2022 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on December 10, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| 'Nam | Ryan Thomas Hinrichs |
| #KillMeNow | Gary Sewell |
| $ugar Island | miranda allender |
| 100% Happy | Jerome Velinsky |
| 27th Phase of the Moon | jim ramsay |
| 7 Maggots on Deaths door | Keith Walker |
| 88 Days | Mick McCann |
| A COMPENDIUM OF GHOSTS | Christopher Maudsley |
| A Loving Home | R.H. Norman, Micheline Pitt |
| A MONSTER WITHIN | Warren Sefton, Chris Carter |
| A Safe Place For Shelter | George Wilson |
| A Sojourn Most Savage | Bryan Yentz |
| A Witch's Tale | Hugh Key |
| A.F.K. | Muhammad Sultan |
| Above Snakes | Jerold Wallace |
| Absolution | Carmen Mosley |
| Abyss | Seya Hug |
| Agave Agape | L. Andrew Cooper |
| ALIVE: A Frankenstein Reimagining | Aimee Dansereau |
| American Slashers | Mark Dorman |
| Anything for You | Emily Adler |
| Aphrodisiac | David Chang |
| APRICITY | Tom Levesque |
| Arctic Splashdown | Jeremy Marwick |
| ARMADILLO | Rachel Cylie Gross, Stanley Swindling |
| ARMITAGE | Rune Ness |
| Arterial | Tim Leibbrandt |
| Avenue C Exorcist | Michael Stark |
| B damned | Enric Folch |
| Bad Friends | Christine Rifkin |
| Bad Things in the Middle of Nowhere | Garry Walsh, Bryan Walsh |
| Bar 51 | Miles Gunter |
| Barasat | Mrinalini Basu |
| Bartlett Werewolves | Melissa Sweazy |
| Bearskull | David Williams |
| Beasts of Burden | Nick Tassoni |
| Belly Of My Brother | Jared Faircloth |
| Beneath the Surface | Paul Fox |
| Better Watch Out | John Barr |
| Beware, Wolf! | David Liberman, Jacky Revah, Itzik Revah |
| Beyond Blood | Matt Jackson |
| Beyond the Veil | Michael Mortimer |
| BFFs Never Say Die | K. Jennifer Ilagan |
| Big Ben | Tom Ross |
| binding | Kylie Hogrefe |
| Black Friday | Gregory Lane |
| Blackfriar | Chris Bolton |
| Blood Bath | Stephanie Noel |
| Blood Island | Billy Krolick |
| Blood Vessels | Kurt Doerr |
| Bloodletting | Alexandra Ruggieri |
| Bluff Creek | Aniruddh Pandit |
| Body Bank | Will Kenning |
| Body Slam | Alexander Messana, Adam Messana |
| BORDERLORE | J. Angel Sierra |
| Born Again | Richard Mathiasen |
| Breeder | Alex Goyette |
| Breeding Ground | Joshua Gacita |
| BURIAL | Brooke deRosa |
| Bush Devil | Chuck Prongua |
| Butterfly Cemetery | Caroline Buendia |
| Call | Corey Stanton |
| Calling Hours | Ian Lerch |
| Cannonballs: An American Revision | Jason Williams |
| Carmilla | Joseph O'Connell |
| Casualties | Travis Williams |
| Charlotte, Lou & Britney Too | Daniel Kelly-Mulhern |
| Cheater Unit | Joe Gustav |
| Child | Giovanni Labadessa |
| Circle of Confusion | Leif Johnson |
| Closer to the Heart | Charlie Roberts |
| Cold Hands | Adrian Gutierrez Martel |
| Consume | Jevon Stennis |
| Cradle Song | Celeste Chaney |
| Crawl Space | Derick & Rebecca Otto |
| Crescendo | Rachel Mahoney |
| Cryptid | Brandon Weavil |
| CULT FOLLOWING | Anthony Griszell |
| Dark Arts | Melissa Fall |
| Dark Dreams | Kevin Sweeney |
| Dark Dreams | Kevin Sweeney |
| Dark Harbinger | Kayla Jun |
| Dark Woods Run Red | Simon Proud |
| Day-Crossers | Geoffrey Yebra-Glenn |
