Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 7, 2019
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the quarterfinalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest. Horror is one of the proven genres for newcomers to the craft – and we're always looking for talented new writers. Our Hollywood judges include Creative Executives, Managers, and filmmakers behind such horror films as Get Out, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Sinister, Us, Mandy, It Follows, The Butterfly Effect, Hereditary and Midsommar.
The winner of the concept category will receive an exclusive developmental mentoring prize package with Brittany Klesic of Monkeypaw Productions.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists, finalists, and grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Without further ado, here are the quarterfinalists:
Screenplay Category
| 100% Happy | Jerome Velinsky |
| 15 Saxby Avenue | Daniel Hurst |
| 66 Sycamore | Matt McCarthy & Katherine Cox |
| A Bad Night In Talbot | Tyler Jones |
| A Boy, A House, A Ghost | Blake Hawk |
| A Few Acres of Snow | Jonathan Hirsch |
| A Hagging or The Terror That Comes In The Night | Jonathan Eagan |
| A Manifestation | Anthony Piseno |
| A Necessary Shedding of Skin | Travis Lemke |
| A Town Called Halloween | Isaac Loewen |
| All Is Calm | Matthew Beier |
| American Folklore: A Midwife's Tale | Erik Miguel Gervais |
| Animals | Brad Everett |
| Appalachia | Brian Otting |
| Appearances | Bernie Rutkay |
| Ash | Thomas Hunkin |
| Ask Christine | Danielle Gershberg |
| Asylum Seekers | William Booth |
| Babes in the Woods | William Thompson |
| Bad Beth & Beyond | Tyson Theroux |
| Bare Metal | Jess Gupta |
| Begotten | Eric LaRocca |
| Beware The Night | Charles Michael |
| Biterroot | Matthew Kaler |
| Black Creek Trail | Jaime Saginor |
| Black Mourning | Briana Bougard |
| Blackpill | Ben Johnson & Jolie Thevenot |
| Blackwood | James McNiff |
| Bleed | Daniel Morris |
| Blood Debt | Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn |
| Blood Hound | Katherine Botts |
| Blue Dreams | Jonathan Samuel |
| Breach | Matt Brothers |
| Brett For The Win | Andrew Sanford |
| Brood 19 | David Altman |
| Bunny Slope | Nick Lentz |
| Burrowed | Lonnie Nadler |
| By Your Name, Save Me | James Marios Ellinas |
| Call On the Dark | Anne Hartner |
| Candle | Ellen Ireland |
| CarnEvil | Steve Marra |
| Carve | Arun Croll |
| Case Unsolved | CJ Arellano |
| Channel 73 | Christian Gridelli & Hunter Norris |
| Chemo Dreams | Sam Kench |
| Cherry | Jordan Prosser |
| Cold Shiver | Casey Jones |
| Companion | John Darbonne |
| Consumed | Don Stroud |
| Copperhead | Tim Tuchrello |
| Count Rushmore | Aaron Holmgren |
| Coywolf | Michael Levine |
| Crate | Alex Pickering & Matthew Breault |
| Cravings | Miles Robinson |
| Screscendo | Valerian Zamel |
| Cro | George Bradley |
| Damnation | Joshua Tywater |
| Dare | Rafael Diez |
| Dark Noise | Christopher Poe & Jen Badasci |
| Darkspace | Alex Sosin |
| Dead Air | Sammy Franco |
| Dead Sea | Jeffrey Miller |
