2025 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on November 27, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,400 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| 'Night Father | Winnie Soldi |
| "PETERSONS - Site 3" | Jay Saunders |
| #VanLife | Keegan Bartel |
| 1994 | Rudy Riveron Sanchez |
| A Boy, A House, A Ghost | Blake Hawk |
| A Good Harvest | Alex Hanson |
| A Mother | Zoe Kerr |
| A Product of Our Written Environment | Atheana Ritchie |
| A Whisper From The Deep | Ben White |
| A.P. | CM Barnes |
| Abandoned Places | Travis Seppala |
| ABOLITION | Anthony Jason McBride |
| Adventures in Serial Killing | Jack Warner |
| Aftershock | Jeff Markowitz |
| Alaska Event | Michael Klodawski |
| All Your Women Things | Madison Bloom |
| Allemansrätt | David Jenkins |
| Apnea | David Matheson |
| Asbestos King | Dutch Godshalk |
| Ask | Jay Cipriani |
| Awoke | Christopher Emanuel Smith |
| Bad Brood | Simone Michel |
| Bad Influence | J Taylor D'Andrea, David Espey |
| Bait | Ben Harl |
| Beast With Two Backs | Amanda Jane Stern |
| Beasts | Melissa Sweazy |
| Behind the Walls, a horror story | Matthew Boylan |
| Beneath the Surface | Luke Valdes-Rodriguez |
| Better Off Undead | Ray Keller |
| Beware The Moon | Paul Morgan |
| Black Girl Magic | Sasha Kai |
| Blood Bound | Maria Vainer |
| Bloodsuckers | Jonathan Chen |
| Bloody Show | Andrew Betzer |
| BLUEBELL | Sara Stockbridge |
| Bones Lie In Wait | Nick Grant |
| Boo | C.M. Soto |
| Breaking the Curse | Lisa K. Thomas |
| Cabin Retreat | Kate Metroka |
| Camp Ashwood | Laura Hunter Drago |
| CAOINEADH | Elise Salomon |
| Carnivorous | Pascal Leister |
| Carrion | Jordan Schiff |
| Casbah | Shreyas Ayaluri, Adham O. Adham |
| Cedar Falls Bay | Janet Rose Nguyen |
| Chapel Rock | Thane Christopher, Margaret Breard |
| Charlie Charlie | Jose Manuel |
| Check for Monsters | Adam Bertocci |
| Child of Wilderness | Kayla Blaeser |
| Choked Out | Jeff Barker |
| Chronically Killer | Gavi Klein |
| Chrysalis | Alex McAulay |
| Chudail | Anna Khan |
| City Of Ghosts | Mike Hooley |
| City of the Ripper | Jesse Arnold |
| Climbers | Gabrielle Nehring |
| Cling | Aaron Warner |
| Coalescence | Jason Miller |
| Come Tomorrow | Saurin Lakhia |
| Contingent | Makana Lani |
| Copper Laundry | Elianor M.A. |
| Cortado | Jacob Johnson |
| COTTONMOUTH | Danny Salemme |
| Creature of the Night | Francesco Battaglia |
| Curse of the Cat | Bobby McGruther |
| Damned Old Joe | Nick Morgan |
| Dark Forest | Cole Dilts |
| Dark Lakes | Steven James Griffiths, James Metcalf, Jack Casey |
| Dark Matter | Rossella Di Campli |
| Deaderawe | Whitley Louise Dismuke |
| Deathless | Biagio Gulino, Tyler Kamens |
| Deity | Tom Batha |
| Demon Blade | London Trammell |
| Demons | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Denied | Brennan Gilpatrick |
| Desert Desert Desert | Zoe Maltby |
| Devil Says Goodnight: Hell Circle Hills | Andrew Monge |
| Dirty Jack Rabbit's Radio Dark | John Manak |
| Disco's Not Dead | Toby Marks |
| Dog Mom | Madi Stine |
| Don't Get Off The Bus | Faye Treacy |
| Down Bad | Brooke Solomon |
| Downline | Laura Waters Hinson |
