Someplace Nice and Dark
A young delivery boy calls on a strange old man harboring a shadowy secret.
Finding a good horror short with something fresh to say can be difficult, to say the least. Everyone’s seen the proliferation of vampire, slasher, exorcism and zombie scripts ad nauseum. Is there anything left in this field to explore?
Well, here’s a short that does have something new, creepy and gothic. Set in a trailer, “Someplace Nice and Dark” revolves around only two characters – Pinto, the urban delivery boy… and a old man who seems to have a strange aversion to the light. (No, kiddies, this isn’t what you’re thinking.) Done with the right actors and atmosphere, this is one script that could win some lucky director a horror festival.
About the writer: Robert Newcomer recently received his first IMDB credit for another short, Them That’s Dead. An intelligent writer, he has several other shorts and a horror feature length available for consideration. (IMDB credits listed here.)
Budget: Low
Primary Genre: Horror
Page Length: 9 pages
READ THIS SCRIPT HERE – AND DON’T FORGET TO COMMENT!
FOR YET MORE SCRIPTS AVAILABLE FOR PRODUCTION:
PLEASE SEARCH SIMPLYSCRIPTS.COM
OR THE BLOG VERSION OF STS HERE.
All screenplays are copyrighted to their respective authors. All rights reserved. The screenplays may not be used without the expressed written permission of the author.
10 Comments so far
1.
Chris
August 2nd, 2014 at 11:51 pm
Would like to discuss your script.
2.
anime
July 17th, 2015 at 8:39 am
this script sent shivers down my spin and scared me.
3.
anime
July 17th, 2015 at 8:40 am
I am never smoking
4.
KP Mackie
July 18th, 2015 at 12:54 am
One creepy story…
Terrific original story idea. Glued to the page.
Really well done. 🙂
anime —
“I am never smoking.”
Ditto… 🙂
5.
Dragoș Călin
July 20th, 2015 at 12:17 pm
Good ideea, good script. Congratulations!
6.
Kayla Moralez
July 20th, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Wow, this was so good.
7.
Vinni
July 20th, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Even though I’m a 40 year old white man I felt like a young, black boy who is now scared of darkness and light, cigarettes and old men. Well done, good description. Good luck and Godspeed!
8.
Vlade
June 29th, 2016 at 11:59 am
That was eerie. Now I’ll be afraid of both darkness AND light 🙂
Well done Robert.
9.
Warren
June 29th, 2016 at 5:17 pm
What a great read. Writing like this is truly inspiring.
10.
Manoj
July 24th, 2016 at 5:06 pm
Very nice. Wanna discuss with you about the script.