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Vaccineby  DJ Robbins
The Covid vaccines turn people into Zombies and another vaccine is promised to remedy the original vaccine. The second vaccine causes male sterility.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Writing Wrongsby  Richard Sloggett
Who does a person have to shoot to get their script shot?

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Justifiable Beatingby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Love will make you believe your enemy truly loves you. That's the bitter truth Monica has to swallow dealing with her husband Craig.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Raven Pointby  Jason K. Allen
Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby  Lawrence Riggins
True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something for the Weeekendby  Anthony Cawood
A desperate driver has to jump through hoops to get his car back before the impound yard closes for the weekend.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Aliveby  John Klawitter
Dr.Voit's invention, the Life Spike, can do almost anything - drive a jet plane or bake a perfect dinner - but he'd do almost anything to have a human body.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A naive scientist who has discovered a way to bring people back from the past, interviews infamous dictator Hitler but his German translator has different plans.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by  Ron Brawer
In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Her psyche tainted as a child, a young woman plays out her singular form of vengeance with the help of a unique weapon.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Static Roomby  Dwayne Bricker
A cynical podcast host who prides himself on debunking the supernatural receives a mysterious package of cassette tapes that begin predicting his actions with unsettling accuracy. As he follows their instructions, reality distorts, leading him into a motel room that shouldn't existone that reshapes itself based on his attention. Trapped inside a loop of his own voice, he realizes escape may depend on confronting the connection he's spent his life avoiding.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Regretsby  Patricia Bruce
This edgy screenplay puts a unique spin on a marriage gone bad. Sadly, not all marriages have a happy ending. After years of being a hen-pecked housewife by her unappreciative husband, this boring, mousey housewife suddenly turns aggressive with deadly results...

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Mess With Babyby  Larry E Coleman
A hitman tracks down the runaway degenerate who got his family member pregnant and can't pull the trigger when he finds out who it is.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Box of Antiquityby  Richard Campbell
Richard visits an old man to evict him for back taxes. The old man invites Richard to place a historic relic inside his Black Box of Antiquity. Richard travels back in time to the exact moment that relic is being used by its historic owner. One trip back in time, the Pope arranges for Hitler and his wife to escape from Germany to Argentina.

Genre: Sci-Fi
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what's following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem naturaluntil they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening... and answering back.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clock Of Timeby  Kline Fishborn
On his 18th birthday, Eddie receives a time clock from a strange woman that allows him to travel to the past and the future. At first he was skeptical about the gift, but once he used it he did not immediately understand the great price of time traveling and he loses his youthful years.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
To save her Maui Blue Tours business from a litigious ex-husband, a precision pilot stages a fake mid-air "cartel money drop" that spirals into absurdity when her cat parachutes into a remote valley and is declared a living goddess by a secluded mountain tribe.

Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Let The Lights Go Outby  Bobbie Burgess-Tatum
A family's secret is about to be unlocked and it just may end the world.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Green Dangerby  John Witcher
A science experiment goes wrong and creates one of the most sinister villains of a lifetime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A talented but struggling street clown discovers that the circus scout offering him his big break is a long-term patient at a psychiatric ward, forcing him to confront harsh realities and redefine his dreams of bringing joy to the world.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Same Insideby  John Porter
A young man and his fiance confront the owner of a pharmaceutical company that abducts, mutilates, and kills albinos in Kenya.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A love guru and chemist's attempt to create the world's first ever Love Pill turns catastrophic when a defective batch forces the recipient to want to kill the next person they see. Visually sleek, darkly comic, and psychologically disturbing KILL PILL fuses the tragic irony of Requiem for a Dream with the biotech horror of The Fly. A modern moral fable about the dangers of playing god with human emotion.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Misfortuneby  Jason K. Allen
Two hipsters get more than they bargained for when they break open their fortune cookies. (Surreal horror/comedy. 1 location, limited dialogue.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Carbon Datingby  Barry Staff
Wanting a girlfriend via dating sites while working a lonely late-night shift, a man needs a reappraisal when discovering a beautiful young vagrant hiding there.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Judge Smithersby  timur yildiz
A off kilter Judge goes back to his fraternity to help the organization with a pledge's death during hazing. What he finds out after returning to the college campus is there might be a serial killer on the loose.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Veronicaby  Aranit Alia
VERONICA- A cold, methodical London hitman disguises himself as a high class escort to assassinate an crime boss, but his brutal efficiency hides a secret :the fortune he earns in blood is quietly donated to orphans under the name "Veronica. "

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Magic of Misfitsby  Bill Freas
After suffering a traumatic car accident that takes the life of his alcoholic father, a teen is sent to live with a distant relative in an oppressed blue-collar town, where he meets a group of bullied teens with a special bond and a supernatural secret.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mark has been having dreams that are coming true. His psychiatrist may or may not be a killer. He starts to hear a voice which turns out to be his future self who is trying to warn him of impending danger.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Fine Haunted Tuneby  Vanessa M. Chattman
A violinist obsessed with perfection replaces her fingers with those of deceased prodigies, playing music that drives listeners mad.

Genre: Horror
42 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A grieving girl endeavors to fly on a paper aeroplane.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Writerby  Lamar D. Vine
In a cluttered Chiang Mai apartment, a reclusive expat writer battles creative stagnation and a looming deadline, only to find his sanity unraveling when an obsessive young neighbor invades his space with seductive interruptions, blurring the lines between reality, desire, and the dark toll of his unfinished manuscript.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Junkie's Flawby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
An arrogant heiress's hellish bargain with a demon gives her everything she wants... and takes it all away. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby  NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A sick girl on her death bed receives a candle that, when lit, brings forth new vitality, along with a being who holds secrets of the Universe.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shopping Cartby  Steven Burton
A woman searches to find a stranger man for the return of his fold-able shopping cart, along with the futile search for her long-lost son.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Plumber's Mateby  Elliot Stanton
A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Herbert the Clownby  Doug J Robbins
A killer stalks a couple during a romantic Halloween weekend getaway

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby  John Waring
A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
To the Moonby  Michael Dukakis
A feminine young boy from a troubled family tries to escape his father's escalating abuse by fulfilling three magical tasks in his grandmother's fairy tale.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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