Announcing the 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft - updated on September 6, 2018
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the quarterfinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest. Horror is one of the proven genres for newcomers to the craft – and we're always looking for talented new writers. Our Hollywood judges have produced some of the most iconic horror and dark-genre films of the last decade including A Quiet Place, Paranormal Activity, Get Out, Unfriended and Insidious.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks! And if you'd like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries next year, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Without further ado, here are the quarterfinalists:
| 700 Feet | Jason Goldberg |
| A Precise Understanding of Darkness | R. Shanea Williams |
| A Special Place | Michael Frost |
| Abominable | Adam Sweeney |
| Addictive | T.L. Tribble |
| Alpha | Nathan Alan Bunker |
| American Folklore: A Midwife's Tale | Erik Miguel Gervais |
| Amorphous | Gavin Carter |
| And Then There Were Three | Peter Bohjalian |
| Anora | Eric Williford |
| Archfiend | Alex Ayres |
| Arctic | Garrett Vander Leun |
| Atonement | Anand Fozard-McCall |
| Awake | Andrew Palmer |
| AWOL | Patrick Allan |
| Babes in the Woods | Billy Thompson |
| Black Death Zombie | Geoffrey Uhl |
| Black Friday | Jonny Von Golden, Melissa Green & Julianna Brudek |
| Black Friday | Andy Greskoviak |
| Black Goose | Janet Hetherington |
| Black Harbor | Samuel Peirce |
| Blackspot | Mark Pomes |
| BLOOD$$ | Nancy J. Schiller |
| Bloodstained | Peter Daskaloff |
| Bootyface | Kevin Briggs |
| Burner | Mukilan Thangamani |
| Buzz Kill | Kyle McDonald |
| BYTEn | David Gibbons |
| Cain and Abel | D.C. Lozar |
| Carmilla Screenplay | Joshua Russell |
| Charlene | Dan Schneidkraut |
| Chola | Casandra Wasaff & Phillip Mell |
| Civilized | Jackie Perez |
| Colomi | Sam Yano |
| Consumered | Robert Klinger |
| Controlled | Craig Cambria |
| Convergence | Paul Sheridan |
| Crawlspace | Jordan Miller |
| Crescendo | Valerian Zamel |
| Crossbow Creek | Andrew Pinon |
| Crucifix Gorge | Joshua Essenburg |
| Crushing Black | Wes  Crandall |
| Cryptodome | Nathanael Vass |
| Curse of the Sampires | P.K. Silverson |
| Curse The Ground | Gabby Gruen |
| Cut | Stanley Swindling |
| Dark Beauty | James Watts |
| Dark Canvas | Oliver Waite |
| Dark Shift | Andrew Lillion & David Schumann |
| Dark Winter | Ryan Welsh & Justin Giddings |
| Darklands | Paul Sheridan |
| Darling | Kevin  Bauer |
| Dead Strays | Neil Chase |
| Deadville | Jeffrey Boggio |
| Death Ritual | Kirk Doering |
| Death's Love | Chris Audsley |
| Decibel | Anna Megan Becker |
| Deep | Denise Agnew |
| Demon of Restoration | Mark Bryson |
| Desperate Times | Kimberly Britt |
| Devil's Delights | Nickolas Shepherd &Â Â Toni Shepherd |
| Devotion | Brian Thompson |
| Distant Enemies | Anders Nelson |
| Dog Bite | Sean Kenealy |
| Don't Be Stupid | Cameron Jones |
| Dormant | Mark  Arament |
| Dorothy, Darling | Adam White |
| Down Came The Rain | Min Tran |
| Druid Hills | B. O'Hara |
| Eblis | Tom Omokaro |
| End Rain | Noel Vinson |
| Extranjero Supremo | Theo Sariklis |
| Face The Day | J. Franklin Evans |
| Far End Of The Black | James Barker |
| Feathers and Ashes | Brandon Sandberg |
| Feral | Spencer Wright & Jake West |
| Fins | Gene Helfman |
