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Night of the Swingin' Deadby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2025
A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Marriage Made in Heavenby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Til death do us part. But what about after that? Do you reunite in heaven? What if you remarried after your first spouse's death? Do you have to reside for an eternity with your pain-in-the butt mother or ungrateful kids?

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mother Earth's Recycled Raptureby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2024
The weight of the world is strenuous on Mother Earth as she does her best to keep humanity from total destruction. 

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Long Momentsby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
An alcoholic living in a small town stubbornly refuses to change, even when his high school sweetheart returns for their reunion, stirring memories of the life he left behind and the man he used to be.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Policeman No Leaves Tracesby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
A policeman at night kidnaps and kills people who sell drugs and dissolves their bodies in an abandoned warehouse so as not to leave traces of his crime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gloss Overby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2025
A patient grandmother takes her hobby of writing product reviews to new extremes by watching paint dry, but her family wants her to stop her compulsion and deal with her grief.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cringeby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
When an exhausted serial killer on a cross-country spree stops at a secluded motel he is told by his supernatural boss, the entity known as fate, that he must experience “true love” before being granted the rest that he so desires.

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Dorothy... after Ozby  robert ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Dorothy returns from colorful Oz, she moves to the San Fernando Valley, where everyone seems comparatively gray. That is, until she meets someone as colorful as the characters from Oz... Peter Pan. She falls in love with him... but there's a problem. He's wanted by the police for stealing kids.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Our Lives Are Goodby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A medieval romance in which the father of three sons and the father of a daughter arrange for the sons to compete for the daughter’s hand in marriage.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Rhino vs. Gorillaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
When Ronald takes a seat on a park bench, he simply wishes to enjoy his lunch in peace. But when his banana rings like a phone, he answers it and receives a message that turns his life upside down. (Surreal comic fantasy. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
About a Bearby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2024
An aging TV writer desperate for a comeback pitches a last-ditch movie about a vengeful bear to a Hollywood producer, only to watch his hopes unravel as the industry leaves him behind.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night Skyby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
In a not too distant future, a Mother, daughter, and Grandfather try to survive life on another planet after fleeing a planet Earth that has become uninhabitable.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Recycleby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
A young woman working for a company that recycles human souls finds peace within an eco-burial ground over the loss of her cantankerous mother.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Shotsby  Don Willis
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
Two Shots follows a young Marine veteran with PTSD who returns from war to his true love, Rita. Things soon spiral out of control as he struggles to find his place in her life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Creepy Clown For Hireby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
Pamela is upset that her son is skipping his tutoring sessions, so she hires a creepy clown to scare her son into seeing his tutor.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something for the Weeekendby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A desperate driver has to jump through hoops to get his car back before the impound yard closes for the weekend.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fun Sizeby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
A young trick-or-treater is angry after receiving a "fun size" candy bar. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Candleby  John Francis Daly
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2024
A sick girl on her death bed receives a candle that, when lit, brings forth new vitality, along with a being who holds secrets of the Universe.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Phantom’s Revengeby  John Witcher
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2024
After unearthing an ancient artifact, four female students inherit superpowers and embark on the journey of a lifetime. (Female Driven Screenplay)

Genre: Animation
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cyrus Myers: Psychic Vampireby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2024
After killing his father, Cyrus Myers haunts the girl who reject him through her dreams while institutionalized.

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2025
An questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sin Eaterby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2024
A grieving husband hires a sin eater to cleanse the soul of his dear departed wife, a recently executed witch.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Afterlifeby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2024
A 26-year-old man regrets committing suicide and death shows him the ramifications of the effects his suicide had on his parents and girlfriend.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dr. Coup De Graceby  Sherrie Presson
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2024
A disgruntled husband tricks a mercy killer into killing his wife, who is recovering from plastic surgery. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cutby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A dark comedy (unless you’re Bill, the protagonist, who would call it a horror film) that provides a warning to any man who even thinks about doing wrong to his woman.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
Doc Holliday shares some wisdom with the outlaw Dave Rudabaugh--then meets Wyatt Earp.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Early Bird Catches the Planeby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2023
An excruciatingly long and dull wait for a flight is suddenly made far more interesting when a long-suffering wife notices an old flame - an old flame she discovers is holidaying at the same hotel she and her husband are staying in.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Eagleby  Mina Faiez
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2024
Hani is a young man who lives with his brother Joseph and his neighbor Khalid, but he finds out that his neighbor killed his father , and that his father, Khalid, and father of his girlfriend are members of an old gang whose girlfriend's father fears that he will expose himself, and that he will kill Khalid. But Hani succeeds in helping his brother and the police catch him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Jokeby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2024
After the death of their prankster bartender, a close-knit group of friends discover his final joke at his funeral, turning sorrow into laughter and a celebration of camaraderie.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Vacationby  Tinashe Mudzinge
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2024
A group of friends faces their worst nightmares in the hands of an old lady and her beast master on what was supposed to be a great vacation.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
Date Posted: 03 May 2025
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Change of Heartby  Anselmo Garcia
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2024
A mafia crew’s failure to carry out a contract becomes Vincent Bataglia’s unfortunate headache.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Navvies Lamentby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A man reflects on the meaning of his identity, within a bar that has shape shifted it's patrons

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gluttonous Zombieby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
In two girls are hunted by a ravenous zombie at night time after Mia and Abby use a resurrection spell for fun.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Card Ransomby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2024
Andrew Smith is a world famous football player. Waking up inside a locked room with only an outdated phone in his back pocket, it's a race against time to escape.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From the Flamesby  Alistair Bryson
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2025
A widowed artist moves into a new house in an effort to bury the memories of a Bohemian lifestyle and a toxic marriage, but is forced to revisit his past in bizarre circumstances when he uncovers an ancient fire-pit from which deceased figures appear to him through the flames.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I'll See You In My Screamsby  Al Marsiglia
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2024
A mass murderer is brought to justice after 20 years by an unlikely witness in an ending with a twist..

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Best Manby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Is there a spinster rule when neither your fiancé nor his newly found brother is the Best Man?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stayby  Shane Nolan
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2024
Distraught teacher, Ryan, looks for work after moving away from an area rife with gun violence. Having lost so many students to murder, prison, drivebys, etc., Ryan and his girlfriend just want peace. Though, one day, he finds himself trapped in his own home. Breaking doors and windows does not work as if the home is bewitched. He struggles endlessly to find his way out.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Punchmateby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A down on his luck man who lets people punch him for money navigates the murky waters of romance after a strange request comes from a client who was once his High School crush.

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