipulate them, to create his own perfect life and completely loses touch with his perceived reality.
Synopsis:
John just lost his religous mother to cancer. This event left him bitter and angry. On his way to work, he experiences something strange and terrifying.
Years later, he''s living the perfect life. After retiring from a successful soccer career, he lives in a mansion with his beautiful wife and daughter.
After a few mysterious encounters with a hobo, John''s abducted from his mansion and eventually ends up in a hospital.
There, he recieves the help from a doctor and the shocking truth is revealed. John is suffering from a severe psychosis, resulting into various hallucinations. John managed to control and manipulated these hallucinations. And thus was able to create his perfect life, all in his own mind.
Two monts later, he''s released from the hospital and seems to be completely recovered. A few weeks later, an object triggers him to see the ultimate truth. Nothing was ever real, as a kid he suffered massive brain damage in a car accident and is actually in a vegative state.
Title: Virgin White
Logline: Hell hath no fury like a woman born.. A by product of a union spawned out of violence and rage. THIS is Chelsea Marie Grahams driving force behind her insatiable thirst for revenge, justice and blood
Synopsis:
Ah!Female serial killers! Prolific, sexy and Oh! SO deadly. Chelsea Marie Graham is such a woman. A blond haired blue eyed self proclaimed crusader, outwardly she is a vision of sheer loveliness, demure in nature, quiet, caring, professional..
Inwardly she carries a deep dark secret, one that has plagued her, her entire life. Culminating in a rage so black, so malevolent that it eventually consumes her and ultimately causes her to act out in the most horrendous ways imaginable.
Needing an outlet for this rage Chelsea begins by creating an on line alter ego named Virgin White who is the "voice" of her Internet website Women For Purity Dot Com.
Fronting as a supremacist website Chelsea uses Virgin to get into the hearts and minds of some of the worst characters you''d never want to meet.
Her ploy is most effective as she lures unsuspecting men to her home and to their ultimate demise.
Title: Zombie, Esq.
Logline: Lazy support staff? Protests of “it’s Christmas” when a motion needs to be filed at midnight on Christmas Eve? Strange insistence of the need to take bathroom breaks?
Synopsis:
End the drama, and believe the hype -- outsourcing to zombies can save you a good dollar-fifty a year, and end those civil action lawsuit threats. What can it hurt to test a technician who can work twenty-four hours a day and have no interest in money?
Henry works as a paralegal for The Law Offices of Edward John Johnson, where she’s the spawn of incompetence to the lawyers, and chum to the receptionist.
Today, however, she’s in luck – the lawyers are not quite themselves; after testing a zombie outsourcing company, the lawyers have now turned into drooly zombies with a taste for secretary.
As the support staff begins to be eaten like a tartar buffet, Henry finally has a legitimate reason to stab the lawyers in the face. Sure, survival would be nice, but she gets to stab lawyers in the face.
Zombie Esq. is a horror-comedy where it’s the support staff’s moral obligation to the world to kill their bosses. They’re all lawyers, it’s fine. Really.
Title: X-Ray
Logline: A daring rock climber stranded in a remote mountain range fights for her life against a local man whose grisly secret is an obsession with human bones and the twisted lenghts he goes to indulge it.
Synopsis:
NANCY THOMAS, 24, speed climbs a sheer cliff without the aid of ropes or gear. Using only her hands and feet she skillfully maneuvers jutting boulders and impossibly angled walls. She''s confident and strong until a problem with one of her legs stops her.
At the same time, a Man shovels human bones and ash from a crematory furnace. He puts aside a skull and pelvis then dumps the rest into a grinder. He pours the remaining ashes into an urn and slaps on a dog-bone shaped label, “Fluffy" Miller.
Nancy''s doctor warns her never to climb again. Devastated, she heads to the Northern California mountains with her dog, FREEWAY, to prove to herself he was wrong. Freeway escapes and is hit by a car. She takes the injured dog to the only veterinarian nearby, handsome DAVID DENMEYER, 30s. She''s grateful and attracted to the charming Doctor...until she discovers his deadly secret. Then in spite of her disabililty and fear she must use her wits and rock climbing skills to survive. (98pgs.)
Title: The Diablo in the darkness
Logline: There has always been something out there, watching your evil ways, and now your soul has attracted something unimaginably evil!
Synopsis:
There is a place that souls find themselves once they leave the afterlife, some souls may go up or down, but there is a middle, few will venture too, but there evil soul once entered has a chance to be saved and re enter the living world to do good, but not before their souls are un relentlessly cleansed.
Story of 4 men:
A “Deadly Gang Leader”, “Molesting Priest”, “Rapist/Killer” and a “Deadly - Suicide Bomber”, all whose life’s changed when they took innocence and made it into their own devious acts of vengeance. When each dies, their souls experience the cross roads of their horrific ways and enter into the middle world and its hellish fiery under layer, where they experience their greatest horrors and pain imaginable.
Find out what happens in this controversial story of characters!
Registration Number : 1513607
Title: AMERICAN HUNGER
Logline: A small, isolated southern town is torn apart when a dead boy is resurrected during funeral services.
Synopsis:
Dearest Agent,
I am writing to you from deep within an underground bunker to gauge interest in representing me and my new feature-length screenplay AMERICAN HUNGER. It is a period zombie horror screenplay dealing with issues of racism and religion.
Readers for FirstGlance International Film Festival (I was a finalist in 2009), have said of my work, “It is highly imaginative, funny, exciting, thought-provoking... All the good stuff” (their words, not mine). Another reviewer under the employ of BlueCat Screenplay Competition claimed, “One of the most unique and original pieces a reader can ever come across. Its imagination knows no bounds.”
Please let me know if you’re interested in having a look.
Thank you.
Your Brother in Arms,
Victor de Oliveira
Title: Bloodlines
Logline: Forget everything you think you know. A modern twist on the classic vampire tale.
