Submission Samples from the Horror Genre

Title: The Diablo in the darkness

Logline: There has always been something out there, watching your evil ways, and now your soul has attracted something unimaginably evil!

Synopsis: There is a place that souls find themselves once they leave the afterlife, some souls may go up or down, but there is a middle, few will venture too, but there evil soul once entered has a chance to be saved and re enter the living world to do good, but not before their souls are un relentlessly cleansed. Story of 4 men: A "Deadly Gang Leader", "Molesting Priest", "Rapist/Killer" and a "Deadly - Suicide Bomber", all whose life's changed when they took innocence and made it into their own devious acts of vengeance. When each dies, their souls experience the cross roads of their horrific ways and enter into the middle world and its hellish fiery under layer, where they experience their greatest horrors and pain imaginable. Find out what happens in this controversial story of characters! Registration Number : 1513607

Title: Dead Awakening

Logline: A small town detective pursues the truth about the identities of a possible killer from the past and a possible terrorist in the present.

Synopsis: Revolutionizing the horror genre, Dead Awakening delves into America's fears of a small town terrorist strike while revealing the hidden threat that sleeps in our own homes. Detective Jim Costa races to save Shady Knoll from an Islamic sleepers cell's attempt to poison the water supply while trying to expose a sadistic killer preying on the town.

Title: Tank Farm

Logline: When a strange vapor cloud envelopes a Refinery's Tank Farm and workers disappear under strange circumstances, the night shift crew must obliterate the evil entity before it destroys them all.

Synopsis: As asphalt pumper, Kevin Gustin and head operator for the Tank Farm Department, Walt Mullen report for the night shift, a bluish-green vapor cloud enters Earth's atmosphere and envelopes their workplace. Their co-workers at the Peedmont Refinery disappear under strange circumstances, and one, Steve Noon, is taken over by the evil entity. With Noon making their job immeasurably more difficult, Mullen, Gustin, and the surviving crew must obliterate the entity before it destroys them all. When the situation looks the bleakest and Walt Mullen may have become another victim, the exhausted Gustin must summon the strength to finish the job.

Title: Daddy Jack

Logline: When a man awakes in an abandoned city with no memory of how he arrived, he must figure out who he is and discover his purpose, all while escaping the city's deadly hunter: Daddy Jack

Synopsis: A man awakes in a strange and deteriorated bedroom only to find that that the rest of the city is in the same condition. As he roams about the abandoned city witnessing strange events and interacting with odd objects, he comes across a frightened girl named Jennifer. When the man attempts to figure out who she is and what they're doing in the city, she simply tells him that Daddy Jack laid her parents to rest just outside of Peek-a-Boo city. Then the man encounters Daddy Jack for the first time. Daddy Jack and his marching band march down the street, searching for the remaining few children that inhabit the city. As the man narrowly escapes Daddy Jack, he meets a woman named Emma. While she is no better able to explain the man's strange situation, she does tell him that she thinks he is dying. As the two attempt to save the children and escape Daddy Jack, they form a strange and loving bond for one another. It is only in the man's last few moments that he discovers who and what he is.

Title: Hands That Shed Innocent Blood

Logline: A terrified young woman struggles to understand her recurring nightmares that recall, reveal, and foreshadow the vicious murders of real children.

Synopsis: Since she was only eight years old, twenty-three year old Molly has been terrorized by nightmares of an evil man who dwells in a cabin in the woods, where he viciously murders unsuspecting children, at their parents' requests. Convinced that she is dreaming about something real; Molly feels compelled to understand these dreams, and stop these horrifying murders. As the nightmares continuously gain a stronger foothold on her conscious and subconscious thoughts, she begins to have hallucinations that make her question her own sanity. Nevertheless, she remains determined to go to any extreme necessary to break free from the emotional torment that has been haunting her for over fifteen years. This script has finished in ninth place in the national Writer's Digest 78th Annual Writer's Competition, in the television/movie script category which includes all genres. If you are interested in representing me, please contact me. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Title: Heartless

Logline: A transplant surgeon is killing children, but one mother, who communicates with the dead, is determined to stop him.