| Deadred | Edward Somers |
| Death Drone | Lytton Gilliland, Charles Fallon |
| Death Itself | Darryn Prioleau |
| Death Streaming | Sean Price |
| Deep as Hell | Laddie |
| Deep Fake | Carrick Moore Gerety |
| Demon 911 | Greta Harrison, Matthew C. Vaughan |
| Demon Wasp | Darren Callahan |
| Demonica | John Austin |
| DEVIL WITHIN | Nathan Wilcoxen |
| Devin, Angela, & Me | James Yantko |
| Devour | Robbie Lemieux |
| Devour | Peter Petrucci |
| DIRT | Baakal Geleta |
| Disciples | Alex Eldridge |
| Discreet | Jeremy Bradford |
| Dolls in the Walls | Matt McCarthy, Katherine Cox |
| Don't Be a Stranger | Philip Walton, Logan Halley-Winsett |
| Don't Panic | Robin James Habil |
| Donna & Seven Dead Chicks | Amanda Torigiani |
| Doomscrollers | Danny Baram |
| Dracula | Madison Sean Flannery |
| Dread Tide | Ryan Berry |
| Dukkha | Ben Caro |
| Earworm | Daniel LoBrace |
| Eat The Rich | David Johnson |
| Eddie Video | Robert Brockway |
| Eden Goes to Hell | Lauren Hussey |
| Erebus | Martin Aguilera |
| Everything Bad | Lance Polin |
| Eyes to Your Soul | Jon Karamatsu |
| f r i s s o n | Unnamed |
| Faithful | Dennis Luu |
| Feral Boyz | Michael Ezell |
| First Ascent | Reinhard Cate |
| Five With A Bullet | Christopher Isenegger |
| FLESH AND BLOOD | Garrett Schabb |
| Flowers of Evil | Jorge Enrique Alvarez |
| Free Spirits | Katharine Densmore |
| Gem Laddie | Ryan Crisp |
| Gethsemane | Matheus Macedo |
| Ghost Light | John Gallagher, Jr. |
| Ghosted | Amanda Verwey |
| Ghosting | Daniel LoBrace |
| Ghosts of Home | Jason Love |
| Girls Night | Tapan Sharma |
| Good Husbands | Ari Halevy |
| Goodbye Old Friends | Rafael De Leon Jr. |
| Grace | LeeBo Bentley |
| Grist | Marshall Knight, Rob LaMorgese |
| Grummy | R.H. Norman, Micheline Pitt |
| HANGMAN | Nathan Wilcoxen |
| Hangman's Gauntlet | Joachim Mizrahi |
| He Had His Father's Eyes | Bryan Liberty |
| HEAD CASE | Henry Valo |
| HEADCASE | Lucas Miller |
| Hell Is An Open Door | James Lopezzo |
| Hey Bestie! | Lulenoxx |
| Hinsdale | Kristy Lussier, Lee Vander Boegh |
| Home Is Where The Dark Is | Michael St.Germain |
| Homicide Hillz | Seti Jakada |
| HOUSE DIVIDED | Jamie Bircoll |
| Houseware | Glenn McLeod |
| Howard | Michael Dzurak |
| Humboldt Cut | Allison Mick |
| I WILL FOLLOW HIM | Jamey Mills |
| Illusory | Robert Sheppe |
| In Shadowland | Benjamin Farry |
| Inn | Benjamin Baraad |
| Insection | Mark Keavney |
| Inside Me | Darien Harte |
| INTO THE VOID | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Into Thin Air | John Henderson |
| Isolated | Tyson Anderson |
| It Clings To Her | Ariel Sinelnikoff |
| Jackie Conan: A Werewolf Story | Mike Meyerson, Alain Loubeau |
| JAM JAR JAIL | Mike Cilano |
| Jin Village | Vincent Stoia |
| Juke | Zachary Eglinton |
| Junkyard Demon | Sheldon Gleisser |
| Killfluencers | Denise Deegan |
| Kinfolk | Stephen Reynolds |
| Krampus | Sara Bresciani |
| Kyra | Gil Seltzer |
| L | Katherine Oostman |
| La Luna | Julia White |
| La Sirene | Nathalie Dortonne |
| Lake X | Evan Jones |
| Lane 9 | Jessica Valentine, Richard Valentine |
| LEFT HAND PATH | Trey Livingston |