Synopsis:
A young man discovers his DNA holds the key to either destroying or allowing the vampire race to flourish. He is forced to face this fact after he is bitten and begins to change. As he begins training to battle vampires, he learns to seperate myth from truth in order to fulfill his destiny.
Title: The Lake
Logline: A troubled young man goes on a weekend camping trip in the woods of Oregon. When he follows his nightmares deep into the woods, horrible things start to happen. Is he a killer or is any of it real?
Synopsis:
Ben Marchant has recently had a mental breakdown. As the story begins, he is attempting to get his life back to a normal place with the help of his loving girlfriend, Alice. He goes to therapy and takes a regiment of medications to combat his anxieties. He has a recurring nightmare involving a little girl on a frozen lake. The nightmare makes him feel like his darker side is close and ready to come back out. Alice books a weekend of camping in the woods of Oregon with a group of friends to take Ben’s mind off his problems. Once there, Ben is drawn to a frozen lake in the middle of the woods. The more obsessed he becomes with the lake, the further from reality he gets. And then horrible things start to happen. One by one, his friends and other campers are killed. Ben must figure out whether he is responsible for the deaths or if someone else is in the woods killing people which leads to a thrilling conclusion on the lake itself.
Title: THE EVIL WITHIN
Logline: Six separate stories about what happens when GOOD people stare into the eyes of EVIL.
Synopsis:
My personal creation of the NEWS, before THE NEWS. When good people can know longer control THE EVIL WITHIN.
Whether you know it or not, there is a battle between GOOD and EVIL that has been brewing since the beginning of time. We watch the local news everyday, and witness the horror mankind inflicts upon each other.
Violence has become normal in our everyday society. We always see the aftermath of unfortunate events, but rarely... do we see, what causes good people to do the UNTHINKABLE.
Title: MOON OF BLOOD
Logline: Maclaren, a small town in Alaska, seems cursed when a supersized wolf from a military research unit nearby, escapes captivity in the deep of winter.
Synopsis:
The citizens of Maclaren are horrified to learn that a well-loved homeless man and their Sheriff have been killed by a wild animal, and presume it is a grizzly. Little do they know that the Colonel from nearby Fort Adams is racing against the clock to protect them not only from a huge and vicious wolf, but also from a psychopathic soldier who has escaped from his prison cell at the Fort. The Colonel pulls out all the stops to contain the situation, but his targets have animal instinct and cunning and survive the harsh climate, and search operations, leaving a trail of blood and gore. Two Anchorage police officers are roped in to help with local police duties, but matters are already out of hand, and it seems that the local characters are in for a nightmare they never bargained for.
Title: Survivng the Night
Logline: The undead have had it with humanity, and the Sleepy Little Town of San Angelo, Texas is going to be the final battlefield. SWAT Members Johnathan and Gennette Harder are the town''s last hope.
Synopsis:
The scene opens with the town showing thousands of people lying dead on the streets, but in this moment they didn''t stay dead for long. This genetic mist of smoke transformed the dead into the Living Dead. Now the city has been overrun
by Zombies except for the few survivors that have been out of the 3 mile range of the mist. These survivors were SWAT Team members, GENNETTE and JOHNATHAN HARDER, along with a few other survivors that were hiding out in an abandoned home along the streets of San Angelo, the leader of the survivors was LARRY HORSE, a banker who led the individual survivors to the abandon house and radioed for SWAT.
The group arrives in several locations fighting off the hoardes of zombie after zombie leading to a stand off. Defending the only home they know the group of survivors throw everything they have to fend the invading flesh eaters and condemn them back to hell.
In the end the group is led to the OTHER SIDE OF HELL, TX to question the chances of survival.
Title: Save your child
Logline: A woman struggles to free her son from child pornograghers. Little does she know that a ghost is on her side.
Synopsis:
Lisa Evans and her son John are on the their way to see her mother. Her car breaks down and she receives a lift from a stranger. Lisa and John spend the night, and later have problems that lead to John''s disappearance. Lisa must fight to free her son, and keep herself alive as well.
Title: Potter''s Field
Logline: Bootleggers and flappers run afoul of a clan of hillbillies and the otherworldly monsters they worship in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Synopsis:
On their way to deliver a shipment of booze to Al Capone''s Miami home, a gang of bootleggers and their flapper girlfriends are pursued by a rival gang sent by Bugs Moran to hijack the shipment. A gunfight disables both vehicles and an uneasy truce is called.
Stranded in the Appalachian foothills, the rival gangs walk to a remote village called Potter''s Field, where a seemingly friendly clan of deranged hillbillies plans to sacrifice them to an unearthly monster they call "the Youn''un", a proxy for their dark goddess.
Title: The Bonewalker
Logline: If you hear it...it’s already too late. Run. Run like hell.
Synopsis:
Gold was discovered in Bohemia Mountain in 1858. Mining camps sprang up throughout the area overnight. The largest was the Bohemia City Mining Town, which flourished until its inhabitants mysteriously vanished in 1942.
In 2009 a group of historical conservationists began the Bohemia Mountain Restoration Committee. Their first official act was to restore Bohemia City, which is what brings fifteen ill-fated students to the mountain local Native Americans claim to be the hunting grounds of a Demon they call the Bonewalker.
Facing all most certain death, the role of hero falls on the shoulders of Parker Everett, a sarcastic slacker who suffers from debilitating claustrophobia, when what begins as an ordinary fieldtrip turns into a fight for their lives as the students are hunted by the faster, stronger, and nearly indestructible Bonewalker. As the number of his fellow classmates dwindles, Parker must overcome his fear of tight spaces and fight off the earth’s oldest living predator.
Title: The Bleachers
Logline: Six students spend the night in their school on the anniversary of a town legend – the birth of a hideously deformed beast called the Bleacher Creature.
