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Doors of MiraclesThis is a story of Miracles, a young woman’s test of faith, her direct link to God, God speaking and The Holy Spirit’s response. Script Excerpt |
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and The Devil called!The Devil needs God's chosen-one to re-ignite the flames of Hell and restore it to its former Glory of Horror but she rejects him, his gifts and his promise `and you will be my bride`, so he sends his Goons to examine her brain. Script Excerpt |
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To Lie BeneathAn insidious succubus and her incubus partner, prey on the lives of Marcus, a recently divorced business man and his ex-wife Zora, a dormant witch, in metropolitan Atlanta. Script Excerpt |
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Time Before the FallWhile shooting her first feature, a young director, trying to win the love and approval of her great grandfather, an award-winning director, is confronted with supernatural obstacles which lead to the discovery of her great grandfather’s greatest regret. |
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Misfortune CookiesAccidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways. Script Excerpt |
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RestorationDiscovering a centuries-old religious painting that shouldn't exist, an introverted art restorer slowly succumbs to the evil temptations of the mystical canvas, even as otherworldly forces strive to prevent her from revealing the artwork's unholy secret. Script Excerpt |
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Perfect ContritionA 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. Script Excerpt |
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The AWNINGTroubled commuters take shelter from a sudden downpour on a Chinatown street corner, only to be tormented by the elderly man in their midst selling unique umbrellas and dispensing cryptic wisdom. Script Excerpt |
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QUANTUM LOVE (OR HOW NICK AND VALERIE DESTROYED THE WORLD)A surreal love story of disaster-movie proportions, its Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Cloverfield , with a touch of Sid and Nancy . |
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E Pluribus UnumVirginia 1860 – when a profitable, free plantation founded by disguised aliens and supported by famous Abolitionists is attacked by pro-slavers, two former slaves - a fighter and a pacifist, leave to seek help from newly-elected President Lincoln. Script Excerpt |
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TandemgenitorI’m here to reboot, repair or reset the earth’s population as we know it |
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Long Path To PeaceA drug lord's incorruptible and alienated step-son escapes into the wilderness where he saves his Guide - the father he’s always wanted, from a never-ending, guilt-fueled nightmare. Script Excerpt |
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God's WarriorGod chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn her of the formidable opponents which collude to destroy her. |
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Free IndeedWhen our heroine sees more than what meets the natural eye, she knows she is on a divine assignment, if she doesn't free a woman from spiritual bondage the woman will die. Angels of light fight angels of darkness to protect us. Our prayers influence the outcome of spiritual warfare. |
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Marley's ChainsMarley and the Ghosts have been using Christmas Eve to torment someone into a better life for the past 150 years. They’ve been successful every time…until now. |
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DuplicitousA father takes his young disabled son to the country to reconnect in an old Victorian, but their stay becomes one of regret after a malevolent presence is awakened. Script Excerpt |
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The Devil's From TomorrowAfter a near fatal accident a young man sees his own future through twisted visions so real he can't separate them from reality. Now he must find a way to stop the accident and four murders... including his own. |
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THE POOLCharacter-driven psychological horror thriller set in a suburban house, with a disturbed female lead and a shocking twist ending, inspired by Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". Two children seem to be haunted by the ghost of their dead mother's secret lover, as seen through the eyes of a young, troubled woman hired as a nanny while their father leaves town on business. Their suburban house evolves into a nightmare world of psychological evil that seems to emanate from the back-yard pool. Hook: is there a ghost in the house, or is the nanny imagining it and going mad? |
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The CallBart, age 15 and a new convert to the Christian faith, fights temptation in a different way. Script Excerpt |
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According to Their KindAfter a famous atheist receives an ancient artifact that may hold the secrets about the origins of life, she’s thrust into an age-old battle between angelic and demonic forces where choosing the wrong side will imperil her life and the world. |
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AMERICAN OOZEAmerican Ooze follows an entitled pre-teen that discovers the start of his essential self. He experiences a frightful, metaphysical, journey on All Hallow’s Eve. |
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Hy-BrasilAfter being diagnosed with a terminal illness, a ship captain and his friends embark on a journey to the mythological island of Hy-Brasil, in hopes that its inhabitants will grant them immortality. |
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Heaven SpentA lonely young man, Micah Cohen, considers suicide, only to be visited by an “agent for the afterlife” who mistakenly thinks he’s already gone through with it. Rejuvenated by his new lease on life, Micah's determined to set things right…but when he discovers that Death itself is hunting him down, it’s up to Micah’s guardian angel – a rookie -- to save him. A dark reverse spin on Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. |
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Perfect ProphetA death metal atheist with a tortured religious past becomes the target of his satanic fan base because they think he's something more. Check out the novel and its sequel, Prophet Reborn, published in 2018 and 2020. Book Three in preproduction. Script Excerpt |
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MeonHumanity seems faced by an imminent quantum leap when the planet Earth is immersed for 20 long seconds in an intercosmic wall of light. Through the combination of ancient, metaphysical codes with the ultimate in modern science, Dr. Sean Saquasta and his team decipher the key to an inexhaustible source of energy , a gigantic golden ball, the control over which unleashes a perfidious battle. |