| Legacy | Claire Epstein |
| Leviathans | Alok Narekkattuvalappil Revi |
| LIFELESS | PIYUSH GUPTA |
| Lifeline | Matt Wanicur |
| Lisa | Elise Forier Edie |
| Little Old Ladies | Jeffrey Chase |
| Lizard People | Christopher Hall |
| Lonesome Town | Megan Hermann |
| Love After Life | Rich Machin |
| Lovecraft in Brooklyn | Dov Torbin |
| Lurking | J. L. Peixoto |
| M.O.M. | Christopher Oroza Nostas, Ronald Johnson |
| Malkin | Samantha Moody |
| Malocchio | Richard Cotzabuyucas |
| Man-I-Kin | Jon Clark |
| Management | John Jacobs |
| Mark of the Beast | Alex Fountain |
| Martha | Alex Moran |
| Martha | Emma Carolina-Wolf |
| Maya Rising | Christine Rodriguez |
| Mayday Hill | Matthew Barker |
| Me and The Devil Blues | Jamal Emerson Murad |
| Migrant Spirits | Mickey Martinez |
| Misfortune Cookies | Don Stroud |
| Mockingbird Hill | Jodie Bullock |
| Monnji | Maria Wilson |
| Moth | Melissa Sweazy |
| Ms. Mary Madness | Craig Ouellette |
| Muck Up Day | Jessica Liley |
| Muse in the Mazeum | Clay Fusco, Pamela Chiacchiaro |
| Museum | Denis Memedoski |
| Nap Time | Jonathan Dittman, Zachary Grashin |
| Nevermore | Francesco Blasonato, Myles Blasonato |
| Night of the Gray | Hugh Serreph |
| Night of the Living Room | Michael Werner |
| Night of the Wolves | Chaz Evans |
| No Control | Jeff Bower |
| No Man's Land | Barry Ambrose, Armand Kachigian |
| No Way in Hell | Max La Bella |
| NOT DEAD YET | Chaz Harris |
| Nurture | Brandon Weavil |
| Obscura | Carlos Marín |
| Of Fiends And Furries | Justin Sharp |
| Offspring | Hannah Silverman |
| Old Peg | Derrick Smith |
| Onryo | Ian Smart |
| Our Lady of Viento Bridge | Pep Torres |
| Panopticon | Alvin Tejera |
| Parasol | Theo Sariklis |
| Pheromona | Natalie Victoria, Anthony DiBlasi |
| PIECE OF THE DEVIL | Andrew Adair |
| Platoon Z | VICKY DUPUIS |
| Play Dead | Neil Stevens |
| PLAY ME | Katie French, Celine Tricart |
| Possum Man | Jared Faircloth |
| POTENTIAL | Hannah C. Langley |
| Pride of the Dead | Daniel Pike |
| Primeval | Drew Hellmich |
| Project: BASTION | Mark Rosenthal |
| Puglisi | Adam Skrine |
| Rasputin's Curse | Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm, Matthew Hill |
| Red Clover | Dillon Colthart |
| Red Nightmare 2: The Outtakes | Joey Scoma |
| REDUX | Erik Van Der Wolf |
| Reflections | Madeleine Morgenweck, Scott Friend |
| Relapse | Aaron Hernandez-Buter |
| Reset | Gretchen Klein |
| Rest Home | Jeff Speed |
| Restoration | Don Stroud, Winter Mead |
| Retreat | Julie Sharbutt |
| REUNION | Karl Gan |
| Ring Bell For Death | Ash Lazer, Glenn Ghirardi, Thomas Ascenzi, Lisa Marie Tedesco |
| Ruggers | Ned O'Connor |
| Sacrifice | Sallyanne Scotton Moonga |
| Sacrilege | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Sanctuary | Patrick Regan |
| Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of my Blood) | Nicolas Delgado De La Camara |
| Satanic Static | Bryan Holm |
| Scatterbrains | Richard Hohenrath |
| SeaBird | Thomas (Tom) OConnor |
| SÉANCE | Vivian Kerr |
| Selling Your Soul | Joanne Rose |
| Sequestered | Derek Steiner |
| Shackled | Michael Boaks |
| SHADE | scott cramer |