| Dead Voices | Jacob Young |
| Dear Marie | Alex Forstenhausler |
| Debt Of Blood | Ewan Fraser |
| Defend Their Own | Kevin Nelson |
| Delia | Amy Hutchins |
| Demoniac | Rob Harmon |
| Demands | Sean McGann |
| Demon Hunt | Roun Tamaki |
| Demonic Will | Robert DeDona & Adrian Carr |
| Denture Fangs | Sonia Campbell |
| Derangement | DANIEL MURTA |
| Devil's Spring | Francisco Zamudio |
| Diabolus | Gus Avila |
| Disappearing | Daniel Corrieri |
| Disquiet | Matt Ronzani |
| Do Not Feed | Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin |
| Dogcage | Jake S. Weisman |
| Don't Drink the Water | Brian Troy |
| Don't Fall Asleep | Alana de Freitas |
| Doomway | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Downpour | Alex Simon & Tom Holland |
| Drawing Dead | Quentin Ellis |
| Eblis | Tom Omokaro |
| Ellie's Tale | Rhonda R Deskins |
| Er'Pid | Tristan Glade |
| Eternal Death | Matt Hosseinzadeh |
| Evacuees | Cat Moran |
| Extreme Horror | Robert Zameroski |
| Fear the Knock | Billy Reid |
| Fengdu Ghost City | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Figment | Kelly Luu & Kevin Luu |
| Final Girl | Andrew Gray |
| Five Minutes Dead | Ervin Anderson |
| Flagpole | Ryan Curtin |
| Forever 27 | Greg Hall |
| Form | Mark Dowell & Dan Kerry |
| Fountain of You | David Holmes |
| Fowl in a Cage | Craig Draheim |
| Fresh Hell | Dave Rock |
| From Here | James Sweeney |
| Ghost Hunt | CHRIS ONEILL |
| Ghost Signs | Jace Daniel |
| Ghosts of the South | Courtney Miller |
| Gifts | Josh Kaukl |
| Girl Trouble | Devi Snively |
| Girls Start Rumors | Tessa Whitehead |
| God of the Woods | Kent Moran & Amy Berrian |
| God Wrest His Soul | JT Seaton |
| Good Boy | Luis Cuevas |
| Graham and Lucy's Strange Hobby | Miles Unsworth |
| Greener | Erick Pausz |
| Grid | Joshua Tywater |
| Grimoire | Sammy Franco |
| Happy Hunting Ground | Tom Ross |
| Hard Knocks | Peter Sawyer |
| Haunting | Brooke Greeling |
| Havenwood | Jai Brandon |
| Hazel | Randy Haycock |
| Heights | Sarah Czuprynski |
| Hell is an Open Door | Jim Lopezzo |
| Hellbound Strippers | Elliot Campos |
| Hellion Rising | Barry Duffield |
| Hero of the Good Land | Logan Shaw |
| HG Forever | Kim Spurlock |
| High School Horror | Harrison Pierce |
| Holiday House | john miles |
| Hombre | Juan Pablo Arias Munoz |
| Howlr | Jeremy Frazier |
| Hugh Jackman Stole My Husband | Maisie Culver |
| Hunt the Devil | Christopher Andersen |
| Hypefeast | Sid Patwa |
| I Told You Not To Come Here | Scotty Mullen |
| I'll Follow You Into the Dark | Michael Campbell |
| In Nomine Dei | John Iadarola |
| In These Hills, In These Woods | Jason Hawkins |
| Inheritance | Dianna Craig |
| Inked n Blood | Paul Corricelli |
| Intended | Joe Vallese |
| Interim | Avery Ward |
| Interrogating Ted | Thomas Banuelos |
| Into the Trees | Matt O'Connor |
| Inyanga: The Healer | Bradley Katzen & Josh Ackerman |
| It Came From the Swamp | Ryan LeBoeuf & Cody LeBoeuf |
| It Girl | Schuyler Brumley |
| John 8:44 | Noelle Figueroa |
| Junkyard | Dan Riesser |
