Killer Shorts Names Top 10 Finalists
Killer Shorts has named their Top 10 finalists for both their Main and 1-Page Categories. The Top 3 winners will be announced on April 25th.
Here are the Top 10 Finalists in the
Main Category:
SARAH WARD, ’97
MARYELLEN DEVIVO, All the Rage
JULIA DIDDY, Cooking Lessons with Baba Yaga
VICTOR RIDAURA, Identidad Raza
ALEXANDER SELTZER, Merrow
ADAM SANTA CRUZ, People Die
JED WOODS, Stud Muffin
JESS C WHEATLEY, The Call Out
PATRICK LOVELAND, Too Many Eyes
ZOE BULLOCK, Witch Hunt
Heads by CHARLENE CLARKE-TODORUK, Incognito Mode by JOSH SCHENKKAN AND MICHAEL MOUNT, Sing the Fucking Song by JOHAN SPIROLAZZI, Stray by JASON RICE and Teller by LIA BERGER also received honorable mentions.
1-page category:
JOSHUA HEATON, A Confession
ANDREW WILCZAK, Bubbles
RENE CLAVEAU, Cluck Cluck
JESS BARTLETT, Duck Duck Goose
CHRIS VANDERHORST, Followers
SANCHEZ TAYLOR, No Life Detected
TRACI LOPER, Pastime
ALISON PRINGLE, Phantom Crying
JOSEPH X CASILLAS, Plateau
JACKIE PEREZ, The Ballerina
Updated: 03/13/2023
Additional Contest Info: The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!She Curses Like a Sailor
The culture of women and cursing is discussed at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their eccentric neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other wretched souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A satirical view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world renowned 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 killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
ESCALATOR!
In the tradition of The Towering Inferno, but closer to Airplane, comes a new spine-tingler and tickler - Can a hundred people trapped on the Castle Mall’s four-story express ESCALATOR possibly be rescued by the National Christmas Tree?
In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
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