Synopsis:
Emory Chase, a popular, yet play-it-safe senior at Ozark High has known about the legend of the “Bleacher Creature” for years; heard it numerous times from her father who attended school there as well. But unlike most students who write it off as a silly urban legend, Emory believes there might be some truth to it. So when her friends decide to spend the night in the school on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the legend, she’s more than a little apprehensive. But friends can be persuasive, and what the heck, it’s her senior year – time to get a little crazy. It doesn’t take Emory long to realize she should’ve trusted her instincts, because some legends are real, and this one will to kill to prove it.
Title: You Can''t Scream
Logline: A sexy vampire, cop, and witch team up to battle an army of monsters. Franchise.
Synopsis:
A vampire movie closer in tone to From Dusk Till Dawn than Underworld or Twilight. Vampire mayhem and cop action with doses of black humor and eroticism are the cornerstone of this horror franchise. An evil alchemist has found a way to rule the world through a necromancy alliance. Three lethal women vow to thwart his plans; a sultry vampire, a revenge-seeking cop, and a witch who has lost her mind. They can stop the alchemist''s evil schemes if they can get through his army of zombies and werewolves first.
Title: Dark Days
Logline: A man struggles to free humanity from enslavement by vampires.
Synopsis:
The year is 2024, fourteen years after a vampire-led takeover of the earth has left most of humanity in ashes. All that remains is the Realm, a vampire kingdom wherein human beings are raised like livestock as "bloodslaves." Sam Taylor escapes from the most notorious of these bloodstock centers and flees across the Realm. After he meets Cap, a hardened old soldier, the two of them decide to try and bring an end to the vampire dominance. Their epic journey is more terrifying than either one of them could have imagined.
I have studied film and screenwriting at Loyola University of New Orleans. One of my short scripts, "Splitsville," was produced earlier this year. Please let me know if I can send you DARK DAYS and thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Cameron Mitchell
Title: House of Vampires
Logline: 90-pg. horror comedy. A Tourette-syndrome-in-reverse-wannabe metal star, his hot-yet-nerdy girlfriend, and his can''t-get-laid history professor take shelter in an old farmhouse invaded by vampires.
Synopsis:
Three-time Emmy winner Paul W. Cooper called "House of Vampires" a "roller coaster ride." Tom, a quirky-yet-charismatic college student who refuses to ever say the word "ass," confronts an over-grown bully for hurting Meena the beautiful book-loving woman he has a crush on. Tom grows a pair and takes Meena out for coffee, and they hit it off. On a field trip, Tom and Meena''s bus is flipped over by thousands of bats in broad daylight, and the survivors, including them and their sex-repellant teacher Mr. Nice, reach a farmhouse in Hickville where they fight an invasion of fairly dense vampires. The vamps are led by Andreas, a mysterious surprisingly classy monster that seeks a cure for his own affliction and that may have a link with Tom''s past. WGA Registration #: 1374021.
Title: Deathland
Logline: After a horrible virus unleashes a legion of the undead, one family struggles to make their way across what is left of a ravaged and perilous country on the prayer of finding the last remaining city.
Synopsis:
A serious and emotionally gripping take on the zombie lore, Deathland tells the simple story of a family fighting for survival. After spending years traveling aimlessly in their beaten RV, fleeing or killing anything without a pulse, the rumor of a new city holds the promise of salvation for the Colliard family. But during their quest, they soon discover that zombies are the least of the horrors in this dead world of dwindling food and non-existent hope. A look into the true nature of humanity when all the rules and systems finally dissolve, Deathland is a tale filled with action, romance, suspense, and heartbreak that very well might change the perception of its genre.
Title: DEATH ISLAND
Logline: An ancient blood-demon awaits six reunited friends when they land on a tropical island expecting only a much-needed vacation.
Synopsis:
Carrie, her boyfriend and four of their old high school friends reunite for a week-long tropical vacation on a private tropical island. They land their small boat on the remote island and start the celebration. However, this dream vacation quickly turns tragic as Carrie begins to realize that an ancient demon she has read of in a strange book has been released from its 500 year old prison and now has focused its unnatural hunger on her and her friends.
With the demon’s ability to possess the bodies on which it feeds, Carrie soon is unsure which, if any, of her friends she can trust. As one by one her companions are found mutilated and drained of blood, will anyone be left to help Carrie stop this fiendish hell spawn before it''s too late?
WGA Registered #967265
Title: Springs Cemetery
Logline: Teenagers visit a cemetery where a myth of a young murder Indian Princess is said to be existing.
Synopsis:
On Halloween night teenagers vist a cemetery where teenagers fifteen years eariler had been murdered rumors have it Paige the only survior that night killed them but she is sent to the nut house still claiming to the day the myth is real. The teenagers from the present night go to Springs Cemetery and discovers just how real the myth is. Once again only one surivor Teresa must put a end to the myth so she finds Paige and the two go up against a fight that can only be won by one winner. The Dark Princess has two well protectors The Headless Warrior and the Jack-o- who are said to be members of her family trapped by evil.
Title: The Mirror of Souls
Logline: Detectives Hawkins and Williams scale on the path of terror in order to save a family’s bloodline from a demonic shape shifter that’s released from a mystical dimension called "Damnation.”
Synopsis:
The Mirror of souls
Detectives Hawkins and Williams experience in solving super natural cases are investigating a series of bizarre and grizzly murders that involves mysterious super natural force. The killer leaves a strange encryption of symbols on the walls, written in blood in the first language ever known to mankind. The victims are murdered in graphic matter where their bodies have been absorbed of its internal orgasm. The chain of evidence leads the detectives to a wealthy art dealer who purchases a five-thousand year old mirror that contains an evil dark force which was released. Once release, it will seek to destroy the bloodline it’s link to in order to become human. The detectives desperately search for the last surviving members to protect them from the creature’s wrath. The detectives along with their comrades race against time as they lead the sinister force back to the mirror for the final confrontation.
