2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on December 14, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. These exceptional projects 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 Semifinalist announcement on January 25th 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 Quarterfinalists:
| 'Til it Consumes You | Lewis H. Mackie |
| "Stick" | Vigeland Rubin |
| "The Windemere" | Susie Moloney |
| (When You're Ready To Go) | Amy B Tiong |
| 12:43 | Steven Snell |
| A Crabberman | Samuel Hutchison |
| A Few Millimeters of Bone | Brittany Menjivar |
| A Grave Unstill | Philippe D'Imperio |
| A Hallmark Horror | Mike Langer |
| A Largely Silent World | Nick Williams, Marty Abbe-Schneider |
| A Perfect Neighborhood | Jenessa Rivera |
| A Slaying Song Tonight | Ron Brawer, Shakir Farsakh |
| A Worm Will Turn | Tara James |
| A8450, M.D. | Shia Labeouf |
| About McKenna | Michael Morra |
| Agua de tu Madre | Naiyah Ambros |
| AirB-n-Blood (feature) | Aaron Barrocas |
| Alcohol & Drug Abuse Lake | Andrew Ford, Anthony Fabiano |
| Alexandria | Diego Sacramento |
| ALIVE: A Frankenstein Reimagining | Aimee Dansereau |
| All My Friends Are Freaks | John Marrows |
| Along The Gilded Gateway | Zora Kovac |
| Altars of Greed | Brennan Howard |
| American Diablo | Juan Castaneda |
| American Girl | Andrea Riba |
| American Monsters | Noah Jorgensen, Nolan Watt |
| Anastasis | Simon Doyle |
| Angel of Skid Row (Pilot) | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Anti-Social | Brendan Byrne |
| Anywhere South | Alec Peters |
| As Long As Grass Grows | Matt Perez |
| At the Crossroads | Mike Robida |
| AUGMENTAL | Lawrence Pearce |
| Bad Blood | David Vieux |
| Bad Fairy | Steve Holbert |
| Be My Baby | Leslie Alejandro |
| Be Still My Child | Kevin Wong |
| BEAST MODE | David Case |
| BEEF CREEK (Pilot) | Seby X Martinez |
| Beneath the Ground | Leanne Prentice |
| Beneath The Okanagan | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Between the Cracks | Tymaine Clay |
| BEYOND SIGHT | Scott Hipp, Zoe Broad |
| Beyond The Rift | Peter Rivera, Justise Ortiz |
| Binary Protocol | JR Nelson |
| Biter | Jennifer Trudrung |
| BITTER BLOOD | Thomas Park |
| Black Mass | Ryan King |
| Black Rock | Erik Odom |
| Bleeding Hearts Island | Brittany Ashley, Jen Jackson |
| BLOOD WATER | Alex Spresser |
| Bloody Burlesque | Jill Morley |
| Blow Fly | Patrick Taylor |
| Boleskin | Alex Purves |
| Box of Glass | Kevin J. Howard |
| Breed | Morgan Smith |
| Bullfrog | Eric Jordan Baker |
| Burden | Dana Cropley |
| Bygone Days | Derick Allen |
| C.S.W.B. | J Bailey Burcham |
| Calumet City | Charlie Newton |
| Camp | Devon Villacampa |
| Camp Crystal Lake | Crystal Ro |
| Camp Psychopathways | Danny Galvin, Brad Pike |
| Castle of Night | Michael Haas |
| Chamber Music | Matthew Higgins |
| Changeling | Sara Bresciani |
| Channel Fever | Caleb Seibert |
| Chateau Sauvignon | David M. Night Maire, Adam T. Wolfe |
| Chimera | Andrew Kaberline |
| CHiMERA | Sam Smith |
| Cindy Slaughter | Sheldon Gleisser |
| Cinemadness | Jacob Davison, Connor Tracy |
| Close Before Midnight | Alex Goyette |
| Close Your Eyes | Bobby Gorman |
