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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

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