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AT THE MERCY OF FAITH - VERSION 4A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter. 18 years later the psychopathic demons from his past, viciously returns to wreak havoc on his home - and to rip-out-his-soul - for the god of their hell. Script Excerpt |
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LEGACY (retitled LEGACY TWO: ORIGINS)A coming of age story about a boy in Ireland named Lachlan who finds himself in a magical world he never knew existed. Kyros, Lachlan’s father, abandoned his son as a young child, and never saw him again. Now Lachlan must deal with the resentment that he feels towards his father while attempting to rescue him on an epic journey. Script Excerpt |
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LUANA (retitled LEGACY ONE: LUANA)After her parents are murdered, the last dragon whisperer — a 16 yr old grieving teenager named Luana — goes on an epic quest to avenge their deaths and rescue her village from blood-thirsty banshees. Script Excerpt |
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Seraphim’s MiracleA former war correspondent is forced to confront his tragic past, as he cynically investigates an alleged 'miracle' that might just be the real thing. |
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VisionsA girl is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her strange father may be the killer. |
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The 49th DayA 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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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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BAD LISTING(Thriller/Horror): When two strangers share an Airbnb unit, they each worry the other has a dark secret. But, in fact, a supernatural presence is toying with them both. A small-cast, minimal-location script -- a winner in both the StoryPros and WriteMovies contests -- by a two-time produced writer. |
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Corpse PoseA young man gets the surprise of his life when he looks for his sister in a community of spiritualists. |
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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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The ZombaysDeon and Ayana Williams, a young, hip African American couple turned zombie in a top-secret government program, escape undetected and flee to the suburbs. Their attempt at anonymity fails miserably when great success leads to unexpected notoriety and a cataclysmic showdown. Script Excerpt |
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Doors of MiraclesA young woman fearing another disaster hesitates, in giving thanks to God yet trembling fights fear, gives thanks, and triggers Light descending from Heaven projecting her to its source to be returned with supernatural powers, miracles, and God speaks. Script Excerpt |
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UniformsBased on true events, a coming-of-age/immigration/love story takes us from central 1950's Mexico to Chicago (and a stint in Vietnam). A crooked legal system tried mightily to thwart a young man. Scouts and martial arts figure in his favor, along with family, pluck, honest work and a supernatural drum element. (This is the updated previous winner script "Machismo, Machisma"). |
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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 Last GuardDetective Alvarez is trapped in an abandoned silo on a remote island, with a hostage and a bag of loot - surrounded by a squad of rogue soldiers and an ancient curse, her corruption and lies brutally unravel, as the shadows crawl and darkness descends... |
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and The Devil called!The Devil walks the cold dark corridors awaiting the capture of God's Chosen-one to re-ignite the flames of Hell. Script Excerpt |
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K-9 CopA cranky police officer dies and ends up in the body of a police dog in order to bring down a criminal organization and help a teenager get over a big loss in his family. Script Excerpt |
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GHOST I.T.After the tragic death of his identical twin brother, he feels guilty and tries to find redemption through an unsuccessful suicide! Then he comes across Hig, a demonic ghost, which promises everything, but only to trick him, so Hig can escape his own hell. Script Excerpt |
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Dream CatchersIn medieval Scotland, a man searching for redemption becomes the target of torment as his power to heal becomes a catalyst for fear. |
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Forever AfterA 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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The Demon of Hope StreetA homeless vet, haunted by the war, 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. |
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Blood of the ManorAn orphaned teen discovers the ancestral Gothic manor she inherits is her only protection from a deranged familial spirit out to kill her. Script Excerpt |
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CATHERINE'S GHOSTA troubled young boy enlists the help of the girl next door to solve the mystery of a killer ghost. Script Excerpt |
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Nadir/The Fourth HouseA young mother, believed to be suffering from postpartum psychosis, flees her family with newborn in tow to a haunted lakeside bed and breakfast in search of answers to visions of her own murder in a past life. |
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God's WarriorGod chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn her of the dangers. |
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House of DragonsDuring the second reign of Vlad Dracula, a family of pole sharpeners is swept up in the chaos the blood-thirsty prince creates as he battles his demons - REAL and IMAGINED |
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WHEN YOU'RE DEADAt a funeral, an old man tells a ghostly tale. |
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The Waterwheel ForestThe Waterwheel Forest is a fantasy drama short about the young boys working in a turn of the century steel mill and what happens to them during a mill disaster. |
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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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The CatacombA group of high school students trapped in a catacomb fight for their lives against a ruthless and mysterious killer. Script Excerpt |
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BellamyA night out with friends turns out to be anything but normal as a local legend is put to the test. Legends have a way of adding to their own lore and these three friends will find out that if you don't know your local history, you're doomed to repeat it. |
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Supernatural - InterventionSam sets up an unusual intervention to address Dean's alcoholism. |