| COFFIN SHIP | Jon Coutts |
| Confessions of Patty Cannon | Barry Bramble |
| Consumed | Emily Robinson |
| Contained | Elizabeth Summers |
| Conversion | Tom Connolly |
| Coyote Christmas | Thomas Wortham |
| CROW HOUSE | Ellen Ireland |
| Cumberland Furnace | Mike Hurst |
| Cursed by Day, Cursed by Night | Caracalla Julii |
| Damnation | Joshua Tywater |
| Dark Blossom | Vincent Stoia |
| Dark City | Simon Bowler Khan |
| Dark Destinies | Warren Lane |
| DARK SMOKE (The Edge of Darkness) | Amy Blackwelder |
| Darkling | Shuonan Lin |
| DARKLING | David Meister |
| DASHED | Jessica McLaughlin |
| Day-Crossers | Geoffrey Yebra-Glenn |
| Dea Ex Machina | Jed Woods |
| Dead Mall | Andrew Carden |
| Dead Time | Christopher Moreman |
| Dead West | James Mazzullo |
| Deadass Death House | Jake Disch, Nick Gligor |
| DeadMe | Asabi Lee, paul Hart-Wilden |
| Death Doula | Pamela Wallace |
| Death Drive | Rob Aquino |
| Death Sentence | Ben Weiss |
| Decomposer | Mason McDonald |
| Deep Sleep | Jacqueline Alberto |
| Deer in the Wood | Beck Kitsis, Chris McNabb |
| Delta Damned | Kathryn Elise Drexler |
| Demoniac | Rob Harmon |
| DesDEMONa | Paul Fenn |
| Devil's Bend | Brian Padian |
| Diegesis | Benjamin Owens |
| DONORS | Ed Antoja |
| Doomscrollers | Danny Baram |
| Down in the Holler | Paul Rowe |
| DRACULA BEGINS | Jack Polo |
| DRAUGAR | Joshua Tywater |
| Dream Home | Justin Dec |
| El Coco | Blake Robbins, Paul Barrett, Steve Murphy, Daniel Albino |
| Emerald Lagoon | Joseph Murillo |
| Everybody Dies | Jose Enderica |
| Exit Zero | New Jersey Screenwriters Group |
| False Morel | Rebecca Thompson |
| Fantasma | Taylor Tejada |
| Faux | Graham Nelson |
| Fear Box | Michael Morra |
| Fear The Hollers | Brett Elam |
| Feed | Kyle Ferris |
| Feedback | Ami Lum, Erin Carter |
| Field Trip | Claudio Martinez-Valle |
| Final Girl: Attorney At Law | Michael Leonetti |
| Five Stars | Marlene Guerin |
| Fourteen Days | Lynn Esta Goldman |
| Foxes | Hollis Sherman-Pepe |
| FURNACE TOWN | Brenna Kelly |
| Genus | Cassandra Francis |
| GLIMPSE | Richard Martin, Josh Calvert |
| Good Grief | James Romero |
| grassroots | Ryan Lee |
| HACK/SLASH Episode 101: The Strange Story of Cassie Hack | Anthony Esteves |
| Half-Hanged Mary | Amanda Paige Young |
| Hallsville Line | Martha DeLaney |
| He Had His Father's Eyes | Bryan Liberty |
| He's a Vampire, But At Least He's Jewish | Rakefet Abergel, Jeremy Padow |
| Headers | Christopher Kelly |
| Hello There... | Kyle McFadden |
| Her Nightmare | London Trammell |
| Her Vanity | BT Montrym |
| Here | Stephen Laughton |
| Hey There, DJ | Ed McCarthy |
| Highway of Tears | Philip Elliott |
| HOLD YOUR BREATH | Kate Duncan |
| Holmes | Hannah Godshall |
| Homesick, Home | Minh Anh Vo Dinh |
| Homicide Hillz | Seti Jakada |
| House On Fire | Jeff Edwards |
| HULDRA | Lucy Foster |
| Hungry | Patrick Pfupajena |
| Husker | Marc Johnson |
| HYPED | Reynaldo Leal |
| HYPER_LUCID | David Meister |
| I Remember | Shanelle Joseph |
| I'd Like You To Meet Jennifer | Matthew Madill |
| In Here With Us | Mac Grant |
| In Menstrual Frames | T.B. Johnson |
| In the Company of Wolves | Luci Scolari |
| Indigent | Briana Cox |
| Insatiable | Brian Koukol |