| Killer Body | Bobby Sacher |
| Kimonos | James Hu |
| Lampfox | Trent Lombardo |
| Lapse | Gabriel Rodriguez |
| Last Lights | Alexander Torres |
| Lesions | Stanley Ray |
| Let It Pass | Leigh Hyser |
| Like Family | Arran Shearing & Kit Redstone |
| Little Light | Adam Hadley |
| Lizzie | Pascal Cooper |
| Locksmiths | James Kwon Lee |
| London Chained | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Long Haul | William Welles |
| Lost Pine | David Sussin |
| Love to Watch You Bleed | Borden Sisters |
| Low Life | Jason Alvino |
| Lynch County | George Bradley |
| Margot | Thomas Douglas Mann |
| Mash Your Motor | Daniel Fox |
| Microdon | Rick Leifer |
| Mint | Drew Guajardo |
| Miscreations | Alan Loubeau |
| Mishipeshu | David Bowes |
| Missing | Andrew Mescher |
| Monger | David Axe |
| Moss from a Dead Man's Skull | Aaron Brock Dehn |
| Muse in the Mazeum | Clay Fusco & Pamela Chiacchiaro |
| Nail Biter | Blake Horobin |
| Nancy's Demon | Mark Lebenon |
| Necropolis | Dennis Clarke |
| Night Comes to Wolf Creek | Andrew Mecham & Matthew Whedon |
| Night Creeps | Michael DAmbrosio |
| No Escape | Patrick Zelinski |
| No Man's Land | Barry Ambrose & Armand Kachigian |
| Nothing To Fear | Chris Scott |
| Obscured | Edward James Anderson |
| Ocean Effect (Today is Your Day) | Heather Farlinger |
| Octopad | KAMAL JOHN ISKANDER |
| Off the Chain | Vince Courtney & Kelly Sims |
| One Passed Midnight | Matthew Barry Ryan |
| Open House | Sean Jourdan & John Ingle |
| Organelle | Edward James Anderson |
| Out of the Box | Robert Dorian |
| Parasitic | Zac Loy |
| Periosteum | Nelson Walters |
| Phases of the Moon | Jay Reid |
| Pickett Gap | Matthew Ray |
| Pieces | Stephen Tronicek |
| Pieces of Me | Julia Max |
| Plaquemines | Alexander Salazar |
| Polar | Christopher Kearney |
| Possessed To Kill | Phil Lowe |
| Premenstrual Terror | Fiona Westwell |
| Prisoners of a Dark Night | Timothy Bryan |
| Project Pequod | Jason Goldberg |
| Red Light | Dempsey Tillman & Ted Dewberry |
| Remnants | Owen Kelly & Albert Kelly |
| Repeater | Robert Rhyne |
| Repression | Minh Anh Vo Dinh |
| Returned | Jennifer Grand |
| Revenge of the Amazon | Peter Angritt |
| Ride-along | Chris Mul & Michael Mul |
| Rise of the Gulon | Matt Wildash |
| Rokoko | Kirk Vanderbeek |
| Run | Shane Isheev |
| S.O.S. | Mark Cary |
| Scary Christmas | Sean McPharlin |
| Season Of The Bitch | Phil Mucci |
| Shadow | Cody Pearce |
| She Jumped | Daniel LoBrace |
| She Keeps Calling | Justin Lee |
| Shifters | Alexander Messana & Adam Messana |
| Sick | Sylvia Alcala |
| Silhouette | Lukas Hassel |
| Sinful Autonomy | Miles Robinson |
| Sing Back at Sirens | Max Nicholson |
| Sister Frankie | Walter Orsini |
| Skeleton Crew | Jeffrey Elefterion |
| Skin | Lori Bowen |
| Skin Deep | Eyal Alony |
| Skinwalker | Joseph Lagoni |
| Snarlie Boy | Dave Musolf |
| Something Not There | Marc Rosenberg |
| Something Round | Nikhail Asnani |
| Somniac | Justin Sharp |
| Sons of Man | D.C. Lozar |
| Sorceress | Joel Donnan |
| Sorrow | Justin Smith & Carrie Smith |