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StigmaA young woman decides to solve the mystery surrounding her beloved Grandpa’s sudden health decline and save him, a decision which brings her face to face with her worst fears. |
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SerenityA fallen advertising executive finds redemption after an unlikely meeting with a mysterious man in a soup kitchen. |
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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? Script Excerpt |
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PwnedA second rate musician acquires a pawn shop guitar for free, then learns the price he must pay for taking it. |
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Cold Blooded GoldUnion and rebel soldiers straggler in the wilderness, their captain may have returned from the dead to protect, a cache of gold to be hidden for the future. The gold is tainted by the war and a group of "buffalo soldiers" help to save the gold for a better future. |
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Supernatural - I Got You, BabeWhen a John Lennon impersonator gets killed by the doppelganger of Mark David Chapman, Sam and Dean step in to find out why on a cruise ship full of celebrity impersonators heading for Bermuda. |
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IniquitousWhen a spell releases an ancient demon, it attempts to bring its fellow minions from hell, through a human woman. And four friends must use a mysterious necklace, to stop the entity from opening a gateway to our world. Script Excerpt |
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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. Script Excerpt |
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Because The NightBelieve in love too real to feel. Within the walls of a mystifying seaside mansion, a hard-headed heiress and the house's enigmatic owner investigate a concealed room where they penetrate another dimension and must struggle to comprehend fading boundaries of time, space and reality. |
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The Road to AtonementAn inveterate thief rediscovers God after he mistakenly steals the identity of a high-profile mobster in the Witness Protection Program who is marked for execution and is pursued by Organized Crime contract killers. |
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PinewoodA mentally unstable ex-con works with a private eye to find out who really killed his childhood friend. Unfortunately, the evidence goes into dark forces neither one is ready to deal with. Script Excerpt |
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Gray and Lover - The Hearth Tales IncidentPeople fear Demons. Demons 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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RONALD'S WRAPRonald's forgetfulness lands him and his girlfriend in a strawberry field dealing with a situation that pops up challenging his ability to protect both of them. Unfortunately, he may have foiled himself right into a horrifying consequence. |
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Somebody Swam AwayWhen a sailing boat badly hurts marine biologist, a talking dolphin saves her life. Wishing to fund research in dolphin communication she accepts to dive for the diamonds unaware that she is in a dirty deal. |
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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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NEVERMOREEdgar Allan Poe, poet, author and detective, is asked by the police to help solve a series of mysterious killing in an alt-history 1847 Baltimore. |
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Gods Demons and Other ThingsGod's other son convinces God to allow him to visit earth in order to make things right. Things don't go well for him and upon his return to heaven he is devastated by what awaits him. |
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die with meA man gained immortality by a means he font know, but anytime he dies and is revived he loses more of himself and gets more about the source of his powers. He finds people who got different powers from the same source, to idendify how the powers are choosed for each person and how to stop them if it is possible, cause they may destroy the world |
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A Guy ... With SpiritA Valley Girl’s romantic rendezvous, arranged through an online dating service, results in a menage a trios that is literally out of this world. Script Excerpt |
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NICOLELOGLINE Nicole, a Trance Seer, diagnosed with Dissociative Trance Disorder, a champion of the impoverished, born to a destiny of true love, during her crusade to fight global poverty and disease, must use the powers of technology and Trance Premonition to find and save her MIA husband, Robert, captured in an underground Mid Eastern prison before he is tortured to death. Love story. War Story. Paranormal Thriller. |
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meet The Devil!An award-winning journalist who doesn't believe in God or the Devil interviews an author on these 'mythical' characters landing him in Hell calling for God. Script Excerpt |
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Pariah Chapter 3: Fire and BrimstoneAs Ismael, the catalyst of chaos brings down his wrath upon mankind, the Pariah must come together to save the Earth from Hell's clutches. As the Pariah battle to save the human race, they will discover that the cost of victory comes at a heavy cost. |
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Pariah Chapter 2: The ProphecyA fallen angel uses his cunning abilities to test the Pariah. As evil's influence becomes more rampant, the prophets who may be able to stop it rise up as the final battle for mankind marches ever closer. |
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Edna MayEdna May is the retelling of the classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Only this time is about the richest woman in Manhattan, Edna May Scrooge. This tale of the Christmas Ghosts that visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve has a twist, a contemporary story with a female Scrooge. She holds true to the character of Scrooge but it is the modern twist that gives the story a new flavor to the classic story. Script Excerpt |
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Last Train HomeDuring the last, fleeting beats of his pulse, a man seemingly put to death in Florida’s electric chair in 1999 is sent on a journey across time to confront himself as a teen and change the course of his dire destiny. Script Excerpt |
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SanctuaryA hapless and socially detached attorney's life changes dramatically when he executes a will stipulating that a substantial fortune will be shared by all who attend the deceased's funeral mass. But no one shows up... except one mysterious homeless man seeking shelter from a raging storm. Script Excerpt |
