Submission Samples from the Horror Genre

Title: Dead of the Night

Logline: A survival horror story centered around several groups of survivors trying to escape their hometown, which has become ground zero for a zombie outbreak.

Synopsis: In the middle of the night, a mysterious explosion is seen in the sky above the college town of Evans City. The next morning, the town's residents are becoming infected by the chemicals in the explosion and are turning into hideous, flesh and blood devouring ghouls. In the midst of this horror, we meet several groups of survivors including a young college student trying to find his girlfriend, a young woman who barely escapes death when her roommate is infected, a couple on the run after their friends turn and try to kill them, and a family who is forced to run when their neighborhood goes to hell. These disparate groups must find a way out of town and a way to survive as the world quickly and violently crumbles around them.

Title: Zombie, Esq.

Logline: Lawyers have finally evolved

Synopsis: A normal paralegal in a typical law office on an average day, Henry didn't think anything was strange when the lawyers threw boxes at her and screamed for raw meat. Even the bloodstained shirts and screaming secretaries didn't seem terribly unusual. And yes, it was a little odd that Edward John Johnson tried to eat her face, but he'd always been touchy-feely. Henry wasn't alarmed until she saw something so disturbing, so implausible, that she nearly became paralyzed with shock. The bloody, twitching lawyers, who had already eaten most of the support staff, were putting papers into files. Yes, she and the other survivors realized, this was the apocalypse, and they were going to be eaten by the swarm of lawyer zombies driven by their bloodlust to eat live flesh and reorganize files. Now, maybe, just maybe, if they can make it to the service elevator, an elevator the lawyers don't know exists because it is a functional part of the office, they can escape

Title: SPOOK ALLEY

Logline: Six friends sneak into a local spook alley the night before it opens, only to find that their evening of fun has turned into their worst nightmare.

Synopsis: The night before a local spook alley opens, three of its employees sneak back in for a fun night scaring their dates. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out. Their evening of fun rapidly turns into their worst nightmare as they begin to die and disappear in the most freakish of manners. Their friendships are soon tested to the limits as they are forced to evaluate whether one of them is the killer, or if someone else is in the building, or if the spook alley itself is processed by evil spirits. With every effort to escape blocked, the survivors find themselves being driven deeper into the carnivalesque world of freakish insanity. Unable to tell what is real and what is counterfeit, they must trust and stay together...even if it kills them. WGA#-1011324

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: House of Screams

Logline: When her crisis pregnancy goes into crisis mode, a young woman ends up at the mercy of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a real-life criminal who brutally murders newborns.

Synopsis: Brenda is a young woman living with her boyfriend Sean when she finds out, to her chagrin, that she is pregnant. Brenda and Sean remain undecided on what to do with the baby, until a shocking detail emerges: the Sean is not the father! Sean refuses to raise the child and insists on Brenda having an abortion. Brenda sets up an appointment at Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic for the following day. Brenda dreams at terrifying nightmare about Gosnell, and decides she doesn't want to follow through, but Sean insists. At her appointment, Brenda is abandoned and gives birth to a living baby. She wanders the clinic with her baby, looking for help. She discovers Gosnell's murderous ways and tries to escape, but Gosnell catches her, sedates her into a stupor, and his assistant brutally murders the baby. Sean arrives at the clinic and takes Brenda to the hospital, where she regains consciousness asks the inevitable question: what happened to her baby?

Title: Banker Boy

Logline: A disgruntled bank employee robs his bank and leaps into a taxicab to make his getaway only to be taken on a psychotic and murderous rampage by a serial killer who likes to play deadly games.

Synopsis: WREN RYDER, a young loan officer, is fed up with his tedious bank job. His broken down car needs repairs and he is tired of being broke. After years of loyal service, Wren asks for a raise and his boss blasts him with an emphatic "No!" Pushed to the brink, Wren stuffs his briefcase full of cash from the the vault and runs for it. He burst into a taxicab driven by RAY LANDING a pyschotic country boy on the loose, to make his getaway. Along their way, Ray pulls into a desert mini mart to fill the car with gas. He goes inside to pay or so it seems, instead he robs the store at gun point. An hour later, the police pull them over. Ray kills the officer with his .357 as he stands at the car window. Ray wallups Wren in the head leaving him unconscious, steals his money, and then sets him up to be arrested. Wren makes a deal to pay back the money he stole and catch Ray. Wren tracks down Ray at the horse track and takes revenge and finds out that crime really does pay.

Title: In Joy and Sorrow

Logline: Sometimes the sins of the past have a habit of catching up, and giving one the harsh sentence of justice. Sometimes these situations can become horrible - truly horrible.

Synopsis: When you've done something wrong, don't you wish you can just run, hide somewhere and hope the problem - and punishment - will go away? Sometimes though, the sins of the past have a habit of catching up, and giving one the harsh sentence of justice. In the dead of winter, a doctor does the unthinkable. After committing the worst crime imaginable, Dr. Emmerick Stone Kelly has to escape his sins. With the help of Sheriff Robert Strohl, he runs away to the small, yet unknowingly deadly, town of Susannah. Now, with all of his past behind him, he tries to start a new life. With all of the haunting memories resting on his shoulders, however, he soon finds that the beautiful town of Susannah is more than he bargained for. Now Kelly is faced with deadly neighbors and dancing ghouls. What else lurks in the shadows? And how will Kelly escape the sinister realm of Susannah? Based on the novella "In Joy and Sorrow".

Title: Drowning The Night

Logline: A twentyfive year old down on his luck music producer, falls into a world of Voodoo. It lead him to a path of assaults, rapes, and murders.

Synopsis: This is the story of Nigel Grazziano, an African American who was adopted at birth by an Italian family on the upper west side of Manhattan. Nigel`s luck seems to be quickly running out. He`s broke, homeless, and his new girlfriend is more costly than he can afford. His best friend is constantly getting him into trouble with local hoods in the nearby neighborhood. Nigel is on the edge of a nervous break down and the possibility of going totally mad. The night when his bestfriend is killed, it sends him over the edge. After several nights of seeing voodo spririts, Nigel is posessed. Now his nights will never be the same.

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 daring rock climber stranded in a remote mountain range fights for her life against a local man whose grisly secret is an obsession with human bones and the twisted lenghts he goes to indulge it.

Synopsis: NANCY THOMAS, 24, speed climbs a sheer cliff without the aid of ropes or gear. Using only her hands and feet she skillfully maneuvers jutting boulders and impossibly angled walls. She's confident and strong until a problem with one of her legs stops her. At the same time, a Man shovels human bones and ash from a crematory furnace. He puts aside a skull and pelvis then dumps the rest into a grinder. He pours the remaining ashes into an urn and slaps on a dog-bone shaped label, "Fluffy" Miller. Nancy's doctor warns her never to climb again. Devastated, she heads to the Northern California mountains with her dog, FREEWAY, to prove to herself he was wrong. Freeway escapes and is hit by a car. She takes the injured dog to the only veterinarian nearby, handsome DAVID DENMEYER, 30s. She's grateful and attracted to the charming Doctor...until she discovers his deadly secret. Then in spite of her disabililty and fear she must use her wits and rock climbing skills to survive. (98pgs.)