2022 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 5, 2022
Listed below are the Semifinalists 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!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on February 2nd here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Semifinalists:
| 100% Happy | Jerome Velinsky |
| A Safe Place For Shelter | George Wilson |
| A Sojourn Most Savage | Bryan Yentz |
| Absolution | Carmen Mosley |
| Angel of Skid Row | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Aphrodisiac | David Chang |
| ARMADILLO | Rachel Cylie Gross, Stanley Swindling |
| ARMITAGE | Rune Ness |
| Arterial | Tim Leibbrandt |
| B damned | Enric Folch |
| Barasat | Mrinalini Basu |
| Bearskull | David Williams |
| Better Watch Out | John Barr |
| binding [working title] | Kylie Hogrefe |
| Blackfriar | Chris Bolton |
| Blood Vessels | Kurt Doerr |
| Breeder | Alex Goyette |
| BURIAL | Brooke deRosa |
| Call | Corey Stanton |
| Cryptid | Brandon Weavil |
| Devour | Robbie Lemieux |
| Disciples | Alex Eldridge |
| Dread Tide | Ryan Berry |
| Dukkha | Ben Caro |
| Earworm | Daniel LoBrace |
| Faithful | Dennis Luu |
| FLESH AND BLOOD | Garrett Schabb |
| Free Spirits | Katharine Densmore |
| Ghosted | Amanda Verwey |
| Grummy | R.H. Norman, Micheline Pitt |
| Home Is Where The Dark Is | Michael St.Germain |
| Homicide Hillz | Seti Jakada |
| HOUSE DIVIDED | Jamie Bircoll |
| I WILL FOLLOW HIM | Jamey Mills |
| In Shadowland | Benjamin Farry |
| It Clings To Her | Ariel Sinelnikoff |
| Lake X | Evan Jones |
| Lifeline | Matt Wanicur |
| Lisa | Elise Forier Edie |
| Lonesome Town | Megan Hermann |
| Lovecraft in Brooklyn | Dov Torbin |
| Mockingbird Hill | Jodie Bullock |
| Monnji | Maria Wilson |
| Muck-up Day | Jessica Liley |
| Nap Time | Jonathan Dittman, Zachary Grashin |
| Offspring | Hannah Silverman |
| PLAY ME | Katie French, Celine Tricart |
| Possum man | Jared Faircloth |
| Primeval | Drew Hellmich |
| Retreat | Julie Sharbutt |
| Ring Bell For Death | Ash Lazer, Glenn Ghirardi, Thomas Ascenzi, Lisa Marie Tedesco |
| Ruggers | Ned O'Connor |
| Sacrilege | Stephen Czerwinski |
| SÉANCE | Vivian Kerr |
| Shackled | Michael Boaks |
| Shango | Martyn Eaden, David McClellan |
| Silent Shadow | Edward Somers |
| Silk | Nick Tassoni |
| SKINWALKER | Robb Payne, Taylor Gload |
| The Bone Woman | Rachel Coomes |
| The Decay | Adam Davis |
| THE DRAGON OF HANDALE | Lisa Kors |
| The Endling | Devin Fearn |
| The Lower Levels | Emma Hicklin |
| The Museum | Michael Milito |
| The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark | Warren Wagner |
| The Paisley Witch Trial - Pilot | Julia Campanelli |
| The Rats in the Walls | Annarosa Schiavone, Luca Violante |
| The Red | Min Tran |
| The Shee | Evan Muehlbauer |
| The Wolf Woman | Cody Joslin |
| The Woods | Trey Everett |
| Too Many Wades | Stirling McLaughlin, Wilder Konschak |
| TOXIC | Phil Claydon, Hannah Brown |
| Uncanny Valley | Eric Raye |
| Under The Moon | Ari Silver |
| VORACIOUS | David Draper |
| Waffle House Index | Gabriel Rosenstein |
| WALL OF SLEEP | Stephanie Stanley |
| Welcome to Wetiko | Robin James Habil |
| What Daphne Saw | Lizz Marshall |
| WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING WEREWOLVES | Matthew Scheffler |
| You Better Run | Gareth Wronski |
| You Should Have Read My Screenplay | Allie Jennings |
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