2017 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest Quarter-Finalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on August 11, 2017
We’re thrilled to announce these talented emerging screenwriters! Listed below are the quarter-finalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest. Congratulations to these writers, and thank you to everyone who submitted. Stay tuned for the semifinalists announcement on September 6th!
| A Living Human Girl | Tim | Long |
| Abby | Gilbert | Cuevas |
| Amarok | Michael | Weldon |
| American Folklore: A Midwife's Tale | Erik | Miguel Gervais |
| American Macabre | Brett | Creane |
| Autonomous | Johnny | Gao |
| Bad Night | Colin | Johnson |
| Beast of Virginia | Matthew | Corley |
| Beasts of the Earth | Jesse J | Cook |
| Bedbugs | Jose | Prendes |
| Bird of Prey | Thivanka | Perera |
| Bitterroot | Myles | Hawthorne |
| Black Mountain | Joe | Villanti |
| Blessed are the Dead | Kyle | Adams |
| Blood | Pardeep | Aujla |
| Blood and Guts | Craig | Moorhead |
| Blood of Wolves | Michael | Montgomery |
| Blood Stains | Blake | Vaz |
| Bluebeard | Chelsea | Russo |
| Boy Killers | Tannaz | Hazemi |
| Cargo | Joe | Perruccio |
| Cemetery Hill | Cornelius | Broderick |
| Children of Pan | Candela | Echenique |
| Confession House | Terry | Hayman |
| Consumed | Don | Stroud |
| Consummation | Katherine | Cox |
| Creatures of the Night | John | Kelley |
| Dark Wood | Kevin | MacNamara |
| Day Shift | Tyler | Tice |
| Dead Cargo | Theodore | Soderberg |
| Dead of Night | John | Bradley |
| Dead Strays | Neil | Chase |
| Deadboyz | Julian | Brantley |
| Death Conventions | Peter | Lancucki |
| Denny | Aaron | Yeung |
| Devil's Delights | Nickolas and Toni | Shepherd |
| Dia De Los Muertos | Devin | Fearn |
| Diabolical | Tom | Putnam |
| Diabolous | Caroline | O'Meara |
| Distant Enemies | Anders | Nelson |
| Dogs In The Nighttime | Michael | Leung |
| Doll Island | Nicholas | Pangilinan |
| Domain | J.R. | Jarrod |
| Don't Run | Malcolm | Badewitz |
| Down | Zach | Waggoner |
| Dream Screen | Steven | Epp |
| Echo Valley | Scott | Dale |
| Edgewater | Matthew | Sorvillo |
| Edgewater | Matthew | Sorvillo |
| Empire of the Dead | Peter | Farmer |
| Entering the Flesh | Hafsteinn | Saemundsson |
| Eternal | Thom | Newell |
| Every Way Darker | Zachary | Johnson |
| Evil Intentions | Lois | Terrans Bradbury |
| Fall Not Into Darkness | Philip | Hogan |
| Fat Girls Hunt Werewolves | Marva | Whitaker |
| Feast of the Innocents | Sanjay | Nagar |
| Fever Dream | Megan | Cordero |
| Flatwoods: A UFO Cult Story | Jason | Goldberg |
| Full-time Slasher | Kyle | Gossett |
| Gemma | Kellee | Terrell |
| Ghost Signs | Jace | Daniel |
| Ghouls | Jeff | Meyers |
| Go to Sleep | Diana | Djurcinovska |
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Terrible Old Man | Samuel | Fisch |
| Hacked | Dylan | Dockery |
| Hag | James | Harbinson |
| Hannah's Birthday | Juliet | Bergh |
| Haunted | Regis | Duffy |
| Hell is for Children - Dead Souls | Tom | Rico |
| Hell Or High-Rise | Andrew | Mescher |
| Hound's Tooth High | Rodney | Johnson |
| Hylophobia | Stephen | Martin |
| In the Basement | Todd | Scott |
| In The Bodie Mist | Curtis | Lofgren |
| Inked In Blood | Paul | Corricelli |
| Invunche | Joe | Gooden |
| Killing Time | Jose | Prendes |
| Kitten | Shelley | Kaehr |
| Klifford | Khaled | Ridgeway |
| La Santera | Adel | Morales |
| Lay Down And Die | Joe | Farr |
| Lilith The Vampire | jose | padilha |
| Little Flea | Sabrina | Siebert |
| Little Pretties | Steve | Finly |
| Locked In | Garrett | Hemmerich |
| Lost Dog | Sean | Richardson |
| Lost Man | Guy | Harvey |
| Lovecraft: Into The Abyss | Mark | Sudano |
| Lynched | Chloe | Bellande |
| Malum: The Other Side Of Exorcism | Adrian | Colussi |
| Marvel Rose | Margaret | Ford-Rogers |
| Maze | Matthew | Ries |
| Metanoia | ben | browne |
| Misguided | Linda | Hullinger |
| Miss Diagnosis | Derek | Dubois |
| Molepeople | Nathan | Elston |
| Moribund | Donald | Grail |
| Muddy Water | Jess | Neuhauser |
| Muse in the Mazeum | Clay | Fusco |
| Necropolis | Dennis | James Clarke |
| Night of the Lumberjack | Vincent P. | Kearney |
| Night of the Witches | Alexis | Ross |