| Drag Me Away | Giovanna Umpierrez |
| DREDGE | Lauren Thomas |
| Drowning Season | Kaelin Ormerod |
| Earthly Delights | Evan Goodrich |
| Elsewhere | Andrew Futral |
| Empty Nest | Anwen Bull |
| Entertainment | Tyler Hatt |
| Erasure | Ryan Berry |
| Estranged | Noah Campbell Smith, Gabriela Quiroz |
| EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. | Alexander O'Dell |
| Everything Is Not Okay | Rakindu Madurapperuma |
| Eyes of Eve | Dan Bronzite |
| Fauna | Elijah Noble El |
| Festival Of Souls | Patricia McCammond |
| Final Gals | Nathaniel Feeley |
| Final Girl F*ck*ry | Sophie Mutiara Nova |
| Following Henry Grace | Christine Makepeace |
| Forged in Blood | Joseph Murillo |
| Fox Hounds | Max Flora |
| Fred and Cletus: Monster Hunters | Michael Rodriguez |
| Frenzy | Sarah Waatainen |
| Frenzy | Sean Parker |
| Game Face | Eddie Baroo |
| Gardenia | Andrew Katzenberg, David Friedman |
| Ghost Station | Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez |
| Give Me Back My Body From The Eternal Knot of Infinity | Xavier Burgin |
| GLITCH | Rebecca Berrih |
| GLORY DAYS | Matthew Hoch |
| GODMOTHER | John Veron |
| Green Burial | John Kloepfer |
| GRÝLA | Carol Bass |
| Gylt | Tiziana Giammarino |
| Hags | Jojo Bozek Stocks |
| Happenstance | Samuel Hutchison |
| HARE | Ashwin Gore, Kiggs Carlsson |
| Harkwood | Jon-Alexander Genson |
| Harmony Hills, USA | Markian Tarasiuk |
| Harmony Lane | Alison Weaverdyck |
| Harvest | Teodros Horning |
| Hate Actually | Jacob Lazarow, Greta Guthrie |
| Havenwood | Jai Brandon |
| He Had His Father's Eyes | Bryan Liberty |
| Headers | Christopher Kelly |
| Heather Would Never | Emelie Claxton |
| Helium | Brian White |
| Hell's Canyon | Madeline Brestal |
| Hells Harbour | Katerina Bakolias |
| Hide And Seek | Irene Reyes |
| His Blood | Jourdan Prince |
| Hivemind | Patrick Macdonald |
| Hollyweird | Kirk Damato |
| Home with a Past | Edward Etzkorn |
| Horror Nights | Casey Wright, Daniel Wright |
| humdrum | Daniela Di Salvo |
| HUNTER | Alan Sanchez |
| I Am Listening | Jonathan Wymer |
| I Don't Want To Fight Anymore | James Tison |
| I'm Here Now | Julio DeSanctis |
| In His Name | Tyler Rigby |
| IN THE DARKNESS | Meko Winbush |
| Incubus | Matthew Crump |
| Infamous | Reynaldo Leal, Ivan Lizarde |
| Infestation | Tom Hartig |
| INHABITANTS | Nolan Lampson, Eli Staub |
| Inheritance | David O'Rourke |
| Inheritor | Ryan Lilienfield |
| INSIDE | Elise Salomon |
| INTERVAL | Christopher Isenegger |
| Iris's Jar | Alicia Hawkins |
| It Gets Dark | Arynetta Northcutt |
| It Sounds Like You | John Schlirf |
| IT WANTS US DEAD | Jorge Rivera |
| It Will Touch You | Judy Dent |
| Join Us | Jon Bershad |
| Jonesy | Gustavo Morales |
| KILL ME | Jake Duerden |
| Killing Myself | Nathaniel Feeley |
| La Paz | Carly Miller, Sonora Rowan |
| Las Maldecidas (THE CURSED) | Alycya Magana |
| Lechuzas | Manuel Galvez Flores |
| Leporiphobia | Anna Kjeldsen, Neil Kjeldsen |
| Like & Subscribe | Ben Simpkins |
| Listen | Jeffrey Howe, Timothy Troy |
| Live. Laugh. Lust. | William Etheridge |
| Look At This Photograph | Avery Regen |
| Luxury | Tom Selenow |
