Killer Shorts Names Season 6 Contest Winners
Kegel by Marisa Green has been named the Main Category Winner of the Season 6 Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition. The 1-Page and Short Category winners have also been announced.
Main Category
Overall WinnerKegel by Marisa Green
After plain Jane is ghosted one too many times, she muscles a feral vagina-driven revenge spree.
"It's difficult to be original in the world of horror, as everything is a riff on something that's come before, but I truly have never read anything like this one." Jed Shepherd, Writer/Exec Producer of HOST
2nd Place Winner
Squeak by Evan Schullery
After being tossed into the backyard, the beloved squeaky toy of an abused golden retriever gets infested by a mysterious fungus and seeks revenge.
"It's tightly written, smartly paced, and manages to juggle tones with ease: bio-horror meets vengeance meets pitch-black comedy…Genius." – Sophie Carroll, Director of Creative, DUST & ALTER
3rd Place Winner
Baby Tooth by Tania Luna
A young boy turns to supernatural forces in a twisted attempt to mend his broken family.
"This was wonderful. So sweet. So thoughtful. It's poignant without being overt. Perfect length. I want to see this. Gateway horror." – Aaron B. Koontz, Paper Street Pictures
1-Page Category
Overall WinnerSurprise, Surprise by Phillip Dishon
A man's low-key birthday celebration comes to an unexpected end.
2nd Place Winner
Submerged by Lisa Jay
When a woman encounters a distressed boy by a riverbank, she does her best to help until she realizes she's put herself in danger.
3rd Place Winner
Home Birth by Adrian Kennedy
A woman grieving the death of her husband finds new life in new life.
Short Story (Prose) Category
Overall WinnerHotline to Heaven by Andy Farrant
A psychic medium with real horrifying visions of the afterlife finds the only way to monetize his skill is by lying.
2nd Place Winner
Identity Theft by Caleb Dillon
After visiting a high school reunion and not being recognized, a man slowly begins to realize he is being erased from his own life.
3rd Place Winner
Dear Nora by Montserrat Luna-Ballantyne
An advice columnist corresponds with a mother who's experiencing increasingly strange events in her new home.
Updated: 04/21/2025
Additional Contest Info: The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
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She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
Second Opinion
When a renowned child-abuse pediatrician’s family member is accused in an infant’s death, he’s confronted with the possibility that his certainty may have helped put innocent people in prison.
