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The Junkie's Flawby Jeffrey Stackhouse

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An arrogant heiress's hellish bargain with a demon gives her everything she wants... and takes it all away. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Screens of the Damnedby Anton Ballard

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The Screens Of The Damned follows Angelica, a mortuary attendant and aspiring screenwriter working the night shift. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious John Doea deceased film producerwho critiques her work and begins a strange, possibly supernatural collaboration with her. As the script progresses, John Doe's involvement appears to influence real-world outcomes, culminating in Angelica's screenplay being greenlit, though his presence remains ambiguous.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Chocolate, Moose, and Titsby Larry E. Coleman

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A man who wants to come clean with a secret he's been hiding from his girlfriend, gets advice from three versions of himself from alternative universes.

Genre: Animation
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

I Won't Takeby Hiabu Hassebu

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Saba battles against herself, not to miss her childhood friend, who died of menengites.

Genre: Family
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Miraclesby Paul Sokal

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A young, naïve parish priest, Father Moretti, is demoted to the Vatican's Miracle Investigation Office, a dank hole in the sub-basement, where he's told that miracles are just a marketing ploy, crushing his faith, until he can discover a true miracle.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Sundays with Ethelby Jason K. Allen

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An elderly man and woman cross paths while visiting the graves of their departed spouses. Sparks don't exactly fly, but sometimes a simple connection is enough. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Cautionary Tale of a Young Doodlerby Ivana Hruba

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P. Casso, an unremarkable young man in charge of phone inquiries at an art gallery, spends his working hours in a pleasant daze doodling aimlessly at his desk until a random drawing leads to a change in circumstances from which there seems to be no escape.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Gas Man Comethby Ian Patrick Williams

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An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Goodbye, Cruel Worldby Jose Luis Azcarreta

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"Goodbye cruel world" is a thriller short film about a desperate man victim of a blackmailer who proposes to a suicidal man, perched on his balcony, to kill the blackmailer before committing suicide....

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Three Is an Odd Numberby jonathan riikonen

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Due to a rental office error, three very different guys with different interests end up living together wondered by their female neighbor, and added by a big and sloppy apartment house complex office lady.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Price of Eggsby Susan Kelejian

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In a lavish Houston home, a couple's carefully constructed world is shaken as they grapple with the aftermath of their son's murder, forcing them to confront their own complicity and the conservative values that may have contributed to his tragic end in a divided America.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Viewing the Past with a Modern Perspectiveby Zokora Zokirov

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A man was walking around New York, thinking about business, seeing various businesses like McDonald's, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and others, and thinking, "I wish I could go back in time with these ideas, I was rich." He walks around, falls into a hole, and then wakes up in America, where even people don't know about coffee.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Sinbad and the Last Centaurby Jaime Velez

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SINBAD is trapped in Tritonia, the fabled land of the Centaurs, where he battles a league of evil necromancers in their quest for the Sword of Largunia and the Black Lotus that will yield immense power and immortality. The Prophesy of the Last Centaur.

Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby John Porter

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A young woman from India and a young man of Indian extraction from America don't want to go along with the marriage their parents have arranged for them--until they meet and fall in love. Then their parents fight and call off the wedding.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Cellby Bill Wyza

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An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Mirabelby Gregory Gibson

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Her psyche tainted as a child, a young woman plays out her singular form of vengeance with the help of a unique weapon.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Xanadu Shoresby Jay Loish

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Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping. Needing help, our hero leaves clues unaware of a capricious agent and his comely accomplice are following his friends by land, air, and sea. The unscrupulous authorities are seeking the loot, confronting the criminals, culminating explosively with the sun rising on XANADU SHORES. It's about desire and duty to friends. A lively yarn encapsulated by adventure.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Visions in the Haunted Ledgerby Vanessa M. Chattman

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A burned-out accountant discovers a haunted ledger that tracks deaths before they happen, and each entry is tied to a cursed candle.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Clusterby Kevin Dembinsky

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A story of two people meeting on their way to Switzerland before both going to a euthanasia facility.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Transferenceby Frazer Lee

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Dom and Sam are two science lab workers, let go by their boss Adrian. To beat the boredom of lockdown, they decide to continue Adrian's experimental teleportation research online. But they are being watched.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Weekend at the Monasteryby Mike Skidmore

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Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Purgatorioby Hakan Ünal

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After waking in a desolate purgatory with no memory of his death, a former SS officer must confront the victims of his past or remain imprisoned in an afterlife built from his own crimes.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Preyby John Porter

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Two promiscuous businessmen plan to pick up a beautiful young woman--who plans to pick them up.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Accidental Breakthroughby Christine Lara

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A young and ambitious graduate, frustrated by dead-end job offers, sees his day take a disastrous turn when he's hit by a car in the middle of Paris. But fate has other plans the driver turns out to be the director of a major insurance company, and the accident might just be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

A Fine Haunted Tuneby Vanessa M. Chattman

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A violinist obsessed with perfection replaces her fingers with those of deceased prodigies, playing music that drives listeners mad.

Genre: Horror
42 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Bernard's Ashesby Mike Bevins

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A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Cop Killerby D J Robbins

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A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Furry Family Reunion [Extended Family Edition]by Amy

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When a loyal Furry breaks Fandom protocol, he finds it impossible to rise in the ranks at FurCon, especially with his extended family in tow. More information here: https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/furry-family-reunion-extended-family-edition

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Spunk!by Harker Jones

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Amid a rash of kidnappings, two gay college students embark on a romance via a hook-up app called Spunk!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Incarnationsby Bob Messinger

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A young man fears for his sanity and love relationship as disturbing episodes from his youth come back to haunt him.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Faithby Neftali Rivera

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After a dream about a burnt down home near the Air BnB he is staying at compels him to investigate, an Atheist strives to find out what caused the fire and learns that his beliefs may be misguided.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Cuddly Toyby CARLOS ALEX CENI

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The life of a handicapped guy takes a dramatic turn when he looks out the window and spots a cuddly toy next to a wheelie bin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Double Takeby Marjory E. Leposky

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A stalker is following unaware couple.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Out of Timeby Deanne Gittens

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A young woman struggles to understand why she keeps waking up in the middle of the night to a ringing cell phone and mysterious voices just outside her window.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby John Porter

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A western romance based on O. Henry's short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Waxedby Pamela Schott

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A wounded veteran returning from Iran finds that the hardest battle isn't the one he left behind it's answering the door.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Real Page Turnerby Phyllis C. Corley

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A Hispanic horror novelist hunkers down in her manager's secluded getaway cottage to finish her manuscript and experiences some of the same perils as the story's heroine with a charming local.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Small Talkby Larry Shannon

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20 year old college student Clark Cleland opens a door he should not have opened, and the devil comes in through that door and thrashes him.

Genre: Biographical
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Bloody Mouseby Sergey Dobrine

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During the family vacation in the mountains an IT specialist got into financial trouble and started delivering pizza to be able to return home. Bigfoot was on the list.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

House for Saleby John Porter

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A mystery/dark comedy about a young family man who wants to buy a Victorian mansion from a beautiful young woman whose unfaithful husband lies dead in the master bedroom.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles