Submission Samples from the Horror Genre

Title: From The Dark Stream

Logline: A man tortured by his past attempts to communicate with his dead family and inadvertently draws evil spirits into his life.

Synopsis: Edgar Stengal wishes for death and is consumed with guilt over causing an auto accident that took the lives of his wife and child and left him with a head injury that has given him the ability to see other people's auras. He takes up meditation in a attempt to contact his family but instead is plagued by visions of a palindrome speaking Reaper. When Edgar meets the mysterious Natasha, who has no aura, he learns that the place he is using to meditate was the site of a brutal murder, and that the meditative messages he's been sending his family may have been received by someone, or something else. Bob Melon sees U.F.O.'s wherever he goes. He's a local celebrity who bills himself as "The U.F.O. Magnet". Bob is totally obsessed with discovering why the U.F.O's are making themselves known to him. He has a recurring dream that includes Edgar Stengal wich may hold the key to the answers he seeks. When Edgar and Bob meet, events unfold that reveal the sublime evil that binds them.

Title: DARK SEASON

Logline: To save the lives of his son and the townspeople of Danaid, Alaska, a local Sheriff must kill the only woman he's ever loved, his wife.

Synopsis: An unidentified body found deep in an Alaskan mine shaft triggers a secret organization called the Ministry of the Wraith to dispatch a hunter to Danaid, Alaska. The hunter, Bishop Kane, arrives with only one purpose: to kill Petra Berlin, a loving mother and wife of the town's Sheriff Sean Berlin. For she is hiding a terrifying secret that rises closer to the surface with each darkening day. With Danaid's six month dark season just days away the assassination attempt fails and Petra's secret is unleashed. As darkness falls the townspeople begin to disappear, only to return horribly changed. Prepare for the Dark Season.

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: Giggle

Logline: After being gruesomly murdered twenty years earlier, a serial killer clown returns from certain death to take revenge on the daughter of the deceased town sheriff who took his life.

Synopsis: Twenty years earlier in a small seaside town, a respected trauma surgeon, DR. GABNEY, who also performedas the town clown, is caught returning to the hospital at night and removing the organs from patients in their sleep leaving them to die. Sheriff TOM MAYER and Officer GORD get justice, shooting and burning the clown to his death, then taking his body to the isolated caves outside of town, burying him forever. Now, the clown returns to take bloody revenge on MAYGAN, daughter of the deceased Sheriff, and her high school friends. the clown tries to kill Maygan with a dirty shovel, but is saved by officer Gord. A year later, Maygan still lives with the trauma of that night, but has made new friends. The clown returns again killing everyone with what ever is at hand except Maygan and pal ANDY. After an attempt to kill the clown in the streets with a gun the clown pursues Maygan to the old hospital. She tries to hide but is cornered. Officer Gord finds Maygan and kills the clown forever.

Title: Prairie Bones

Logline: In this little haunted house on the prairie, family life isn't what it seems.

Synopsis: After losing three children, ETHAN and his pregnant wife, PEARL, are reduced to collecting Buffalo bones on a deserted prairie to survive. Settling the West in 1871 was tough, but worse when you add lies, ghosts and a deranged mind. Ethan tells Pearl he's going to work on the railroad. He arranges for his mother, GERTIE, to come and help deliver the new baby. He leaves in spite of Pearl's mental instability and Gertie arriving injured by an arrow. The injury turns deadly. Pearl is forced to walk through the wilderness for help. She gets to a neighbor's just as an Indian raid is in progress. After a horrific night hiding next to the bodies of a mother and teenage son, Pearl gives birth, alone among the dead. Meanwhile, the ghosts of Ethan and Pearl's children visit Gertie and their father with a warning. Then they go after Pearl. Ethan returns and must face his wife's insanity, the mysterious deaths of the children, and their shared guilt.

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: DARK OF THE NIGHT

Logline: Teenage boy suspects vampirism is running rampant through his small town.

Synopsis: DARK OF THE NIGHT is an atmospheric chiller about a teenage boy who suspects the beautiful girl who has moved into his small summer resort town is a vampire. As the populace of the town slowly begins to disappear, the teenager discovers that the truth is more terrifying than he could have ever imagined. I would describe it as SALEM'S LOT meets FRIGHT NIGHT.

Title: Fear Will Find You

Logline: Fearless man will be taken to the limit when he finds an ancient evil in the heart of Africa.

Synopsis: Ryan is travelling through Africa with his girlfriend Lisa. Although he is a fearless young man, the ancient evil that they will find in the heart of the African savannas will take him to the limit. But he won't stop fighting in order to survive the horror. What he doesn't know, though, is that the force which pursues him is unstoppable as fear itself hunts him.

Title: The Blink People

Logline: Paul Harris - a middle-aged divorced insomniac is desperately trying to make sense of the last forty eight hours of his life.

Synopsis: What does it take to achieve a good night's sleep? Experts suggest herbal teas, soft music, making love, or counting sheep. Paul Harris has tried everything imaginable to combat his insomnia. His co-worker Ryan introduces him to a popular street drug known as the super-sedative. After ingesting the sleep-aid, Paul gets more than his fair share of restful slumber - and entry into an incredible world of people, remarkably similar to everyone he knows - including himself. This highly potent and extremely dangerous sedative takes Harris on an adventure of "environment-altering" events of which he cannot seem to make sense. I would like to submit my feature length screenplay, "The Blink People" an exceptional tale of heart-pounding visual terror for your consideration.

Title: Survivng the Night

Logline: The undead have had it with humanity, and the Sleepy Little Town of San Angelo, Texas is going to be the final battlefield. SWAT Members Johnathan and Gennette Harder are the town's last hope.

Synopsis: The scene opens with the town showing thousands of people lying dead on the streets, but in this moment they didn't stay dead for long. This genetic mist of smoke transformed the dead into the Living Dead. Now the city has been overrun by Zombies except for the few survivors that have been out of the 3 mile range of the mist. These survivors were SWAT Team members, GENNETTE and JOHNATHAN HARDER, along with a few other survivors that were hiding out in an abandoned home along the streets of San Angelo, the leader of the survivors was LARRY HORSE, a banker who led the individual survivors to the abandon house and radioed for SWAT. The group arrives in several locations fighting off the hoardes of zombie after zombie leading to a stand off. Defending the only home they know the group of survivors throw everything they have to fend the invading flesh eaters and condemn them back to hell. In the end the group is led to the OTHER SIDE OF HELL, TX to question the chances of survival.