Slamdance Announces Horror Competition Winners
Tony Mosher's The Punished has been named the winner of the Slamdance Horror Screenwriting Competition.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
THE PUNISHED by Tony Mosher
CREATIVE EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER
CHILD IN THE DARK by Damian Lahey & Ian Ogden
FINALISTS
THE BUM, THE WHORE, AND THE HITMAN
By Luis Cordoba
Logline: An eccentric homeless man, a voluptuous prostitute, and an agitated professional killer are forced to team up late one night to fend off a small army of sneaky, flesh-eating mutants in the New York City subways.
THE CANNIBAL
By Ahimsa Kerp AND Garrett Calcaterra
Logline: A young man tracks down the last of a cannibal clan thought to be long dead, inciting fear and murder in a medieval Scottish village.
CHILD IN THE DARK
By Damian Lahey and Ian Ogden
Logline: In the weeks following the outbreak of a horrifying epidemic, a blind girl, alone in her house, must survive the night amidst the escalating violence and hysteria overtaking the world around her. As she waits on a convoy to take her to safety, this young girl must use all her strength and courage to make it through the night in this relentless story of suspense and terror.
THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
By Patrick Day
Logline: An accountant becomes curious about the fate of the previous occupant of his work cubicle and begins an investigation the reveals a sinister underside to the functioning of the city where he lives.
DEEP DOWN
by Karl Williams
Logline: When a neglected young Jewish boy learns the truth about his grandmother-s past, eerily disturbing incidents begin to occur in his neighborhood and home.
DEMONS IN THE DUST
By Nathan D. Adlen
Logline: An ancient evil sends vile creatures to possess and slaughter a town in the old west.
FRIENDLY
By Jacinthe Dessureault & Craig A. Schwartz
Logline: A group of twenty-somethings on a road trip fall prey to a mysterious black fungus that inspires a homicidal rage in others.
GHOST OFFICE
By Cory Marciel
Logline: An insurance clerk begins to suspect his co-workers of murder when he discovers his office is haunted by the ghost of the man who had his job before him.
GINGERBREAD
By Dirk Scott Levinsohn
Logline: After the death of their parents, the world unravels for privileged California teens Hunter and Gwen when they are forced to live with a clan of inbred relatives in the isolated backwoods of Gingerbread, New Hampshire. Inspired by Hansel and Gretel.
GLORIA'S PLACE
By Steffen F. Kaminski
Logline: An Elvis Impersonator, moves into a house of misfits, just to find out, that his landlord is a vampire feeding on her tenants.
HUNTING SEASON
By Kieran Turner
Logline: A group of teens is stalked while camping in the woods after one of them is accidentally killed by a party of hunters.
INFECTED
By Edwin Maraj
Logline: After a town becomes mysteriously overrun by zombies, a small group of survivors make a daring escape in hopes of finding a safe haven.
LAKESHORE MANOR
By Stewart Wadwell & Shawn Buffington
Logline: Four college students are stranded at a haunted manor run by a murderous family.
NANAW
By Mark Harriott
Logline: A mild-mannered suburbanite spirals into insanity when his mother, an elderly woman with a passion for death, forces herself back into his life taking with her the man-eating house cat that tormented him as a child.
THE PUNISHED
By Tony Mosher
Logline: A couple encounters unimaginable horrors when they try to pay off a dangerous bookie by ransoming the daughter of a wealthy small town preacher.
ROMANCE OF THE DEAD
By Bobby Miller
Logline: Sam, an idealistic med student, has a problem with his longtime girlfriend: she's a zombie. Now, Sam must struggle to find a cure for the girl he loves, while dealing with a zombie invasion...and his cynical divorced father. Will love conquer all or should Sam follow the advice of his father...and split while he can?
SAVAGE WEEKEND
By Patrick Crawford, Todd Crawford & Jeremy Padow
Logline: A small construction crew working on an isolated site finds themselves hunted by a clan of mutated cannabalistic savages.
THRILL KILLERS
by Bill Richardson
Logline: A pair of serial killers who videotape their crimes abduct a local TV reporter and try to destroy her mind and body.
WORM
By Marc A. Samson
Logline: A hopeless nerd who becomes the subject of a revolutionary tapeworm diet must struggle to regain hold of his life when the dangerous parasite starts to control him.
THE ZOMBIE DIARIES
By Andrew Lloyd, story by Dave Goetsch & Andrew Lloyd
Logline: A poor scholarship student enrolls at an ultra-privileged prep school and uncovers a dark secret that is turning her classmates into homicidal creatures.
Updated: 03/12/2008
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Post Your Script Here!RIAN COUNTRY SAFARI
In the mid-80s, a twenty-something personal injury lawyer inherits an unregulated drive-through safari park and must keep it running long enough to sell it--despite knowing it’s an accident waiting to happen.
LAST SHOPPER STANDING
A bitterly divorcing couple competes in a deadly game of survival on Christmas Eve when a disgruntled big-box store manager locks them inside with five other players and stages a twisted competition as punishment for their consumer misdeeds.
Lucy vs. The HOA
After uncovering a million-dollar fraud in her neighborhood HOA, a precocious 11-year-old enlists her Private Detective father to help finish the investigation her deceased mother started years ago.
Henry, Henry
Twenty years after failing to stop his charismatic mentor from abusing children, a guilt-ridden former priest with two warring personalities uses his intimate knowledge of the predator’s mind to infiltrate a child-trafficking ring.
The Wylde Side
After his brother is presumed killed investigating Isla de Cinque, a criminal island-state beyond government control, retired black-ops legend Joe Wylde returns to the world he abandoned to stop a masked tech mogul from using a devastating cyber weapon to hold the world to ransom.
Jeb
In the wake of Stonewall, Yale professor John Boswell races against time and his own mortality to unearth secrets buried within the historical record, igniting a struggle for truth and acceptance that will outlive him.
Fish Fetish
What happens when you mix compulsion with alcohol? A horrific, fast paced story of abuse and revenge inspired by "Tales From The Crypt"
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Triggered
After a failed assassination attempt on a populist politician, two mismatched London detectives uncover a conspiracy using augmented-reality glasses to manipulate ordinary people into violence, pushing an already divided Britain toward civil collapse.
Eternal Blessings
After suffering a head injury that leaves her suspended in an altered state, a woman with a troubled past time travels back to 1980 to warn her younger self of the dangers ahead.