| Shadow of the Moon | Aaron Ainsworth |
| Shango | Martyn Eaden, David McClellan |
| sight | Shirley Napoleone |
| SIGUA | Michael Flores |
| Silent Shadow | Edward Somers |
| Silk | Nick Tassoni |
| Sincerely Held Beliefs | Mike Kalvoda |
| SKINWALKER | Robb Payne, Taylor Gload |
| Slash Off | Michael Klasek |
| Slasher U | Nik Patrick |
| Slay | Steve Holbert |
| Snarl | Mark C. Spera |
| Snowbound | Andrew Durtschi |
| Soul Sucker | Jacob Andrews |
| Sound of the Beast | Lorenzo Martinez |
| Stacking Doll | Larry Starke |
| Still Waters | Anil Jacob Kunnel |
| Strange Brew | David Lemmink |
| SURRENDER! | Shannon Wells |
| Taketh Away | Angel Partie , Michelle Sauer |
| Tehran Ghoul Motel | Rob Capili |
| Terror Games | Jodie Jones |
| The 111 | Ryan Crisp |
| The 13th Day of Christmas | Terry Abrahamson |
| The Allerdale Bus Tragedy | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| The Ampersand Inn | C.J. Arellano |
| The Apparition Room | Jon James Miller |
| The Asset | Adam Dick |
| The Beckoning | Jason Miller |
| The Binding | Ven Scott |
| The Birds at Night | Alanah Rafferty |
| The Bitten | Jonathan Lill |
| The Bone Woman | Rachel Coomes |
| The Campground | Brandon D. Reid |
| The Carvers Were Here | Jer Paulin |
| The Chosen One | Bradley Dunn |
| The Coven | Crystal Ro |
| The Culture | James Shippy |
| The Dark Gift | Sergio Pintore, Daryl D. Well |
| The Deadtime Man | Benjamin Pollack |
| The Decay | Adam Davis |
| The Devil I Know | JOSH BRODY |
| The Devil In Your Eyes | Jordan London |
| The Doe | Andrea Ash |
| The Donor | Tyler Derench |
| THE DOPPELGANGER SUITE | J.R. Jarrod |
| THE DRAGON OF HANDALE | Lisa Kors |
| The Eidolon | James Dehnert |
| The Elder Four | Melissa Calderone |
| The Endling | Devin Fearn |
| The Even Darker | Edi Ibok |
| The Farm | catherine Boyd |
| The Fifth Story | Cory Byers |
| The Film Professor Who Kills Hot Students for Fame and Healthcare | Greg Benevent |
| The Flip and the Dead | Greg Harvey |
| The Garden Ate | BRIAN MILLARD |
| The Giving House | Kenyon Geiger |
| The Goat Hill Samaritan | Joshua Henaman |
| THE GREAT GOD PAN | Haley Bartels |
| The Guests | Douglas Corleone |
| The Homesick | Sean Addo |
| The Inside Parts | Ervin Anderson |
| The Island | Neil Tinkham |
| The Jekyll Effect | Joe Dzikiewicz |
| The Jet | Jon Shaivitz |
| The Killing Moon | Matt Wedge |
| The Lake | Brian La Belle |
| THE LAST BLACKFACE PARTY | Christopher Harmon |
| The Lookout | Brendan Beachman, Justin Boyes |
| The Loop | Rich Ragsdale |
| The Lost Cause | Owen Hornstein |
| The Lower Levels | Emma Hicklin |
| The Manifesting | Vikas Sridharan |
| THE MARKED | Scott Hawthorne, Jim Goode |
| The Midnight Tour | Chris Bolton |
| The Murder Show | Shane Spiegel, Justin Reager |
| The Museum | Michael Milito |
| THE NIGHT WITCH | Robin Shanea Williams |
| The Occurence On Mars Hill | Michael Stark, Terrell Garrett |
| The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark | Warren Wagner |
| The Other Side | Nonie Shiverick |
| The Paisley Witch Trial - Feature | Julia Campanelli |
| The Paisley Witch Trial - Pilot | Julia Campanelli |
