Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the HORROR Festival.
Watch the 9 winning screenplay best scene readings:
Some Enchanted Evening, by Ian Welfley
On a quiet, snowy Valentine’s Day, a psychotic high schooler breaks into his crush’s home and forces her to have a romantic dinner with him — A dinner that will leave none of its guests unscathed…
AT DEATH’S DOOR, by Matthew Catanzano
Feature Script
When his father dies, a small-time thief returns home and learns the family business—running a funeral home—includes guarding a Gateway to Hell. He’s not a great thief or a great son, but he’ll have to step up or there’ll be Hell to pay…literally, like, the apocalypse.
PWNED, by Diane Johnson
Short Script
A second rate musician pays the price for accepting a pawn shop guitar for free.
The Looming, by Masha Ko
Short Script
When the home audio assistant picks up the noise that Chester has been hearing, he realizes that something is in his house…
HAN, by Esther Um
Short Script
A young Korean woman is haunted by a ghostly figure, in the aftermath of her mother’s death.
CALL OF THE VOID, by Ben Monaco
TV Pilot
At the Navy SEAL training academy, the disappearance of recruits sparks the discovery of something strange and supernatural happening in the SoCal desert just off-base.
At the Navy SEAL training academy, the disappearance of recruits sparks the discovery of something strange and supernatural happening in the SoCal desert just off-base.
VIRULENCE, by Christopher Pennington
Feature Script
A group of scientists on an Antarctic research base fight for their lives as a visitor brings a deadly virus with him.
HORROR Festival 1st Scene: VIRULENCE, by Christopher Pennington
THE UNINVITED, by Matthew Domingos
Short Script
When two American soldiers go on a mission to an abandoned house in the Iraqi desert, what they find there makes them question reality itself.
HORROR Festival Best Scene: THE UNINVITED, by Matthew Domingos
THE FOURTH, by Gabriel Gervais
Feature Script
While undergoing fertility treatments, a budding psychotherapist becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving kidnapped women, cryptic symbols, and shocking revelations about her troubled past.
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