| Macheteros | Daniel Oramas |
| Maggot | Jordan Obey |
| Malefactor | Annsh Maithani |
| Mall | Brian Mates, Jennifer Levinson |
| Mammoth | Carolyn Johnson |
| MAN-I-KIN | Jonathan Clark |
| MANGROVES | Jonathan Lang |
| MARY IMMACULATE | Cathriona Slammon |
| Match Made in Hell | Rebecca Dietsch |
| Mermania! | Michael Brennan |
| MESA | Pam Covington |
| Migrant Spirits | Mickey Martinez |
| Mimicked | Cody Mobley |
| Molly | Charity Stashwick |
| Mom | Orchid Bradley |
| Monstra | Samantha Garcia, Allison Garcia |
| Motherhouse | Jade Rona |
| My Mother's Land | William Boyd |
| Neat Freak | Christopher Glass |
| Nefarium | Jerrod D. Brito, Jeff M. Zook |
| New Jersey is a Weird Place | Mark Galarrita |
| Night of the Arrows | Mitch Ross |
| Night Owl | Andrew Joustra |
| No Exit | Amy Dellagiarino |
| No Sanctuary | Harley Jones |
| On Pins and Needles | Katie Jung |
| One Holstead Way | Mary Ellen Michael-Fleming |
| Open House | Kamran Gossieaux, Emma Mitchell |
| Outgrowth | Katrina Salicrup |
| Overrun | Erik Miguel Gervais |
| P.O.V. | Nicholas Grant |
| Pack Animals | Hunter Rasmussen |
| Paternal | JJ Moore |
| Phantom Rides | Peter Thompson |
| Pi Kappa Die | Ashton Avila, Adam Navas |
| Planted, Not Yet Buried: A Haunted Christmas Tree Story | Lisanne Gamelin |
| POWERLESS | Justin Zagri |
| Precursor | Steve Brown |
| Prowler | Erik Leifson |
| PUBLIC FIGURE | Matt Spelich |
| Quiet Kwame, or the Kwanzaa Movie | Azure Osborne-Lee |
| Quince | Carlos Salcines |
| RAGE BABY | Gilani Sumida-Moiseff |
| RAKSHASA | Alexander Blum |
| RELLIK | Barry Jay |
| Remember Ivy Court | Soham Mehta, Jonathan John |
| Restoration | Braden Brickner, Don Bapst |
| Rink | Alison Parker |
| Rough Cut | Mitchell Slan |
| Safe Haven | Rosario Pellerito |
| Santa Fe | Brandon Shypkowski |
| Scare Me To Death | Stan Evans |
| Scary Little Christmas | Dan McCoy |
| Scream For Me | Erin Szczechowski |
| Second Chances | Michail Eggelhoefer |
| SEE YOU AGAIN SOON | K. E. Pleshinger |
| Seeking Sugar Mason | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Selfie | Michael Hale |
| She Waits | Eric Reese |
| Sheep | Sune Sorensen |
| Sila | Mashael Alqahtani |
| Silhouette | Lukas Hassel |
| Since the Death of God | Elias Truitt |
| Sister's Bell | Leah Saint Marie |
| Sixteen Slashes | Marco Amato |
| Skeleton Crew | Rob Goldberg, James Goldberg |
| Sklarmaggedon: May the Best Man Win | Adam Ganser, Michael Swaim |
| Slash | Bryce McLeay |
| Slow Burn | Andy Lyberopoulos |
| Smokehouse | Lori Silverbush |
| Son of Dan | Nathaniel Feeley |
| SOUTHERN CHAINS | Suzi Bach |
| Spider | Ryan Skinner |
| Startup Party Massacre | Rhett duPont Vecchio |
| Starvation Heights | Jennifer Conner |
| Stetson | C.R. Night |
| Stream of Terror | Scott Tomorelli |
| SUBSCRIBE | Ben Klopfenstein |
| Suburbaknight | Nick Bannister |
| Suckers | Kimberly Dilts |
| Suppression | Javon Turner |
| Surfacing | Katie Waldron |
| Teddy Ridge | Bryan Arbor |
| Ten Good Deeds | Anwen Bull |
| Testament | Jave Galt-Miller |
| Tether | T.W. Malpass |
| The Adlet | Eddie Yaroch |
| The Algorithm | Alicia Norman |
| The Animal Miracle Center | Alan Stewart |
