Straight Twisted Announces Semifinalists
The Straight Twisted Horror Screenplay competition has announced the semifinalists in their "Creature Feature", "Slasher", and "Supernatural" categories.
CREATURE FEATURE
BLACKOUT - Jim Beck
BLOOD BRETRHEN - Steve Morris
CROW'S END - Colin Maguire
CRYSTAL DEATH - Martin Stack
DEMONSAUR - Jason Brown
FROSTBITE - Charles Sabatine & Martin Haberstumpf
IMAGINARY - Rick Tobin
OPEN ALL NIGHT - Mike Sherer
PULP SCIENCE FICTION - Ron Podell
STRANDED - Jason Brawn
THE HUNGER - Joseph Ivan
THE ORGAN GRINDER - Mike Davidson
17 - Michael Coleman
SLASHER
BROKEN CROW - Greg Sandquist
CRYSTAL DEATH - Martin Stack
CULT - Michael Friscia
DARE - Bob Sinnott
DORMITORY - Daniel Hinojosa
EVEN STEVEN - Troy Sailing
IMAGINARY - Rick Tobin
MAD URGES - Per Mülow
PRETTY - Terry Coffey & Damon Stout
RED LIGHT - Chris Shamburger
STRANDED - Jason Brawn
THE FACTORY - Heath Roberts
THRILL KILLER - Darrin Thompson
WONDER LAKE - Adam Briel
WOODLAND ZOO - Taylor Hamilton
SUPERNATURAL
ADRIAN DEATH - Terence Brody
BLUR - Thomas Brown
CHOICES - Michael Pallotta
HOUSE OF DARKNESS - Marc Bloom
INCIDENT AT LUNAR HILL - Brad Saenz
LUCID DREAMS - Faith Nelson
MOTEL 666 - Ed Stephens
OPEN ALL NIGHT - Mike Sherer
THE ATONEMENT OF PRESTON BANISH - Jim Beck
THE BOTTOMLESS PUZZLE - Patrick Daly
THE CULT OF THE SEVERED HEAD - Steve Morris
THE REALM - Ricardo Acuna
THE RED ENVELOPE - David Sakmyster
VIAL CONNECTION - Trish Feehan
VISIONS - Danny Howell
Updated: 09/07/2008
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A Baton Rouge teen, haunted by a family tragedy, battles a malevolent Creolo Myth to save his brother and amend past mistakes.
The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.