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One at a Timeby Don Famularo
Vigilantes Wendy and Ryan, improvise a creative way to gain the trust of Adam, a convicted, yet still active, pedophile, and take him on an emotional ride, where he learns the answer to the eternal question, 'Is there a good day to die?"
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Plumber's Mateby Elliot Stanton
A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Portrait of a Girlby Niagara Ross
A group of teenagers, exploring an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, find an old portrait of a mysterious girl. But the more they learn about her past, the more nightmarish visions and dangerous phenomena begin to haunt them.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Incarnationsby Bob Messinger
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
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Behind the Glassby Dewayne
A guilt-ridden 911 dispatcher receives a whispering call from a kidnapped woman who may be trapped inside the same municipal building where he worksbut when the caller's abductor reveals a deadly experiment targeting emergency operators, the dispatcher must break the very protocol that once cost a life.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dutchess Greenby Joseph Brown
The quiet invasion began with the old "man" painting barns with alien spawn. The farm girls who figured it out were too late.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Creepby Glenn Forbes
Exhausted after moving into her new home, a young woman's evening bath arouses a supernatural spirit with pesky carnal thoughts.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossing Armageddonby Peyton Burkhart
An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Haircutby Sarah Kennedy
An authoritarian father's attempt to masculinize his son by cutting his hair takes a dark turn.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Carrie, Walter, and Garboby Steven Burton
A man sits alone in an empty theatre to wait for a Greta Garbo film to begin, and then a female stranger, sits next to him. Confrontation ignites; technical problems delay the screening, humor, and then this couple share surprise revelations.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby Lawrence Riggins
True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bearby DeWayne Bricker
When a rogue bear terrorizes the Alaskan Wilderness, a stranded doctor and his Yupik friend and their twin loyal huskies must survive the night where man and predator share the same hunger.
Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fine Printby Alicia R Norman
Convinced she can beat the supernatural, a brilliant young cook attempts to outmaneuver a fatal wish-granting telephone to achieve culinary stardom.
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Death of Lazarus (Eye of the Triangle)by Jamal A Clemons
A bloody internal mutiny fractures an ex-Special Forces heist crew on the eve of their largest strike, forcing them to regroup when intelligence reveals their multi-billion-dollar target is housed inside a mobile shadow vessel cutting through international waters.
Genre: Other
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker
When a neuroscientist's sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother's nightmaresone that's now crossing from dream to waking world.
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Comeback of Irish Bobby Gunnby Ben Fiore
On the night of his unlikely comeback, a proud, aging boxer refuses a bribe to take a diveuntil his desperate manager claims his life is at stake, forcing the battered fighter to choose between one last shot at glory and a sacrifice that could cost him everything.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clownby DJ Robbins
A weird clown hands Steve a balloon at a campus Halloween carnival, and he and his friends find themselves stalked by the creepy clown.
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Higher Educationby Candy Fox
A college professor tries everything - including an exaggerated strip club dance - to get her zoned out, laptop focused students to pay attention, but to no avail.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Paradise Partyby Steven Burton
With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.
Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Girl in the Mistby Victor Jones
A girl finds herself in an alien land. She has to survive from her basic instincts until she meets a fisherman who shares a secret with her of his visits to a misty beach where strange friends abound.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
United We Fallby Elliot Stanton
The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides get relegated in the final game of the season. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for - a fact that his friend positively revels in.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas at the Orpheumby Todd Bronson
On a snowy Christmas Eve an aging puppeteer performs a festive show for hospitalized children which gifts him with a miraculous memory of his late partner. This leads to a surreal performance in a forgotten and shuttered Orpheum theater which unlocks a life-affirming reconciliation that allows him to honor Clark's memoryand find a renewed sense of purpose.
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Missingby Darryl N. Layne
Two scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in creating a space fuel must confront their hidden origins and humanity's fate when mysterious extraterrestrial visitors arrive, offering a choice between saving Earth or joining a cosmic mission that will change everything.
Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Pageant Redemptionby Barbara Blomquist
Personal redemption is the ultimate prize in a beauty pageant held in a women's prison.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Purgatorioby Hakan Ünal
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life On The Lineby Guy Bardach
A driver and his passengers share fleeting, ordinary moments on a city bus. A tragic attack will force us to ask why we only care about the victims we know.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dream Worldby KS PUNITHAKUMAR
A compassionate village school teacher dreams of a world without caste, hunger, hatred, or division. Inspired by that vision, he returns to reality determined to teach humanity to his students, believing that lasting change begins with the next generation.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
On the Edgeby John M Grace
A man's attempt to end his life goes sideways when he discovers the rooftop he chose is already occupied by a woman with the same idea.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Halloween Massacreby Doug J Robbins
When Danny is followed home by a strange man in a mask, he thinks it's a harmless Halloween prank, but he soon finds out that the man has sinister intentions.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
To Die Laughingby Robert M. Tartell
A woman's video cosplay fantasies go hard on her male co-stars.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Personal Demonsby Brandon Rhiness
After being fired for his reckless lifestyle, a narcissistic corporate climber visits a psychic to "exorcize" his personal demons (drinking and womanizing) only to have them manifest as physical entities that refuse to let him stop partying.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stay Warmby Steven Burton
A man with his young son, offer comfort to a homeless man which also provides a break from their grief for the recent death of Mary, a beloved wife and mother.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Interviewby Michael G Holmes
On the morning of an important interview, a bitter corporate lifer kills time with imagined self-sabotage, petty distractions, and fantasies of escape.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dead Airby Dwayne Craig Bricker
A high-school radio crew hijacks an "unused" emergency frequencythen a calm voice begins broadcasting their deaths for tomorrow.
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Awfully Wedded Wifeby Elliot Stanton
Love is... a suspicious mind, making the threat of castration a genuine possibility.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Cursed Bathroomby DJ Robbins
A rude customer encounters the murderous ghost of the cursed bathroom.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Angel Friendsby Pelham Mead III
Tom Sizer is a college student who was driving on Meadowbrook Parkway when he had an accident with his car. When he is about to die the Archangel Michael decides to keep him alive. After Tom recovers, Michael tells him he is to be a human advisor to the angels in special situations and his adventures begin.
Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Trespassingby Sarah Kennedy
In a post-apocalyptic world, a mute medicine woman's drug stash blurs the lines between good and evil.
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beat Bobby Flayby Adam Rocke
Iconic chef Bobby Flay must endure a brutal interrogation to keep his many culinary secrets safe.
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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