2020 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 19, 2020
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| "Attachment Issues" | John Kessler |
| 1.4% | Garin Hovannisian |
| 215 Sullivan | Elias Noel & Aren Mineo |
| 4th Night | Pedro Borges |
| A Shtetl Folktale | Ari Silver |
| A Whole Snack | Jathan Wilson & Conan Milne |
| Abrigo | Rhodri Wooltorton |
| Abyss | Seya Hug |
| Across the Lake | Timothy Schoonmaker |
| Adam2 | Luke Baker |
| Adverse Effects | Derrick Horn |
| All Skin And Bones | Jason Heinrich |
| Always We Begin Again | Nic Cohen |
| American Alligator | James King & Chris Webster |
| And The Other Half Lives | Skye Braband |
| Averted Vision "Pilot: Inciting Incident" | Jimmy Frohman |
| B.A.T.S. | Mary Farmer |
| Baby, Let's Stay | Maddison Bolesworth |
| Barbaric | Jason Cho |
| Be Prepared | Gregory Noel |
| Beast of Virginia | Matthew Corley |
| Berserk | Ryan Macdonald |
| Blight | Derek Steiner |
| Blood Revival | Doug Knox |
| Boil Your Blood | Sam Kench |
| Bonebreaker | Nathan Floody |
| Break In | Sam Roseme & Justin Gallaher |
| Bugimann | Bryan Kish |
| Bullfrog | Eric Jordan Baker |
| Call | Corey Stanton |
| Carnival | Connor McKnight |
| Carnivorous | Pascal Leister |
| Cave | Rob Groenwold |
| Cheating, Dating, & Online Hexing | Nathan Solar |
| Cinema 4 | Garcia Sisters |
| Clot | JT O'Neal |
| Coalescence | Jacob Harpel |
| Collected Works | Timothy Fasano |
| Come in | Vitor Kappel |
| Conquist | Dirk Strasser |
| Corona | Anne Marie |
| Creature | John Killoran |
| Dark Roots | Mark Keavney |
| Dark Tourists | Dan Williams |
| Dead Packet | Simon Yin |
| Deadman's Land | Barry Duffield |
| Dear Sleep | Jessy Yang & Jakob Medina |
| Death Puzzle Vol. 1 | Jon Cvack |
| Death's Brother | Julian Martin |
| Death's Game | Anthony Piersanti |
| Demon | Scott & Sarah Naar |
| Derivation | Sara Vitale & Ellen Pillsbury |
| Devil's Fork | Jordan Galland |
| Don't Bury Me in South Carolina | Kyle Ryan |
| Don't Know | Chad Jones |
| Don't Look Under The Tree - Episode 1: "Roofie Roulette" | Adam Beshara & Ashley Curtis |
| Donna & Seven Dead Chicks | Amanda Torigiani |
| Edie | Paul Catalanotto |
| Ellie's Tale | Rhonda R Deskins |
| Enter The Devil | Ricardo Master |
| Eyecatcher | Jun Shimizu |
| Facade | Jason Jenkins |
| Face On | Justin Best |
| Family Forever | Gbolahan Akitunde |
| Fangs | Malcolm Badewitz |
| Fester | Robbie Lemieux |
| Field of Blood | Ron Maede |
| Final Final Girls | Ben DeLoose & Matthew Chilelli |
| Flint | Michael Sloyka |
| Flint Hill | Elizabeth Yanders |
| Fog of War | Steven Lundgren |
| Fractured | Wes Eastin |
| Freeze-Dried Alien Monsters | Malcolm McClintick |
| Frisky | Eliza Janssen |
| Fuck Sleep | Jason Goldberg |
| Ghost Hunt | Chris Oneill |
| Ghost Signs | Jace Daniel |
| Glimpse | Richard Martin & Josh Calvert |
| Greylock | Ryan Bliss |
| Grieving Vultures | John Taylor |
| Guardian | Jess Gupta |
| Guerrero | Juan Bernardo Minerva |
| Hacked | Dylan Dockery |
| Hammerhead | Ryan Rigley |
| Haunting at 1600 | Asabi Lee |
| Havenwood | Jai Brandon |
| Heathens | Josh Kaukl |