| Five Fears | Austin Cashell |
| Flagpole | Ryan Curtin |
| Flesh and Blood | Jordan Light |
| Forget-Me-Nots | John Dummer |
| Freaky Friday... the 13th! | Derek Steiner |
| Ghosts of Whitechapel | Raymond Just |
| Glaslyn | S.J. Davis |
| Good Luck, Nightingale | Shannon Wells |
| Grimm's Ridge | Tina Prud'homme |
| H is for Hellwood | Lilia Doytchinova |
| Happy Hunting Ground | Tom John Ross |
| Harmony House | Staci Truskosky |
| Harper's House | Johnnie Alward |
| Harvest | Ted Horning |
| Havenwood | Jai Brandon |
| Hell & Back | Alan Loubeau & Mike Meyerson |
| Hell Is An Open Door | Jim Lopezzo |
| Hell on Earth | Paul Allen |
| Hellburgers | Ned Miller |
| Hemorrhage | Kathryne Easton |
| Hers | Elizabeth Ozemebhoya & Nicole Muller |
| High School Bites | Peter Iannazzo |
| Hot Southern Mess | Justin Farmer |
| How to Save Your Own Life | Michael Long |
| Hubris | Pierre Kakos |
| Hum | Nick VanderPyl |
| Hurricane Party | Ned Farr |
| I Would Kill For That | Matthew Hoch |
| i,Phine'd | Jeff Bassetti |
| In The Blood | Samuel Minier |
| In the Dead of Winter | Sean Smith-Wilson |
| Into the Dark | Dennis Clarke |
| Intrusion | Matthew Corry |
| It Came To Us By Sea | Justine Beed |
| It Drinks You | Jeff Debing |
| Justice | Marc Morgenstern |
| Kabul Nights | Christian Kaps |
| Kill Mama | Jason Horton |
| Kill Your Darlings | Daniel Whidden |
| Landlord | Ben Grover |
| Last Period | Dylan Kim |
| Last Show At The Bijou | John Pachl |
| Lawn of the Dead | Rick Mele |
| Lead | Clark Sayre |
| Lean | Tal Rayman |
| Left Of The Devil | Stephen Anderson |
| Legacy | Marc Johnson |
| Little Miracle | DiMario Bell |
| LIVe | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Living in Harmony | Robert Dorian |
| Luke Fuller is the Devil | Brandon Pickering |
| Mad Molly | J.R. Halterlein |
| Maniac Lake | Sean Jourdan & Jeff Carey |
| Media Overkills | Christopher Van Ochten |
| Meet Mister Madness | Christopher Condon |
| Method | Louis Paxton |
| Mincemeat Manor | Shira Zimbeck |
| Mindfuck | Michael Cahill |
| Minotaur | Michel Plaxton |
| Miss Violet | Christopher Schrack |
| Monsters of Men | Scott Dale |
| Montrous | Jose Ernand |
| Moonshine | Devin Lucas |
| Mother's Milk | Kay Denmark |
| Mysterium | Sheldon Woodbury |
| Nature's Revenge | DiMario Bell |
| Necropolis | Dennis James Clarke |
| Nelson Falls | Vince Grittani |
| Never Fear | Tom Farrell |
| Night of Tricks | Corey Warejko |
| Nite Stalkers | James Morgan |
| Not Like the Others | Jason Wilkinson & Jeremiah Scott |
| Nothing is Written | Shelagh Rowan-Legg |
| Ocean Child | Marco Arizpe |
| Ocean Effect | Heather Farlinger |
| Omega Down | Eric Taylor |
| Origin | Alex Carroll |
| Outcall | Sonya Srinidhi |
| Partricks Road | Terry Crist |
| Penumbra | Ky Rogers |
| Personal Demons | Erik Harshman |
| Pile | Morgan von Ancken |
| Polly | Tariq R. Williams |
| Puppy Chow | Raeanne Roy |
| Purebred | Celine Henke |
| Raven Dock | Sara Caldwell |
| Recreational Kill | Adam Hodge |
| Red Rites | Simon Taylor & Henry Boffin |
| Remember the Fire | David Snee |
| Requiem | Daniel Abatan & Thomas R. Burke |
| Resurrection Girl and the Curse of the Wendigo | Nathan Ludwig |
| Rise of the Gulon | Matt Wildash |
| Roadkill | Jeff Lathery |
| Roanoke | Joshua Tywater |
| Scare | Peter Szemmelveisz |
| Scarred | Johanna Goldstein, Tom Connolly & Eden Saldaña |
| Scion | Christopher Acker |
