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Best Supernatural Screenplays

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Doors of Miracles

A young woman trembles as she thanks God anticipating another disaster when The Light of Heaven descends upon her projecting her past the Universe to Heaven to return with supernatural powers, miracles, and God speaks. Script Excerpt

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Misfortune Cookies

Accidentally 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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The 49th Day

A young girl’s imaginary friend starts killing her family off, one by one. But how can you stop Death when she wants to play? (This script has won multiple grand prizes and was selected for The 2016 BloodList.) Script Excerpt

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and The Devil called!

Undeterred by her refusal to accept his gifts and proposal to be his bride, The Devil visits God's Chosen-one five times, and with his charcoaled tri-step-headed Alien Goons, examines her brain as she sleeps, for answers. Script Excerpt

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Restoration

As an introverted art restorer succumbs to the evil temptations of an ancient painting, otherworldly forces attempt to stop her from unleashing the painting's unholy power. Script Excerpt

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Time Before the Fall

A famous movie director harboring dark sins and nightmares of war tries to persuade his granddaughter not to make a biographical drama about his life while subconsciously knowing he needs it for his redemption. His secrets come to light when a young actress channels the spirit of his missing wife.

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Forever After

A retiring Beverly Hills Detective with a secret past is the only one who can foil an E.T. plan for global domination.

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Hope Girls

In a boarding school, while girls are sharing their life stories, an event transforms them into superheroes to fight evil.

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Visions

A teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her strange father may be the killer.

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To Lie Beneath

An 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.

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SOUTH WIND COME

A cynical teen views her father's struggle with depression as a sign of weakness. Her attitude toward him and life changes when both are saved from the wrath of a ruthless drug lord by an ancestor who teaches them the protective power and connective ability of love.

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UNORTHODOX

Madison fights to escape the torture of a holy predicament as her strict, religious mother, Faith, attributes teenage angst to demonic possession. - COMPARABLES meets THE EXORCIST meets MISERY meets THE SIXTH SENSE

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The Demon of Hope Street

A homeless vet discovers that a deranged street preacher is murdering his followers to send them to heaven — and if he doesn’t stop him, he might be next. Script Excerpt

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Ilium Ridge

To brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the First World War is but a game to stave off the boredom of immortality. To Captain Achilles, the Man Who Cannot Be Killed, it is a curse to be avoided at all costs, as the gods, battles and magic of Homer's Iliad are transplanted to the bloody trenches of the last century. Script Excerpt

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God's Warrior

God chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn of the formidable opponents which would collude to destroy her.

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Free Indeed

When 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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Duplicitous

A 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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DARK WATERS

Character-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? Script Excerpt

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Transgenitor

I’m here to reboot, repair or reset the earth’s population as we know it

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Tam Lin

In a modern romantic fantasy based on an ancient Scottish fairy tale, a strong young woman risks everything to save her mysterious lover from the evil Fairy Queen, and bring him back to a world he's never known.

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The Den

After winning a murder trial, a young attorney is offered a job at a different law firm--not knowing that it's solely operated by werewolves.

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Geode

It’s a race against time to save millions of Americans as Angela Garcia uses her premonition dreams to stop a ruthless cult leader who has unleashed a bio-engineered bacteria. Script Excerpt

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Begin At The Bygones

A grief-stricken man's bewildering stay at a haunted inn intensifies with the arrival of a seductive fugitive and a retired drug dealer with a stash of legendary stimulants.

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Spirit of the Executioner

An electric chair that was responsible for many legendary executions, becomes possessed by the soul of a woman in order for her to seek revenge against those who orchestrated her brutal murder. Script Excerpt

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Stuart Duffelmeyer and the Masters of Plagues

When a group of college students pull a cruel prank on an outcast classmate, he uses the mystical powers of a talisman to command creatures and natural forces to plague his tormentors. Script Excerpt

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HAPPILY EVER AFTER

After shooting her husband during a brutal physical assault, a condition brought on by PTSD from his three tours fighting in the Middle East, a tormented woman struggles towards an uncertain future while also contemplating aborting their unborn child.

