Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest Semifinalists
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the semifinalists 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 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 semifinalists:
Screenplay Category
| A Bad Night In Talbot | Tyler Jones |
| A Hagging or The Terror That Comes In The Night | Jonathan Eagan |
| A Necessary Shedding of Skin | Travis Lemke |
| Appalachia | Brian Otting |
| Ask Christine | Danielle Gershberg |
| Bare Metal | Jess Gupta |
| Beware The Night | Charles Michael |
| Bitterroot | Matthew Kaler |
| Black Mourning | Briana Bougard |
| Breach | Matt Brothers |
| Brood 19 | David Altman |
| Candle | Ellen Ireland |
| Carve | Arun Croll |
| Case Unsolved | C.J. Arellano |
| Chemo Dreams | Sam Kench |
| Cherry | Jordan Prosser |
| Cold Shiver | Casey Jones |
| Companion | John Darbonne |
| Crate | Alex Pickering & Matthew Breault |
| Cravings | Miles Robinson |
| Dead Voices | Jacob Young |
| Dear Marie | Alex Forstenhausler |
| Delia | Amy Hutchins |
| Demands | Sean McGann |
| Derangement | Daniel Murta |
| Disappearing | Daniel Corrieri |
| Doomway | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Evacuees | Cat Davies |
| Fengdu Ghost City | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Final Girl | Andrew Gray |
| Fountain of You | David Holmes |
| Fresh Hell | Dave Rock |
| From Here | James Sweeney |
| Ghost Signs | Jace Daniel |
| Ghosts of the South | Courtney Miller |
| Girls Start Rumors | Tessa Whitehead |
| Havenwood | Jai Brandon |
| Hazel | Randy Haycock |
| Hell Is An Open Door | Jim Lopezzo |
| High School Horror | Harrison Pierce |
| Hugh Jackman Stole My Husband | Maisie Culver |
| I Told You Not To Come Here | Scotty Mullen |
| I'll Follow You Into the Dark | Michael Campbell |
| Inheritance | Dianna Craig |
| Intended | Joe Vallese |
| Interrogating Ted | Thomas Banuelos |
| Into the Trees | Matt O'Connor |
| Inyanga: The Healer | Brad Katzen & Joshua Ackerman |
| It Girl | Schuyler Brumley |
| John 8:44 | Noelle Figueroa |
| Junkyard | Dan Riesser & Mike Kinshella |
| Lampfox | Trent Lombardo |
| Last Lights | Alexander Torres |
| Locksmiths | James Lee |
| Long Haul | Will Welles |
| Love to Watch You Bleed | Borden Sisters |
| Margot | Thomas Mann |
| Mash Your Motor | Daniel Fox |
| Miscreations | Alan Loubeau & Mike Meyerson |
| Nail Biter | Blake Horobin |
| Night Comes to Wolf Creek | Andrew Mecham & Matthew Whedon |
| No Escape | Patrick Zelinski |
| No Man's Land | Barry Ambrose & Armand Kachigian |
| Ocean Effect (Today is Your Day) | Heather Farlinger |
| Octopad | Kamal John Iskander |
| ONE PASSED MIDNIGHT | Matthew Barry Ryan |
| Open House | Sean Jourdan & John Ingle |
| Pickett Gap | Matthew Ray |
| Pieces of Me | Julia Max |
| Polar | Christopher Kearney |
| Red Light | Dempsey Tillman & Ted Dewberry |
| Repression | Minh-Anh Vo Dinh |
| Ride-along | Chris Mul & Michael Mul |
| Rise of the Gulon | Matt Wildash |
| Shadow | Cody Pearce |
| She Keeps Calling | Justin Lee |
| Shifters | Alexander Messana & Adam Messana |
| Skin | Lori Bowen |
| Strange Bird | Andrew Mudge |
| Superimposed | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Tarabull | Esdras Romero |
| Tender | Zoe Vitale |
| The Abscess | Patrick Tierney |
| The Bigwigs | Joshua Henaman |
| The Boy | Graham Manson |
| The Children's Book Writer | Bruce Dundore |
| The Devil's Bite | Ervin Anderson |
| The Devil's Tramping Ground | William Gilmore |
| The Fall of Usher | Gregory Cohen |
| The Fetch | Bill Ellis |
| The Followers | Colin Dalvit |
| The Home | Jason Goldberg |
| The Hunger: A New Dawn | Blair Mueller |
| The Jersey Devil | Keith and Brian Elias |
| The Man in the Wood | Alex Schor |
| The Outback | Paul Chang |
| The Peak of Fear | kevin bachar |
| The Pit | Joseph Guerrieri |
| The Prince of Earth | Mike Robinson |
| The Progeny | Bryan Holm |
| The Resident | Mike Gerbino & Zahra Zubaidi |
| The Righteous Man | Andrew Mescher |
| The Rookery | Scott Baumgartner |
| The Secret At Chester Peak Elementary | Luigi Sperduti |
| The Something | David Hudacek |
| The Thousand-yard Stare | Peter Gazdag |
| The Tipitiwitchet | Brock LaBorde |
| The Tormented | Chris Bolton |
| The Vineyard | Chris Santiago |
| The World Over | Heath Michaels |
| The Wraith | Orhan Sumen |
| Theory of Mind | John Licata |
| They Keep Me Around | Nikhail Asnani |
| Third Date | Avishai Weinberger |
| Visions in Darkness | Dan Benamor |
| We All Die At Sixteen | Pierre Kakos |
| Yellow | Kamal Moo & Chris Yeazel |
| Yogo | Nikhail Asnani |
| ZomBees! | Grant Oberhansli & Casey Oberhansli |
| Zora | Maria Wilson |
Concept Category
| 3 Mothers | Nils Antoine Sambuc |
| Acid Rain | Thomas Way |
| An Ordinary Silence | Mylissa Fitzsimmons |
| Deathcentralized | Luca Filipi & Robert Jaworzyn |
| Eddie and Jack | Miles Unsworth |
| Getaway | Laura Grey & Megan Stein |
| Kuumba | Takudzwa Tarenyika |
| Narcolepsy | Porcelain Dalya |
| Nganga | david lee |
| Pelicans | Ash Strayer |
| Project Terrace | Tony Merkurii & Jade Widger |
| Zora | Maria Wilson |
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