| Inside Me | Darien Harte |
| Into The Ether | Steve Brown, Robert Rogers |
| Intrusion | Matthew Corry |
| It Eats | Daniel Sacketos |
| Jefferson Park | Marco Amato |
| Jocelyn | Tsubasa Maruno |
| Jodie | Caio Alves |
| Juniper's Embryo | Stephanie Noel |
| Just Be Scary | STAN EVANS |
| KILLER | Michael Stephenson |
| Killer Vegans | Soni Benson, Jamie Benson, Dirk Rogers |
| La Befana | Annika Dawson, Brando Benetton |
| Lend Me Your Ear: 'Papas' | Victoria De La Torre, Christian Contreras |
| Lend Me Your Eyes | Maria Pustinger |
| Lenny Rising | Sidney Kreitzer |
| Leonard | Darrell McGregor |
| Lesson 1 | Dan Southard |
| LET GO | Randall Whitlow |
| Lights Out | Beatty Smith |
| LIMBO | Paul Jarnagin |
| Little Birds | Tracey Hague |
| Little Blessing | Alex Chew |
| Little Pigs | collin watts |
| Living Dead Girl | Pierre Kakos |
| Lucky Penny | Marc Rosenzweig |
| Lunatics and Assholes: Pilot - Shit Happens | Robert McAllister |
| Magdalena - TV Series | Maria Deanna Laquian |
| Malvado | Antonio Tyger Olivas |
| Management | John Hornor Jacobs, Jason Murphy |
| Martyrdom | Alessandro Guarino |
| MASKED | Adam Lapish |
| Masks | Yonatan Hirshberg, Sophia Lopez |
| Maslow | Jack Cherry |
| Metamorphosis | Drew Clanton |
| Migrant Spirits | Mickey Martinez |
| Mimi | Caroline Ryder |
| Mine | Ashley Tropea |
| MONGRELS | Liam Fitzpatrick |
| Monster's Aren't Real | Connor Thomas |
| Moonlight Mansion | Chaya Supannarat |
| Moonrise | Rebekah Mueller |
| Morbidly | Don Stroud |
| Murderabilia | Neil Krolicki |
| Nana | Julio Garcia Escames, Gerald B Fillmore |
| Natasha | David Gluck |
| Native | Christopher Maloney |
| NATURAL SELECTION | chris cruz |
| Naualli | Adrian gonzalez De la Peña |
| Nazi Redneck Bastards | Evan Jones |
| Nest | Sara Mullins |
| Netsuke | Michael Reynolds |
| Nightmare Man | Daniel Spear |
| No One Leaves Alive | Jeff Kallet |
| Not Like Other Girls | Rebecca Moret, Jasper Garner Gore, Lachlan Marks |
| Not Mom's House | Dylan James Amick |
| Nothing Ever Dies | Kevin Tran |
| OBSCURED | Edward James Anderson |
| ONE OF US | Jack Snyder |
| Orchid's Dawn | collin watts, Eric Jeske |
| Our Friend Huxley | Gregory Noël |
| Our Lady of Justice | David Daniels |
| Our Maker | Sky Tallone |
| Ours | Derek Boeckelmann |
| OUTSIDE THE BOX | Jace Serrano |
| Padre Inferno | Scott Winfield Sublett |
| PERENNIAL | Julius Olofsson |
| Phantom Walls | Josh Michaels |
| Pinky Promise | Michael Galat |
| Plantation Paradise | Jamie Napoli, Joshua Johnson |
| PLAY WITH ME | Nathan Crooker |
| PLUTONIC | Era Ming |
| Powers of Darkness | Jonas Kyratzes |
| Primal Urge | Richard Kodai |
| Project 13 | Joey McIntyre |
| PROVOKATION | Brett Stanning |
| Psychopathy | Tanya Klein |
| Purgatory | Guy Noland |
| Queen of Martyrs | Brian Laughran |
| R U Alone? | Anthony Filangeri |
| Rabbit Hole | Tony Hipwell |
| RAGER | Jeff Vanderkruik |
| Rathbone | collin watts |
| RAVEN WINTERS AND THE SPIRIT VORTEX | Heather Ostrove |
| Raze the Dead | Anthony Mormile |
| Real Love | john graney |
| Recurring | Christian Green |
| Red Line to Room One | Daniel Dismuke |
| Red River | Unnamed |
| Regression | Tim Gill |
