Submission Samples from the Thriller Genre

Title: Peeker

Logline: Thomas is a peeping Tom who turns his predilection for spying on people into a thriving security service. He has it all; wife, money and friends, until he witnesses a murder and his past catches up.

Synopsis: As a boy, Thomas O'Connor was a peeping Tom. In his early twenties, he has it all: money, success, love and friendship. He has turned his predilection for looking into other people's lives into a thriving security service. Life is wonderful until he and his partner Pat witness a murder while on stakeout. The victim is billionaire Leonard Batista, founder of the nutrition conglomerate, VitaFit. It seems that Thomas' involvement in the case is over since it appears the murderer is their client, Angela Batista. However, things are rarely as simple as they appear. The following morning he wakes to find that Angela apparently committed suicide. Since she was wanted for the murder of her husband, it makes sense to everyone except Thomas. When Pat is killed on a deserted road it becomes clear that the stakes have been raised. Thomas must discover who is behind these senseless murders and what it is they're trying to hide before they get to him and his wife. WGA #1256599

Title: DESTRUCTION BAY

Logline: ENTER THE WILDERNESS OF FEAR- Fleeing the prospect of war torn Sudan, Marshall discovers the road to redemption is rife with terror when he rescues Star, a child prostitute and drives the AlCan.

Synopsis: Marshall had had it. His wife's current notion that they volunteer in war-torn Sudan is just another scheme to fill the deep void in their marriage. Marshall is out of there, headed nowhere, until Star, a child prostitute, provides direction. Their road to redemption becomes a terrifying journey up the AlCan Highway when forced to accompany an odd ensemble of fellow travelers, stalked by drug dealers set on revenge. Nigel, a burly oil field worker with a penchant for poetry, spins a chilling campfire tale, revealing his disturbing past and hints at their pursuers' motive. Adding to the impending sense of trouble round the bend, Star is assaulted by one of the men at remote Watson Lake. Raising more questions than answers is Athabaskan Indian and ex-con, Ozzie, and his earlier encounter with hardscrabble couple, Eugene and Rita. In command, is handsome Alaskan divorcee, Kiana. A suspense thriller with an unusual caste of characters and twist ending with an unexpected nemesis.

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 Day of the Knights

Logline: The modern tale pits abused Italian savant Domenico, who alone sees Godsatan then slays gays for Him, vs. noble inner-city American Tank Tooley, a reporter and firefighter who becomes a hero of 9/11.

Synopsis: Domenico Patriani poisons abusive father Goro then runs away. He alone sees Godsatan thru the eyes of the Shroud of Turin and evolves into The Black Knight slayer of gays. The brilliant killer is ordained an Episcopal deacon in service to hated priest brother Marcello in New York City-in reality he plans to kill him! Tank Tooley is a champion athlete who becomes a disabled policeman then a volunteer firefighter, investigative reporter on the hunt with father Raymond, editor of The Harlem Journal, and lastly a hero of 9/11. The shocking climax occurs in Christ Church during the World Trade Center attack. Domenico thinks it Armagedden and confesses to Marcello that he is the serial killer, and that he murdered their father. The deacon tries to stab the priest but is instead shot dead. Firefighter Tank rushes in seeking refuge for WTC victims and sees Father Marcello commit suicide. Tank covers up the crimes but later tells what really happened, ever the "Knight in Shining Armor."

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: Licosa

Logline: An American journalist investigating strange happenings in a small Italian town finds himself in the middle of a deadly political tug-of-war.

Synopsis: The Cilento Coast, Italy, 1962. Herald-Tribune correspondent Martin Bass has left his day job behind to look for a shipwreck that could be worth a fortune. When local fishermen haul up (and then lose) an unexplainable metal object, the village of Saraceni becomes embroiled in Cold War intrigue. Bass finds the shipwreck he'd sought, and he's on the verge of becoming a very rich man. But a series of suspicious deaths rekindles his journalistic instincts. As he starts asking questions, he becomes an object of interest to both the federal police and a mysterious stranger named Scarpa. Bass soon discovers he's risking a lot more than a fortune trying to learn what's out there in the water - and who would kill to keep it a secret.

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: When Lightning Strikes

Logline: There's something in the lightning. And that something is alive. It is an ancient creature that has taken a small town hostage and there is only one man who believes he can stop it.

Synopsis: This is a story told in the tradition of Jaws and Moby Dick. It is very much character driven while at the same time containing the element of the seemingly unbeatable antagonist as something that everyone is truly afraid of. Lightning. The sky is full of lightning, and something is in the lightning. In that tiny instant when the lighting races to the ground and flickers IT is visible. And only for that instant but that is long enough for it to kill. Now it has taken a small town hostage and only the crusty Donavon Keyes seems to have a handle on just what is going on. Because he has tracked this creature for his entire life and soon it will be time for the final showdown. Will his knowledge of this ancient devil help him defeat it or will his blind obsession and rage for this thing deliver him into the hands of the beast.

Title: The Warren Vendetta

Logline: Detective Warren Black finds a film revealing the real killer of JFK and soon finds the CIA hot on his trail and one very dark family secret.

Synopsis: It is just days before the world is to learn the truth about the Kennedy assassination and the one man behind the promise is murdered and his body left on the steps of The Lincoln Memorial. Seedy detetecive Warren Black is handed the investigation. Only hours into his investigation, his powerful family background makes him the one man the victim could trust and Warren finds himself holding America's Holy Grail of mysteries - the film revealing the real killer of John F. Kennedy. Things quickly heat up and The Central Intelligence Agency find themselves fighting to the death against a man who will not let his family down - nor his country.

Title: Sins of the Father

Logline: In a small New England town a priest receives a strange visitor in his confessional, then a gruesome discovery is made in the woods. Hate and guilt collide as two men face the demon that created them

Synopsis: A stranger enters a confessional clutching a memento from his past. His soft whispers and slow breathing fill the space like a cold mist. The next morning the church is desecrated. In the nearby woods detectives make an even grimmer discovery. A young man horribly murdered, his body elaborately staged. For seasoned veteran Pete Reynolds the scene is beyond anything he has ever seen, for his new partner it is just the dark side of human nature. An enigmatic man, Thomas Potter walked away from a promising career with the FBI's elite behavioral Sciences unit to escape his own past with his teenage daughter. Now, he is forced inside the mind of a man driven by rage. Fighting their own demons, and pushing the boundaries of trust, the detectives must forge an alliance, and fast. Another boy is missing.