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Wake Upby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
Guests at a funeral home are in for a Wake Up call, when their loving deceased BJ speaks at his own Wake.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cell Matesby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2024
A new inmate learns her prison cell is haunted by a brutal male spirit, forcing her into a deadly struggle for survival against the unseen.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Other Sideby  Marguerite Carmene Vil
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2024
After a late-night shift, Vee spots her friend Alex entering a mysterious glowing door in a dim alley. Unable to resist her curiosity, Vee steps through and is transported into a surreal digital realm where the dark web manifests in real life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Phantom of The Internetby  Will Jones
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2024
To gain a following on social media, a self-obsessed young man undergoes plastic surgery to look like a popular filter that deforms your face.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2025
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bug Boyby  J. J. Hillard
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025
A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Northwoodby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hearse from Beyondby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2024
On Halloween night, young trick-or-treater Daniel Taylor catches a glimpse of the town's sinister old undertaker -- and turns out to be the last person to see him alive. (In the vein of the original Twilight Zone series. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pity the Poor Cowboyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 06 May 2025
A Western musical in which two cowboys mourn the passing of one of their own.

Genre: Musical
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vaccineby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2024
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
The Watchersby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2024
A high school senior, once haunted by mysterious events, is thrust back into a nightmarish realm when a dark figure reemerges, leading him on a perilous journey.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Long Momentsby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
An alcoholic living in a small town stubbornly refuses to change, even when his high school sweetheart returns for their reunion, stirring memories of the life he left behind and the man he used to be.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Report Just In...by  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2023
A schoolboy’s ill-thought-out plan backfires when his mother uncovers his subterfuge when his school report is received by post. However, his fears of a damning report appear unfounded - for a time, anyway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas from the Crapperby  Wendy Appelbaum
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2024
When IBS threatens to derail a Christmas-obsessed man’s quest to host his annual public access Holiday Show, he must fight against the “natural forces” to ensure that the show goes on.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sentinelby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooper (revised)by  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2025
DB cooper jumps from a 727 with $5 million and then robs a Brinks warehouse. He and beautiful Andrea visit Seattle, Alaska, Hollywood Boulevard, and Avalon. They buy a villa on the French Riveria. Remember, DB Cooper was never caught. This is the real story!

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Night Killerby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A woman and her son have to survive a dangerous man who comes to kill them.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Schoolby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2024
An obsolete radio escapes into a world of drugs to find solace from a fast moving society he cannot keep up with.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloodiedby  Adam Dyer
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2024
Newlyweds Melanie & Carl Colvey move in to their dream house in their favorite neighborhood. After discovering the house to be the scene of a grizzly murder, they must decide whether to leave immediately, or live with a horrible truth.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Imagine That!by  Tina Czarnota
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2024
Grace under pressure can be a royal disaster.

Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Burnby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
A story about an African American woman who survives a fire incident and fears to find love again. A romantic drama story which shows the power of love.

Genre: Romance
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Guantanamo Galaby  Robert Ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Musk’s DOGE team’s preps the opening of the prison—adding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnel—Trump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricity—the one with the electric chair. What happens next is… well, electrifying.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Endless Loveby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
With hopes of getting vengeance, an army major suckers his daughter’s killer into participating in a military experiment involving an erratic timeline-teleportation-chamber, but there is no vengeance to be had only horror.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Never The Same Miraby  Michael Thomas Yahn
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2024
Never The Same MIra is a short film script about a remarkable young teen with the ability to shape shift. Her special ability is much needed when her and her little brother's attempt to track down local bank robbers goes sideways, but there's only one problem with Mira's power...she has no control over what she changes into, and when.

Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killergartenby  Chris Fell
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2025
Being devoted assassins and parents makes up for a healthy work-life-death balance.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Boisterousby  Subhashree Srinivasan
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2024
Four drunk men argue over corpses they find in a pub, all mysteriously missing their shadows.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The House that Whispersby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2024
Two boys explore an abandoned house rumored to answer questions with eerie whispers, but a cruel prank turns deadly when the house reveals it has secrets—and a sinister voice—of its own

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kick-Ass Picnicby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
Neal and Amy meet up for their first date, a relaxing picnic in the woods. But their tranquility is soon thwarted by spoiled food, a sudden skin rash, an angry tree, and lots of blood. (1 location, 3 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cutby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A dark comedy (unless you’re Bill, the protagonist, who would call it a horror film) that provides a warning to any man who even thinks about doing wrong to his woman.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Utopian Tetragonby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2024
In a meta twist of fiction, a struggling novelist pens a novel about his own attempts to gain representation in the cutthroat world of literary agents, all while contending with eccentric neighbors and a disinterested industry, blurring the lines between his fictional narrative and reality in Utopian Tetragon.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooperby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 01 May 2025
DB jumps from a 727 with $500K, falls in love with Andrea, organizes a gang to rob Brinks warehouse. In the meantime: visits Alaska, Seattle, Avalon and Highway 1. Meets Ron Kovich at VA hospital where Viet Nam war is disputed. The gang fights during the split-up meeting. The Viet Nam war ends. DB and Andrea fly to Rome, buy a condo and vow to never return to the US.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Best Manby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Is there a spinster rule when neither your fiancé nor his newly found brother is the Best Man?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond the Doorsby  Bar Mandalevy
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2025
Traveling through the unfamiliar, a man struggles to hold on to reality as the world around him becomes surreal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025
A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Knockoutby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2024
A BOXER receives devastating news from his Wife seconds before a Championship Bout.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young woman from India and a young man of Indian extraction from America don't want to go along with the marriage their parents have arranged for them--until they meet and fall in love. Then their parents fight and call off the wedding.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Devil's Servantby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2025
A murderer kills his improv group after blacking out and pursues members of his neighborhood.

Genre: Horror
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Quantumanic Entanglementby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
Two bickering scientists studying quantum mechanics begin to uncontrollably do the opposite movements to each other after a failed experiment.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Egoby  Ali noun
Date Posted: 28 May 2025
A former investigator, shattered by the death of his family, hunts their killer - to discover that the chasing has been himself all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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