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2024 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Quarterfinalists

by ScreenCraft on December 6, 2023

Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,200 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on January 17th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the Quarterfinalists:

"BLOOD GULLY" Jesse Bouma
"Enduro" Bernadette Rivero
"The Transfer" Brian De Palma
(Li)thium Red Davis
#SelfCare Christian Tucker Perry
A Bad Case of the Mondays Paul Coleman, Matt Landry
A Hymn for the Darkness Alex Sosin, Chris Courtner
A Voyage to Forgiveness Anthony Greenstone
ABOMINATION Corrigan Foley
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING AND THE HUNT FOR DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE      Gary M Raskin
Ada's Bride Michelle Domanowski
All Are Not Lost Melissa Bruning
Alter Garret Ricker
Answer Me Craig Stewart
ARCHIVED Jordan Vogeney
Athena Sabrina Wheeler, Serena Wheeler
Attunement Nick Holiday
Aunt Carrot's Christmas Eve Massacre Adam Lamb
Bad Bad Things Andrew Olson
BADBLOOD Aaron Lovett
Baker's Dozen Chris Leisure, Christy Leisure
Baristas of the Boondocks Theodore Ricker
Be My Eyes Jud Cremata
Beast of Virginia Matthew Corley
Before You Rachel Petzinger
Bestial Tyler Fedele
Better Off Undead Ray Keller
Better the Demons You Know Greg Harvey
Billie Black Nick Reiber
Black Menagerie Justin Sharp
Blindsight James Kriz
BLOOD MOON Caroline Chidester
Blood Yolk Myles Yaksich, Dani Alvarado
Bloodletting Alee Ruggieri
Bloody Burlesque Jill Morley
BLOW Maggie Mae Fish
BORDERLORE: Llorona J. Angel Sierra
Born Again Richard Mathiasen
Botica Matt Healy
Breaker Hill Robyn Kenney
Bright Light nathan crooker, J. Alan Ryker
Burn House Destiny Macon, Sh'kia Augustin
Cadaver Todd Naylor
Camp Mallice Julian Rubin
Candyman Darla Drendel
Cart Girls Juliet Mace, Bill Mace
CASKET GIRL John Darbonne
CAST Kimberley Wells
Cellar Door Sean Buttimer
Cerebral Cheyenn Alberti
Charred Thomas Joseph
Child's Play Charlotte Gajek
Chipper MK Kopp
Chosen Cosmo Wallace
Christmas Feast Bryce Raffle
Cinema Roulette Frankie Infante
Cold Dead Fingers Jack Warner
Conduit Willo Johnston
Contained Jennifer Wilton
CORKSCREW Brett Hauze
Coy Dog Matthew Corley
CRAWLER Luke Harvis
Crimson and Vine Richard Cotzabuyucas
Cryptid Brandon Weavil
Curse of the Final Girl Karen Ralph
Daisy Dips DH F
DANTE'S CIRCUS Sianne Tarda
Dark Frost Ryan Lee
Dawn of the Woman Martyn Eaden
Dead of Night: The Man-Thing Garrett Dunne
Dead-Enders Tyler Walker, Fidel Ruiz-Healy
Deathless Biagio Gulino, Tyler Kamens
DESECRATION Maddy Schwartz
Devil Says Goodnight: Shadow Of The Cross Andrew Monge
Devil's Gate Samuel Holladay
die famous Joshua Sonny Harris, Kathryn Vandervalk
Discreet Jeremy Bradford
Don't Forget About Us Brittany Falardeau
Don't Touch Me Ervin Anderson
Don't Touch the Floor Dayne Tanioka
Doomscrollers Danny Baram
Down Charlie McCarrick
DRAYKULA:GENESIS Jack Polo
Dream Parasite Sora SH Chung
Drip Phoebe Gibb
Eden '93 Julian Martin
El Cucuy Shane Redding
eM David Barras
Emmitt's Culling Jason Miller
End Of Day Andrew Kaberline
FAITHFUL SHADOW Kevin J. Howard
Family Values Vanessa Võ
Fantasma Taylor Tejada
Faux Graham Nelson
Festival Of Souls Patricia McCammond
Final Boy Final Boy
FINAL EXAM C.J. Ehrlich
Flower Park Children Daryl Wayne
For Thy Peace Jordan Klaja
Foreign Exchange Nazanin Anosheh
Foreverland Bev Chukwu
Gains JP LeRoux
Galentine's Day Carlos Gabriel Ruiz
Ghost Girl Wayne Turmel
