KILLER SHORTS SEASON 2 SCRIPTS
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Grand Prize Winner
THIS HUNGER
by Alessandra Jara Del Castillo
Short | Horror | 20 pages | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
An indifferent Hispanic housewife grows infatuated with her husband–only after he returns from the dead, hungry for meat.
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2nd Place Winner
COPY CAT
by Vanessa Branch
Short | Horror | 25 pages | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
A middle-school teacher plagiarizes her student’s writing and she suffers the deadly consequences.
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3rd Place Winner
HIDE YOUR CRAZY
by Austin Kase
Short | Horror | 12 pages | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
Iris wants to be alone on her birthday, and when her current hookup Dan throws her a surprise party, he finds out why.
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FINALISTS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| 350 | A young mother struggles to be thankful for the 'blessings' in her life as Thanksgiving preparations test her patience and her sanity. | Trevor Lanz | Request This Script |
| CHOCOLATE MONSTER COOKIE, BOTTOMLESS POPCORN & HELP I'M IN TROUBLE | A waitress at a cinema receives a disturbing order from an older married couple. | Richard Karpala | Request This Script |
| MY INNER DEMON REBECCA WANTS TO KILL ME | A young woman battling depression tries to book an appointment with a therapist before the creature that lives inside her takes her life. | Brian Lisi | Request This Script |
| RIDE OR DIE | When her best friend commits an unspeakable act, Adele must do what white women do best - validate her and absolve her of all responsibility. | Lily Citrin | Request This Script |
| SAVAGE | Minnie is a black woman in gentrifying Brooklyn. She needs an apartment. She is not okay. | Travis Jones | Request This Script |
| THE MOLE | A budding romance turns dark when Carissa learns a certain part of her new partner's anatomy is haunted by his ex. | Eric Robinson | Request This Script |
| THIRSTY | When a young woman on a bender gets her period unexpectedly, not having a tampon is the least of her problems. | Sarah Richardson | Request This Script |
HONORABLE MENTIONS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| BLOOD BIKE | A motorcyclist transporting lifesaving products finds himself relentlessly pursued by a creature of the night. | Gerrard Hartland | Request This Script |
| GRAVEYARD GOSSIP | Three women, murdered by the same serial killer, talk to each other in their graves after discovering they can’t “move on.” | Marisa Martinez | Request This Script |
| IMPROPER DOSAGE | While driving through rural Pennsylvania with his fiancé, a young gay man survives a mysterious car accident. Completely immobilized from his injuries, he reawakens within the antiquated health clinic of a remote village -- and soon suspects its staff may be conspiring to do something terrifying. | Adam McDaniel | Request This Script |
| SCRATCH | A couple struggles to survive when their home is invaded by a dangerous entity. | Gregory Sahadachny | Request This Script |
| THE TICKLE PEOPLE | A long time ago, two parents are confronted by mysterious people in the woods who are after their daughter. | Scott Betts | Request This Script |
SEMIFINALISTS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| ASSIMILATED | When her immigrant parents' accents mysteriously disappear, Lindsey uncovers a horrifying truth. | Christopher Guerrero | Request This Script |
| ASSISTED LIVING | Shy widow Esther is encouraged by her best friend Maude to enter their retirement community's rollicking dating scene -- but when a masked killer starts picking off residents, getting back out there might just prove deadly. | Anna Robertson | Request This Script |
| BABY | When two millennial women catch up over a glass of wine, one begins to suspect that the other -- a harried new mother -- has really seen some sh*t during her maternity leave... just as unearthly noises start to come over the nearby baby monitor. | Rob Pilkington | Request This Script |
| DARWIN'S TAVERN | As a desperate young man finds refuge in a vacant tavern, he meets a mysterious old bartender who may be the only key to help him find his missing girlfriend. | Richard Stringham | Request This Script |
| DEEDLE, DIDDLE | A couple is roused awake in the night by wind chimes that go deedle, diddle. | Richard Karpala | Request This Script |
| DOLLS IN THE WALLS | Married vloggers renovate their first home, revealing secrets in the walls that force them to fight for the house they love, while still creating the content their audience demands. | Matt McCarthy & Katherine Cox | Request This Script |
| DUMMY | When CPR dummies start disappearing, one instructor embraces a sudden change in his home life. | Andrew Kaberline | Request This Script |
| FORECAST | A single father fears for his life when a new drone delivery service sends him packages predicting his death. | Travis Watson | Request This Script |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE! | On a weekend getaway to a historic lodge, a young couple clashes with their history obsessed host, who may just have bigger plans for their stay. | Sam Robotham | Request This Script |