Title: Daddy Jack
Logline: When a man awakes in an abandoned city with no memory of how he arrived, he must figure out who he is and discover his purpose, all while escaping the city's deadly hunter: Daddy Jack
Synopsis:
A man awakes in a strange and deteriorated bedroom only to find that that the rest of the city is in the same condition. As he roams about the abandoned city witnessing strange events and interacting with odd objects, he comes across a frightened girl named Jennifer. When the man attempts to figure out who she is and what they're doing in the city, she simply tells him that Daddy Jack laid her parents to rest just outside of Peek-a-Boo city. Then the man encounters Daddy Jack for the first time. Daddy Jack and his marching band march down the street, searching for the remaining few children that inhabit the city. As the man narrowly escapes Daddy Jack, he meets a woman named Emma. While she is no better able to explain the man's strange situation, she does tell him that she thinks he is dying. As the two attempt to save the children and escape Daddy Jack, they form a strange and loving bond for one another. It is only in the man's last few moments that he discovers who and what he is.
Title: The Night Train
Logline: On a cross-country train trip, a young journalism student encounters a vampire of terrifying power.
Synopsis:
MATT WILKINS, a UCLA journalism major, embarks on a cross-country train trip from his home in Baltimore to Los Angeles, believing it could make an interesting story. He soon discovers that there is an extraordinary passenger on board: an ancient vampire that stalks and kills other passengers by night.
Unable to convince anyone on the train of the grave danger they are in, Matt decides to go after the vampire himself. But even he cannot imagine the horror he is about to confront. WGAE #I61328.
Title: Unidentified
Logline: The discovery of a lifetime just may end their lives.
Synopsis:
In UNIDENTIFIED, a sci-fi/horror blend, JAKE WHITAKER, takes a quick side-trip on the eve of his budding legal career to Galveston, Texas to meet his fiance GENA's family. What begins as a difficult time -- his unimpressed soon-to-be father-in-law, a treasure hunting hobbyist, invites Jake and AJ and FLINT, Gena's ex-boyfriend and brother, to join him in a hunt for sunken treasure -- turns unbelievable when they discover the find of the century, a UFO long submerged in the sea. As they squabble over ownership of the UFO, things turns deadly as the UFO's occupant, a vicious, voracious alien lurking inside, is unleashed.
I'm a 'graduate' of David S. Freeman's Beyond Structure screenwriting course. Currently, I am awaiting production of my short, "Love Thy Neighbor," which finished in the top six percent out of 2600 in a screenwriting competition.
If you wish to read my script, please contact me.
Sincerely,
Carson Cooper
Sirtark@aol.com
(317) 443-8229
Title: The old woods nearby
Logline: Werewolf story. Story about Randy living in Asheville NC, struggling through puberty, spending most of his spare in the old woods nearby, writing poetry, cause of his childhood affection for MaryAnn.
Synopsis:
Opening with the forest claiming its first victim.
The solitary but tough Randy being followed from the first day his childhood love, MaryAnn, returns after spending five years in a boarding school. His best and only friend Josh, being the complete opposite from him, his overprotected mom, after his dad past away and there only being one woman for him, make the old woods an even closer companion to him. The forest keeps claiming victims as Randy struggles in his inevitable encounter with MaryAnn, the relationship with his mom and Josh. After a lot of classic drama and reconciliations he, Josh and two girls go off for an all day trip in the old and isolated woods nearby.
Title: The Companion
Logline: A reclusive spinster in a Martha's Vineyard mansion tries to escape the ghosts of her past by hiring a companion for her invalid brother who is supposedly confined to an upstairs bedroom.
Synopsis:
Grand Prize Winner, 2007 Rhode Island International Film Festival Horror Screenwriting Competition. "Our judges especially liked the tense action of 'The Companion.' The gripping story - filled with isolation and suspense - was especially compelling to our screenplay contest readers."
A lonely old woman attempts to flee her self-imposed exile by hiring a mysterious girl as an overnight companion for her brother, crippled by a horrific car crash when he was ten years old. The spinster's new found freedom ends in tragedy, doomed to failure by her deadly legacy.
US Copyright TXu-365-094, 7/17/07
WGAE Registration #136563
Contact: Dickinson M. Upson
Email: UP265@aol.com
Phone/FAX: 508-252-3325
Title: The Scary Kids Club
Logline: Five kids meet in a haunted cemetary at midnight, to tell scary stories - the teller of the least scary tale has to spend the night in a crypt. Unknown to them, they are being watched by two ghosts.
Synopsis:
The Scary Kids Club, is about four boys and a tomboy girl, aged between twelve and fourteen years, who sneak out of their homes at midnight to meet up in a mausoleum in the local spooky cemetary. Each of them must tell a scary tale, and the one who tells the least frightening story must spend the night alone - locked up in the crypt.
The leader of this macabre group, Randy, leads the meeting and bullies the other members. Mel, another member of the Club, has brought his nervous friend Charlie to the meeting to try to have him initiated into the club. Charlie has prepared a story about a person being trapped in a mausoleum and being attacked by skeletons - skeleton that gruesomely kill their victim.
Unknown to the youngsters, they are being observed by two cemetary ghosts who do not like kids in general, and who take a particular dislike to Randy.
After Charlie's story, Randy proclaims that Charlies tale is the least frightening and that he must sleep in the mausolem alone.
Title: In Joy and Sorrow
Logline: Sometimes the sins of the past have a habit of catching up, and giving one the harsh sentence of justice. Sometimes these situations can become horrible - truly horrible.
Synopsis:
When you’ve done something wrong, don’t you wish you can just run, hide somewhere and hope the problem – and punishment – will go away? Sometimes though, the sins of the past have a habit of catching up, and giving one the harsh sentence of justice.