Synopsis: Julie has a gift. Dead people talk to her. When her six year old daughter dies after a heart transplant, spirits tell her the doctor is killing children for a profit. Julie is convinced, but nobody will believe her. She finds other mothers whose children have died at the hands of the same evil doctor, and they launch their own investigation. Eventually, they convince the police of the doctor's guilt and he has to flee. He ends up in Mexico, and at the hands of the spirits of the children he has killed, he meets a fate too horrible for words.

Title: X-Ray

Logline: A female rock climber falls into the world of a serial killer obsessed with x-raying and torturing young women.

Synopsis: NANCY THOMAS, 24, speed climbs a sheer cliff without the aid of ropes or gear. Using just her hands and feet she skillfully maneuvers around jutting boulders and impossibly angled walls. She's confident and strong until a problem with one of her legs stops her. Not far away, DAVID DENMEYER, 30s, x-rays a drugged woman in provocative poses, then himself entwined with her. Later, he forces the young victim to watch as he injects her with euthanasia. At the same time, Nancy receives the devastating medical news that she is never to climb again. Defying the diagnosis she heads out for what she hopes isn't her last climb. On the way her dog escapes and is hit by a truck. She takes it to the only animal clinic in an isolated coastal town. There, she meets veterinarian David Denmeyer. She's attracted to the charming doctor, until she discovers his deadly secret. In spite of her disability and doubt, she must use her wits and rock climbing skills to defeat him.

Title: The Companion

Logline: A reclusive spinster in a Martha's Vineyard mansion tries to escape the ghosts of her past by hiring a companion for her invalid brother who is supposedly confined to an upstairs bedroom.

Synopsis: Grand Prize Winner, 2007 Rhode Island International Film Festival Horror Screenwriting Competition. "Our judges especially liked the tense action of 'The Companion.' The gripping story - filled with isolation and suspense - was especially compelling to our screenplay contest readers." A lonely old woman attempts to flee her self-imposed exile by hiring a mysterious girl as an overnight companion for her brother, crippled by a horrific car crash when he was ten years old. The spinster's new found freedom ends in tragedy, doomed to failure by her deadly legacy. US Copyright TXu-365-094, 7/17/07 WGAE Registration #136563 Contact: Dickinson M. Upson Email: UP265@aol.com Phone/FAX: 508-252-3325

Title: TerrorTown

Logline: The 80s and high school aren't the only things terrifying this group of teens.

Synopsis: My name is Gary Alan Siddons and I have written the horror feature TerrorTown (2002 Zide/Perry Entertainment-Scr(i)pt Magazine Open Door Contest Finalist). The year is 1972, and TerrorTown opens with a Brady Bunch spoof that ends when Alice, disguised in a costume, slaughters the Bradys. We then discover we're in a theatre watching a movie. It's now Halloween 1985, and the audience exits the theatre in a quiet town after having watched the cult-classic, horror film, Terrorville (the Brady spoof). That night someone dressed as the movie killer murders the theatre's manager. Terror on the town begins. The main characters are a group of friends in high school. Over the days leading up to Halloween, the killer slaughters people close to the friends. Every time there is a murder, one of the friends is a suspect. The film ends in a twist of deceit, as the identity of the mastermind behind the killings remains buried in an evil soul or until the sequel. WGAw Reg. No. 1134425

Title: THE EVIL WITHIN

Logline: Six separate stories about what happens when GOOD people stare into the eyes of EVIL.

Synopsis: My personal creation of the NEWS, before THE NEWS. When good people can know longer control THE EVIL WITHIN. Whether you know it or not, there is a battle between GOOD and EVIL that has been brewing since the beginning of time. We watch the local news everyday, and witness the horror mankind inflicts upon each other. Violence has become normal in our everyday society. We always see the aftermath of unfortunate events, but rarely... do we see, what causes good people to do the UNTHINKABLE.