Screenplay Of The Month April 2008
Synopsis: An occult thriller with a hardcore horror edge: "Serpent And The Rainbow" for the "Saw" generation. Logline: "A by-the-book bioweapons expert is deployed to the war-torn Congo to investigate a suspicious outbreak of disease -- which endows its victims with unnatural abilities even as it eats them from the inside …
Production Notes: PLEASE DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU ENJOY HORROR FILMS. ***** Accolades: 2ND PLACE - Acclaim Screenplay Competition ** 3RD PLACE - Terror Film Festival ** 3RD PLACE - Award Winning Screenwriters Contest ** FINALIST - Page International (out of 3,411 entries) ** FINALIST - Cinequest (Top Ten) ** FINALIST - Movie Script Contest ** SEMIFINALIST - Big Bear Lake International Film Festival ** SEMIFINALIST - Screenplay Festival (still in the running) ** QUARTERFINALIST - Writers …
ScriptShark CoverageRunners Up April 2008
Synopsis: A manhunt through the treacherous Ozark backwoods becomes a small town sheriff's fight for survival when an escaped convict teams up with a deranged mountain man to turn the tables on him in this vicious tale of justice and revenge.
Synopsis: The day after Edgar Allan Poe dies, his former friend Rufus Griswold is hired to write Poe's obituary for the New York Daily Tribune. Griswold fills the obit with half-truths and outright lies, intended to make Poe look as bad as possible. Why? What happened between them, to turn their …
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