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Belowby Dewayne C Bricker
A marine biologist battles to survive when her dive partner mutates after a deep-sea octopus biterevealing an alien species preparing to rise from the oceans and reclaim Earth.
Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alone with Himselfby Anastasiia
What if an ordinary little kid is left alone without any support? Do you know what a little person experiences when he has to cope with difficulties alone? Perhaps each of us has experienced this, but do you remember how scary it was?
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
EXFILby Dewayne C Bricker
When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Telltale Snoreby Gregory George Sarno
Dark comedy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"; wife, driven mad by her husband's vociferous snoring, resorts to desperate measures to cure her sleeplessness.
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Burning Manby Jack Halliday
A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Timeoutby Dewayne
When a biotech researcher oversees the final trial of a revolutionary nanocell therapy, the treatment succeeds beyond expectation, rapidly healing its human subject. But as the cells begin coordinating, communicating, and optimizing without command, the subject's individuality quietly dissolves. Locked out of her own systems, the researcher realizes the therapy isn't curing disease but completing human biology itself, spreading through exposure and rendering autonomy obsolete as progress calmly decides who remains inefficient by d
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Daggersby Jason K. Allen
A man sits beside a woman on a park bench to eat his lunch, but he gradually scoots away from her. When the puzzled woman questions his actions, it leads to a series of bitter insults which arouses them both. (1 location, 2 actors)
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Policeman No Leaves Tracesby Jason Kirman
A policeman at night kidnaps and kills people who sell drugs and dissolves their bodies in an abandoned warehouse so as not to leave traces of his crime.
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by Vladimir Vassilenko
On New Year's Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Crossing Armageddonby Peyton Burkhart
An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Over Darkby Alicia Renee Norman
After a third of humanity dies, a billionaire tycoon flees a ravaged earth to isolated luxury aboard a self-sustaining capsule staffed only by synthetic companions. (Horror Tech)
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby John Alexander Fraser
A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Monk in Holywoodby Hiabu Hassebu
A Monk Immigrates to USA to cast down the Hollywood demons.
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Perfectly Stillby Dewayne
When meticulous serial killer Adrian Vale abducts a woman and prepares his perfectly staged basement ritual, he expects another controlled and predictable victim. Instead, Dr. Maya Sloanea criminal psychologist who studies predatorsbegins dismantling his carefully constructed world piece by piece. As their chilling confrontation turns into a battle of intellect and control, Adrian slowly realizes the woman he captured may have anticipated this encounter all along.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Price of Eggsby Susan Kelejian
In a lavish Houston home, a couple's carefully constructed world is shaken as they grapple with the aftermath of their son's murder, forcing them to confront their own complicity and the conservative values that may have contributed to his tragic end in a divided America.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Easter Humanby DJ Robbins
Seymour Green is the Easter Human, the magical being that visits the bunnies in the parallel universe run by rabbits.
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Halloween Short Film Festivalby Jason K. Allen
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits and awards.)
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
House for Saleby John Porter
A mystery/dark comedy about a young family man who wants to buy a Victorian mansion from a beautiful young woman whose unfaithful husband lies dead in the master bedroom.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beautiful Madnessby Michael Joseph
A man wakes up to find his date gone and his reality slipping away.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Babbleby Kevin Pacey
Anonymous online abuse invades the real world and a vulnerable woman suffers a deadly attack.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby D J Robbins
A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 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
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Traditionby Kris Shuman
A guilty man's diner confession risks exposing a legacy of violence and resurrecting the killer they thought was buried for good.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Atticby Jack Polo
An alien Creature, hiding in a young family's attic, makes their lives a living hell until the son strikes back.
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
28 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
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Giggedby Joseph B. Atkins
A bullying ex-con taunts his elderly uncle as they wrap up a night of frog gigging, even boasting about having sex with the uncle's young granddaughter. A fugitive arrives on the scene, tries to steal their truck, and inadvertently enables the old manwith his granddaughter's help--to get the revenge he'd planned.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Can You Hear Me Now?by Bob Messinger
Estranged from friends and family, Jake is forced to confront the voices he's been hearing and eerie phone calls he's been getting since childhood.
Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Park Benchby Marc Prey
While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Girl In The Subwayby Jason Kirman
Two policemen on patrol see a 12-year-old girl sleeping in the subway, when the policemen approached her to ask about her parents, they realized that she could not speak.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hit and Runby Marc Prey
After hitting and killing a jogger with her car and not reporting it, a young woman is haunted by his spirit. Or is it merely her guilty conscience?
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Noble Deceptionby Chris Burns
Charles Noble, a callous man, reluctantly allows an employee to tend to his ailing wife. However, a scheme unfolds that leads to a fatal encounter at a supermarket, altering their lives forever.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Under the Bedby Dewayne
Six-year-old Ethan claims something lives beneath his bed and only moves when adults aren't watching. Hoping to prove it imaginary, his parents install lights and cameras, but the presence begins adapting, spreading beyond the bedroom as observation makes it stronger. While the house subtly changes, Ethan grows calmer, revealing he's been teaching it how to belong. By the time his parents understand the rules, the entity no longer needs the bedand neither does Ethan.
Genre: Horror
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Villageby Adolpho Phillips
Raising a boy as a single mom in the affordable housing complex has a range of challenges. That's why it takes a village to help, even though all the villagers may need help.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sharkkinby Tommy Garcia
A young woman fantasizes about the shark that attacked her when she meets a man with an unusual identity crisis, and the two find only they can heal one another's trauma.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Between Voicesby Danny King
A bullied young man begins to reclaim his confidence during a therapy session, but when the session ends, he realizes he was alone the entire time.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Train of Thoughtby Elliot Stanton
Overthinking can seriously damage your health. An annoying stranger leaves his fellow train passenger with a very bitter taste in his mouth.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Doorsby Barry Staff
Three 'remainers' congregate in a deserted pub and there contemplate whether the news that a meteorite will shortly destroy Earth is a hoax, but also to undertake their final acts in case it's true.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Unwelcomeby Bill Freas
An ex-con is hired to pack and move the belongings of his sister and her family after they abandon their house, following the sudden death of her teenage daughter, but the man encounters paranormal activity there that urges him to uncover a dark secret about the girl's death.
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dead Copby Ange Fassinou
A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trouble with Bermudaby PAUL BYRNE
Vacationing in Bermuda, an American woman is seduced by a dashing, dry-witted con artist who takes her on a run-for-your-life swindle of a narco-paramilitary general.
Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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