KILLER SHORTS SEASON 3 SCRIPTS
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Grand Prize Winner
BABY FEVER
by Hannah Cumming & Alex Hartwig
Short | Horror | 17 pages | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
A popular teen’s dream to be crowned Prom Queen is threatened when she discovers she is pregnant with something even worse than her dumb jock boyfriend’s offspring.
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2nd Place Winner
HOUSE OF WOLVES
by Andrew Yeremeyev
Short | Horror | 20 pages | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
Bound to the earth and to each other, goat farmers Hal and Annalise attempt to conceive a child before the next full moon.
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3rd Place Winner
/HAAW/
by Joey Scoma
Short | Horror | 6 pages | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
A typical day at a ski resort takes a bizarre turn when a xenophobic teenager shares a gondola with an unusual family.
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FINALISTS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| DUMMY! | The human daughter of a ventriloquist dummy struggles to break free from her mother's domineering influence. | Francesca Pazniokas | Request This Script |
| INTRUSIVE | A woman's deepest fears are realized when the intrusive thoughts which torment her become real during a weekend with her girlfriends. | Jim Lopezzo | Request This Script |
| I WOULD KILL FOR YOU | A couple in love holes up in an isolated cabin, but unwelcome visitors awaken the deadly ghosts of their past. | Kelly Nugent | Request This Script |
| PRUNING | When a right-wing commentator discovers that her name has been cited in a mass shooter's manifesto, she must contend with the part of herself that still has a conscience. | Lola Blanc & Jeremy Radin | Request This Script |
| S(p)LICE | Anita wants recognition, she wants success, she wants applause - but how deep will she cut herself to get this? | Ben Woodiwiss | Request This Script |
| THE COUNT | On the biggest night of his professional career, a boxing referee mysteriously develops a lust for blood. | Ricky Mulock | Request This Script |
| THE SIX MONTH ITCH | When Adam has a bitter argument with his wife about their sexless marriage, he devises a bloody solution to his marital woes. | Jack O'Higgins | Request This Script |
HONORABLE MENTIONS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| ASCENDANTS | A party celebrating a real estate merger takes a dark twist when the charismatic host turns on his guest of honor with supernatural flair. | Kelly Krause | Request This Script |
| BELL TOWER | In a small remote village, a reluctant pair of brothers must keep vigil in an old bell tower to warn the citizens of an ancient creature in the surrounding woods. | Jason Sheedy | Request This Script |
| CUE APPLAUSE | When a trans woman cleans out her deceased mother's home, she is attacked by the crowd of a trashy talk show. | Benj Welmond | Request This Script |
| NERIUM WAKE | A mother begins neglecting her two daughters after being infected by an unusual orchid growing in her garden. | Mo Bayliss | Request This Script |
| Z-VAX | A new medical receptionist is put to the test when she is left alone to fend off an unruly anti-vaccine mother and an increasingly violent zombie child. | Andrew Johnson-Schmit & Angie Johnson-Schmit | Request This Script |
SEMIFINALISTS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| A MONKEY'S PAW | A tattered family of three is gifted a grotesque, otherworldly artifact with the power to change their lives. | Devon Canal | Request This Script |
| ALL ALONG A DARKENED ROAD | When extraterrestrial forces come to Earth, a mother must use her wits to save her daughter from abduction. | Kenny Foo | Request This Script |
| AS YOU WISH | A conceited valley girl goes toe-to-toe with an evil fortune telling machine that grants wishes in exchange for sacrifices. | Robert Fisher | Request This Script |
| BROOD PARASITES | A cuckold tries to share his new fetish with his wife. | Dylan James Amick | Request This Script |
| CLEAN | A maid hired to clean out a vacant house uncovers a mystery surrounding the former owner's daughter who went missing over a decade ago. | D. Westfall | Request This Script |
| COGNIZANCE | A moderator for a social media company starts to lose her grasp on reality, as she faces the worst the internet has to offer. | JJ Pollack | Request This Script |
| CORNERMAN | After Marg doesn't pay Paul for driving her to work, Paul decides a scare prank is the best revenge. However, when the Cornerman lurks in the neighborhood, no one's safe. | Ben Leppi | Request This Script |
| CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCE | Expecting couple, Sue & Mary-Beth, have a hole in their basement where hideous monsters emerge. But the latest creature to surface is frighteningly familiar. | Travis Williams | Request This Script |
| DEADBOLT | A young couple struggles to decide if their safety is more valuable than the life of a frantic stranger. | Devin Medina | Request This Script |
| DEITIES OF THE APOCALYPSE | In a post-apocalyptic world, an intriguingly skilful mother battles new and strange religions in return for the life of her daughter. | Matthew Taylor | Request This Script |
| EVIL EDDIE | Desperate to pay off a long-owed debt, Eddie will stop at nothing to sell his kitchenware. | Britt Alexandria | Request This Script |
| EXCRETA | A savvy loner enjoys the solace of the apocalypse in a bunker built for one, until she's forced to confront a monster of her own making that's forcing its way into her sanctuary. | Christian Silva | Request This Script |