| Soul Custody | Filomena Laforgia |
| Spectrum | Jennifer Trudrung |
| Spirits Cliff | Doug Senior |
| Starlight | Peter Moffatt |
| Stitched Up | Ronald McQueen |
| Strange Bird | Andrew Mudge |
| Stung | Dena McKinnon |
| Summers End | Joshua Tonks |
| Sundown Town | Zach Johnson |
| Sunshine State: Duende | Kai Thorup |
| Superimposed | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Tarabull | Esdras Romero |
| Temperance | Julia Petrisor |
| Tender | Zoe Vitale |
| The Abscess | Patrick Tierney |
| The Bigwigs | Joshua Henaman |
| The Black Paintings | Michael Hooley & Luke Wilson Hanley |
| The Boy | Graham Manson |
| The Bubble | Brent Hartinger |
| The Burning | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| The Call of the Void | Graham McNeill |
| The Carmichael Tower | Bryan Watkins |
| The Children's Book Writer | Bruce Dundore |
| The Contest | Matthew Franks |
| The Crowd Killer | Troy Harwood |
| The Days Of Them | Jarrod Saunders |
| The Deep Woods | Eric Endres |
| The Devil's Bite | Ervin Anderson |
| The Devil's Crown | Jessica Valentine & Richard Valentine |
| The Devil's Tramping Ground | William Gilmore |
| The Dollmaker | Catherine Delaloye |
| The Fable of the Wounded Healer | Rebecca de Fargues |
| The Fall of Usher | GREGORY COHEN |
| The Fetch | Bill Ellis |
| The Floating World | Elias Almeda |
| The Followers | Colin Dalvit & Andrew Lahmann |
| The Good Clown | Daniel Lauder |
| The Home | Jason Goldberg |
| The Hunger: A New Dawn | Blair Mueller |
| The Hypnotist | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| The Jersey Devil | Keith Elias |
| The Kill Room | Sean Cunningham |
| The Last Cataclysm | Michael Musumeci |
| The Long Weekend | Michael James Dean |
| The Man in the Wood | Alex Schor |
| The Mark | Jonathan Maher |
| The Mothman | Jackson Murray |
| The Night Shift | Alexandra Boylan & John Graham |
| The Ones Who Stay | Jef Burnham |
| The Outback | Paul Chang |
| The Peak of Fear | Kevin Bachar |
| The Pheasant Hunt | Josh Taylor |
| The Pit | Joseph Guerrieri |
| The Plague Doctor | Ninon Schubert |
| The Prince of Earth | Mike Robinson |
| The Progeny | Bryan Holm |
| The Rabbit Hole | Diamond Washington |
| The Rage of March | Amanda Steen |
| The Rental | Garry Lawrence |
| The Resident | Mike Gerbino & Zahra Zubaidi |
| The Righteous Man | Andrew Mescher |
| The Rookery | Scott Baumgartner |
| The Secret At Chester Peak Elementary | Luigi Sperduti |
| The Settler's Disgrace | Zed Martin & Thomas Joseph |
| The Something | David Hudacek |
| The Supplicant | Matthew Stedman |
| The Symbol | Jami Tennille |
| The Thin Veil | Michael Droberg & T.J. Alex |
| The Thousand-yard Stare | Peter Gazdag |
| The Tipitiwitchet | Brock LaBorde |
| The Tormented | Chris Bolton |
| The Toyol | Russell Southam & Brian Kazmarck |
| The Van | Kevin Mosteller & Ashley Matheson |
| The Vanished | Jeremy Vineyard |
| The Vassal | Brendan Cassidy |
| The Villa Rosa | Andy Kozel |
| The Vineyard | Chris Santiago |
| THE Vodnik: The Lake Monster | Vincent Thibault & Linda Niccol |