| Heinous | Schuyler Brumley, John-Paul Panelli & Eva Gustavson |
| Hell Is An Open Door | Jim Lopezzo |
| Hell Knight | Chris Bolton |
| Hello My Name is Andrew | Ryan Clark |
| HEXÄGRAM | Shannon Wells |
| Horrorgate | Timothy O'Leary |
| House of Masks | Don Roff |
| How I Became a Vengeful, Psycho Killer | Laura Becker |
| I Bring The Sword | Thomas Yungerberg |
| In Country | Scott Peterman & Cat Davis |
| Insection | Mark Keavney |
| Intended | Joe Vallese |
| Into the Reprise | Matt Perez |
| Intruder | Maria Wilson |
| Invasive Creatures | Joel H. Brewster |
| Iron Lake | Grant Swanson |
| Jackie Conan: A Werewolf Story | Alan Loubeau & Mike Meyerson |
| Jawbreaker | Ruth Tang |
| Jubilee | Richard Kunzmann & Jerome Pikwane |
| La Ultima Deuda (The Last Debt) | James Longmire |
| Laneway | Austin Windau |
| Lemon | Christopher Rucinski & Kurt Leitner |
| Lend Me Your Ear: 'Papas' | Victoria De La Torre & Christian Contreras |
| Lilin | Robin Oree |
| Limp | Benjamin Baraad |
| Listen To Mother | Jamie Gyngell |
| Locked | Andrew Creme & Jeff Verge |
| Longwall | SJ Davis |
| Lucy's Diner | Jennifer Ball |
| Lullaby | Alex Abbandonato |
| Mammon | Tyler Smith & Issac Walsh |
| Marked | Catherine Bonny |
| Marrowbone | Rich Ragsdale |
| Maul Santa | Molly Fitzpatrick |
| Meat | Gavin Bradley & Andrew Allen |
| Molepeople | Nathan Elston & Nicholas Pratt |
| Mr. Graves | Alex Cope & Will Zech |
| Mysterious Finn | Anthony Filangeri |
| Necessary Death | Jeff Mitchell |
| Never Trust A.... | Rhyssa-Kathryn Marie |
| No Man's Land | Preston Ray |
| North Pole | Justin Farmer |
| Ocean Effect | Heather Farlinger |
| Okeus | George Bicknell & Randall Cropp |
| Panacea | Carter Friend & Cal Moreno |
| Paper | Jason Rice |
| Paragone | Travis Neufeld |
| Pile | Morgan von Ancken |
| Ping Pong | Alex Drummond |
| Pioneer | Nicholas Woods |
| Pit-Stop | Ben Eden |
| Possessions | Katherine Botts |
| Post-Mortem Family | Raymond Woods |
| President Frankenstein | Robert Binney |
| Prisoners of a Dark Night | Timothy Bryan |
| Project Terrace | Tony Merkurii & Jade Widger |
| Project VR | Jennifer Concepcion |
| Provocation | Brett Stanning & Michael Kitson |
| Púca | Luke Wilson Hanley & Michael Hooley |
| R U Alone? | Anthony Filangeri |
| Rage | Don Roff |
| Rangda | Jon James Smith |
| Raven Mocker | Dylan Barnett |
| Red Valley High | Kieren Hutchison & Nicole Tubiola |
| Renner | Martin Medina |
| Residual | John Licata |
| Reunion | Devin Shepherd & Nora Unkel |
| Ring Bell For Death | Ash Lazer, Glenn Ghirardi, Thomas Ascenzi & Lisa Marie Tedesco |
| Rome, Georgia | Daniel Talbott |
| Rot | Grant Hirsch |
| Rough Cut | Justin Van Voorhis |
| Screener | Kerry Dye |
| Sexy Teen Squad: Undercover Monster Hunters | Jon Bershad |
| Shade Hawk | Simon Reynolds |
| Shadow People | Danny Baram |
| Shaman | Blake Middleton |
| Simple Beast | Erik Odom |
| Sissy | Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes |
| Skeleton Crew | Jeffrey Elefterion |
| Skin Deep | Cierra Lockett |
| Slip | Luke Cooper-Martin |
| Sought After | Mark Jackson |
| Spawn of Kaitlin | Aaron McCann |
| Spectator | Peter Hohman |
| Spirits | Frank Romano |