| Nightfall | Alexander | Birrell |
| No Beast So Fierce | James | Temple |
| No Way Out | Andrew | Mescher |
| Old Glory | Joshua | Hull |
| Parasites: A Love Story | David | Ullendorff |
| Party Animals | Matt | Brothers |
| Peep Show | January | Jones |
| Pentagram | Tom | Omokaro |
| Princess | Benjamin | Dawe |
| Psychodrive | Mitch | Ross |
| Rampant Gods | Bryan | Yentz |
| Red Velvet | Tom | Radovich |
| Restoration | Don Stroud & | Winter Mead |
| Runner's High | John | Rex |
| Sacrifice | Matthew | Riddle |
| Satan Comes to Town | Michael | Chase Walker |
| Serial | Dennis | Luu |
| Shipside | Stacey | Parshall Jensen |
| Silo | Chris | Drzewiecki |
| Snake Oil | Sean | Plemmons |
| Solara | Andrew | Saxsma |
| Something Not There | Marc | Rosenberg |
| Spare the Child | Landon | McDonald |
| Sparkle Springs | Scott | Maucere |
| Special Little Guy | Andrew | Ferrell |
| Splintered Soul | Bobby | Sacher |
| Spooked | Joie | Botkin |
| STALKS | Samantha | Gurash |
| Stump | Nicolas | Curcio |
| Suffer The Wicked | Kristi | Barnett |
| Surge | James | Watts |
| Ten Thousand Demons | Joseph | Laudati |
| THE 405 | Patrick | Byrne |
| The Au Pair | Peyton | McDavitt |
| The Beast | Peter | Dukes |
| The Beautiful Ugly | Adrian | Colussi |
| The Birthing Field | Robert | Thorpe |
| The Black Dog | Shoshana | Sachi |
| The Black Eyed Children | Andrew | Mescher |
| The Black Eyed Children | Dene | Stark |
| The Brine House | Chance | Muehleck |
| The Bullshit Boys | Nickolas and Toni | Shepherd |
| The Caterpillar | Gilbert | Masie |
| The Chef | Fredrik | Colting |
| The Cutting Fields | Christopher | von Grebe |
| The Dark | Joe | Villanti |
| The Delicate Skin | Will | Keightley |
| The Demons of Winter | Christian | Jean |
| The Disease | Khalil | Sullins |
| The Dollmaker | Catherine | Delaloye |
| The Door in the Basement | Morgan R. | Tegtow |
| The Doppelgänger Suite | J.R. | Jarrod |
| The Fairy King | Steven | Snell |
| The Gates | Tim | Reynolds |
| The Gladstone Experiments | Peter | Donovan |
| The Guilty | L.M. | Harter |
| The Heebies | Andrea | McGee |
| The Hundredth Monkey | Justin Michael | Terry |
| The Keening | Mark | Grassick |
| The Language of the Outlaw | Salahudeen | Abdush Shaheed |
| The Living Stone | Jacob | Hair |
| The Man in the Middle of the Desert | Greg | Sisco |
| The Miller Boarding House | Sara | Caldwell |
| The Mortician Exhibition | Keneu | Luca |
| The Other Side | John | Bradley |
| The Peak of Fear | Kevin | Bachar |
| The Progeny | Bryan | Holm |
| The Rakshasa | Thorsten | Kalteiss |
| The Reformatory | Frazer | Lee |
| The Repass | N Rae | Shaw |
| The Righteous Man | Andrew | Mescher |
| The Rougarou | Christopher | Grillot |
| The Ruin of Souls | Alexander | Beale |
| The Sculptor | Kris | Lippert |
| The Shadow Folk | David | Sajadi |
| The Silence | Thomas | Thonson |
| The Sinner's Club | Dylan | Rosychuk |
| The Slide | Dennis | Luu |
| The Solomon Six | Taylor | Turner |
| The Stacks | Ed | Cound |
| The Stitcher | Tim | Westland |
| The Stray | Olga | Gorodetskaya |
| The Surge | Yusuf | Gad |
| The Survivors Club | Stephen | Paine |
| The Talon and the Undersnake | Mike | Carruthers |
| The Temple | Christopher | Acker |
| The Third Secret | Robert | Dorian |
| The Trail | Christopher | Grillot |
| The Trickster and the Demon | A.M. | Sanchez |
| The Unseen: Rise of the Highwayman | John | Miles Jr |
| The Whipping Father | Andrew | Mescher |
| There Was A Little Girl | Nick | Morris |
| Turn Back Now | Dan | Sturman |
| Twisted | Jason | Dry |
| U-666 | Jackie | Perez |
| Underneath | Tristin | Deveau |
| Undying Evil | Margaret | Riseley |
| Unholy Gods | William | Long |
| Unsolicited | Matt | Donahue |
| Valhalla | Daniel | Whidden |
| Vampire Weekend | Stephen W. | Martin |
| Viral Video | Sean | Kearney |
| Visions | Danny | Howell |
| We Need Help | Kevin | Blake |
| Wendigo | Mike | Langer |
| When the Wilted Bloom | Jordan | Dyke |
| Wild Game | Robbie | Robertson |
| Witch Ball | Russ | Zitaruk |
| Wolv.es | Brian | Lynch |
| Wylde | Danny | Baram |
| Young at Heart: A Transcendent Tale of Vampyres and Adolescence | Michael | Chase Walker |
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