| GRANDPA | A non-verbal and quadriplegic little girl must, on her own, defeat the ghost of her ancestor intent on purifying his bloodline by murdering her. | Jennifer Dunn | Request This Script |
| GROWING | A farmer's teenage daughter must protect her young brother when a mysterious new weed starts growing in the middle of their farm, slowly unsettling the balance in the family and threatening them all. | Joseph Fattal | Request This Script |
| GUTS OR GLORY | After devout Catholic's wife dies in a freak accident, one of the paramedics he calls offers to bring her back, but at a price. | Andrea Niada | Request This Script |
| HOMEWRECKER | A recovering alcoholic struggles to hold onto what's left of his life without destroying it in his grasp. | David Snee | Request This Script |
| JUST DESSERTS | A mysteriously powerful waitress, charged by her downright scary boss to up her game, attempts to enchant a customer with a sordid past and nothing left to lose. | Gina DeAngelis | Request This Script |
| KURTEN CALL | A young girl running away from her abusive father finds herself in a small rural Texas town where an eccentric game show host is king, and quickly finds herself sucked into the insane attractions. | Bryce Carlisle | Request This Script |
| LOVE IN THE TIME OF | Bella's turning 25, and she's in love. But there are just two problems: Pia, and the Undead. | Kate Kugler | Request This Script |
| MIDNIGHT SHIFT | On New Year's Eve, a lone emergency dispatcher answers a call that forces her to confront a dark and sinister secret. | Taryn Crankshaw | Request This Script |
| MIGHTY, MIGHTY BUER | A pediatric-oncology nurse, fed-up and powerless, turns to the healer-demon Buer. | Brandon Weavil | Request This Script |
| MURPHY'S GULCH | A sickly boy is singled out by some older scouts in his troop to go through a special initiation. | Jeff Bassetti | Request This Script |
| OMINNI | A family man who begins showing signs of dementia finds the answer to his condition in his family's history and takes drastic action to try and protect his son. | Michael Rogers | Request This Script |
| RELAY | An experimental reconnaissance mission traps an Army Ranger behind enemy lines in a deadly future war searching for answers. | Henry Young | Request This Script |
| SITTING DUCK | If a frustrated wife cannot find a way to murder her thick-headed husband, her sanity may land six feet under. | Aaron S. Barrocas | Request This Script |
| SNAP! A TRAP GOES OFF IN THE YARD | A mute man living in a remote and heavily defended cabin encounters an unexpected intruder. | Alexander Nachaj | Request This Script |
| STALE AIR | When a reclusive older woman's husband dies suddenly, she begins having strange visions that make her believe she is dead too. | Sarah Leibman | Request This Script |
| STORK | New parents, Charlotte and Stewart, are paid an unexpected visit from a soul-thirsty, supernatural creature -- but not all is as it seems. | Daniel Negret | Request This Script |
| SWEET CYANIDE | A darkness with an insatiable hunger invades a sleeping woman's flat to feast on her home, belongings and body before she turns on the light. | Hannah Kennedy | Request This Script |
| THANK YOU YOU'RE WELCOME | An unexpected houseguest refuses to leave until her meek host gives up absolutely everything. | Erin Smith | Request This Script |
| THE HITCHHIKER | A vlogger, her sister, and her sister's boyfriend catch the eye of a supernatural hitchhiker on their desert drive to Las Vegas. | Dan Ast | Request This Script |
| THE LITTLE MONSTER OF RAVENSWOOD MANOR | An insolent child torments her family in an old English manor, but soon discovers the family harbors a dark and dangerous secret about their ancestral home. | Katherine Sainte Marie | Request This Script |
| THE MOLD | A young woman's battle against the mold in her shower descends into a nightmare, as the mold reveals itself to be something far more sinister. | Jon Comulada | Request This Script |
| THE MONNJI | In the rural outskirts of the Great Dismal Swamp, a young pregnant woman summons a folklore legend to help free her from an abusive parent. | Maria Wilson | Request This Script |
| THE MONSTER | A struggling father and daughter are haunted by their traumatic journey into the UK. | Simon Jefferson | Request This Script |
| THE NIGHT STAFF | After waiting for his daughter to return from a job interview, an anxious father searches a sinister office block but becomes terrorised by the night staff who may know where she is. | Andrew Ionides | Request This Script |
| THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG | When a deranged repairman determines he's the alpha and begins to take over a young couple's cabin, a husband and wife must defend their home and their marriage. | Lisa Romagnoli | Request This Script |
| WHEN THE STREETLIGHTS COME ON | When a little girl stays out past curfew, she is met by the malevolent entity that shapes her society. | Katie Cetta | Request This Script |
| YEAR OF THE RABBIT | A young man tempts fate when he defies tradition on Lunar New Year's Eve. | Maureen Trinh & Larry Trinh | Request This Script |