| Rejuvenation | Rudi O'Meara |
| Reptilian | Michael Basha |
| Reset | Michael Haas |
| Roadkill | Jeff Lathery |
| Room 733 | Brianna Gardner, Mike Gerbino |
| Rotten Altar | Jack Elliott |
| Rune | Wes Hopper |
| S I M I A N | Avery Looser |
| S1TT3R | Ryan Austin |
| Sacred + Profane | Paul Wood, Russ Eisenman |
| SACRED SUN | Michael Louis Gould |
| Safi, and The God of Death | Ashri Gyorgi |
| SATI | David Boito |
| Savage Valley | Andrew Warren |
| Scan for More Info | Sarah Northam |
| Scar Tissue | Graydon (Troy) Tradup |
| Scion | Paul Sheridan |
| Scorn | Nadeem Siddiqui |
| Searchers | Isaac Ruth |
| Secondhand Pawn | Steve Holbert |
| Shadow Western - Pilot Episode: Riding a Pale Horse | Travis Stevens |
| SHADOWS | Christine Autrand Mitchell |
| She's Got Demons | Ervin Anderson |
| Shelley | Sean Price |
| SHIFTERS | Alexander Messana, Adam Messana |
| SILAS | Mark Patrick |
| Simon Says | Nyle Odom |
| Sin-Eater | Joseph Vranas |
| Sisters of Saint Cecilia | Talie Melnyk |
| SKIN | Urvashi Pathania |
| Skin Deep | Ian Hawkes |
| Slay | Steve Holbert |
| Slaycation | Ryan Luevano |
| Snakes On A Ten Car Train | Stephen Krespel |
| SOLICE | George Basiev |
| Soma Romance | Nicholas Armolavicius |
| Songs My Mother Taught Me | Sean McEwan |
| Spa | Benjamin Famiglietti |
| Speak of the Devil | James LeJeune |
| Specter | Patrick Allan Laffoon |
| St. Gorgeous | Marcienne Friesland |
| Stages | Dashiell Finley |
| Strange Flesh | Devin Fearn |
| SUNDOWN | Alan C. Beard |
| Super Creeps | Chris Haifley |
| Tartan | Erin Wilcox |
| Teddy | Jonathan Siebel |
| Tera Toma | Rachel Crowe |
| Terror From Nowhere | Richard McEwen |
| The 4th Temptation | Christopher Guzzo |
| The Amends | Amanda Cole |
| The Angel | Michael Leung |
| The Animus | Mandy Foster, Ryan Patch |
| The Black Paintings | Luke Wilson Hanley, Michael Hooley |
| The Black Tulip Society | Gerardo Maravilla |
| The Blacksmith | Alan Petherick |
| The Body Farm | Mike Gerbino |
| The Bornless | Timothy Stevens |
| The Bushwick Psycho | Brian DiLorenzo |
| The Cat | Donna Nakasone |
| THE COMMUNITY | Brenna Kelly |
| The Curse | Shaan Lodhie |
| The Curse of Zozobra | Adam Davis |
| The Daguerreotypist | Camaray Davalos |
| The Deadman Case | Asabi Lee, paul Hart-Wilden |
| The Decay | Adam Davis |
| The Devil Will Hang | Andrew Fuhr |
| The Esoteric Library | Christian Maxwell |
| The Eyes | Nick Duke |
| The Fairy King | Steven Snell |
| The Fear Trigger | TR Guest |
| The Feral Colony | Chad Duerksen |
| The Final Final Girl | Stuart Evans |
| The First Exorcism | Mark Martinez |
| The First Girl | David Hadley |
| The Flipping of House Cannibal | Phillip Rogers |
| The foster parent | Aaron Sciortino |
| THE FOX SISTERS "Mr. Splitfoot" | Melissa Sweazy |
| The Ghost Machine | mark morris, Jeff Whitehead |
| The Girl, Maura Bund | Ally May |
| The Good Man | Justin Flagel |
| The Good One | Michael Haas |
| THE GRIM REAPER | Juhani Nurmi, Päivi Remes |
| The Grove | SHANNON BARNES |
| The Happy Hearth | Jonathan Lee |
| The Harlequin | Jay Sherer, Nathan Scheck |
| The Hatter | Michael Haas |
| The Hex | Rowan Joseph, Derek Heeren |
| The Higher the Hair | Macy Armstrong |
