2020 Screenplay Semi-Finalists

 

 

10 Years In 40 Seconds

For three kids, a day selling water on the corner turns into a bloodbath when a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Atlanta. They must adapt quickly and leave childish things behind to survive.

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5-Star Review

Trust is shattered as a home share host exploits the assumed safety of her unsuspecting guests as she crosses physical and mental boundaries, leading to a terrifying descent into the abuses of confidence.

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Abandon

A struggling family faces an apparent insurmountable evil ironically who’s presence is due to their own indifference and disregard for the abuse in their home.

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Because the Night

In October 1977, seven students are murdered from Islands High School over the course of six weeks. After multiple failed attempts to stop the gruesome killings, the Chatham County PD send in a rookie female undercover cop as a high school senior in a last ditch effort to catch the killer.

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Climbers

170 years in the future, a rag tag tribe of humans struggles for survival. After an apocalypse, they have lived for generations on the Eiffel Tower, where two levels are converted into farming and quarters.

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Consumed

Buried beneath a collapsed building after an apocalyptic earthquake, an estranged husband and wife struggle to stay alive, praying that their companions rescue them before a horde of undead creatures tear through the rubble.

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Earth Angels

Danny Candless, a young man with unique abilities, finds himself unwittingly thrown into a world that he’d long forgotten, the story of everyone’s origin, and the determination of a cult that fights for human demise and the rise of their gods to rule the Earth.

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Feeder

A dysfunctional family moves from Los Angeles to picturesque Murphy Springs, Colorado with hopes of a fresh start, but those plans are foiled when they discover that this quaint mountain refuge holds dark secrets that could tear them apart.

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I Need a Sixer!

A small town Local, who owns and operates his own Ghost Hunting company, gets wrapped up in an actual haunting when he investigates a friend’s home.

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Incel

An attention seeking social media influencer unwittingly attracts an incel who will stop at nothing to make her his girlfriend.

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Kudzu

CHILDREN OF THE CORN meets SHERRYBABY – A recovering addict must rescue her estranged son from an “orphanage,” which is actually a front for a dangerous cult that turns children into murderous criminals.

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Leapers

A holiday anniversary bash at a lake resort in Alaska goes horribly wrong when unnatural things crash the party and the guests become ferociously disagreeable. Contains horror, graphic violence, action, adult language and a bit of Grindhouse..

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Lovecraft: Into The Abyss

When a young H.P. Lovecraft is framed for murder, he discovers that his stories have come to life! His only hope is to seek help from famed magician and skeptic Harry Houdini to clear his name, and to search for the one thing that may send the darkness back: the Necronomicon.

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Mind Games

A remote holiday on The Isle of Wight turns into a nightmare for a group of friends as their country getaway becomes a fight for survival.

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Mother, Maiden, and Crone

After a young mother loses her baby in a tragic accident, three friends take her river rafting to escape her grief for a few days. Curiosity leads them to explore remote caves rumored to be a witch’s den, a hellish place from which only one will emerge, forever changed.

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My Corpse

A time rift brings a man face-to-bones with his murdered corpse. His efforts to discover his killer and change the future keeps bringing him back to his new wife and their disturbing past.

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Open House

A pregnant African American veteran, married to a fellow ex-marine now former prison warden, desperately struggles to protect her family when deadly invaders from her husband’s past pay an unwelcome visit.

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Parasomniac

When an experimental drug induces parasomnia in a failing dancer, she begins living a wild, enviable life every night, retaining no memory of it upon waking. One day, the dancer learns that her nocturnal alter ego is doing unspeakable things.

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Sapien

A father, on a weekend camping trip with his blended family, must fight to protect his loved ones as they are relentlessly hunted by an elusive evil hellbent on taking and impregnating his daughter.

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Shunned

A teen’s bullies recklessly summon an erratic demon that puts him into a coma, but his then-disembodied spirit allows him to dole out revenge while struggling to protect his family.

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Soul Passage

Nick Faulk, a clever ex-NYPD cop turned small town detective on the verge of retirement is forced to take on one last case when his teenage daughter is abducted on a school field trip.

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Study In Blue

Trapped for the Winter with the body of his dead wife, a man discovers a family secret, explores a mysterious mountain top and tries to live with the guilt of an infidelity.

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The Beast Within

London surgeon Doctor Paul Barnet’s career is shattered by a botched surgery and brazen attack nearly taking his life. Because of his downfall from society, loss of skills and the love of his fiancée, Dr. Barnet seeks vengeance through an alter ego-the beast within…Jack the Ripper.

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The Black Hole

A group of guys head out to enjoy a much deserved guys night out and paintballing is on the menu. The team they are playing has something entirely different in mind.

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The Child

Things turn deadly, when a woman attempts to help a lost, mute child and her companion — a disquieting doll who appears to harbor protection schemes of her own.

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The Cure

After being diagnosed with a rare brain disease that leads to madness and death, a teenager must fight for her life while trying to hold her fractured family together, and defeat an unknown entity who’s determined to attack her by any horrible means necessary.

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The Girl, Maura Bund

When the bones of a long missing teen are unearthed, an outcast girl decides to solve the mystery herself in an effort to impress her classmates, drawing the attention of the killer and marking her self as the next potential victim.

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The Last Man On Earth

The day after a botched proposal attempt prompts a woman to tell her would-be fiancé she wouldn’t marry him “if he was the last man on Earth,” she wakes up to find that all human males have died overnight, except her ex – and now she has to win him back if she wants the wedding of her dreams.

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The Man In The Hat

It’s the first day in a new town. The movers set a box of books into Alicia’s room. This box had not come with them. An old poem written on parchment paper, called The Man in the Hat, drops out of one of the books. Unknowingly, Alicia opens a door inviting him back into our realm when she reads it.

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The Millhaven Chronicles

In dead end Millhaven, Mildred’s magical powers don’t do her any favors. When her girlfriend is kidnapped by the Cult of Azazeroth, Mildred must confront her abilities and mysterious past- to prevent the apocalypse!

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The Musketeers And The Zombies

The classic Alexandre Dumas action adventure novel, “The Three Musketeers,” ends in 1628. Thereafter, Aramis goes on to serve God as a Jesuit priest. Porthos, Athos and the newly commissioned lieutenant d’Artagnan move on with their lives, as well. The enmity with their number one antagonist Cardinal Richelieu remains.

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Third Date

When a woman learns that her new boyfriend must feed her to a demon in order to survive, she chooses to cut off parts of herself to keep him, and their relationship, alive.

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Thoughts And Prayers

The frequency of school shootings in America continues to increase while the nation’s response remains the same: Thoughts and Prayers. Synopsis: Through endless bullying at his private school, Azrael creates a comic book superhero to help cope with the pain.

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Time Warp

A space exploration team is propelled into a time lapse which places them face to face against an extraterrestrial entity that threatens their very existence

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Trip

Celebrating their 1-year anniversary, boyfriends Warren and Trip take a scenic journey across the US Southwest in Warren’s aging Jeep Cherokee. When Trip is bitten by an unknown creature and mysteriously begins to transform…

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Voo Doo Point

The lives of a struggling photographer and a long-suffering architect intersect when people suddenly go missing, and New Orleans voodoo magic entangles them in their own dark pasts.

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Voodoo Child

A guilt-ridden, self-destructive reporter investigates a serial killer terrorizing New Orleans seven years after a similar killer murdered her entire family.

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Zero Feet Away

With the help of a therapist and his best friends, MANDY and BEN, OSCAR is getting over a brutal breakup with his ex JASON, all of whom are the keepers of a secret: Oscar is a werewolf.

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