| The War on Christmas | Kelly Flynn & Jason Lindner |
| The Wolf | Romain Basset |
| The Wolf of Bedburg | Jennifer Grand |
| The World Over | Heath Michaels |
| The Wraith | Orhan Sumen |
| Theory of Mind | John Licata |
| They Come From Below | Jared Kelly |
| They Keep Me Around | Nikhail Asnani |
| Third Date | Avishai Weinberger |
| Those Lead to Slaughter | Travis Williams |
| Those Who Pass Through | Max Kronick & Eliza Janssen |
| Thy Kingdom Come | Tim Hewitt |
| To Fight the Evil | Bill Morton |
| Tooth and Nail | Justin Rettke |
| Totem | Lorelei Buckley |
| Toxic | Phil Claydon & Hannah Brown |
| Troubled Child | Renuka Singh |
| True Love Waits | Sean Price |
| Trust and Obey | Russell Ward |
| Tunstale | mico montes |
| Underground | Matt Mosley |
| Unorthodox | Judah Ray |
| Vanishing Place | Daniel Olds |
| Varna Heights | Raj Krishna |
| Venery | Dan Benamor |
| Visions in Darkness | Dan Benamor |
| Visitation | Helen Gaughran |
| Walk Up | Felicia Ho |
| We All Die At Sixteen | Pierre Kakos |
| Wendigo | Vinnie Hogan & Frank Kim |
| What If You Knew? | Rolf Pfannerer |
| When the Sea Was Boiling | Heywood Bess |
| Where I'm Kept | Jacob Greenberg |
| Where the Heart Bleeds | Mark Wooden |
| Who Goes There? | Andrew Gayman |
| Winter Road | Mary O'Neil & Angela Worth |
| Winterbay Abbey | John Bladek & Davonna Juroe |
| Wolf Moon | Scott Jones |
| Wylde | Danny Baram |
| Yellow | Kamal Moo & Chris Yeazel |
| Yogo | Nikhail Asnani |
| Your Ride's Here | Erik Van Der Wolf & Matt Serafini |
| ZomBees! | Grant Oberhansli & Casey Oberhansli |
| Zora | Maria Wilson |
Concept Category
| 3 Mothers | Nils Antoine Sambuc |
| Acid Rain | Thomas Way |
| An Ordinary Silence | Mylissa Fitzsimmons |
| April the 12th | Inti Carrizo-Ortiz |
| Black Tree | Ediberto Gonzalez |
| Crescent Creek | Ethan Evans |
| Cry The Neck | Celia Moodie |
| Deathcentralized | Luca Filipi & Robert Jaworzyn |
| Eavesdropper | Greg Sidman |
| Eddie and Jack | Miles Unsworth |
| Forgive Me Father | Jonathan Seymour |
| Getaway | Laura Grey & Megan Stein |
| Home | Tel Benjamin |
| House of Dagon | Christopher Rabe |
| Joanne | Kevin Wolfe |
| Johnny Quick | Patrick Power |
| Kamunu | Takudzwa Tarenyika |
| Killenials | Jacob Davison |
| Kuumba | Takudzwa Tarenyika |
| Monstrous | Josh Korngut |
| Narcolepsy | Porcelain Dalya |
| Nganga | David Lee |
| Nowhere Station | Natalie Bingham |
| Pelicans | Ashley Strayer |
| Project Terrace | Tony Merkurii & Jade Widger |
| Sheol | Jared Skolnick & Brian Lynch |
| Slash Forward | Jared Skolnick |
| Some Kind of Creature | Joel Donnan |
| Soul Walker | Jeffery Thompson Jr |
| The Brooklyn Bruisers Head Down South | Bam Johnson |
| The Earth Rejects Him | Jared Skolnick |
| The Legend of Carrico Road | Jeffery Thompson, Jr. |
| The Sexy Sinisters | Jennifer Trudrung |
| Violet Daze | Marisa Martin & Clare Langsford |
| Wade In the Water | Bryan Saunders |
| Walk Among Wolves | Dante Vescio |
| Warlock | Renuka Singh |
| Zora | Maria Wilson |
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