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FELLOW TRAVELERS

Eddie, a reclusive thirteen year old Boyle Heights African American, is persuaded by, Diego, an equal age Boyle Heights Latino rival, to navigate the dark and dangerous streets of 1978 Los Angeles through the overnight hours with the goal of reaching the beach/ocean ten miles away, a destination Eddie has never seen in person.

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Ember Moon

From begging on the streets to living in a mansion, Ember thought she'd found paradise until she opened the door to hell.

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The Descendant

The fake or fulfilled prophecy...

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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. An Angel saves the day! Raw. Engaging . Imagine "Girl Interrupted + One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest + Running With Scissors + Touched By An Angel = Psychotic USA" "Truth or Fiction??? ( Loosely based on book Psychotica, USA on Amazon) (Could be pilot script for possible mini-series based on vignettes in book) (Copyright Wash DC) Script Excerpt

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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. Script Excerpt

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THE CLICK-CLACK MAN

After a tragic accident 30 years ago, a vengeful ghost begins a deadly rampage, forcing a guilty man and his son to face the sins of the past. Script Excerpt

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BLOODLINES

A casino owner born into a powerful Lycan bloodline must overcome his uncle’s lethal ambition and the looming threat of deadly Hunters to fulfill his legacy. Script Excerpt

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GOING ALONE

When a biologist working on aN important environmental report dies mysteriously, his estranged daughter takes over his work while an assassin is closing in. Script Excerpt

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Howlingween 3: Red River County

A tourist-dependent town in Florida boasts of a historic inhabitant as being America's first serial killer, only to suffer his reawakening. Script Excerpt

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Howlingween 2: Clarry the Clown

Holiday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown. Script Excerpt

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BOJANGLES, EUBIE AND BERT!

A TOE-TAPPING MUSICAL! Legendary performers Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Eubie Blake and Bert Williams relive their show business triumphs in spite of racism and theatrical bigotry. An epic musical drama and biopic. All music public domain; can be expanded to TV musical miniseries. Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (author, “The Screenwriter’s Bible.”) Mutiple contest wins and placements. Script Excerpt

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Nightmare in a Jar

With 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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CATACOMB

On a field trip to Rome, a quiet teenage girl discovers her secret mental powers and must learn to use them in confronting a conspiracy to destroy the Vatican.

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Dead Line

The ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt

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Vengeance Island

A law student interning with the Public Defender office and his visiting girlfriend are stranded with their pilot on a remote Alaskan island outside Angoon in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked by spirits seeking retribution for a lie the young man had told native people.

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Malleus

Amid the European famine of 1315, a handsome, cheating husband must burn at the stake when his jealous wife denounces him as a "wolf by night." But a demon transports him to modern day California, where he discovers new powers for both love and murder. Script Excerpt

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La Hacienda

An interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, to renovate a hacienda just purchased by her parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past. Script Excerpt

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Book of Spells

Peter White has inherited a book of magic spells and very special mystical ring from his uncle. He has also inherited an old house filled with magical artifacts But the elements of evil want what peter has and that includes his very soul

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GOBLIN

Horror 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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Jess

Ghost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in a gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises mischief in the life of the tour guide. Script Excerpt

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Dark of kNight (adaptation)

In Dark of kNight, Julie Knight uncovers her family’s hidden ties to Lycans after her father’s death, battling werewolf-linked animal attacks while embracing her lineage and her growing bond with Daniel. "Dark of kNight" is a screenplay by JZ Murdock, adapted from TL Mitchell's paranormal romance novel. It follows Julie Knight, a young woman dealing with her father's death, who discovers a hidden world of Lycans (shape-shifting wolves) and Werewolves. As she navigates her new reality, she learns about her father's true identity and the circumstances of his death, which involve a conspiracy linked to a secret project on Werewolf venom. With the help of her childhood friend Casey and her brother Daniel, Julie confronts the dangers of this supernatural world, including a pack of Werewolves that kidnaps Casey. The story explores themes of love, loss, and identity, culminating in a battle against dark forces and a hopeful future for Julie and Daniel as they embrace their heritage and relationship.

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