ScreamFest Announces Contest Winners
Haunted High by MV Gerhard & Matt Verboys has been named the winner of the 2008 ScreamFest Sreenwriting Competition.
Winning Screenplay
HAUNTED HIGH
MV Gerhard & Matt Verboys
Top Finalists
THE MONASTERY
Simon Birrell
Three jaded travelers con their way into an isolated monastery that supposedly contains vast riches. Once inside, they discover that the monks have the power to tell them when they are going to die, and, caught plundering, they get thrown into a bizarre subterranean Hell.
HAUNTED
Ryan Gilmore
An agoraphobic housewife is haunted by a serial killer's ghost.
RED AGENDA
William Prystauk
Bobby Keagan of Philadelphia's Paranormal Crimes Unit must stop the vampire
terrorist group ''Red Agenda'' before they kill the president.
THE UNAMEABLES
Patrick Schiffrar & Eric Miller
It's Tommy Guns versus Tentacles as writer H.P. Lovecraft and detective Thomas Malone fight the horrific Elder Gods and their monstrous minions in Prohibition-era New York.
Semi-Finalists
THE TEMPLE
Alex Greenfield & Mike Eitelman
A team of mercenaries stumble across a ruin that hides an ancient, voracious evil. THE THING meets THE DESCENT.
SOLDIERS OF THE DEAD
Paul Fusco
Trapped in a Haitian voodoo crypt ... a Green Beret A-Team battles the "spiritual" undead, while
trying to find escape through the crypt's labyrinthine passages.
SHED
Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer
A life-changing discussion about an unplanned pregnancy must be put on hold when young couple Rachel and Danny discover a kidnapped girl in the shed of the cabin they're staying in. This will lead to a terrible ordeal when the psychotic killer returns for his victim and Rachel finds herself fighting for her life and the child within her.
MORNINGSTAR
Timothy Cairo
A Western hero's last stand, but when greed rules and the dead walk, can there be anything left worth defending?
ZOMBIE CRUISE
Josh Burnell
A zombie outbreak on a luxury cruise liner leads a group of passengers into the heart of the ship to save a friend and fight for their lives.
RED ROVER
Phil Landa
A 16-year-old foster kid from an abusive background is drawn into the violent world of a charismatic stranger who promises he will never be a victim again.
THE THIRTEENTH MARY
Michael Strode
A rebellious college freshman becomes the target of demonic assassins when she finds herself inexplicably pregnant with the Second Coming. Doubting her faith, and with no archangel to warn her, she goes on the run with a mysterious, brutal protector.
DEEP WOODS
Jason Carreiro
"Feuding lumberjacks and environmental activists are hunted by fabled creatures inhabiting the deep heart of an old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest."
THE EFFECTED aka FUBAR
Adam Wolfe
A military teleportation project goes awry when the test subjects become soulless.
GRIMM VALLEY
Dennis Shutty
Located deep in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains. Once a booming coal town... now just a sleepy village. Here the local sheriff gets caught up in a bizarre crime wave amid rumors of UFOs, doppelgangers, religious fervor, and other unearthly events.
REMAKE
Jason Contino
THE PLANTATION
Ryan Harris & Brian Lubocki
Years after his best friend goes missing in Haiti, a reporter must revisit the island nation, the mysterious roots of Voodoo and the people behind it when visions of his friend begin to haunt him.
Updated: 11/14/2008
Additional Contest Info: Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!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.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.