2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Finalists

Listed below are the Finalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. These exceptional Horror projects were selected from almost 1,700 submissions. Congratulations to these writers!
We are excited to share these amazing projects with our esteemed jury that includes: Mike Flanagan (Writer, Director, Showrunner THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, MIDNIGHT MASS), Valarie Phillips (Agent, A3 Artists), Sandino Moya-Smith (VP of Development, MGM), Guy Busick (Screenwriter, SCREAM 5, READY OR NOT), Antonio D'Intino (Manager, Circle of Confusion), and Dan Kavanaugh (TV Executive, Vertigo Entertainment).
Stay tuned for the Winner announcement on March 1st on our blog 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 Finalists:
A Grave Unstill | Philippe D'Imperio |
A Hallmark Horror | Mike Langer |
Agua de tu Madre | Naiyah Ambros |
Bad Blood | David Vieux |
DeadMe | Asabi Lee, paul Hart-Wilden |
Decomposer | Mason McDonald |
Deep Sleep | Jacqueline Alberto |
Deer in the Wood | Beck Kitsis, Chris McNabb |
Fear Box | Michael Morra |
Our Friend Huxley | Gregory Noël |
Phantom Walls | Josh Michaels |
Real Love | john graney |
Rejuvenation | Rudi O'Meara |
SHIFTERS | Alexander Messana, Adam Messana |
Skin Deep | Ian Hawkes |
Strange Flesh | Devin Fearn |
The Animus | Mandy Foster, Ryan Patch |
The First Girl | David Hadley |
The Hole in the Woods | Rachel Greenhoe |
The House of Saints | Sandy Nicholson |
Trash Monsters | Juan Gil |
Under The Moon | Ari Silver |
Vampires of New York | April Creavin |
WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF | Cathriona Slammon |
WONDER VALLEY | Erin Deason |
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