| GATE BAIT | A sticky-fingered T.S.A. Agent, hoping to add to his ill-begotten stash, gets far more than he bargained for when he inspects the bag of a mystifying passenger. | Paul Grammatico | Request This Script |
| HELLPHONES | To be without music is Hell but when Cornell untangles a pair of mysterious headphones he releases a terrifying force that proves the Devil really does have the best tunes. | Mark A. C. Brown | Request This Script |
| HOUSE HAUNTERS | A desperate reality show host won't let a house's haunted past stop him from making a sale. | Jeremy Laurie & Rob Sutherland | Request This Script |
| I HOPE THIS EMAIL FINDS YOU WELL | After landing a job as the new assistant to a high-profile producer, Allison Anders soon discovers all the challenges that come with the entertainment business - emails, egos, and an office computer that’s alive… and deadly. | Quinton Buxton | Request This Script |
| ICE CREAM BABY | A girl is impregnated by an ice cream man and fuses with the fetus. | Becca Kozak | Request This Script |
| JUST BREATHE | After a violent home invasion during her home birth, a soon-to-be mother is forced to muster up the stoicism she needs to give birth silently. | Kassandra Marjorie O'Brien | Request This Script |
| KILLER VACAY | A socially outcast young man searches for a famous homicidal manic to end his life, but when he reaches the deadly destination, he discovers the killer is on holiday. | Bryce Hatch | Request This Script |
| LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE | Faced with a mysterious, deadly disease, a young woman visits a specialist with an... unorthodox method of treatment. | Josh Penn Boris | Request This Script |
| LIGHTBULB | When a writer finally gets a brilliant idea, he finds that his writer's block is much worse than he anticipated. | Evan Pearce | Request This Script |
| LIVING MEMORY | An elderly man struggles to care for his ailing wife, facing a terrible choice as her memory fails – while the zombies draw ever closer. | Stephen Graves | Request This Script |
| MEAT EATER | A teenage boy is confronted by his religious parents over a seemingly erotic magazine he made at school. | Emilia Copeland | Request This Script |
| MERROW | A young boy is forced to grow up after his father brings him on his first fishing trip as part of a disturbing coming-of-age ritual. | Alexander Seltzer | Request This Script |
| MOKO JUMBIE | As her home life falls apart, a young Indo-Caribbean girl is forced to face her ancestral demons. | PJ Germain | Request This Script |
| OF GREAT CONSEQUENCE | After a Sheriff unwittingly kills a Clergyman in his custody, he soon realizes he must do his damndest to evade a spiritual awakening of the worst kind. | Stefanie Gray | Request This Script |
| RED TIDE | The tide comes in and out every day, like clockwork. One day, it stops. | Alyssa Hayes | Request This Script |
| REST STOP | A young woman on her way to her brother’s wedding pulls into a deserted rest stop along the highway, where she encounters a menace lurking in the shadows. | Regina Kim | Request This Script |
| ROASTED | When his lover gives him an ultimatum, a henpecked man infuriates his wife and ruins Christmas by asking for a divorce. | Fiona Faith Ross | Request This Script |
| SLAYFEST | A couple of wannabe serial killers haul a body through the hills to participate in the annual Slayfest competition when they encounter a hiker with murderous intentions. | Mark Renshaw | Request This Script |
| THE AUDIENCE | Two recently deceased victims of a serial killer find themselves as spectators for what happens next. | Emmy Herzog | Request This Script |
| THE CALLBACK | An aspiring actress is asked to go on a callback, only to find out the filmmaker's intentions are darker than she ever anticipated. | Sara Lynn | Request This Script |
| THE ENTERTAINER | A Chinese-American actor who portrays an offensive character on a popular TV show meets unexpected fans who force him to confront the surprising and far-reaching horrors of his work. | Stephen Chen | Request This Script |
| THE LOST BOYS | As a strange affliction turns adults into flesh-craving monsters, those not yet near puberty struggle to survive. | Craig McInnes | Request This Script |
| THE MAN IN THE CABIN | In this dark fairytale, a lonely 10-year-old boy runs away from home and is taken in by a mysterious man in the woods, who isn't what he seems. | Robbie Lemieux | Request This Script |
| THEY'RE ALL MINE | When a man refuses to let his girlfriend pop a pimple on his back, their happy relationship deteriorates into madness. | Chris Hicks | Request This Script |
| THIN! | With the Homecoming dance looming, a teenage girl will do bloody anything to make sure her dress fits. | Erin Smith | Request This Script |
| THIRST | Using the hookup app Grindr to find his prey, a gay vampire finds his typical patterns disrupted by a bicurious nice guy. | Mateo Flores | Request This Script |
| TWIN FALLS | After miraculously surviving a horrific fall with her twin brother, a renowned Olympic ski jumper undergoes radical life-saving surgery that brings with it an altered sense of identity. | Darren Bailey | Request This Script |
| WAHALA | A Nigerian General contemplates his accountability in the aftermath of a zombie attack at his daughter's wedding after waking up in a forest. | Sunny King | Request This Script |
| WE'RE HAUNTED! | A couple deals with the realities of being haunted. | Alex Freeman | Request This Script |
| YOGA PANTS | A young woman will go to great lengths to fit in at her yoga studio. | Gwen Loubser | Request This Script |
…and now presenting the best 1-page horror short screenplays of 2022.
