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Horrific Tales of the Wickedly Macabre is an anthology series that celebrates the ridiculous excess of ’80s horror. Eight separate terrifying stories, each told by horror fans, specifically for horror fans.
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Filthy Animal (28 pages) by Michael J. Kospiah (Wraparound Story Written by Sean Chipman)
A mysterious animal control officer teaches an abusive dog owner what it’s like to be treated like an animal.
Ishtar – October 11, 1985 blue revised draft script by Elaine May – hosted by: UCLA Extension Writers’ Program – in pdf format
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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HOME (12-page short horror screenplay) Written by SEAN O’DONAGHUE
A man and woman are drawn to an abandoned house minutes apart for unrelated reasons and engage in a game of broken telephone in a house with motives of its own.
It’s always a pleasure to find a good, old-fashioned, creepy horror short to contribute to my lack of sleep at night. And while the horror fan in me was really drawn in to this clever spine-tingler, the filmmaker in me was drawn towards it because it was a one-location, two-character piece. So, any filmmakers out there looking for something easy to film during social distancing, look no further.
The story opens as Raymond tapes “missing” posters onto telephone poles throughout a quiet neighborhood in search of his missing cat, Felix. But as he continues to put up these “missing” posters, he hears a meow coming from a creepy, abandoned house across the street. Almost a 100 percent sure it’s Felix, he makes the mistake of entering the home – never a good idea in the middle of the night, especially in a horror movie.
Meanwhile, a photographer named Natasha arrives at the abandoned home to recover a camera she had left there the previous day – she’s been taking photos of the place. But when she arrives, she realizes that she’s not alone.
Trying to draw out what she thinks may be a homeless person upstairs, she bangs on the ceiling with a broomstick, which makes Raymond realize that he’s not alone either. Though both parties are relatively harmless and are at the house with good intentions, they sort of engage in a game of Marco Polo.
But as this game of cat and mouse continues, they each notice strange children’s drawings and carvings on the walls – the creepy drawings tell the tragic story of the family that once lived there, a sinister story that ended violently. And as Raymond and Natasha eventually find each other, they both realize that they’re not the only ones there…
“Home” combines familiar horror tropes to create an original, cleverly-chilling story that constantly plays with the audience’s expectations throughout.
BUDGET: Low. One-location, two actors.
ABOUT THE WRITER: Sean O’Donoghue is a 22-year-old writer based out of Toronto, Canada. Though he studied Economics and Political Science at McGill University in Montreal, his passion was always in film. Sean gravitated towards other creatives, ending up writing for and working with friends on smaller projects. Now graduated and having left McGill’s film club, Sean made the choice to pursue a career in screenwriting with “HOME” being his first foray into the professional sphere. His influences range from classic adventure films such as the Indiana Jones Trilogy (Emphasis on trilogy), to noir/neo-noir thrillers including Memento and The Maltese Falcon, to stoner action flicks like Pineapple Express. Sean’s interest in multiple genres is something he wishes to emulate in his own work as he looks to tell wide-ranging stories that capture various perspectives of the human condition. Sean can be reached at: sean.od1701 (a) gmail.
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About the Reviewer: Michael J. Kospiah is the award-winning screenwriter of critically acclaimed indie-thriller, The Suicide Theory (79% Rotten Tomatoes – available on Amazon Prime, Itunes, Google Play, etc) and 2020’s upcoming Aussie thriller, Rage. His horror feature, They Never Left is currently in development.
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Inside Llewyn Davis – Undated, unspecified draft script by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – hosted by: Rain Dance – in pdf format
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles — some of them of his own making.
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Out Of Time – February 13, 2001 unspecified draft script by David Collard – hosted by: Daily Script – in pdf format
Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he’s trusted in order to find out the truth.
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GIFT HORSE (5-page short thriller screenplay) by Anthony Cawood
What seems like a chance encounter turns out to be something much more sinister when a muscle-bound gym-rat crosses paths with a bartender who’s grieving the death of his twin sister.
Today’s review was an entry from Week 3 of the annual Writer’s Tournament here at Simply Scripts. Though this one wasn’t the top-rated script that week (based on writer votes), it was right up there. And while it’s probably the easiest to shoot out of all the entries from that week, it was also one of my favorites.
This one-location revenge tale takes a place at a dingy little bar where we meet the bartender, Dominic, who’s grieving the death of his twin sister. It seems like they’re closing up – by the looks of it, it’s been a slow night. Empty. But when a customer named Stevie knocks on the door asking if they’re open, Dominic decides to let him in.
