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Killer Shorts Names Contest Winners
Killer Shorts has announced their latest short screenplay and short story contest winners from among more than 1,124 submission.
Main Category
Overall Winner
This Is Not The End by Victor Ridaura
When a low income, immigrant couple spend their life-savings on a procedure to upload the cancer stricken wife’s consciousness into the AfterLife servers, things don’t turn out how they planned.
2nd Place Winner
There’s Something Off About Gertrude… by Jake Moses
Inexplicable occurrences begin to happen after a young nurse becomes the caretaker of a coma patient.
3rd Place Winner
Nosebleed by Kristen McNaule
When hackers take all the Taylor Swift tickets, Santa Claus goes on a bloody crusade to save Christmas for the children.
1-Page Category
Overall Winner
Don’t Blink by Kelly Asher
A Ouija board reveals a deadly warning that is impossible to heed.
2nd Place Winner
Fish Special by Travis Williams
The diners at a Michelin star restaurant are about to discover what’s squirming in the fish special.
3rd Place Winner
“Keep an Ear Out” by George Morris
A meet-cute at a train station between two strangers may not be as innocent as it seems…
Short Story (Prose) Category
Overall Winner
A Shade of Scarlett by Derek Ladd
A man’s obsession with a red dress takes a strange turn when the mannequin wearing it comes to life.
2nd Place Winner
The Kitchen Drawer by Jon Douglas Rainey
A farewell letter between brothers brings closure to the mystery of their mothers disappearance and exposes the horror of the supernatural threat that plagues their family.
3rd Place Winner
The Unconventional Tea Party by Azzurra Rowland
Stranded at the airport during a snowstorm, Celine takes up the offer of a stranger to drive her home for the holidays. This road trip will soon resurface a traumatic incident from her childhood that she thought she had put behind. Ghosts don’t always stay buried in the past.
Updated: 04/22/2024
Additional Contest Info: The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
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For wont of a nail the shoe was lost, for wont of a vacuum cleaner switch Julie nearly loses her home to a pair of six foot fuzzballs with limbs, speech, and manners!
NORRISTOWN
In 1994, grieving brothers spend the weekend partying hard at an old friend's house, but an unexpected guest awakens past grudges and petty jealousies, unraveling their plans to start over.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
SWEEP
A British Hallmark parody featuring a novelist forced to spend Christmas with his antagonistic family and the girl next door who broke his heart.
and The Devil called!
The Devil visits God`s chosen-one five times, and with the gift of a book to get her in [to parliament] `and you will be my bride` gives dates the world will end but she rejects him, so with his tri-step-headed charcoaled alien goons he examines her brain.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
The Dreams of Sisyphus
Baylor Holloman refuses to accept what fate has planned for him and he's willing to fight to the death to prove it.
BUMPED
A DEEPLY TROUBLED MAN HAS A BRUSH WITH DEATH THAT ALLOWS HIM TO SEE THE TRUE AFTERLIFE AND IT CHANGES HIS OWN LIFE FOREVER.
Murder in Emergency!
Unaware of the clandestine figures manipulating her life, a dedicated nurse's fight to save her hospital from closure, escalates to war against it, on discovery patients are being murdered.
Doors of Miracles
A young woman’s faith is tested, she is filled with the Holy Spirit and transcended through the universe to the Heavens to be returned to Earth with the power to heal, a direct link to God, God speaks and The Holy Spirit intercedes her response.