Ghost Goose Seth Woodhouse
GLITCH Rebecca Berrih
Group D Brandon NV
Happily Never After Alec Cuddeback
Happily Severed After Travis Watson
Hardcore Jaime Andrews
Hatebreed Devin Weber
HEART OF FLESH Thomas Park
Heather Would Never Emelie Claxton
Hello Again Jeremy Jackson
Hi Patrick Pfupajena
High Moon Isaac Ruth
HOME Jan Pearson
HOMEWARD Ben Mehlman
Hopper's Creek Michael Tippett
HOSPICE Paul Gonzales, Todd Biggerstaff
Hunted House Chris Schwarz
I Need a Killer Pat Kiss
I Will Love You, Even When We Fall Out of Time Campbell Wright
In Red Rebecca Lee Lerman
Indigent Briana Cox
Island of Graves Ryan Dilbert
Izanami Michael Rogers
Kid Gloves Mathew Wright
Killer Party Joshua Saltzman
Killer Soundtrack Jeff Ullman
Killing Myself Nathaniel Feeley
KINGMAKER Victor Ridaura
Knight Alex E. Chew
Kurwick's Daughter Timothy Richardson
Laberintus Segolene Zimmern
Lenora Rich Ragsdale
LIKE YOU Hannah C. Langley
LOCKED Andrew Creme, Jeff Verge
Love to Watch You Bleed Virginia Hendry, Amanda Ellis
Lucile Ian Wee
Lure Jacob Daniel Phair, Vrishub Merai
Maggot Brain Max Flora
Maudit A.J. Vasquez
Mimic Cameron Tubbs
Mirror Gaze Josh Nadler
MISCHIEViOUS Warren Lane
Miscreations Alain Loubeau, Mike Meyerson
Monsters Below Carol Bass
Moonshine Preston Ray
Mothers of the Disappeared Paul Wilson
Mount Hopeless Richard Machin, Michael Ivey
Mount Mendocino (Current) Thomas Wortham
Mumia Hendrik Harms
Murder In Plane Sight Shawn Duenas
Muse in the Mazeum Clay Fusco, Pamela Chiacchiaro
Nain Rouge Michael Basha
NATURAL BORN SINNER Brittney Coon
No Man's Land Barry Ambrose, Armand Kachigian
No One Leaves Alive Jeff Kallet
Offspring Hannah Silverman
Oh, Great Cosmic Master! Kyle Spleiss
Olivia Mabel David McClellan, Martyn Eaden
Our Dead Lives Percival Pasquin Jr
Our Father Bartosz Pietryka
Ouroboros Red Davis
Owuompe Daniele Baiardi
Pascualita Valeria Miranda
Pet-Cam Pia Cook
Petrified Terry Richardson
Play Demon / Oni Gokko Valentin Narziss
Poppet Emma Niles
Primeval Drew Hellmich
Punk Marcus Jones
Putrid Spirit Paul Landry
RAGUEL Ali Jordan
REMNANTS OF MAN John Battistessa
Renegate Slade Sahoye
Requiem Nick Cardiff, Riccardo Berdini
Revival Abby Selden
Riddle Shiva Ramanathan
Ruby Darren Geare, Jeff Allen Geare
SATANIC INHERITANCE Igor di Kali
Savage Joshua Johnson, Jamie Napoli
Scream Queen Robert Stephen Apetagon
Season's Creepings Chris Holt
Seed Rudi O'Meara
Selling Your Soul Joanne Rose
Sentient Nik Mohan
Serial Summer Walter Quinn
She's Not There Jacob Staudenmaier
SHELTER FROM THE STORM Nathan Patton
Shit Show Patrick Lehe
SHOOK Kenneth Bogar
Silver Venom Joseph Monaghan
SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Michael D Gutierrez, Zachary Ross
Sinistaar! Kai Martin
Sink Kyle Jutkiewicz, Alexander Seltzer
SiTTER Ryan Austin
Skudakumooch - The Ghost Witch Ryan L. Jones
Small Packages Scott Sadek
Snake Oil Sean Plemmons, Jeff Hassen
SNOW MAN Rhys Bufford
So Deep Maisie Hooper
Society of the Moon Jack Warner
Somewhere Beyond the Sea Daniel Michael Gurney
Somnium Michelle Narayan
Speak of the Devil James LeJeune
SpermBoy Mark Dollard
Spine Richard Chiles
Stairway to Hell Tina Lowe
Still Life Matthias Pasler
Stonebleeder Ted Bronson
Strong Emilia Black
Substance Brendan Ryan
Suburbaknight Adam Johnson
Sun Never Sets Aashish Gadhvi
Sunflower A J Roberts
Swine Lake Michael Rakoff
Syncope Dashiell Demeter
Systemic Michael Freeman
TATT2WO Deirdre Patterson
Teenage Monsters Tara Marie
TELL Benjamin Baraad, Mishal Mahmud
Ten Good Deeds Anwen Bull
