THE DEAD LIST
A CURATION OF THE RADDEST, MOST SINISTER CELLULOID IN THE CITY — FEATURING 31 MARKET-READY ORIGINAL HORROR SCREENPLAYS.
Presented as a showcase of VHS future-classics offered by the fictional-yet-always-crowded all-night video store SCREAMFLIX, patrons have a wide selection of skull-exploding options, including: Script World Premieres from writers like Meg Turner of Organ Trail, Showrunners breaking out of a genre like Eric Rogers of Angry Birds, or writers with MGM/Black List Blind Deals like Jennifer Grand. Brave souls can even click play on 2-for-1 deals that include award-winning proof of concept short films with a feature script. Be sure and stay tuned til the end for a Screamflix exclusive post-credits sequence… if you dare.
BROWSE AT YOUR OWN RISK
Titles Arranged From A-Z
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A SIREN CALL
(WORLD PREMIERE)
Written by Sophia Baratti
When an engaged couple, traveling for a pre-honeymoon, lands on an island paradise in the Adriatic, their relaxing vacation quickly turns into a hazy nightmare as the sinister native music spirals their relationship and sanity.
Vibe Check: Midsommar meets Mamma Mia
Available For Representation
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ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING
(WORLD PREMIERE)
Written by Meg Turner
As a queer couple prepares for Christmas Eve during the first year of a zombie pandemic, an injured father and his young son arrive on their doorstep.
Vibe Check: NIght of the Living Dead meets We Are Still Here
Produced Credits: Organ Trail
Available For Representation
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ANASTASIS
Written by Simon Laurence Doyle
When his friend is sucked into a malevolent painting, a curmudgeonly security guard teams up with a crew of art thieves to rescue his friend from the painting's depths, before destroying it for good.
Vibe Check: A very dark Shaun of the Dead meets H.P. Lovecraft
Available For Representation
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BEAST BY BEAST
Written by Shakthi Jothianandan
A college student becomes invisible after a sexual assault and takes revenge on each of her assailants, only to be confronted by the limits of her own morality and how far she will go to get justice.
Vibe Check: Promising Young Woman meets Dexter
Available For Representation
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CARVE
Written by Eric Rogers
A modern take on the CREEPSHOW and TRICK 'R TREAT-style horror anthologies, only centered around the Thanksgiving holiday and its familiar tropes. Tales about flawed, misguided, and evil people getting their comeuppance in inventive, violent ways… with a side of pumpkin pie.
Vibe Check: Creepshow x V/H/S x Trick 'r Treat x Twilight Zone: The Movie
Represented at FWRD MGMT
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DESTROY WITHOUT WATCHING
Written by Padgett Arango and Matthew Abrams
After a broker of found footage movies is robbed of a priceless collection, he must hunt it down before a rival collector uses a haunted film reel to unleash an ancient evil.
Vibe Check: The Maltese Falcon meets Sinister in a world where The Blair Witch wasn't just a clever marketing stunt.
Available For Representation
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GABLE
Written by Guy Crawford
A high school golden boy's murderous nature forces him to play a dangerous cat and mouse game with the FBI to avoid being captured and prove he's the ultimate predator no one ever sees coming.
Vibe Check: Silence of the Lambs meets The Good Son
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HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO
Written by Mark Romasky
A former social pariah turned Demon Hunter squares off against the forces of darkness at her high school reunion.
Vibe Check: Evil Dead meets Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion meets Grosse Pointe Blank
Available For Representation
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HER SKIN WAS CRAWLING
Written by Jeremy Stewart
When Alice is pushed to the brink by her eczema, she goes to a remote health clinic that offers an intense treatment. She opts in, seeing it as her only way to fix her skin problem, but as complications arise and the treatment starts to go sidewise, her Doctor insists she can be fixed.
Vibe Check: Ex Machina meets A Cure for Wellness
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HINSDALE
Written by Kristy Leigh Lussier and Lee Vander Boegh
(2-for-1 SPECIAL: Short film proof of concept + feature screenplay)
A broken, grieving family is convinced they are being tormented by spirits from an abandoned house they've never actually lived in. Inspired by actual events - based on the award winning horror short Hinsdale.
Vibe Check: The Conjuring meets The Babadook
Available For Representation
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HOMESTEAD
Written by Lisa Jay
When a young pioneer couple loses their way across the prairie and moves into a deserted cabin, they soon realize there is more to fear than the Natives when they face a sinister, demonic presence.
Vibe Check: The Wind meets The Conjuring
Available For Representation
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MARGOT
Written by Claire Thomas
An aging screenwriter's retreat to a remote cabin is interrupted by a seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue.
Vibe Check: Misery meets All About Eve
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MINE
Written by Todd Foley
When a lonely online reseller befriends an oddball local at the flea market, the budding relationship becomes a psychological prison as her new friend becomes increasingly obsessed.