Stevie, a muscle-bound gym-rat, shows up with a coupon he found in his windshield – “Happy Hour: First Five Drinks On Us”. Hell of a deal, right? Maybe TOO good of a deal. Don’t know many bars that give away drinks like that. But business does seem slow, and what better way to bring more patrons in than giving away free booze?
As the two chat alone at the bar, Dominic brings up his late, twin sister, Sinead, who died tragically – oddly, Stevie recognizes the name.
STEVIE
There was a Sinead… at my gym.
DOMINIC
Yeah?
STEVIE
Ahuh, not seen her recently.
DOMINIC
No, because she died.
As their conversation continues and we find out more and more about Sinead’s demise, we begin to realize that this encounter at the bar didn’t happen by chance.
Cleverly dark, this taut, tense, one-location revenge thriller would be very easy to film during social distancing and play very well on screen.
BUDGET: Shoe-string. Two actors, one location.
ABOUT THE WRITER: Anthony Cawood is an award-winning screenwriter with one feature produced and a further four features optioned or in pre-production. In addition to features, he has over forty short scripts produced/sold/optioned – including ten filmed. Also occasionally pens screenwriting articles, interviews with writers and filmmakers, and even a short story or two. He can be reached on his website AnthonyCawood.co.uk.
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About the Reviewer: Michael J. Kospiah is the award-winning screenwriter of critically acclaimed indie-thriller, The Suicide Theory (79% Rotten Tomatoes – available on Amazon Prime, Itunes, Google Play, etc) and 2020’s upcoming Aussie thriller, Rage. His horror feature, They Never Left is currently in development.
Il Postino (aka The Postman) – Undated, unspecified fyc draft script by Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi – hosted by: UCLA Extension Writers’ Program – in pdf format
Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity’s mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda’s help and guidance more than ever.
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A MATTER OF TASTE (9-page short horror screenplay) by James Austin McCormick
Two crime bosses pit their wine tasting skills against one another in a contest to become head of the underworld – only they’re vampires and the wine isn’t actually wine.
James Austin McCormick’s humorous crime-horror hybrid pits underworld mafiosos, DUKE VINCENZO SALIBRI and ARTUR DUBEK, against each other for full control of the criminal empire as head of all families. How, you ask? In a wine tasting competition!
This clever low-budget affair follows OWEN REEVES, a young tabloid journalist who attends the historic taste-off in attempt to expose the dark and secretive mafia crime world.
With several underworld criminals serving as the audience, crime boss Salibri shows off his impeccable palate as first-up in the very pretentious competition. You can practically picture him sipping with his pinkie out.
SALIBRI
East European.
He places his glass down on the table.
SALIBRI
Slavic.
He looks at his opponent.
SALIBRI
Definitely peasant stock. I would say
the west bank of the Vlatava.
But these aren’t your typical mafiosos. And this isn’t a “wine” tasting – they’re vampires and what they’re tasting and describing is blood!
Though Salibri carries himself as the more sophisticated one, his brutish, seemingly less sophisticated opponent, Dubek, has a pretty strong palate, himself. Though rather than sipping, he prefers to chug the “wine”. Unfortunately for Dubek, he’s simply outclassed by the bourgeois Salibri, ultimately losing the taste-off.
But Dubek refuses to lose quietly and the seemingly innocent competition turns into a Shakespeare-esque sequence of double-crosses that will inevitably cause a war between the old and new families. And in the midst of all the mayhem, our human journalist, Owen, is outed by MORTARUS, the meeting’s mediator.
MORTARUS
Mr Owen Reeves, a human who bribed our
official chronicler to trade places with
him here today. He works for one of the
lower order tabloids. No doubt he expected
it to be his big scoop, exposing our world
to the humans.
The fate of Owen’s career (and life) now lies in the hands of a room full of vampire crime bosses.
Smart and witty, McCormick’s script offers a new twist on both mafia films AND vampire films.
BUDGET: Low. One main location, two other very simple locations. Four actors, a few extras.
ABOUT THE WRITER: James Austin McCormick is a college lecturer and compulsive writer of speculative fiction with many short stories published in various anthologies along with novellas and novels published with Class Act Books. As a screenwriter, James has consistently placed high in international competitions and, along with a co-author, has had three feature-length horror scripts optioned by K5 films. With a long list of short-length scripts, James also collaborated with talented writer, Annabel Grace, on the produced short, In the Silence. You can find his works on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. James can be reached at: jimbostories (a) hotmail.
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About the Reviewer: Michael J. Kospiah is the award-winning screenwriter of critically acclaimed indie-thriller, The Suicide Theory (79% Rotten Tomatoes – available on Amazon Prime, Itunes, Google Play, etc) and 2020’s upcoming Aussie thriller, Rage. His horror feature, They Never Left is currently in development.
