Submission Samples from the Thriller Genre

Title: The Devil's Finest

Logline: Three vengeful sisters seek out offenders of the Law and punish them without mercy. They are called the Furies.

Synopsis: The Furies have relocated from Moscow to Philadelphia. The have their eyes on a new breed of criminals. The type that can easily escape the Law. Melissa and Brandon have made a lot of money stealing and selling Human organs. Their luck has run out. The Furies are hot on their trail, and look to end their careers. Ralph Adams has poisoned his boxer and now his boxer is dead. Ralph is sorry for what he did, but has no intentions of turning himself into the authorities. They Furies look to change his mind. Taylor Simmons has been infecting women with his disease long enough. The Furies look to stop this fiend before he infects another woman. Gail Jones has murdered her father and the Furies will punish her in ways no human could ever think of. Gail's plans of escaping murder will soon come to an end.

Title: Crime Pays

Logline: A drug kingpin, his gun-nut sidekick, pill-pushing co-eds, and a kid sister with an axe to grind collide with a crazy-in-love couple who've just escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.

Synopsis: Loring de Troyes will torture as many employees as he has to to stay out of prison. He's come down to New York with Gomer, his trigger-man, for his monthly meeting. Ysa is supposed to give Loring his cut of last month's take in exchange for this month's pills. Trevor-who has secretly farmed out his work to college kids, Devin and Aysha-pushes the product. If anyone strays from the path, Loring will cut his losses, wrap them in plastic, and dump them in the Niagara Falls. It will not be the first time. Birdie and Jitterbug have been madly in love since the day they met at Grover Secure Psychiatric Institute. After their dramatic and homicidal escape from Grover, they find themselves in desperate need of cash. They learn of the drug-money exchange and see it as an opportunity to obtain funding for an impromptu honeymoon. They will stab, shoot, blow up, set ablaze, and eviscerate all who try to stop them; 'cause they love each other. And woe betide anyone who gets in the way of that.

Title: COPIER SALESMEN

Logline: During the 2002 DC Sniper Crisis, a young salesman has one week to close a deal or his addicted mother in New York will be killed by a heartless drug dealer.

Synopsis: A young COPIER SALESMEN caught in the middle of the 2002 DC Sniper crisis, XAVIER THOMAS' life altering dilemma begins on Monday, October 7th and comes to a violent end on Friday, October 11th. Financially strapped after squandering a string of sales deals, a frustrated XAVIER is on the verge of losing his sanity, apartment, and employment. His crooked Sales Manager TREAVA offers a way for him to stay employed at DIGI-TECH SOLUTIONS: traffic Heroin for her in his sales territory. For most of the week, there appears to be no alternative: if XAVIER refuses to traffic narcotics for his boss, her partner-in-crime KONRAD will kill XAVIER'S mother in New York City. Labeled as incompetent for not yet catching the SNIPERS, Rockville Police Chief CHARLES MOOSE continually questions his aptitude as a crime fighter. On Friday, XAVIER devises a way how to save his fragile mother's life while restoring the public's confidence in MOOSE'S ability to fight crime.

Title: MALIGNED

Logline: Unbeknownst to the people who call him friend, Sidney is a twisted serial killer playing them all against each other for his own demented desires.

Synopsis: Following Shakespeare's classic Othello, Sidney seems to be an ordinary man who deals with work, hangs out with his friends and tries to balance a relationship at the same time. Only Sidney also murders people. When he is passed over for a promotion by Julius, who considers Sidney to be his best friend, Sidney's murderous mind concocts a devious plot for vengeance. He uses Julius's jealous nature to convince him that his girlfriend has been unfaithful to him with the very man given the promotion. Sidney places himself as Julius's sole advocate, all the while waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Leading this near-perfect double life, this psychotic serial killer pits all his unsuspecting friends against each other in a deadly game of cat and mouse- until his web of lies began to crumble around him. When his plot is finally discovered, this psychopath is forced into a confrontation from which no one may get out alive. WGA Registered #1276704

Title: Served Cold

Logline: Derek Wilson returns home to find his wife and two daughters murdered in cold blood. Now, there is nothing that can stop him from finding out why.

Synopsis: Derek Wilson is an average man of average means who returns home from work late one night to find his wife and two daughters murdered in cold blood. His eyes burn with THEIR love and HIS thirst for revenge. With complete access to an advanced weapons development company there is nothing that will stop him from finding out why. Through the complicated weave of lies and corruption Derek is not alone in his search for the truth. Detective David Riley is assigned to the case whose own brush with the violent murder of his family begins to cloud his judgement of right and wrong. Will Riley stop Derek's crazed rampage or will his own conflicting emotions over the definition of justice win out?