| Screams You Hear | James Morris |
| Settlement | Jason Sheedy |
| She's Next | Timothy Mendonca & Lizz Dorovitsine |
| Shimmerverse | Eric Humble |
| Sinful Autonomy | Miles Robinson |
| Siren Song | Nicholas Schwab |
| Skins of the Father | Paul Fulton |
| Someplace Nice | Don Swaynos |
| Soul Doll | Mya B |
| Spine | Danny  Glasgow |
| Summer of Love | Jamie Pietras |
| Taotao Mo'na | Justin Kohlas & Michael Arter |
| Terror/13 | Darren Callahan |
| The 405 | Patrick Byrne |
| The Abscess | Patrick Tierney |
| The Babysitter | Leah Welch |
| The Bewailing | Jennifer Trudrung |
| The Big Five | Kate Sheffield |
| The Black Cube | Tim Snook |
| The Caregiver | Jason Goldberg |
| The Cleansing | John Kennedy |
| The Crossing | Joshua Bartolome |
| The Culling | David Livingston |
| The Dark Place | Jim Hunsaker |
| The Deep Woods | Eric Endres |
| The Demon Factory | Bradley King &Â Â Zeb Wells |
| The Desolation of Stoneheir, Alaska | Sean Buckley |
| The Devil's Bitch | Alexander Smith |
| The Devil's Crown | Jessica Valentine & Richard Valentine |
| The Devil's Whore | Robert DeDona & Adrian Carr |
| The Drifter | Jake Hansen |
| The Endling | Devin Fearn |
| The Fat Pact | Alison Parker & Raza Rizvi |
| The Festival | Dene Stark |
| The Field | Nathaniel Mason |
| The Flately Faeries | Robert Milner |
| The Gentry | Andrew Wankier |
| The Ghosts of Far Lake | Thorsten Kalteiss |
| The Graveyard Shift | Tom Radovich |
| the Grey Ladies | Chris LaMartina |
| The Hoarder | David Scullion |
| The Hoaxing | Sam Roseme & Justin Gallaher |
| The Hollywood Fly | Roberta Degnore |
| The Honeymoon Game | Gentile Daniel |
| The Keeper | Daniel Judson |
| The Kensington Market Mob Killings | Firdaus Bilimoria |
| The King in Yellow | Kein Carroll |
| The Last Good Man | Reshma Crawford |
| The Magnificent | William Johnson |
| The Man with a Glove | Suzanne Lutas |
| The Maze | Michael Gary |
| The Monster Inside | Kristine Clarke |
| The Murdering Mind | Tom Bragg & Jim Harkins |
| The Night Before the Exhibition | Kirston Fortune |
| The Night Walk | Nikhail Asnani |
| THE OBSCURED | Bryan Kish |
| The Ones That Got Away | Bobby Gorman & Marc Adams |
| The Rat King | Nicholas Brown |
| The Report with Bob Hirschel | Josh Kaukl |
| The Retreat | Alyson Richards |
| The Rules That Keep Us Safe | Gemma Hurley & Markus Meedt |
| The Savior | Philip Cotter |
| The Scolding | Luke Jackson |
| The Shelter | Braden Yandle |
| The Sin Eater | Samantha Talbot |
| The Third Secret | Robert Dorian |
| The Unkind | Neth Knowles |
| The Vicious Comes in Silence | Anton Gsell |
| The Visitors | Jim Jackson |
| The Vultures | Eric Dickson |
| The Wolf of Bedburg | Jennifer Grand |
| There's Nothing Wrong With Us | Nathan Crooker |
| They Keep Me Around | Nikhail Asnani |
| They Whisper | David Bush |
| Tight Lips | Martin Wathen |
| Trapped | Billy Reid |
| Two Penny Eyes | John Hamilton |
| Undertow | Kevin Bauer & Erin Whittemore |
| Unleashed | Ryan McFadden |
| Usher | Christine Autrand Mitchell |
| Violet | Lori Bowen |
| Void Walker | Skylier Jones |
| Water Wolves | Mary Asaro |
| When Horror Met Sally | Ervin V. Anderson |
| When the Dark Presses | BJ Santiago |
| Whitetails | Sean Bode |
| Wicho | Luis Gonzalo Soto Flores & Alejandro Benitez Morales |
| Wolves | Brian Lynch |
| Wolves Don't Cry | Scott Fleishman |
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