Submission Samples from the Horror Genre

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: Daughters of the Teardrop Sea

Logline: Almost given up for brain dead, a pregnant psychiatrist journeys desperately in her unconscious to communicate with her foetus, causing the baby to possess strange powers.In the hospital chaos ensues

Synopsis: Anyone who knows Laura can see she has it all. A psychiatric resident at a major hospital, married to a surgeon she loves deeply, six months pregnant with her first child she seems to be immune to danger. A terrible accident proves otherwise. Driven into a deep coma, Laura awakes in her own unconscious mind with one goal before her: to save the life of her unborn baby. Using all her skill and finding guidance through familiar myths and legends, she embarks on an oddessy of hope. Her remarkable journey may be successful, but what price will she, and her child, have to face? As a gifted infant with extraordinary powers is released into the world, everyone around her must face their own hopes...and fears. Will the child be a promise of a new begining, or a threat to a desperate humanity?

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: Killer Worms

Logline: Sam Mendoza, who spent time in prison, returns to his roots to rekindle romance and start a new life, only to face a menace in the form of flesh eating worms.

Synopsis: WGA Registration Number: 1036868 Synopsis: After spending several years in prison for fraud, Sam Mendoza returns home to his roots to start over and rekindle a high school romance. On his first day back, he saves the life of a high school buddy, who in return, offers him a job working for his company. His neighbor,high school friend and deputy sheriff, investigates a homicide where the victim's flesh is eaten off through the bone. Mmutilated animals and another victim pop up at nearby farms, one of which raises earthworms. Little did he realize that the farmer was a government scientist who developed unconventional weaponry that has returned as an uncontrollable contagion threatening the citizens of a nearby town. Our heroes, Sam Mendoza, Deputy Bobby Brooks, and news anchor woman, Francis Lopez, break rules so that they can discover and find ways of stopping this impossible menace.

Title: The Scary Kids Club

Logline: Five kids meet in a haunted cemetary at midnight, to tell scary stories - the teller of the least scary tale has to spend the night in a crypt. Unknown to them, they are being watched by two ghosts.

Synopsis: The Scary Kids Club, is about four boys and a tomboy girl, aged between twelve and fourteen years, who sneak out of their homes at midnight to meet up in a mausoleum in the local spooky cemetary. Each of them must tell a scary tale, and the one who tells the least frightening story must spend the night alone - locked up in the crypt. The leader of this macabre group, Randy, leads the meeting and bullies the other members. Mel, another member of the Club, has brought his nervous friend Charlie to the meeting to try to have him initiated into the club. Charlie has prepared a story about a person being trapped in a mausoleum and being attacked by skeletons - skeleton that gruesomely kill their victim. Unknown to the youngsters, they are being observed by two cemetary ghosts who do not like kids in general, and who take a particular dislike to Randy. After Charlie's story, Randy proclaims that Charlies tale is the least frightening and that he must sleep in the mausolem alone.

Title: AMERICAN HUNGER

Logline: A small, isolated southern town is torn apart when a dead boy is resurrected during funeral services.

Synopsis: Dearest Agent, I am writing to you from deep within an underground bunker to gauge interest in representing me and my new feature-length screenplay AMERICAN HUNGER. It is a period zombie horror screenplay dealing with issues of racism and religion. Readers for FirstGlance International Film Festival (I was a finalist in 2009), have said of my work, "It is highly imaginative, funny, exciting, thought-provoking... All the good stuff" (their words, not mine). Another reviewer under the employ of BlueCat Screenplay Competition claimed, "One of the most unique and original pieces a reader can ever come across. Its imagination knows no bounds." Please let me know if you're interested in having a look. Thank you. Your Brother in Arms, Victor de Oliveira

Title: Inked in Blood

Logline: A young man with a tortured past discovers that you really can go home again. To kill.

Synopsis: Aesop Quarrels has returned to the town he ran away from as a young boy, with one thing on his mind. Revenge. Sheriff Edsall Quarrels was a cruel, ruthless and vindictive man on his best of days. After the birth of Aesop, his freakish Albino son, (his words), Edsall decided to sell his wife out to his friends for money, instead of killing her outright for birthing this abomination. Amidst the constant abuse, Aesop was forced to endure the sights and sounds of his mothers suffering at the hands of his fathers weekly poker buddies as they played out their deepest, darkest perversions behind closed doors. Inked in Blood starts mid thrust on this twisting trail of carnage that ultimately must lead to Aesop facing the one man responsible for their suffering. One by one he will make them pay. And, among the wreckage of human flesh, Aesop will uncover a hidden family secret. * Winner of the 2014 Table Read My Screenplay Competition, Horror category.

Title: The Bleachers

Logline: Six students spend the night in their school on the anniversary of a town legend - the birth of a hideously deformed beast called the Bleacher Creature.

Synopsis: Emory Chase, a popular, yet play-it-safe senior at Ozark High has known about the legend of the "Bleacher Creature" for years; heard it numerous times from her father who attended school there as well. But unlike most students who write it off as a silly urban legend, Emory believes there might be some truth to it. So when her friends decide to spend the night in the school on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the legend, she's more than a little apprehensive. But friends can be persuasive, and what the heck, it's her senior year - time to get a little crazy. It doesn't take Emory long to realize she should've trusted her instincts, because some legends are real, and this one will to kill to prove it.

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. If they are going to die, by god, they're going to take some lawyers with them.

Title: Creating Perfection

Logline: A man is suffering from terrifying psychotic hallucinations, upon realizing this, he manages to manipulate them, to create his own perfect life and completely loses touch with his perceived reality.

Synopsis: John just lost his religous mother to cancer. This event left him bitter and angry. On his way to work, he experiences something strange and terrifying. Years later, he's living the perfect life. After retiring from a successful soccer career, he lives in a mansion with his beautiful wife and daughter. After a few mysterious encounters with a hobo, John's abducted from his mansion and eventually ends up in a hospital. There, he recieves the help from a doctor and the shocking truth is revealed. John is suffering from a severe psychosis, resulting into various hallucinations. John managed to control and manipulated these hallucinations. And thus was able to create his perfect life, all in his own mind. Two monts later, he's released from the hospital and seems to be completely recovered. A few weeks later, an object triggers him to see the ultimate truth. Nothing was ever real, as a kid he suffered massive brain damage in a car accident and is actually in a vegative state.