2024 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Quarterfinalists
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!
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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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