1-Page Scripts Available by Request Only.
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Grand Prize Winner
IMPOSTER
by David Bettencourt
Short | Horror | 1 page | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
A young girl happens to catch a glimpse of Santa Clause and what’s left under the tree may surprise her.
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2nd Place Winner
FAMILY ALBUM
by Marko Pandza & Jason Kerr
Short | Horror | 1 page | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
An old man adds a new memory to his family photo album.
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3rd Place Winner
C-SECTION
by Jeremy Jackson
Short | Horror | 1 page | REQUEST THIS SCRIPT
A husband struggles to support his wife through a bizarre medical procedure.
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FINALISTS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| ANGLER'S KIN | A Father-Daughter fishing trip on the Yangtze River turns tragic with a change of bait and a new perspective. | Jason Fink & Brandon Fink | Request This Script |
| DISCHARGED | While waiting to be discharged from the hospital, a young girl meets a mysterious nurse delivering an unexpected prognosis. | Christian Curry Akuna | Request This Script |
| FREEZE | A boy plays an unfortunate game of freeze tag with his cousins. | Evan Baughfman | Request This Script |
| HAUNTED | A young boy struggles to fall asleep. | Maria Wilson | Request This Script |
| STARING CONTEST | A young girl faces off against an unseen entity in a high-stakes staring contest. | Phillip Dishon | Request This Script |
| THE BUTZEMANN | When a mother brushes her son's teeth, singing to him a seemingly harmless kid's song, she evokes something evil. | Jule Jessenberger | Request This Script |
| UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE | The residents of a nuclear test site get ready for an atomic sunrise. | Georgina Bowley-Moriarty | Request This Script |
HONORABLE MENTIONS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| COMPLICATIONS | A battered and pregnant woman must rely on her wits -- and what's growing inside -- to survive a horrific hospital hallway. | C.J. Redfield | Request This Script |
| D.O.A. | A man wakes up in an ambulance, handcuffed and unable to speak. | Joshua Heaton | Request This Script |
| GUMMIES | A tomboy transforms the gender trappings of her bedroom to show her cruel mother how sugar and spice don't equal nice. | Michael Clifton | Request This Script |
| POKING DEAD THINGS WITH STICKS | Cecil likes to poke dead things with sticks. He's good at it. | Jason K. Allen | Request This Script |
| THE HEREAFTER | When a man stalks a woman jogging at night, she flees for her life through a cemetery. | Devi Bhaduri | Request This Script |
SEMIFINALISTS
| TITLE | LOGLINE | WRITER/S | |
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| ALARMED | Ted keeps hitting the snooze bar until someone...or something, beats him to it. | Geoff Murillo | Request This Script |
| CURSED | An elderly woman decides to get revenge on a nurse that’s mistreating her. | Marisa Martinez | Request This Script |
| DELIVERY | A man receives a strange package in the mail. | Leonard Johnson | Request This Script |
| MORNING | Jessica has spent the night and now it's time for breakfast. | David Malcolm | Request This Script |
| TIC-TAC-TOE | A father finishes his child's tic-tac-toe game. | Cody Sousa | Request This Script |
| TOUCH GLASS | A young boy strays from his class trip at the aquarium when he finds something unexpected in one of the exhibits. | Jonathan Moncayo | Request This Script |