Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from over 1,033 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the main category Semifinalists:
| WRITER/S | TITLE |
| SARAH WARD | ’97 |
| MARYELLEN DEVIVO | All the Rage |
| JENESSA RIVERA | Amor de Mi Vida |
| JACK CAREY | Blood Trench |
| DANNY ROGERS | Buck’s Big Break |
| JAMES PATRICK FURLONG | Clean Kill |
| JULIA DIDDY | Cooking Lessons with Baba Yaga |
| RACHEL CYLIE GROSS & STANLEY SWINDLING | Dispose |
| BRIAN BARNES | Do Not Open |
| PHILLIP WALTON | Don’t Eat From The Machine |
| SHAUN O’LOUGHLIN | Drinkwater |
| KARELINE CASTOR | Dust |
| TIYAN NEWMAN | Eden |
| JEREMY WEINER | Get It! |
| CHARLENE CLARKE-TODORUK | Heads |
| VICTOR RIDAURA | Identidad Raza |
| JOSH SCHENKKAN AND MICHAEL MOUNT | Incognito Mode |
| MAYANKA GOEL | Is Your Husband Home? |
| BRIAN MENZ | It’s OK. He’s Friendly. |
| JON PLATT | Just the Three of Me |
| BEN WOODIWISS | Lady Midday |
| ARIEL MCCLEESE | Lady Parts |
| LUCY FOSTER | Lovely Girl |
| JOSHUA DAVID MATTHEWS | Memories of a House |
| ALEXANDER SELTZER | Merrow |
| ERIC ROBINSON | MUSKREALM.JPG |
| CHRISTIAN GREEN | Night Of The Living Vacuum |
| GWENDOLYN HULET | Nothing’s Final |
| ADAM SANTA CRUZ | People Die |
| SIMON DOYLE | Retrograde |
| ERIC WARREN | Sampson & Delilah |
| JACKIE PEREZ & ELISE SALOMON | Self Image |
| MIYAKO FUQUA | Shelf Life |
| JOHAN SPIROLAZZI | Sing The Fucking Song |
| APRIL ROUVEYROL | Starlight |
| JASON RICE | Stray |
| JED WOODS | Stud Muffin |
| JUSTIN MORITZ & PARKER FOREMAN | Take 177 |
| LIA BERGER | Teller |
| JESS C WHEATLEY | The Call Out |
| ALEXANDER SELTZER | The Door |
| DOMINIC HART | The Night Runner |
| PATRICK MEDIATE & AARON MCLANE | The Unwrapping |
| DANIEL ALAN KIELY | The Whisper Tree |
| YVETTE ROSS | There’s A Monster in My Room |
| GLENN FORBES | To Live Again a Butterfly |
| PATRICK LOVELAND | Too Many Eyes |
| ASH LAZER | White Noise |
| ZOE BULLOCK | Witch Hunt |
| JOSHUA HEATON | You’re on Mute |
Here are the 1 Page Semifinalists:
| WRITER/S | TITLE |
| PATTY PAPAGEORGIOU | #milk |
| JOSHUA HEATON | A Confession |
| WENZLER POWERS | A Little Prick |
| CHELSEA SPIRITO | After the Storm |
| CHRISTIAN CURRY AKUNA | Bookworm |
| ANDREW WILCZAK | Bubbles |
| RENE CLAVEAU | Cluck Cluck |
| JESS BARTLETT | Duck Duck Goose |
| CHRIS VANDERHORST | Followers |
| CC MCLOUGHLIN | Gourmandise |
| EVAN BAUGHFMAN | Killer in Tent |
| KATHERINE COX & MATT MCCARTHY | Kitty’s Like… |
| YVETTE ROSS | Love Is in the Air |
| SANDRA WADE | MRI |
| SANCHEZ TAYLOR | No Life Detected |
| TRACI LOPER | Pastime |
| ALISON PRINGLE | Phantom Crying |
| JOSEPH X CASILLAS | Plateau |
| SPIKE BLACK | Snip |
| AR UGAS | Storage Room |
| JACKIE PEREZ | The Ballerina |
| ARRAN CRAWLEY | Watch My Baby, Please |
Big thanks to our sponsors Shudder, Final Draft, Rue Morgue, Stan Winston School of Character Arts, Horror Pack, QWERKYTOYS, Stage 32, Robert McKee’s Horror Webinar Series, Ghoulish Gary, The Script Butcher, Coverfly, Filmfreeway, Script Hive, ISA, Script Hop, Script Revolution and Fright Rags.
Thanks also to our festival partners, and the following Womxn & BIPOC organizations: The Write or Die Chicks, Women Make Movies, Ladima Foundation, NYWIFT, African American Women in Cinema, The Light Leaks, Hedgebrook, Screen Queens, Rianne Pictures, Alliance of Women Directors, LIFTT, Black Screenwriters, Ms. In the Biz, and Indigenous Australian Filmmakers.