| Sterling Adrift | Ryan Rickett & Sonia Rickett |
| Stop the Line | Peter Horgan |
| Suburbaknight | Adam Johnson |
| Suffering, Be Beautiful | Tim Lynch |
| Sundown | Wilbert Stanton |
| Swine Heart | Theresa Carey & Bruce Carey |
| Tartan Army | Neil McLarty |
| Tent City | David Snee |
| The Anxiety a Horse Feels | Michael Mazzanti |
| The Blight | Jerron Spencer & Jeffrey Stackhouse |
| The Body Farm | Mike Gerbino |
| The Bunker | Sean Parker |
| The Butter Street Hitchhiker | Chris Hicks |
| The Can Opener | Jeffrey Archuleta |
| The Canary in the Coal Mine | Austin Rourke |
| The Curator | Danny Matier |
| The Dark Passanger | Jeremy Kirk |
| The Darkest Part of the Woods | Alex Criqui |
| The Descending | Patricia Harris Seeley & Peter Symons |
| The Desert - Screenplay | Ben Bigelow |
| The Domestic | Brad Katzen |
| The Fallow | Pavel Tabutov-Wine |
| The Family Line | Brandon Stark |
| The Gem Laddie | Ryan Crisp |
| The Guardian | Boise Esquerra |
| The Halloween Club | Gerardo Maravilla |
| The Haunting on Lovely Street | Jonathan Westbrook |
| The Hellmet | John Taylor & Mitch Ross |
| The Home | Aaron Campos |
| The Hunter | Grant Swanson |
| The Imperfects | Gregory Wolk & Ruben Estremera |
| The Killer Awoke Before Dawn | R Mitchell Miller |
| The Lamplighters | Frazer Lee |
| The Lost Son | Cole Burgett |
| The Maulers | Adam Dick |
| THE MIRE | Alexander Foyle |
| The Mold | Jon Comulada |
| The Monsters Are Here | Zach Roe |
| The Nameless | Michael Wormald |
| The Painter | Patrick Westwater |
| The Red Death | Kayla Zinger |
| The Restless | Michael Hooley & Luke Wilson Hanley |
| The Scourge | Jeremiah Lewis |
| The Severing | Ash Lazer |
| The Skinned Woman | Chris Brewer & Logan Gion |
| The Slasher | Eric Roth |
| The Sleepover | Dayna Noffke |
| The Sound Side | Alex Blumberg & Mitchell Waranch |
| The Switch House | Tim Meyer |
| The Thing Itself | Olivia Curry |
| The Trail (Miikana) | Jonathan Dittman & Zach Zorba |
| The Uncanny | Helen Maury Driftmier & Chris A. Bolton |
| The Witch Elm | William Gillies |
| The Worm and the Butterfly | Vicki Speegle & William D. Prystauk |
| These Holes, Shredding Through My Brain | Martin Wathen |
| They Live on Skid Row | Daniel Hanna |
| Thin Blue Veins | Josh Evans |
| Thin Places | Braden Croft & Travis Shewchuk |
| Thorns | Ian Eadon-Davies |
| Throwback | Rachel Woolley |
| Toxic | Phil Claydon & Hannah Brown |
| Transfiguration | Glenn Forbes |
| Ubume | India Wilson |
| Vulture | Tyler Christensen |
| Waffle House Index | Gabriel Rosenstein |
| Wall of Sleep | Stephanie Stanley |
| War on Christmas | Alex Drummond |
| Wardens | Christopher Sweet |
| Weightless & Immense | Bernie Rutkay |
| Wendigo | David Zuckerman |
| What to Expect When You're Expecting Werewolves | Matthew Scheffler |
| Where He Buried Me | Joe Bousquin |
| Where Shadows Lie | Charles McLravy |
| Witches Bitches | Colton David Coate |
| Wrestling Demons | Zeke Pinheiro |
| Writing Dracula | Thomas Morris |
| Your Donation is Greatly Appreciated | James Yantko |
| Zombies in Aisle Ten | Zenas Cao |
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