Tenants Travis Cook, Joshua DiPaola
THE L E A T H E R M A N Mike Meyerson, Alain Loubeau
THE ADJUNCT Charles Schulman
The Amends Amanda Cole
THE BLACK DOG Joe Favalaro
The Body Farm Mike Gerbino
The Body Thief Peter Fink
The Bracken Fern Elizabeth Eromosele, Nicole Rosario Muller
The Bushwick Psycho Brian DiLorenzo
The Claim chuck oneil
The Cold Read Adam Gutierrez
The Couple at The End Cliff Ryan
The Crossing Daniele Baiardi
The Culvert Drew Hellmich
The Curse of Zozobra Adam Davis
The Demon Job Robert Husted
The Dullahan Maria Meluso
The Fall of Caribou Lodge Eamonn Cogan
The Farm sean birney
The Flip and the Dead Greg Harvey
The Forbidden Pendant Ken Harris
The Ghost Under My Bed Sara Caldwell
The Haunting of Olivia Mabel Martyn Eaden, David McClellan
The Herdsman David Castle
The Hots for You D.M. Zultowski
The House Always Wins Scott Richards
The Hum Anthony O'Connor
The Human Shackles Thorsten Kalteiss
The Hunter Cathal McCall
The Ice Curtain Caleb Ellis
The Keeper Daniel Jamal Judson
The Kidnapping of Skylar F*cking Spears Emelie Claxton
The King of Chasms Darren Oakland
The Labyrinth Billy Reid
The Last Cabin Left on Old Sycamore Lane Michael Rakoff
THE LAST RIDE OF THE BLOOD BROTHERS Johnny Galvan 3
The Last Vampire on Mars Hunter M. Altman
The Last Zombie STAN EVANS
The Lighthouse lee meaden
The Lineage Max Rissman
The Little Death Tanya O'Debra
The Long Night Tony Bloodworth
The Lycan Paula Cantillo
The Malignant Shift Scott Scheirich
The Method Erika Van Doren
The Miracle of Birth Holden Weihs
The Night Channel Ryan McDuffie
The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark Warren Wagner
The Psycho Killer's Guide to Love JP LeRoux
The Pulpit Collector Peter Fraser
The Pyre Benjamin Webster
The Rath Timothy Stevens
The Realtor Jack Newsome
The Red Key Paul Sheridan
The Return Daniel G. King
The Savage Beast John Battistessa
The Seder Isaac Smith
The Shadow Falls Clay Callender
The Show Must Go On Bret Miller
The Splinter Francisco Castro
The Terror James Shepard
The Thin Todd Holden
The Torture of Kent Maddox RJ Buckley
The Vessel Kyle Ferris
The Watcher Sienna Kosalka
THE WHODUNNITS Ryan Malik
The Woman at the Lake Chris Inekhomon
The World Between Chuck Czech
The Wretched Man Joseph Landing
THERAPY scott cramer
There's Something Strange Inside The Church Matteo Anthony
They Call Her Prey Ryan Douglas Gore
They Wake By Night Andrew Beberman
THEY'RE THERE Jared Januschka
Thin Patrick Hegarty
This Does Not End Well Bailey Abedon, Gavin Conlon
This Is Living Alex Piliouras
This is Not a Place Kelsey Grace Pfeifer
Three Mark Ballantyne
Three Orchards MJ Farber-Ray
Timberland C. Shane Davis
Trash Odie Burnatowski
Treatment Aaron Sprecher
Trick Selfie Chad Wellinger
Two Lost Lambs in The Black Woods Nick Kloppenberg
U N E A R T H E D Billy Reid
UNFINISHED Sabrina Barton
Unidentified Mikel Wisler
Untitled Slasher Trevor Zhou
VAMPIRE CARS Danny Matier
VERSUS! Kevin Tavolaro
VINE OF THE DEAD Matt Karol
Viridian Lake Cynthia Webb
VISCERAL Damir Catic, Eric Alfio Jafari
Visitors Mark Galarrita
WAKEN Shero Syndicate
Wendigo Jake BEAN
Why Would I Let You Go Gabe Mouer
WiLL Ryan Hughes
Winter Harvest Nicole Grant
Winter-Over Lorenzo Galuszka
Wisteria Adam Lapallo
WITHIN THE BAMBOO FOREST Kevin J. Howard
WOKE Stefano Anania
Wolfblood Jaime Silverman
Worn Mike Underwood
Worry Doll Eddie McConville
Worship Me Craig Stewart
Yoga Hell Jessica McLaughlin
Zealots Brandon Johnston
Ziggurat Matthew Cunha

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