| The Apparition | June Escalante |
| The Bullpen | Hoss Carroll |
| The Carvers | Breyden Boyd |
| The Chango | James Barnes |
| The Corpse Road | Gavin Repton |
| The Curse | Shaan Lodhie |
| The Dark Room | Matt Troy |
| The Darkness That Surrounds Us | Sam Lebow |
| The Decay | Adam Davis |
| The Devil in Saint's Clothing | Kyra Richardson |
| The Devil's Lettuce | Teodros Horning, Dash Taylor |
| The Diary | Toofun West, Anna West |
| The Driskill | Andrew Varhol |
| The Emergence of Carlyle | Anne-Marie Maidan |
| The Entertainer | Stephen Chen |
| The Estranged | Dylan James Amick |
| The Exalted Ones | Jason Miller |
| The Exclusive | Manny Valdivia, Leon Langford |
| THE FALLS | Charity Stashwick |
| The Flock | Helen Fowler |
| THE FORBIDDEN | Keon Hedayati |
| The Fractured | Daisy Ryan |
| The Ghost Box | Ian Neligh |
| The Ghost Hunter | Jacob Lazarow |
| The Ghosts of Crystal Lake | Mario G. Lopez |
| The Girl and the Shadow | Bartosz Pietryka |
| The Hagfish | Hyten Davidson |
| The Hair Pin | L. Quimby |
| The Hand | Andrew Wilbur |
| The Hangar | Ryan Hinrichs |
| The Haul | Zane Pratt, Austyn O'Dwyer |
| The Horla | Brittany Barber |
| The Hungry God | Mark V. Morales, Phillip D. Morales |
| The Institution | Joshua Caleb Thomas |
| THE INTERMISSION | Andre Thierry |
| The Kill Clause | Kevin Tavolaro, Kelly Tavolaro |
| The Leopard | Scott Younger |
| The Lycan | Paula Cantillo-Gonzàlez |
| The Maze | Michael Gary |
| The New Monsters On The Block | Richard A. Delgado, Melody P. Delgado |
| The Priming | Ben Engebretson, Tyler Pagan |
| THE RAGE INSIDE YOU | Michael Buonocore |
| The Sacrament | Brianna da Silva |
| The Scarecrow | Hayden Lummus |
| The Scout | Jacob Smith |
| THE SHADOW BENEATH | Aaron Mendelsohn |
| The Shadows | Justin Robertson |
| The Silver Moons of Starling | John Grosjean |
| The Sisterhood | Amanda Zubillaga |
| The Sorcerer’s Protocols | Autumn Cavender, Scott Ryan |
| The Thin Place | Chris Hicks |
| The Thread & The Veil | Garret Walsh |
| The Uncanny Valley | Audrey Wilson, Daniel Quinlan |
| The Unwanted | Juan Carlos Sánchez |
| The Virgin | Ryan Austin |
| The Waking | Audrey Wilson |
| The Yearning | Duane A. Butler |
| THREE PIGS | Lee Kehoe |
| TOILET SHARKS | Bruce Griffiths |
| Traditional | Min Tran |
| Trailed | Anja Wykes |
| Two Lost Lambs in The Black Woods | Nick Kloppenberg |
| UNNATURAL | Geoff Dupuy-Holder |
| URD | SKULD | Elise Salomon, Marie Alice Wolfszahn |
| VACANT | Brett Block |
| Valley Boy | Erik Nyhuus |
| Vampire Highway | Lee Arter |
| Vessel | Leila Garrison |
| Wandering | Eric Patton |
| We Are Connected | James Dodsley |
| We Never Sleep | Nathan Helm |
| Werewolf Sex Addict | Liz Stewart-Barnes |
| Western Canon | Daniel Phelps |
| Where They Burn | Emmanuel Gutiérrez |
| Whispering Danger | Matthew Lashua |
| White Rabbit | Mary Ellen Michael-Fleming |
| Woodpeck County | Frank Vallarelli |
| Worm | Aaron Bergen |
| Yetis | Tom Morgan |
| YOU CAN'T END THIS | Luke Harvis |
| You Didn't Sign My Yearbook! | Conor Shine |
| You're All Gonna Die! | Anthony Pittore |
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