2013 ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Script Contest Quarter-Finalists

Congratulations 2013 quarter-finalists! This is an impressive batch of scripts consisting of distinctive voices, premises, characters and styles. They all have commercial potential, and once again we have multiple writers who have placed with multiple scripts!
Thanks to everyone who submitted. Although only a select group could move forward, every script we looked at had value. Keep writing and stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the semifinalists.
8 Days a Week by Ian Southwood
A Fist of Five by Alain Soussokho
Afterlife by Ward Ferguson
Air Raiders by James M. De Vince
All for None by Mark J Stasenko Jr
Alpha Hunter by Gregory Luckett
Altar Rock by A. Wayne Carter and Kristin Alexandre
American Leoni by Joseph Chazaray
Ascension by Andrew Mescher and Michael Roberts
A Thousand Times Goodnight by Sandra Corkins-Schmidt
Battleground by Richard Rivera
Big Blue by Tom Bragg & Jim Harkins
Bikers Vs. Nazis 3D by Matt L. Lockhart
Bioman 1 - Biogenesis by Alfie Rustom
BioSHE by David Michael Colona
Bioterror Conspiracy by Louis C. Lio, M.D.
Black Ice by Adam Rocke
Blackmail White by Kamran Khan
Blacktop by Mark Georgeff
Blood Land by Deborah and Neal Havener
Blood Relic by Michael K. Cravotta
Blue Thunder by Jim Ryan
Bookmark by David Coombes
Brackish Water by Noah Harald
Bring On The Night by Shawn Dawes
Burned by Margaret Riseley
By God and a Gun by Hal Ackley
Casey Jones, High Friction by Kaaren Lee Brown
Catalyst by Scott Wascha
Chasing Heat by C.M. Robinson
Children of the Sun by Ryan Gavan
Cloudkill by Brent Hartinger
Considerare by Philip C. Sedgwick
Continuum by Mark J Stasenko Jr
Cora by John Woodard
Crawl Backward by Curtis Lofgren
Crew by Kashad Moore
Critical by Mike Donald
Curse of Darkness by Michael Douglas
Cursed Ink by Rene Collier and Tim Hackett
Dark Space by Robert Adrian Yarbrough
Dead Men Will Rise by Connor Twigg
Deadline by Ivan I. Muñoz
Deadly Impulse by John M. Broderick
Death Comes With The Thunder by James B. Brandt
Deep Frame by Zach Grossman
Devil at Round Rock by Carrie Wachob
Diamond Express by Kyle Curry
Dimestore Saint by Nate Lane
Direct Action by Mike Wilson
Disavowed by David Teitelbaum
Discovering Mr. Vengeance by Ron Brassfield
Dispossessed by Roi Costa
Do Not Look Down by Matt Lavender
Drone America by Dianna Zimmerman & Brad Jost
Drowning Pool by P.W. Gavan
Dylan Good by C.M. Robinson
Earth Daemon Vs. The Devil Dracon by Julie Merrick
Eclipse by Ron Brassfield
Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait by Stephen M. Hunt
Esperancia by John Edward Flynt
Evergreene by Leon Langford
Fiend by Jeff York
FlyUnder Country by James G. Edwards
Forest Fire! by Dan Williams
Genesis Prime by Joe Crouch
God of Gap by Nicholas J. Szegedi
Going Dark by Alexis Pelot & Jessica Coleman
Hatchet's Plan by David Weston
Hawk Moon by Cal Athan
Heaven's Unleashed by Ronjoy Borthakur
House of Layvrs by Matthew Ritter
I-70 by Gabrielle Bird
Ice by Richard Eastman
In The Wrong Hands by Dianna Zimmerman & Brad Jost
Julie 2.0 by Dwayne Conyers
Kane by Pete Able
Keys to the Kingdom by Dane McCauley
Killed in Action by Katrina Nicholson
Lost Cause by David J. Schroeder
Maggie the Cat by Mike Grell
Monitor by Sydney Mitchel
Moscow Rules by Kirk Weddell
Nano by Piotr Ryczko
Narcosis by Chris Drzewiecki
No Saints in Myanmar by Del James
October Surprise by Mike Stern & Kevin Armento
Old River Road by Luciana Lagana and Gregory Graham
Overwhelming Darkness by Steven Hart
Paradise Jack by Edgar Cancel
Pascal's Coming by Phillip E. Hardy
Phantom in Time by Douglas Charles MacLeod
Pitch Dark by A. Wayne Carter
Place of Ravens by Terence Brody
Raven Nichols by Heather Ostrove
Reapers by Peter Nelson & Robin Russin
Red Hats by Travis Mann & Michael Toay
Repression by Edward W. Dorgan
Rough Riders by Mandel Holland
Sawbuck by Mark Strauss
Secession by Roy Woodbridge
Seeing Red by Sundae Jahant-Osborn
Shapeshifters by Andrew S. Fisk
Sidekicks by Jake Fallon
Silence by John Edward Flynt
Soundguardian by Chance Crimin
St. Patrick's Tear by Neil Chase
Suagothel by Duncan Putney
Tears of Blood by Michael Ritz and Chuck Holland
Ten Ferraris by Gary Sherwood
The Blunt Edge by Joseph Baker
The Cause Of It All by John Cruz & Mark Dormitorio
The Dark Road by Mark Georgeff
The Fall Guy by Charles Laulette
The Forsaken by Charles Robert Mahoney
The Gumshoes by Lisa Garvey
The Hoffman Experiment by Richard Stokes
The Immortal Jack the Ripper by Phillip E. Hardy
The Last Match by Mike Scannell
The Mount by Zach Zerries
The Procurist by Mark Townend
The Secret Character of Jones McCree by Jeff Barry
The Secret War by Joseph Stringfield
The Seventh Slayer by Jesse Griffith
The Singularity by John Pallas and Maria Pallas
The Sleeper by Stefan Carow
The Spear of Destiny by Carmela Samanc & Radu Samanc
The Time Bubble by Craig Gusmann
The Tree House War by Edward A. Wilson
The Victorians by Matthew Parvin
The Wastelander by Brentt Slabchuck
The Watchman by William Schreiber
The Wild Yeti Hunters of 1938 by Rob Ferraz
The Willing by Phillip E. Hardy
The Woods by Simon Sorrells & Casey Nelson
To The Gallows by Gregory Luckett
Trauma Center by Paul J. da Silva
Truck Driver of the Apocalypse by Parker Briscoe
True Self by A. Rouveyrol
Tucson by John Pallas and Maria Pallas
Twenty-Seven Minutes by Joe Becker
Vanished by Josh Berman
Vulture's Row by Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Warriors of the Sun by Ryu Miaki
When The Sun Goes Down by Scot Eric Candiotti
White Calm by Sid Bodalia
Will Powers by Andrew Eisen
Wrath by Abe Frank
Wrath of an Eagle by Bruno Borello
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