Vibe Check: Disturbia x Single White Female x Obsessed
Agent: Integral Artists | Available For Literary Management Representation
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REMEDY
Written by Joe Favalaro
After taking an experimental psychedelic, a grieving artist and her friends unknowingly unleash a malicious entity that embodies their personal demons.
Vibe Check: Talk To Me meets Limitless
Available For Representation
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SHACKLED
Written by Michael Boaks
A chain gang of killers and thieves must work together to survive when one of the shackled prisoners turns zombie. (Script Currently Optioned)
Vibe Check: It's Con Air chained to 28 Days Later
Available For Representation
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SLAY
Written by Steve Holbert
In this hour horror-drama, a trailer park virgin sneaks off to his first Pride, seeking community. But he finds a herd of killer unicorns.
Vibe Check: Mean Girls meets The Lost Boys
Available For Representation
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SOOTHSAYER
Written by Dayna Noffke
In 1957, a desperate single mother's seance grift puts her in touch with a real ghost, drawing her into a web of mayhem, murder, and stolen fortunes, orchestrated by a secret supernatural society of old money elites.
Vibe Check: Ouija: Origin of Evil x Supernatural x Poltergeist
Available For Representation
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THE BEAST OF BEDBURG
Written by Jennifer Grand
In the fall of 1589, a zealous Catholic Bishop is summoned to a German village torn apart by the brutal murders of fourteen children, in order to root out evil and restore peace to the frantic villagers.
Vibe Check: The Witch x The Wicker Man x The Crucible
Available For Representation
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THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO DISCO
Written by Red Davis
After a group of unwitting Christians opens a portal to Hell inside Studio 54, one Christian girl must band together with disco divas Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Cher, and Grace Jones in order to send the Devil back to Hell and save disco.
Vibe Check: The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets From Dusk Till Dawn
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THE HOT KILLS
Written by Jeremiah Lewis
In the sweaty, sultry summer of 1982 in New York City, a tight-knit gang of punk rockers on their way to an underground show are stalked by an obsessed killer.
Vibe Check: Scream meets The Warriors
Available For Representation
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THE KING OF THE CANNIBALS
Written by Sam Watson
When a private detective investigates his rural hometown's powerful Catholic church in the search for a missing boy, he must confront his abusive deacon father, religious die-hards and a mysterious disease infecting the local wildlife.
Vibe Check: Midnight Mass meets Justified
Rep: Logical Talent Management
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THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH
Written by Gina DeAngelis
When her widowed mother vanishes during a blizzard in antebellum Virginia, a biracial teenager must defend herself, her vulnerable little sister, and their isolated farm against a predatory uncle and the torments of an angry spirit.
Vibe Check: The Witch x Mama x The Wind
Available For Representation
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THE OTHERED
Written by Minh-Anh Vo Dinh
In 1500s Vietnam, a family of three women finds shelter on a secluded island, where they slowly succumb to the mischievous trickeries of an ancient deity. A horror retelling of a Vietnamese fairytale.
Vibe Check: The Witch meets Cinderella
Available For Representation
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THE PAISLEY WITCH TRIAL
Written by Julia Campanelli
A White midwife and a Black Abolitionist form an uneasy bond when both women are arrested for witchcraft in the true, untold story of the last witch hunt in Scotland.
Vibe Check: The Witch meets 12 Years A Slave
Script Highlights: Black List recommended | American Zoetrope Finalist
Available For Representation
INSIDER PREVIEW: READ THE FIRST 10 + LOOK BOOK
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THE RAG
Written by Jono Mitchell and Madison Hatfield
A trio of orphaned teens must track down a tampon when one of them gets her period during the zombie apocalypse.
Vibe Check: Judy Blume meets Walking Dead, coming of age like Stand By Me, My Girl...but with zombies.
Writing Team Represented by Gotham Group
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THE SICKNESS
Written by Joe Marino
A desperate boy squatting in the slums of Cleveland must commit increasingly monstrous acts to provide his ailing older brother with the only thing that can keep him alive: fresh human blood.
Vibe Check: Let Me In meets Ginger Snaps
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THE SLASHELORETTE
Written by Anthony Zonfrelli
A murderous stalker infiltrates a season of ABC's The Bachelorette, permanently eliminating the eccentric contestants to win the heart of this season's star — the spurned runner-up from last season who is determined to find love at any cost.
Vibe Check: SCREAM meets KNIVES OUT
Available For Representation
INSIDER PREVIEW: READ OPENING TEASER
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THE STITCHER
Written by Rod Thompson and Tim Westland
A hunting accident forces five Iraq war vets into the battle of their lives when a crazy backwoods hillbilly with supernatural powers brings his army of reanimated road-kill taxidermy monsters to life to exact a bloody, soul-sucking revenge!