| The Hole in the Woods | Rachel Greenhoe |
| The horned God | Alessandro Guarino |
| The House Cat | David Robinson |
| The House of Saints | Sandy Nicholson |
| The Invisible Time | Jennifer Trudrung |
| The King of Chasms | Darren Oakland |
| The Last Cycle | Matt Carlin |
| The Leatherface Lady | Tonia Kempler, Bulent Gurcan |
| The Lost Cause | Owen Hornstein |
| The Lynching of Justitia Nigreos | malcolm johnson |
| The Maw | Sean Plemmons, Jeff Hassen |
| The Nest | Zachary Wolff |
| THE NIGHT STAFF | Andrew Ionides |
| The Night Whisper | John Dover |
| The Passage | Matt Horsman |
| The Passion Protocol | Liam Hooper, Vicky Wheeler, Joel Handler |
| The Pharmacist | Samsun Knight |
| The Pooka | Ajai Tripathi |
| The Ratcatcher of Deptford | Patrick Mahon |
| The Rats in the Walls | Annarosa Schiavone, Luca Violante |
| The Razor | Charlie Pingel |
| THE RECOVERY | Emma Miller |
| THE RED ROOM | Piero Iberti |
| The Redeemer | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The Righteous Dead | Ron Bishop |
| The Shimmers | Brendan Vogel, Ruth Sabin |
| THE SITTER | Jason Fraley |
| The Sluagh | Alexandra Hensley |
| The Stacks | Edward Cound |
| The Suicide Pond | Daniel Noy |
| The Summons | Mike Robinson |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| The Vessel | Phoebe Danaher |
| The Way Out Is Through | Laszlo Tamasfi |
| THE WENDIGO | Sean Wathen, Eric Wehr |
| The White Guy Dies First | Nicholas Pangilinan |
| THE WITCHES' CRADLE | Tammy Klembith |
| There Are No Children | Drew Hellmich |
| THEY CAME BEFORE US | Shakthi Jothianandan |
| They Rise | Mike Cilano |
| TIGER PARK | Raymond S. Humann |
| Timberwolf : Hubristic Howlings Of A Loser Lunatic (A Midwestern Fable Of Terror) | Damien Marks |
| Toad Apocalypse | Michael Muniz |
| Torment | Oren Shai, David Meyer |
| Touch | Jeffrey Elefterion |
| Touched | Jodie Bullock |
| TOW TRUCK | Jud Cremata |
| Transfigured | CJ McIlroy |
| Trash Monsters | Juan Gil |
| Unauthorized User | Neil Stevens |
| Under The Moon | Ari Silver |
| Under the Sea | Nathan Cowan |
| Unstuck | Thomas Yungerberg |
| Until Death... | Kevin Sluder |
| Vampires of New York | April Creavin |
| VERSUS! | Kevin Tavolaro |
| Vessels | Rene Le Bas |
| Vibrant | Toni Cunningham |
| Visceral | Damir Catic, Amir Jafari, David Welling |
| Waffle | Kerry Barker, Katie Marovitch |
| Watch Shane Try Not To Die | Hunter M. Altman |
| We Come From the Dark | Brien Kelly |
| WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF | Cathriona Slammon |
| WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING WEREWOLVES | Matthew Scheffler |
| Where Dragons Lie | Ian Wee |
| whisper | Sean Mick |
| Whistle and I'll Come to You | Gus Reed |
| White-Out | Tim Grady |
| Wide Open | Michael Bezushko |
| Widow | Robert Baird |
| Wintergreen | Lyndal Simpson |
| Witchblood | Richard Hohenrath |
| WONDER VALLEY | Erin Deason |
| yellow | Mac Hendrickson, Patrick Hendrickson |
| Yellow Monsters | Francesca Lin |
| You Never Know | Abra Moore, Bianca Malinowski, Savanna Parra |
| You, Me, & Evil | Steve Holbert |
| Yule Cats | Lizzie Goodman |
| zTv | James Malone |
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