In the dead of winter, a doctor does the unthinkable. After committing the worst crime imaginable, Dr. Emmerick Stone Kelly has to escape his sins. With the help of Sheriff Robert Strohl, he runs away to the small, yet unknowingly deadly, town of Susannah. Now, with all of his past behind him, he tries to start a new life. With all of the haunting memories resting on his shoulders, however, he soon finds that the beautiful town of Susannah is more than he bargained for. Now Kelly is faced with deadly neighbors and dancing ghouls. What else lurks in the shadows? And how will Kelly escape the sinister realm of Susannah?
Based on the novella "In Joy and Sorrow".
Title: Baghead
Logline: He spent years hiding his face behind a paper bag; now it's time to put everyone else in bags
Synopsis:
Dear Sir or Madam:
My writing partner, Wes Laurie, and myself are seeking representation. We are LA based screenwriters with more than 16 completed screenplays between us. Most recently a horror script by Wes, BAGHEAD, has been requested by three production companies. My romantic comedy screenplay FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE is currently the top rated script on Francis Ford Coppola's site, Zoetrope, and another script of mine was a top finalist in the ExposeIt! comedy screenwriting competition. Wes is an internet film news journalist and I'm a published, agented book author (children's books). We don't have time to market our scripts. We really need an ombudsman. If you or any of your agents are looking for motivated, prolific writers please contact me. I will send a query with loglines and synopses.
Yours very truly,
Mary Hahn
Wes Laurie
Title: Heartless
Logline: A transplant surgeon is killing children, but one mother, who communicates with the dead, is determined to stop him.
Synopsis:
Julie has a gift. Dead people talk to her. When her six year old daughter dies after a heart transplant, spirits tell her the doctor is killing children for a profit. Julie is convinced, but nobody will believe her. She finds other mothers whose children have died at the hands of the same evil doctor, and they launch their own investigation.
Eventually, they convince the police of the doctor''s guilt and he has to flee. He ends up in Mexico, and at the hands of the spirits of the children he has killed, he meets a fate too horrible for words.
Title: From The Dark Stream
Logline: A man tortured by his past attempts to communicate with his dead family and inadvertently draws evil spirits into his life.
Synopsis:
Edgar Stengal wishes for death and is consumed with guilt over causing an auto accident that took the lives of his wife and child and left him with a head injury that has given him the ability to see other people''s auras. He takes up meditation in a attempt to contact his family but instead is plagued by visions of a palindrome speaking Reaper. When Edgar meets the mysterious Natasha, who has no aura, he learns that the place he is using to meditate was the site of a brutal murder, and that the meditative messages he''s been sending his family may have been received by someone, or something else.
Bob Melon sees U.F.O.''s wherever he goes. He''s a local celebrity who bills himself as "The U.F.O. Magnet". Bob is totally obsessed with discovering why the U.F.O''s are making themselves known to him. He has a recurring dream that includes Edgar Stengal wich may hold the key to the answers he seeks.
When Edgar and Bob meet, events unfold that reveal the sublime evil that binds them.
Title: Daughters of the Teardrop Sea
Logline: Almost given up for brain dead, a pregnant psychiatrist journeys desperately in her unconscious to communicate with her foetus, causing the baby to possess strange powers.In the hospital chaos ensues
Synopsis:
Anyone who knows Laura can see she has it all. A psychiatric resident at a major hospital, married to a surgeon she loves deeply, six months pregnant with her first child she seems to be immune to danger. A terrible accident proves otherwise. Driven into a deep coma, Laura awakes in her own unconscious mind with one goal before her: to save the life of her unborn baby. Using all her skill and finding guidance through familiar myths and legends, she embarks on an oddessy of hope. Her remarkable journey may be successful, but what price will she, and her child, have to face? As a gifted infant with extraordinary powers is released into the world, everyone around her must face their own hopes…and fears. Will the child be a promise of a new begining, or a threat to a desperate humanity?
Title: Under the Blood Moon
Logline: On a field trip in the Florida Everglades, a group of students and their professor run into the lingering effects of an old Indian curse. A horrible death awaits them.
Synopsis:
Prologue: (1542 AD) A priest of the Spanish Inquisition, directs a band of conquistadors to massacre a village of Calusa Indians in the Florida Everglades. As the survivors of his village are being buried alive, a shaman curses the day and his tormentors. A curse that will
resonate throughout history.
Present Day: A team of scientists—a professor and a few students—explore the (cursed)site of the massacre. One of the students becomes possessed (presumably “channeling” the long-dead Calusa shaman of the opening) and starts murdering the others.
One by one, the entire cast is killed-off in varied and hideous ways.
The end is a twist calculated for shock and awe.
Contact: TEbrashares@aol.com
aftertheempire@aol.com
305/879-3375
305/896-0625
Title: The Collector
Logline: A sadistic billionaire kidnaps talented artists and holds them hostage at his secluded estate.
Synopsis:
The Collector was a top 5 finalist in the Screamfest L.A. screenplay competition, 2006.
Mandy Stewart is on the verge of stardom. A young painter, she is about to have her first major NYC exhibit. She is the talk of the art world. But Mandy''s dream becomes a hellish reality when she is kidnapped by unknown men. She awakens at the lavish Ryder Estate--a secluded North Carolina mansion owned by billionaire Collin Ryder. Mandy soon learns that she is one of many artistic captives, and that her charge is to produce original artwork for Mr. Ryder''s collection. Mandy also learns of Mr. Ryder''s sadistic nature, and the cruel torture he inflicts on guests who appear "ungrateful." Mandy eventually befriends a handsome playwright who has been severely abused by Mr. Ryder. Together they learn of the estate''s past as a tuberculosis hospital, and use that dark history to foil their captor.
Title: TerrorTown
Logline: The 80s and high school aren’t the only things terrifying this group of teens.