Vibe Check: Deliverance x Pet Sematary x Cabin In The Woods
Available For Representation
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THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE SILENCE
Film & Story by Mike Castro
(2-for-1 SPECIAL: Short film proof of concept + feature one pager)
Erin's new hearing aids have been picking up voices and sounds she's unable to explain. In an attempt to quiet the voices, she confronts them head on — only to find there may be something more sinister lurking in the depths of silence.
Vibe Check: Sound of Metal meets Black Mirror
Available for representation | Producers Attached
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TORMENT HALLS
Written by Jamie Nash & Adam Cesare
Four gamer girls who haven't been close since high school reunite to play a rare unreleased version of a late-90s Silent-Hill-esque survival horror video game they played as teens. The digital nightmares bleed into real life and the women must battle for survival against the game’s iconic monster.
Vibe Check: THE RING for the Twitch generation
Jamie is represented by Heroes & Villains.
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UNTITLED SLASHER
(WORLD PREMIERE)
Written by Trevor Zhou
A group of underrepresented horror writers are invited by a famous white producer to a diversity retreat. They soon find themselves getting slaughtered one by one and must use their knowledge of horror to survive.
Vibe Check: Meta like Cabin in the Woods. Humor like Ready or Not, Societal commentary like Get Out.
Available For Representation
INSIDER PREVIEW: READ THE FIRST TEN
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WELCOME TO NIRVANA
Written by Danielle Nicki
In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by blood-sucking zombie vampires, a ragtag group of teenagers living in an abandoned mall team up to hunt and kill the creatures that used to be their parents, teachers, and neighbors. These young survivors - with no technology or grown-ups to save them - create a utopian society, but Nirvana is no match for teen drama!
Vibe Check: I Am Legend meets Riverdale
Represented at FWRD MGMT
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WEREWOLVES CAN SUCK IT
Written by Leah Simmons
Just like your dog, werewolves are terrified of vacuum cleaners. So when a pack of werewolves invade a rural town, it's up to the owner of a failing vacuum repair business and her stoner friend to save the day.
Vibe Check: Werewolves Within x Dale And Tucker Vs. Evil
Available For Representation
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WICKED COUNTRY
Written by Nate Ruegger
A runaway returns home to rescue her sister from their parents’ cult only to be stalked by a killer who knows her darkest secret: she, and everyone in her family, is a witch.
Vibe Check: Imagine the paranormal terror of HEREDITARY set in the backwoods cult world of MIDSOMMAR.
Available For Representation
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13 BONES
Written by Izzy Lee & Tim Meyer
A mother and daughter escape a biochemical attack only to find ancestral horror waiting for them in the woods.
Vibe Check: Hereditary + [REC] with a splash of Predator
Industry Highlights: Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Short nomination.
Represented by Ryan Lewis at Spin a Black Yarn
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THAT BITCH
(WORLD PREMIERE)
Written by Elizabeth Ditty
When three burned-out coworkers are kidnapped by their toxic boss, they must troubleshoot their way to escape before she feeds them to her demon-possessed corgi.
Vibe Check: Office Space meets The Exorcist
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NURTURE
Written by Brandon Weavil
A serial killer hides bodies in a nearby lake but has to scramble when a summer camp buys the lake and plans to dredge it.
Vibe Check: A slasher with a coming-of-age twist.
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ANCHOR RIDGE
Written by Christopher O’Bryant
A desperate lawyer is sent to the Deep South to handle an estate and finds a dark link to his past, forcing him to relive it as a supernatural terror gets closer to his soul, because in Anchor Ridge it’s not just the house that’s haunted.
Vibe Check: True Detective meets The Haunting of Hill House set in the Twilight Zone
Available For Representation
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BLOOD MOON
Written by Brad M. Johnson
As the sun sets on the American Old West, a young priest and a grizzled bounty hunter must work together to save a small frontier town under siege by vampires.
Vibe Check: Unforgiven meets Dracula
Available For Representation
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THE CHASM AND THE CAVEAT
Written by Mo Moshaty
Against the backdrop of summer in rural Upstate NY, a woman takes in her niece after her sister's horrific and confusing death. Traumatized by her mother's passing, the girl begs her aunt to regale her with a frightening tale every night as to never be scared again, oblivious to the very real terror that lies on the farm. Based on the short story collection, "Love the Sinner: Eight Disquieting Tales Bound in Sin" by Mo Moshaty.
Vibe Check: Attack the Block x Signs x Creepshow
Represented by Kala Guess
ARTWORK BY
Writer x Designer Justin H. Olson
Justin has one of the highest-rated scripts of all time on the Black List and is available for representation. View his full writing portfolio HERE.