| The Pale Face | Jonathan Lee |
| The Picnic | Albert Cook |
| The Plantation | Randall Snare |
| The Princess in the Castle | Sean Price |
| The Rats in the Walls | Annarosa Schiavone, Luca Violante |
| The Ravens | lauren savoy |
| The Real Housewives of Horror | Soni Benson |
| The Red | Min Tran |
| The Red Death | Kayla Zinger |
| The Scythe | Terrance Thibodeaux |
| The Seance | Chris Lutzow |
| The Second Beast | Deirdre Patterson |
| The Settler's Disgrace | Zed Martin, Thomas Joseph |
| The Seventh Suicide | The Nightmare K!dZzz |
| The Shee | Evan Muehlbauer |
| The Shivers | Chad Wellinger |
| The Stranger | Katherine Oostman, Carolina Garrigo |
| THE STRICKEN | Rob Pilkington |
| The Student Body | Toby Venable |
| The Taste | Lee Cohen |
| The Three Knots | Steele Filipek |
| The Trail (Miikana) | Jonathan Dittman, Zach Zorba |
| The Unnatural | Eric and Jordan Roberson |
| The Unwanted | John Thurman |
| The Vet | karan talwar |
| The VHS Society | Adam McCabe |
| The Victim | Sandy Nicholson |
| The Voice | Nina Mohan |
| THE WATER STRIDER | MATTHEW BARRY RYAN |
| The White House In The Woods | Richard Cullen |
| The Wind Howls | Carlos J. Matos |
| The Windigo | Joseph Murillo |
| The Witching | William Keaton |
| The Wolf Woman | Cody Joslin |
| The Woods | Trey Everett |
| The Yearning | Duane A. Butler |
| THEY CAME BEFORE US | Shakthi Jothianandan |
| Thin Blue Veins | Josh Evans |
| THIRST | Kimmie P Callaway, Andrew Nixon |
| Three Came Back | Jef Burnham |
| Tits Out | Jane Harrison |
| TOMORROW | Samantha Smart |
| Too Many Wades | Stirling McLaughlin, Wilder Konschak |
| Touch | Cara Geyser |
| TOXIC | Phil Claydon, Hannah Brown |
| Trail | David Rusanow |
| Trail's End Road | Tom Chaney |
| TROUBLED WATER | Jace Serrano |
| Ugly | Nick Grant |
| Uncanny Valley | Eric Raye |
| Under The Moon | Ari Silver |
| Undertow | John Walker |
| Unfamiliar | Philip Walton, Logan Halley-Winsett |
| Up On The Housetop | Austin Linsemeyer |
| Vio | The Nightmare K!dZzz |
| VORACIOUS | David Draper |
| Waffle House Index | Gabriel Rosenstein |
| WALL OF SLEEP | Stephanie Stanley |
| We Become Shadows | Hunter Romanillos |
| We Come From the Dark | Brien Kelly |
| We Need a Killer | Bryan Kish |
| We Wear The Mask | Michael Robertson |
| We're All Strangers | Marisa Martinez |
| Welcome To Detention | Justin Riley |
| Welcome to Wetiko | Robin James Habil |
| Wendigo | Jake Bean |
| What Daphne Saw | Lizz Marshall |
| What Has Risen | Alec Paugh |
| WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING WEREWOLVES | Matthew Scheffler |
| When Horror Met Sally... | Ervin Anderson |
| White Van | Stacy Arnold-Strider |
| Who Said Pop's Dead? | Ali Sadiq |
| Wicked Country | Nate Ruegger |
| Wildflower | Haley Pehrson |
| With You Always | Will Anderson |
| Withering Disguise | Jonathan Siebel |
| Witiko | Ali Kisat |
| Womb | David Ferris |
| Worms | Steve Mitchell |
| You Better Run | Gareth Wronski |
| You Should Have Read My Screenplay | Allie Jennings |
| Zombies in the Barrio | Enrique Perez |
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