Synopsis:
My name is Gary Alan Siddons and I have written the horror feature TerrorTown (2002 Zide/Perry Entertainment-Scr(i)pt Magazine Open Door Contest Finalist).
The year is 1972, and TerrorTown opens with a Brady Bunch spoof that ends when Alice, disguised in a costume, slaughters the Bradys. We then discover we’re in a theatre watching a movie.
It’s now Halloween 1985, and the audience exits the theatre in a quiet town after having watched the cult-classic, horror film, Terrorville (the Brady spoof). That night someone dressed as the movie killer murders the theatre’s manager. Terror on the town begins.
The main characters are a group of friends in high school. Over the days leading up to Halloween, the killer slaughters people close to the friends. Every time there is a murder, one of the friends is a suspect. The film ends in a twist of deceit, as the identity of the mastermind behind the killings remains buried in an evil soul or until the sequel.
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Title: Dead Awakening
Logline: A small town detective pursues the truth about the identities of a possible killer from the past and a possible terrorist in the present.
Synopsis:
Revolutionizing the horror genre, Dead Awakening delves into America''s fears of a small town terrorist strike while revealing the hidden threat that sleeps in our own homes.
Detective Jim Costa races to save Shady Knoll from an Islamic sleepers cell''s attempt to poison the water supply while trying to expose a sadistic killer preying on the town.
Title: BAKA
Logline: A battle of wills between the Trickster of the Voodoo gods and six teenagers, raging hormones and all.
Synopsis:
When a possible stop on the underground railroad is slated for demolition, SIX TEENS are moved to action. If they can only find hard evidence of a slave presence in the old condemned house, maybe they can save the landmark.
However, what they find leads them to the conclusion that this was instead a brutal slave trading post. But by that time, they have unwittingly unleashed the Voodoo spirit, BAKA.
BAKA was originally summoned by the slaves to avenge them. But they soon found that BAKA is a master of deceipt. The teens must find this out for themselves before BAKA can trick one of them into releasing him from the house that binds his power.
Trapped in the house, they must resist his temptation and endure his brutality. The nightmare would end if only one teen would release him. How long would it take for YOU to turn on your friends?
Title: Giggle
Logline: After being gruesomly murdered twenty years earlier, a serial killer clown returns from certain death to take revenge on the daughter of the deceased town sheriff who took his life.
Synopsis:
Twenty years earlier in a small seaside town, a respected trauma surgeon, DR. GABNEY, who also performedas the town clown, is caught returning to the hospital at night and removing the organs from patients in their sleep leaving them to die. Sheriff TOM MAYER and Officer GORD get justice, shooting and burning the clown to his death, then taking his body to the isolated caves outside of town, burying him forever. Now, the clown returns to take bloody revenge on MAYGAN, daughter of the deceased Sheriff, and her high school friends. the clown tries to kill Maygan with a dirty shovel, but is saved by officer Gord. A year later, Maygan still lives with the trauma of that night, but has made new friends. The clown returns again killing everyone with what ever is at hand except Maygan and pal ANDY. After an attempt to kill the clown in the streets with a gun the clown pursues Maygan to the old hospital. She tries to hide but is cornered. Officer Gord finds Maygan and kills the clown forever.
Title: Drowning The Night
Logline: A twentyfive year old down on his luck music producer, falls into a world of Voodoo. It lead him to a path of assaults, rapes, and murders.
Synopsis:
This is the story of Nigel Grazziano, an African American who was adopted at birth by an Italian family on the upper west side of Manhattan. Nigel`s luck seems to be quickly running out. He`s broke, homeless, and his new girlfriend is more costly than he can afford. His best friend is constantly getting him into trouble with local hoods in the nearby neighborhood. Nigel is on the edge of a nervous break down and the possibility of going totally mad. The night when his bestfriend is killed, it sends him over the edge. After several nights of seeing voodo spririts, Nigel is posessed. Now his nights will never be the same.
Title: Scorpions
Logline: A freelance covert operations team is hired to rescue a scientist from an earthquake-damaged research facility, only to discover they have become the unwitting test subjects for a new bioweapon.
Synopsis:
After an earthquake damages an underground research laboratory, Glenn Wolf and his team of Black Ops mercenaries are hired to get in and escort Dr Emma Morgan to safety. Once inside however, they discover that they have been set up : the "rescue mission" is actually a field test for a new bioweapon – genetically engineered giant scorpions that have been released by the earthquake damage. Vastly outnumbered and virtually unarmed, as the power begins to fail and the monsters close in the mercenaries must try and get out of the complex before falling prey to the scorpions.
Title: Hell Breaks Loose
Logline: Travelers through Italy inadvertently awaken an ancient curse in a forgotten village, but how can they stop the immortal forces of the dead once they have risen and all hell breaks loose?
Synopsis:
For 100 years the land has been abandoned, the castle ignored, and they have been forgotten. The terrifying deathbringers known as the Disciples had finally been laid to rest. What will happen when Jake and his friends trespass upon their forsaken land? Death will rise. Bodies will fall. No one can stop the Zombie King.
Title: Snails
Logline: And then, the snails came
Synopsis:
The people of Morgan were told that the nuclear power plant was safe. That fears of radioactive contamination, and mutant monsters taking over their town, was the stuff of Hollywood "B" movies. And then, the snails came. Sixty feet high, these slimy monsters have an agenda more terrifying than just eating the town''s people of Morgan. In their underground nest there are hundreds of snail eggs about to hatch. And the little darlings will be hungry.
Snails is a wild horror thriller along the lines of TRIMMERS. It has strong characters, humor, romance, and of course, big monsters eating people. If you would like to be sent a copy of Snails for consideration, please contact me at siwriter@att.net.
Thank you.
Title: Banker Boy
Logline: A disgruntled bank employee robs his bank and leaps into a taxicab to make his getaway only to be taken on a psychotic and murderous rampage by a serial killer who likes to play deadly games.
