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While a criminal is on the run from ruthless drug dealers he finds an escape in the form of a kooky taxi driver who will gladly take him to his destination, somewhere on the other side.
When a guilt-ridden novelist returns to the family farm to care for his comatose father, he falls prey to relentless torment from an iniquitous entity.
'40s Classic Film Noir and Sci-Fi action Post Noir merge together to create a bold new universe where crime, murder, corruption, mystery, suspense, sexy femme fatales, Tommy guns, surveillance, rocket cars and night fiends become a surrealistic shocker in this dark, state-of-things-to-come thriller.
Has being the world's first and only Psycutioner scarred Dr. McCleod for life or has this troubled doctor unleashed a terror from which mankind can neither look or turn back from?
An aging chocolatier is visited by his aunt, but she is strangely younger than he remembers, but he soon finds out the horrible truth when his chocolate goes missing.
An Inuit hunter places his disabled wife on an ice floe with the things she needs for a comfortable death. She insists that he share a last meal with her.
A Rwandan Tutsi farmer's third child is coming. As he waits on his front porch for the midwife to do her work, his oldest son arrives home with the news that a Hutu mob is also coming.
An orphaned teenage girl breaks into the CIA building in the middle of the night looking for a missing agent, but when interrogators interview her,they learn that she has a dangerous supernatural ability and have to figure out if she is helpful to the security of the United States or can destroy it.
In a clandestine program, Liz develops a voice-deciphering software codenamed Billionsong. In the first test, an unseen person calls Liz and the software is able to piece together the unseen person's features. As the handlers roll out Billionsong, they spare over what to do with Liz, and her daughter, deployed in Afghanistan. Handler A wants Liz to 'disappear' yet Handler B, the subordinate, is growing remorseful.
Everything points to Jackson Boyer's guilt. The ex-military officer turned mercenary seems to have snapped and killed a decorated General. But in the business of military intelligence sometimes nothing and no one are what they appear. [This is the pilot script for a complete 8 episode series.]
When a young and savvy congressman's wife learns he has hired a specialist to kill her, she makes plans of her own. A 2013 WorldFest Houston Best Short Film Screenplay Winner. [notes: Hitchcock-like; some critical story elements specific to New Hampshire/Maine area)
In this urban horror tale, a post-partum mother suffers through a series of psychotic hallucinations after her daughter leaves for her first day of day care. (12 pages)
Note: HER FIRST DAY ALONE was adapted as a graphic tale in the award-winning horror anthology BONE CHILLER (www.coldbloodedchillers.com).
On the anniversary of her twin’s brutal murder, a woman meets a psychic stranger who claims to know the identity of the serial killer. And tonight, she’s certain the killer is coming back for her. (39 pages)
#3 on Moviebytes.com Top 10 Thriller Shorts category and winner/finalist in several short film contests.
When a suicidal young woman awakens in a white room, locked in a straight jacket, she must mentally escape back to the hospital where her body lies or she’ll be trapped forever in that limbo.
The head of the Keep Connected Talent Agency receives a phone call the propels her to wrap up a reality show that unknowingly has been seventy years in the making.
When Samantha ends up dead in the family pool, strange things happen to her husband, his mistress, and the life insurance agent trying to settle on her death benefits.
After being tricked by a black craw, three hikers discover a cave full of gold and find themselves trapped in a place from where no man has ever came out alive.
When a man learns of his wife's affair with someone close to the family, he's forced to execute an extreme plan, which doesn't sit too well with his badge.
A Hitchcockian take on the Twilight Zone series, HAUNTING FOR A BARGAIN is about a young couple who move into a bargain-of-a-house when a resident spirit begins to torment the couple's infant baby and pit the parents against one another. (A single-location short to showcase the craft of creating suspense.)
Leaked CLASSIFIED footage of CCTV monitoring at a Covert Operations Controller’s home when a former agent, believed assassinated, phones after booby-trapping the house - seeking revenge.
Trapped inside as his captor demonstrates his bomb-making skills the controller must divulge sensitive secrets or place his family in gravest danger - and they’re due home any minute.
[One location + one shot - Extreme Low Budget - First in a Series]
When a secretive and somewhat antisocial single father moves into a neighborhood with his young daughter – who looks nothing like him – rumors fly that she may be the missing little girl that was all over the news a few years back. Gossip flies and suspicions abound until the truth is revealed – and it’s not what anyone suspects.
Two former lovers have a chance encounter in a small Indian tourist town where they seek out a rare exhibition from an enigmatic artist, only to find that they are the exhibition.
A brooding young man sets in place a spiraling chain of events when he organizes a meeting between himself and his Internet forum nemesis. Taxi driver for the youtube generation.
When Millie is awoken in the middle of the night by blaring 1970s music coming from the apartment above, she angrily storms up the stairs. The only problem is there's a reason the apartment above has been closed off and vacant for more than thirty years.
THE SECRET DIMENSION is a thriller, that is best described as The Xfiles meets Silence Of The Lambs.
Federal agent; Kristine Hutchison, is tasked with solving a series of apparently random murders, and soon discovers their bizarre connection. She is then told, to abandon the case, as she starts to get deeper into it.
Undaunted, Kristine continues, and what she discovers shocks her to her core!
A new world that is, The Secret Dimension.
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