Dare to Scare Competition |
2019
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Winners
The Complex
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Winner
Feature
· Thriller
· 110 Pages
A victim of human trafficking for the past ten years finds a means to escape her fate when a new captive arrives at the apartment prison, controlled by an obsessive and abusive warden, and seeks freedom no matter the cost.
Los Angeles, CA
S. Christian Roe is a writer, director, and producer of character driven dramas, satires, and genre work with a focus on social, sex & gender, and political issues.
A formerly homeless youth, Christian turned to cinema to escape and found artistic stories that could connect audiences the world over.
Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 97 Pages
In 1720s New England, a group of desperate colonists discover a mysteriously empty town called God's Acre, unaware of the horrible secret it hides.
Colin Adams-Toomey and Dan John Witherall are award-winning writing/directing partners. Their film Lost Creek won awards in 3 festivals (Founders Award: FEARnyc 2016, Best Actor: FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival 2016, Best Narrative Feature: Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival 2016) and has gone on to global distribution, including distribution in t...
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 94 Pages
The sole survivor of a campground massacre, Rachel Moore joins a support group of other Final Girls who find themselves once again fighting for their lives when a killer comes back to finish the job.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Bobby’s love of writing began when he launched ThePunkSite.com in 2003. Since then, his writing has grown beyond punk basements and into the world of film.
Using insight gained as Production Coordinator, he writes creative scripts with production logistics in mind.
With 2 scripts optioned and more in development with multiple companies, he's n...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 96 Pages
When two strangers share an Airbnb unit, they each worry the other has a dark secret. But what if a supernatural presence is toying with them both? A small-cast, minimal-location script — a winner in both the StoryPros and WriteMovies contests — by a twice- produced, Edgar-nominated writer.
Puerto Vallarta, MX
BRENT HARTINGER has had three screenplays (and three novels) optioned for film, with two features produced. He's won the Lambda and GLAAD Awards, and was nominated for an Edgar. His screenplays have won or placed in the PAGE Awards, Script Pipeline, Launch Pad, Final Draft Big Break, StoryPros, and Scriptapalooza.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 92 Pages
While on a holiday retreat in the Amazonian jungle, a young woman uncovers a murderous secret.
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 99 Pages
Sasha Kernel is trying to make her dying mother’s final days as comfortable as possible, protecting her from the traumas of her crumbling existence outside
Battle, East Sussex, GB
I write scripts for films that I really want to see. My ultimate goal is to direct the films I'm writing, but for now I write on my daily commute to work as an accountant. I currently have 10 feature scripts, a couple of TV shows, sitcom and shorts. I have varied interests but am particularly drawn to how ordinary people are drawn into and deal with...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 90 Pages
A trans man watches in horror as the half-brother he didn’t meet until adulthood takes his taxidermy to disturbing levels as a means of coping with personal tragedy.
Denver, CO
Kornblum Bierstadt Katz is an award-winning screenwriter and author of the novel Damnation! He spends his free time getting into trouble on Colorado’s ski slopes in the winter and its 14,000-foot peaks in the summer.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 86 Pages
During a severe winter storm, a grieving widower discovers that his television is a portal into the past that can be used to save his family from a recent tragedy, but only if he can prevent the unsolved murder of the young woman who lived in his house 40 years ago.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Writer-Director of short films that are featured on Alter and Bloody-Disgusting TV (Remote, The Last Halloween). Film/TV Picture Editor (Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, Apple Tv's Chief of War, Orah).
Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 99 Pages
After the tragic death of his sister, young Cole is tormented by violent visions that leave him with unexplained injuries. As his grieving, distant parents spiral further into chaos, he alone must unravel the sinister truth behind his sister’s death to stop her spirit from killing them all.
Los Angeles, CA
Blake Hawk is a screenwriter currently residing in Los Angeles. After placing in multiple screenwriting competitions, most notably as a Horror Award finalist at Austin Film Festival, he has gone on to take writing assignments, rewrites, and story consulting jobs for producers and independent filmmakers.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
A down-on-his-luck biker is haunted by visions of a missing childhood friend, who warns that truck-driving serial killer Big Rig has resurfaced with a score to settle.
I sprung up in Pittsburgh, fell into journalism in LA, screenwriting in NYC, and now bounce between all three locales! Have a penchant for horror & comedy. 2020: ACADEMY NICHOLL FELLOWSHIP quarterfinalist / SCREENCRAFT COMEDY quarterfinalist / FILMMATIC INROADS finalist / CINESTORY FEATURE quarterfinalist // 2019: STAGE 32 SEARCH FOR NEW BLOOD semif...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 118 Pages
Kate awakens a vengeful spirit bound by a familiar chime, and must unravel the mystery surrounding the entity known only as “the man with the red eyes” in order to survive the family curse.
Loveland, CO
Darin Olson is a Writer and Director from Clovis, NM. He has a degree in writing/ directing from the Colorado Film School. His thesis short film won a plethora of awards at the Toyota Film Festival in Denver, CO, including Best Picture. His shorts also headlined the 2019 Bikes Brews & Blockbusters Festival at the Holiday Twin Drive-In in Fort Collin...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 91 Pages
An indestructible demon, in the form of a surfer dude who thinks he's funny, terrorizes and kills the parents of a farm girl who hides in a bolted cellar… but after the demon extricates her, he falls in love with her while she figures out the way to kill him.
Santa Cruz, CA
Welcome if you will, an introduction to Robert Ward, who does a wicked impersonation of his favorite writer, Rod Serling. Conjured from creativity deep within, Robert’s latest screenplay FLAT PENNIES ignited as a Semifinalist in the 2024 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (a Top 25 Drama from 1,782 drama scripts out of 8,753 entries). Robert, a...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 91 Pages
A vampire incarcerated in an underground prison must compete in the sadistic warden's gladiatorial tournament to earn freedom for himself and his intellectually disabled friend.
Los Angeles, CA
Joe Guerrieri, screenwriter and director, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia and a Master of Fine Arts degree in film production from the University of Southern California (USC), School of Cinematic Arts. His USC thesis film, THE JACKALOPE, screened at film festivals around the country and was distributed by Short...
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