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THE CRUNCHBeautiful Indian-American MIT astro-physicist number cruncher extraordinaire passionate about gambling, fashion and reality television creates an assassinations eSports game that allows for time travel to the murders, leading to conflicts with clients about her work, both for killings in the past and those to be terminated in the future. Sell THE CRUNCH as "Assassins Creed" executed with "Star Wars" and "Stranger Things." Script Excerpt |
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DUE DILIGENCEPowers collide in rural Maine during The Cold War when avaricious investors buy a paper mill but Wall Street, the Mob, and Soviet spies should have read Stephen King as part of due diligence before enraging a supra-natural force in the area. Selling DUE DILIGENCE: The Americans meet Billions and The Sopranos with a slice of Stephen King. Script Excerpt |
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A WALK IN THE PARKA elderly man's daily constitutional becomes a surreal experience. |
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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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Kiss of SatanSatan and his cult enjoy the spoils of earth until they have to battle a Great Man of God. Script Excerpt |
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ARKHAM HORRORA group of misfits unites to defend a small town from an onslaught of unimaginable horrors. |
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The WalletWhen a man returns a wallet, the door opens to torment, murder, a cold case, and submission to evil. |
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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. |
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Memory of SnowThe past is a place from which secrets rise without warning. Script Excerpt |
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COUNTERTRANSFERENCEA promising young psychiatrist treats a severely disturbed woman whose previous doctors have all quit or died under mysterious circumstances, and ends up getting more than she bargained for. |
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COVID COMAA predatory pastor glimpses his eternal future while fighting Covid-19. |
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NOCTUME'S RAINBOWKids and their dogs, find the rainbow bridge in a snowstorm. They teleport, fly, zoom through tunnels, and levitate around this heaven and have a lot of fun, but get a few surprises along the way, from messages, and musical communication with angels and whales....to a run in with a demon. They meet up with their recently departed Grandfather, and his dog, who helps them return home. Script Excerpt |
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CATACOMBOn a field trip to Rome, a quiet teenage girl suddenly discovers her secret mental powers and must learn to use them in confronting a conspiracy to destroy the Vatican. |
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The Haunted LighthouseWhen a sadistic sea Captain is set adrift by his mutinous crew to die, he takes up his ghostly residence in an abandoned lighthouse vowing revenge while bringing terror and murder to a coastal community as he seeks someone to join him in death. The sheriff must contrive a way to rid the town of him. |
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ANGELSKINDisturbing story of brutal serial killer, archangels battling fallen angels, and Armageddin looming for all! Script Excerpt |
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La HaciendaA married interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico during the Day of the Dead, a day of remembrance for those who've died, to renovate a dream hacienda owned by her parents that's haunted by not only the couple's own past but also the murderous pasts of its former owners, who have been forgotten by their loved ones, for very good reason. Script Excerpt |
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Book of SpellsPeter 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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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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Colorado LobstersBrilliant and troubled MIT grad seeks revenge on the Nuclear Power Plant manager who murdered his dad when he takes over dad's old job. Add in some pharmaceuticals... what could go wrong? |
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Dark of kNight (adaptation)The first of the Werewolf / Vamp series by novelist, TL Mitchell. 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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Fight For OilA beautiful young anti-war activist and a Death Valley auto mechanic learn about love and loyalty during a future Gulf War. Script Excerpt |
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Grim-ReaperessIt happens every 100 years... What will Susan discover, on her twentieth birthday? |
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John Milton's Paradise LostLucifer's war in Heaven, the creation of Hell, and the Fall of Man. |
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A nineteen-year-old drops out of film school in New York City following a tragic accident and returns to his small Pennsylvanian hometown, only to be confronted by an array of quirky small town folk, including his detached best friend, his alcoholic single mother and a free-spirited cross-country traveling girl.
Bloodthirsty
A motley crew of strangers trapped in a secluded London tavern must survive overnight against vicious werewolves.
Bitches with Knives
After her deadbeat ex-boyfriend steals her winning lottery ticket, a hard-boiled trailer trash girl recruits her best friend and a sexy knife-wielding assassin for a revenge plot to reclaim her rightful fortune.
Bloodsmoke
A new college student is recruited by peers into their war against a vampire threat, but their biggest battle comes when one of their own is bitten and fights with unprecedented reluctance against the change.
Dead or Alive
Three supernatural stories involving a diverse group of individuals unfold over a fateful night in 1885 Nevada.
Sabre Ice
Scientists thaw a frozen cavewoman and unknowingly implant modern brain matter from a convicted serial killer—an attribute they must embrace when their other experiment, two genetically-enhanced sabretooth tigers, break loose within the compound.
Criminals
An unconventional crime-comedy following a young career woman who falls in with two bank-robbing vampires after they take her hostage as they head cross-country with an agenda and an ambitious NYPD detective on their trail.
Next Register, Please
A group of video store clerks cope with the news of their outdated paradise’s downfall.
Momentum
A malicious shape-shifting alien banished to Earth arranges an escape ship with his race responsible for leaving him in exchange for a terminally-ill woman who holds the key to their survival in an interplanetary war.
Project Eradicate
Five thieves pull off a daring jewelry store heist and escape through the sewer where they cross paths with a researcher and police officer documenting the disappearance of city workers.