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Gray and Lover - The Hearth Tales IncidentDemons frighten people but fear Gray and Lover. A female steampunk duo are contracted to stop "Demon" from terrorizing Seattle before it finds a famous horror writer conjured by his unfaithful and murderous golddigger wife back in LA. Semi-Finalist in Circus Road Films screenplay contest. |
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The SchoharieA volunteer firefighter of Native American descent must convince a small town sheriff with a grudge that a vengeful Indian spirit is bent on destroying their town with the flood waters of a nearby creek. Inspired by the actual Schoharie Creek bridge collapse of 1987. Now available as a novel. Script Excerpt |
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RediscoveryTwo simple-minded brothers work part time for a university and science lab, and find machinery in an unauthorized work area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time—and now they must figure out where they are, how they got there, and how to get back home. |
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Conversations With GodEvery child has an angel that looks upon the face of God. Laurine was no exception. These are the conversations that happened in heaven, that caused supernatural to happen on earth. |
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The BenchA 30ish, suicidal man has a life changing experience when he encounters two men sitting on a bench in a public park; Father God is demonstratively having His own personal crisis while the Holy Spirit is trying to comfort Him when Jesus joins their conversation. Script Excerpt |
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OVERPASSWhen a cement truck driver avoids slamming into a Lexus, only to lose his own life, he haunts the Lexus driver and teaches him a powerful life lesson in the process. Script Excerpt |
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HARBINGERDetective Sandy Marone feels the weight of the world come crashing down on her shoulders as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of a senior citizen, one of several over the past few months. This investigation will lead her to a place she's never been... and didn't know existed. Script Excerpt |
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Going AloneWhen a biologist working on a vitally important environmental report dies mysteriously, his estranged daughter takes over his work with an assassin closing in. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 2: Clarry the ClownHoliday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown. Script Excerpt |
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Nightmare in a JarWith her husband out of town on business, Lisa plans to spend time writing, until a woman shows up at her door selling special face cream; from there everything gets dark and freaky. Script Excerpt |
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MalleusHandsome rogue, denounced by his vengeful wife as a "wolf by night" in medieval France and burned at the stake, surfaces in modern day Los Angeles and befriends a fatherless teenage boy. Script Excerpt |
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La HaciendaAn interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico during the Day of the Dead holiday to renovate a hacienda owned by her parents, but they soon discover it's haunted by former residents, the couple must figure out how to get the surviving member of the family to "remember" them, so the couple isn’t doomed to repeat these spirits' bloody past. Script Excerpt |
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GOBLINHorror comedy in the 80's retro style of "Gremlins". Two young, naive newlyweds move into a Victorian house that's in serious need of supernatural pest control. The new bride discovers and befriends a E.T.-type creature who may be a monster but is the key to an ancient mystery that may save their marriage...if they don't kill each other first. Script Excerpt |
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Dark of kNight (adaptation)Adaptation by request of author TL Mitchell's first book in the Werewolf / Vamp series. Those mean old despicable Werewolves... Vampires just hate them. This is why. |
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VIRALThe ghost of a teenager cyberbullied into suicide haunts the internet as a social-network virus that turns abused kids into killers who take revenge against bullies. When a smart but family-troubled geek fights back and succumbs to the cyberghost, his father has to intervene to save his son. Script Excerpt |
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PORTAL TO HELLIn the beginning of the 1980's a teenage boy starts to experience paranormal activity in his home, from hallucinations to physical marks. The entity that he's dealing with is playing tricks on his mind, and there is no way out. Everywhere he goes, he is being followed by an unforeseen force. Will he escape his madness, and finally be free? Based on the adaptation of Portal to Hell & Rumors. |
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Post Your Script Here!PORTAL TO HELL
In the beginning of the 1980's a teenage boy starts to experience paranormal activity in his home, from hallucinations to physical marks.
Squid Jiggers
Genre: Drama/Romance -Feature A young island woman spends three years struggling with the loss of her arm until her ex, responsible for her impairment, is released from prison, then she fights for her life.
Cafe Earth
In a future where interstellar travel has all the glamor of an interstate highway road trip to Nebraska, an optimistic single mom opens a greasy spoon cafe at a run down truck stop in space - Stuckey's meets Star Wars.
Schwinn Varsity
Summer 1977 - two 14-year old boys undertake an epic, two-day bicycle trek across a city on a dangerous quest for a legendary dumpster in a downtown alley packed with adult magazines.
FULL CONTACT
When Pro Football's most feared linebacker shatters the career of his best friend with a 'heart-stopping' hit, he's forced to battle his own guilt and the split-personality psychopath who drugged him up.
CONNECTING FLIGHT
A cutthroat tech entrepreneur must confront faces from his past, present, and future in a busy airport, where he's forced to reconcile prior misdeeds and reforge alliances, as he races to thwart a catastrophic time-space anomaly.
Curbside Service
A recently separated couple finds themselves stranded in the Arizona desert on their way to a family holiday function.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
Howlingween 5: Trip Along
Fate has dealt another terrible hand to the Forran family.
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR
A will leaves half of California to someone, if a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator can keep any of the heirs alive.