Title: Just Vengeance

Logline: Vincent Magna is a ruthless corporate executive, who after being accused of murder demonstrates that he is willing to use all means necessary to the one thing that matters most to him.

Synopsis: Just Vengeance is a 2013 Scriptapalooza Quarterfinalist. Vincent Magna's goal in life is to feed his lust for money and power. Vincent is involved in bribery, money laundering, and international rate fixing. His financial empire is threatened when his is accused of the murder of his former maid Lucinda Marquez. J.T. Stamper is a tough LA police detective who seeks to bring Vincent to justice. Our greedy executive must dodge a federal corruption investigation. He is beaten and jailed but stays in the fight. Vincent suffers the loss of his precious Magna corp. and must work to get it back. Vincent is able to unravel the conspiracy against him. The feds prove that it has no control over corporate criminals. In the end corporate greed is more powerful than justice. Vincent saves himself from prison and regains what is most important to him. Magna corp. This script is in the vein of Wall Street and The Insider.

Title: The Indigo Child

Logline: The story of one man's dream to search for the one child who will restore peace and hope to mankind, in a time of unrest and despair -- is it only a dream?

Synopsis: "The Indigo Child" is a thriller-drama set in the year 2019. Tomas, a reiki healer who lives in a small community in the forests of Brazil, has a dream one night, about a special child of unique ability. Tomas believes this child to be the key to healing the world which has been greatly devastated by war, economic turmoil, epidemics and incessant suffering. Later events lead him to decide to risk it all and embark on a perilous search for this special child, the one he calls "the Indigo child". With the help of two unexpected companions, Sean, a skillful (and ever-cynical) mercenary and Diana, a beautiful UN female missionary, Tomas has to face and survive the treacherous roads of South and Central America, the rampant diseases and the ruthless attacks of the private armies in order to ultimately reach New York City. Only then will he able to find out if the Indigo child truly exists, and if mankind will ever be reunited again.

Title: the Phantom pain

Logline: Successful financial manager from Washington becomes the only man capable of preventing the greatest terrorist attack in history.

Synopsis: Steve Alridge enjoys his life - great job, beautiful wife, great perspectives. Everything changes when he experiences a murder, committed by a man who looks exactly like exact copy of Steve himself - but it happened on the other side of the globe. In 2 days CIA finds Steve and offers him the strangest bargain in his whole career, on the result of which the lives of millions of people, including Steve's own, will depend on.

Title: The Hatchet Fairy

Logline: A fairy tale willing to bleed its way to the ball

Synopsis: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Bitty had always been a strange sister, so when Lore met Bitty's fairy godmother for the upcoming ball, she didn't think much of it. Sure, the fairy godmother was mean and drank scotch, but then again, Bitty was a personal injury lawyer, so allowances had to be made about her mental stability. After refusing to go the ball and disgust the prince with her appearance, Lore wakes to find her roommate dead and Bitty still thirsty for blood. With the first strike of midnight, Bitty's gone and Lore's bleeding. Kill or be killed, the ghosts finally convince her. Armed with only her shoes, Lore has to survive the ball, ignore the prince, and kill her sister to stay alive. Nicer than the ghosts in The Sixth Sense, more honest than Cinderella, and bloody as Scream's little sister, I would love the chance to send you a copy of The Hatchet Fairy. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Abby Winter

Title: Intimate Bondage

Logline: Dear Sirs: For your consideration: Kate Dawson, a homicide detective with a past, must enter the seedy underworld of porn shops, Internet sex sites, and S&M clubs to catch a sadistic serial killer.

Synopsis: Kate Dawson was once an up-and-coming star of the San Francisco Police Department. Then she came home one day to find her daughter the victim of a senseless shooting with Kate's own service revolver. Now, 4 years later, she sees a chance to redeem herself. Two victims are dead, and Victim #3 has just been found murdered, shackled in a dungeon, beaten and castrated. The only lead: the name of a sadistic Dominatrix - Crystal Rose - on a provocative email found at the crime scene. Dawson quickly finds herself on the trail of a serial killer who uses the seedy underworld of porn shops, Internet sex sites, and S&M clubs to target victims. When Kate's partner becomes Victim #5, she is forced to team with suspect Jay Monroe, a psychology professor with a penchant for mind games and S&M, to trap the killer. A clever game of cat and mouse ensues. Only who is after whom? As they move closer towards Monroe's desires for "intimate bondage," Kate Dawson may have to sacrifice all to get her killer.