Synopsis:
WREN RYDER, a young loan officer, is fed up with his tedious bank job. His broken down car needs repairs and he is tired of being broke. After years of loyal service, Wren asks for a raise and his boss blasts him with an emphatic "No!" Pushed to the brink, Wren stuffs his briefcase full of cash from the the vault and runs for it. He burst into a taxicab driven by RAY LANDING a pyschotic country boy on the loose, to make his getaway.
Along their way, Ray pulls into a desert mini mart to fill the car with gas. He goes inside to pay or so it seems, instead he robs the store at gun point. An hour later, the police pull them over. Ray kills the officer with his .357 as he stands at the car window. Ray wallups Wren in the head leaving him unconscious, steals his money, and then sets him up to be arrested. Wren makes a deal to pay back the money he stole and catch Ray. Wren tracks down Ray at the horse track and takes revenge and finds out that crime really does pay.
Title: X-Ray
Logline: A female rock climber falls into the world of a serial killer obsessed with x-raying and torturing young women.
Synopsis:
NANCY THOMAS, 24, speed climbs a sheer cliff without the aid of ropes or gear. Using just her hands and feet she skillfully maneuvers around jutting boulders and impossibly angled walls. She's confident and strong until a problem with one of her legs stops her.
Not far away, DAVID DENMEYER, 30s, x-rays a drugged woman in provocative poses, then himself entwined with her. Later, he forces the young victim to watch as he injects her with euthanasia.
At the same time, Nancy receives the devastating medical news that she is never to climb again. Defying the diagnosis she heads out for what she hopes isn't her last climb.
On the way her dog escapes and is hit by a truck. She takes it to the only animal clinic in an isolated coastal town. There, she meets veterinarian David Denmeyer. She's attracted to the charming doctor, until she discovers his deadly secret. In spite of her disability and doubt, she must use her wits and rock climbing skills to defeat him.
Title: Lurking in the Fog
Logline: "Lurking in the Fog" is a budget-conscious horror/thriller about a troubled teenage boy who suddenly finds himself being mysteriously stalked by a nightmarish phantom in a black cloak.
Synopsis:
Walking home from a friend's house late one night, 18-year-old Oliver is suddenly attacked by a dark, manacing figure in a black cloak, barely escaping with his life. Shortly after, this mysterious figure starts appearing everywhere Oliver goes. Unable to convince his friends that this is really happening, he begins to heavily question his own sanity and is continually haunted by a perplexing childhood memory that he cannot place. However, when the people close to him begin to go missing he becomes convinced that this is all too real and it is up to him to stop it. In order to do this he must delve into the darkest, most repressed caverns of his own memory. But what he finds there is much darker than he could have ever imagined.
Title: Zombie, Esq.
Logline: Lawyers have finally evolved
Synopsis:
A normal paralegal in a typical law office on an average day, Henry didn't think anything was strange when the lawyers threw boxes at her and screamed for raw meat. Even the bloodstained shirts and screaming secretaries didn't seem terribly unusual. And yes, it was a little odd that Edward John Johnson tried to eat her face, but
he'd always been touchy-feely. Henry wasn't alarmed until she saw something so disturbing, so implausible, that she nearly became paralyzed with shock. The bloody, twitching lawyers, who had already eaten most of the support staff, were putting papers into files. Yes, she and the other survivors realized, this was the apocalypse, and they were going to be eaten by the swarm of lawyer zombies driven by their bloodlust to eat live flesh and reorganize files. Now, maybe, just maybe, if they can make it to the service elevator, an elevator the lawyers don't know exists because it is a functional part of the office, they can escape
Title: The Hatchet Fairy
Logline: A Fairy Tale Willing to Bleed its Way to the Ball
Synopsis:
Bitty had always been a strange sister, so when Lore met Bitty's fairy godmother for the upcoming ball, she didn't think much of it. Sure, the fairy godmother was mean and drank scotch, but then again, Bitty was a personal injury lawyer, so allowances had to be made about her mental stability.
After refusing to go the ball and disgust the prince with her appearance, Lore wakes to find her roommate dead and Bitty still thirsty for blood. With the first strike of midnight, Bitty's gone and Lore's bleeding. Kill or be killed, the ghosts finally convince her. Armed with only her shoes, Lore has to survive the ball, ignore the prince, and kill her sister to stay alive.
Title: SPOOK ALLEY
Logline: Six friends sneak into a local spook alley the night before it opens, only to find that their evening of fun has turned into their worst nightmare.
Synopsis:
The night before a local spook alley opens, three of its employees sneak back in for a fun night scaring their dates. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out. Their evening of fun rapidly turns into their worst nightmare as they begin to die and disappear in the most freakish of manners.
Their friendships are soon tested to the limits as they are forced to evaluate whether one of them is the killer, or if someone else is in the building, or if the spook alley itself is processed by evil spirits. With every effort to escape blocked, the survivors find themselves being driven deeper into the carnivalesque world of freakish insanity. Unable to tell what is real and what is counterfeit, they must trust and stay together…even if it kills them.
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Title: Prairie Bones
Logline: In this little haunted house on the prairie, family life isn't what it seems.
Synopsis:
After losing three children, ETHAN and his pregnant wife, PEARL, are reduced to collecting Buffalo bones on a deserted prairie to survive. Settling the West in 1871 was tough, but worse when you add lies, ghosts and a deranged mind.
Ethan tells Pearl he's going to work on the railroad. He arranges for his mother, GERTIE, to come and help deliver the new baby. He leaves in spite of Pearl's mental instability and Gertie arriving injured by an arrow.
The injury turns deadly. Pearl is forced to walk through the wilderness for help. She gets to a neighbor's just as an Indian raid is in progress. After a horrific night hiding next to the bodies of a mother and teenage son, Pearl gives birth, alone among the dead.
