2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on January 25, 2023

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far!

Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on February 15th 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 Semifinalists:

*'Til it Consumes You*	Lewis H. Mackie
*A Grave Unstill*	Philippe D'Imperio
*A Hallmark Horror*	Mike Langer
*A Worm Will Turn*	Tara James
*Agua de tu Madre*	Naiyah Ambros
*Along The Gilded Gateway*	Zora Kovac
*American Girl*	Andrea Riba
*Anastasis*	Simon Doyle
*Bad Blood*	David Vieux
*Be Still My Child*	Kevin Wong
*BEAST MODE*	David Case
*Biter*	Jennifer Trudrung
*BITTER BLOOD*	Thomas Park
*Blow Fly*	Patrick Taylor
*Box of Glass*	Kevin J. Howard
*Bullfrog*	Eric Jordan Baker
*C.S.W.B.*	J Bailey Burcham
*Channel Fever*	Caleb Seibert
*Coyote Christmas*	Thomas Wortham
*Dark Blossom*	Vincent Stoia
*Deadass Death House*	Jake Disch, Nick Gligor
*DeadMe*	Asabi Lee, paul Hart-Wilden
*Death Drive*	Rob Aquino
*Decomposer*	Mason McDonald
*Deep Sleep*	Jacqueline Alberto
*Deer in the Wood*	Beck Kitsis, Chris McNabb
*DONORS*	Ed Antoja
*Everybody Dies*	Jose Enderica
*Exit Zero*	New Jersey Screenwriters Group, Kurt Fried
*Fear Box*	Michael Morra
*Feed*	Kyle Ferris
*Headers*	Christopher Kelly
*Hey There, DJ*	Ed McCarthy
*Indigent*	Briana Cox
*Inside Me*	Darien Harte
*Into The Ether*	Steve Brown, Robert Rogers
*Lend Me Your Eyes*	Maria Pustinger
*Lesson 1*	Dan Southard
*Little Blessing*	Alex Chew
*Management*	John Hornor Jacobs, Jason Murphy
*Nothing Ever Dies*	Kevin Tran
*Our Friend Huxley*	Gregory Noël
*Phantom Walls*	Josh Michaels
*PLUTONIC*	Era Ming
*Purgatory*	Guy Noland
*R U Alone?*	Anthony Filangeri
*Raze the Dead*	Anthony Mormile
*Real Love*	john graney
*Regression*	Tim Gill
*Rejuvenation*	Rudi O'Meara
*Reptilian*	Michael Basha
*Reset*	Michael Haas
*Room 733*	Brianna Gardner, Mike Gerbino
*S1TT3R*	Ryan Austin
*SATI*	David Boito
*Savage Valley*	Andrew Warren
*Scan for More Info*	Sarah Northam
*SHIFTERS*	Alexander Messana, Adam Messana
*SILAS*	Mark Patrick
*Skin Deep*	Ian Hawkes
*Speak of the Devil*	James LeJeune
*Stages*	Dashiell Finley
*Strange Flesh*	Devin Fearn
*SUNDOWN*	Alan C. Beard
*Tartan*	Erin Wilcox
*The Angel*	Michael Leung
*The Animus*	Mandy Foster, Ryan Patch
*The Decay*	Adam Davis
*The Devil Will Hang*	Andrew Fuhr
*The First Girl*	David Hadley
*The Hole in the Woods*	Rachel Greenhoe
*The House of Saints*	Sandy Nicholson
*THE NIGHT STAFF*	Andrew Ionides
*The Summons*	Mike Robinson
*The Way Out Is Through*	Laszlo Tamasfi
*Trash Monsters*	Juan Gil
*Under The Moon*	Ari Silver
*Unstuck*	Thomas Yungerberg
*Until Death...*	Kevin Sluder
*Vampires of New York*	April Creavin
*We Come From the Dark*	Brien Kelly
*WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF*	Cathriona Slammon
*WONDER VALLEY*	Erin Deason
*yellow*	Mac Hendrickson, Patrick Hendrickson