2025 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 8, 2025
Listed below are the Semifinalists 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!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on February 5th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 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:
| 'Night Father | Winnie Soldi |
| A Mother | Zoe Kerr |
| A.P. | CM Barnes |
| Abandoned Places | Travis Seppala |
| Alaska Event | Michael Klodawski |
| Beast With Two Backs | Amanda Jane Stern |
| Black Girl Magic | Sasha Kai |
| Cabin Retreat | Kate Metroka |
| Cedar Falls Bay | Janet Rose Nguyen |
| Coalescence | Jason Miller |
| Denied | Brennan Gilpatrick |
| Devil Says Goodnight: Hell Circle Hills | Andrew Monge |
| Down Bad | Brooke Solomon |
| Downline | Laura Waters Hinson |
| Empty Nest | Anwen Bull |
| Fauna | Elijah Noble El |
| Final Girl F*ck*ry | Sophie Mutiara Nova |
| HARE | Ashwin Gore, Kiggs Carlsson |
| Harmony Lane | Alison Weaverdyck |
| humdrum | Daniela Di Salvo |
| 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 |
| Infestation | Tom Hartig |
| INHABITANTS | Nolan Lampson, Eli Staub |
| Iris's Jar | Alicia Hawkins |
| It Sounds Like You | John Schlirf |
| Mall | Brian Mates, Jennifer Levinson |
| Match Made in Hell | Rebecca Dietsch |
| MESA | Pam Covington |
| Mimicked | Cody Mobley |
| Motherhouse | Jade Rona |
| New Jersey is a Weird Place | Mark Galarrita |
| Night of the Arrows | Mitch Ross |
| Rage Baby | Gilani Sumida-Moiseff |
| Remember Ivy Court | Soham Mehta, Jonathan John |
| Rough Cut | Mitchell Slan |
| Scare Me To Death | Stan Evans |
| Scream For Me | Erin Szczechowski |
| She Waits | Eric Reese |
| Sheep | Sune Sorensen |
| Silhouette | Lukas Hassel |
| Son of Dan | Nathaniel Feeley |
| SUBSCRIBE | Ben Klopfenstein |
| Testament | Jave Galt-Miller |
| The Bullpen | Hoss Carroll |
| The Entertainer | Stephen Chen |
| The Exclusive | Manny Valdivia, Leon Langford |
| The Ghost Hunter | Jacob Lazarow |
| The Ghosts of Crystal Lake | Mario G. Lopez |
| The Hagfish | Hyten Davidson |
| The Hair Pin | L. Quimby |
| The Hangar | Ryan Hinrichs |
| The Kill Clause | Kevin Tavolaro, Kelly Tavolaro |
| The Sacrament | Brianna da Silva |
| The Shadow Beneath | Aaron Mendelsohn |
| The Sisterhood | Amanda Zubillaga |
| The Sorcerer’s Protocols | Autumn Cavender, Scott Ryan |
| The Thin Place | Chris Hicks |
| The Thread & The Veil | Garret Walsh |
| Traditional | Min Tran |
| Two Lost Lambs in The Black Woods | Nick Kloppenberg |
| UNNATURAL | Geoff Dupuy-Holder |
| Valley Boy | Erik Nyhuus |
| We Are Connected | James Dodsley |
| Werewolf Sex Addict | Liz Stewart-Barnes |
| Woodpeck County | Frank Vallarelli |
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