Meanwhile, the ghosts of Ethan and Pearl's children visit Gertie and their father with a warning. Then they go after Pearl.
Ethan returns and must face his wife's insanity, the mysterious deaths of the children, and their shared guilt.
Title: Killer Worms
Logline: Sam Mendoza, who spent time in prison, returns to his roots to rekindle romance and start a new life, only to face a menace in the form of flesh eating worms.
Synopsis:
WGA Registration Number: 1036868
Synopsis: After spending several years in prison for fraud, Sam Mendoza returns home to his roots to start over and rekindle a high school romance. On his first day back, he saves the life of a high school buddy, who in return, offers him a job working for his company.
His neighbor,high school friend and deputy sheriff, investigates a homicide where the victim’s flesh is eaten off through the bone. Mmutilated animals and another victim pop up at nearby farms, one of which raises earthworms.
Little did he realize that the farmer was a government scientist who developed unconventional weaponry that has returned as an uncontrollable contagion threatening the citizens of a nearby town. Our heroes, Sam Mendoza, Deputy Bobby Brooks, and news anchor woman, Francis Lopez, break rules so that they can discover and find ways of stopping this impossible menace.
Title: Zombie, Esq.
Logline: Lawyers have finally evolved
Synopsis:
A normal paralegal in a typical law office on an average day, Henry didn’t think anything was strange when the lawyers threw boxes at her and screamed for raw meat. Even the bloodstained shirts and screaming secretaries didn’t seem terribly unusual. And yes, it was a little odd that Edward John Johnson tried to eat her face, but he’d always been touchy-feely.
Henry wasn’t alarmed until she saw something so disturbing, so implausible, that she nearly became paralyzed with shock. The bloody, twitching lawyers, who had already eaten most of the support staff, were putting papers into files. Yes, she and the other survivors realized, this was the apocalypse, and they were going to be eaten by the swarm of lawyer zombies driven by their bloodlust to eat live flesh and reorganize files.
If they are going to die, by god, they’re going to take some lawyers with them.
Title: Closure
Logline: Where does evil begin and end? Where does madness begin and end? These are just two questions addressed in the ultimate low budget psychodrama about the psychic residue that evil leaves in its wake.
Synopsis:
When Janine and Eddie Garner take on an old house for renovation, they also take on a legacy of evil. Janine starts to experience strange encounters of the eerie kind. These begin with strange voices interrupting a radio program, along with disturbing scenes superimposed on a television chat show. Then Janine’s personality starts to take on temporary changes that leave both her and her husband puzzled and disturbed.
A psychologist asks Janine whether she was subjected to sadistic treatment as a child. Janine says no. The psychologist explains that the kind of personality disorder these episodes suggest are almost invariably caused by being subjected to deliberate and regular sadistic treatment as a child. Janine begins to believe she is being contaminated by the evil left behind in the house they have bought. Then people begin turning up dead.
Title: Tank Farm
Logline: When a strange vapor cloud envelopes a Refinery's Tank Farm and workers disappear under strange circumstances, the night shift crew must obliterate the evil entity before it destroys them all.
Synopsis:
As asphalt pumper, Kevin Gustin and head operator for the Tank Farm Department, Walt Mullen report for the night shift, a bluish-green vapor cloud enters Earth's atmosphere and envelopes their workplace. Their co-workers at the Peedmont Refinery disappear under strange circumstances, and one, Steve Noon, is taken over by the evil entity.
With Noon making their job immeasurably more difficult, Mullen, Gustin, and the surviving crew must obliterate the entity before it destroys them all. When the situation looks the bleakest and Walt Mullen may have become another victim, the exhausted Gustin must summon the strength to finish the job.
Title: DARK SEASON
Logline: To save the lives of his son and the townspeople of Danaid, Alaska, a local Sheriff must kill the only woman he's ever loved, his wife.
Synopsis:
An unidentified body found deep in an Alaskan mine shaft triggers a secret organization called the Ministry of the Wraith to dispatch a hunter to Danaid, Alaska.
The hunter, Bishop Kane, arrives with only one purpose: to kill Petra Berlin, a loving mother and wife of the town's Sheriff Sean Berlin. For she is hiding a terrifying secret that rises closer to the surface with each darkening day.
With Danaid's six month dark season just days away the assassination attempt fails and Petra's secret is unleashed.
As darkness falls the townspeople begin to disappear, only to return horribly changed.
Prepare for the Dark Season.
Title: DARK OF THE NIGHT
Logline: Teenage boy suspects vampirism is running rampant through his small town.
Synopsis:
DARK OF THE NIGHT is an atmospheric chiller about a teenage boy who suspects the beautiful girl who has moved into his small summer resort town is a vampire. As the populace of the town slowly begins to disappear, the teenager discovers that the truth is more terrifying than he could have ever imagined. I would describe it as SALEM'S LOT meets FRIGHT NIGHT.
Title: Forever Comfort
Logline: Death is the desired conclusion. Living is just too agonizing. To pray for death, to die, is not at all painful.
Synopsis:
Forever Comfort is a tale of suffering, a depiction of God's failure to respond to the needs of those who suffer the ravages of time and age. And it is a tale of passion, where Satan extends his hand to embrace those who need comfort. It is a tale that challenges the logic of our beliefs and of our understanding.
Officers Melanie Michaels and Lee Thornton volunteer to investigate the disappearance of one of their own. What they discover is unimaginable-an engaging campaign between God and His chosen adversary. The war is fought in the hearts of simple men and women whose only need is that of contentment while on earth. What they achieve is, instead, a life of loneliness and overwhelming unhappiness, attracting them to the allure of Lucifer's enlightenment. For failure to lessen human suffering, the once faithful give up their devotion to God for eternal comfort offered by Satan.
Forever Comfort is the second of two screenplays and two full-length novels that I have completed.
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