Fresh Blood Selects |
2022
A look back at BloodList’s “Fresh Blood Selects” from the past 7 years. BloodList 15 will be announced in 2024. Submissions open in January!
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Official Selections
Official Selection
Feature
· Horror
· 90 Pages
After killing his pregnant mistress, a man is tormented into insanity as he’s trapped in a cabin with her antagonistic spirit.
Los Angeles, CA
Lizz Marshall is an award winning writer/director. She prefers writing from the perspective of characters that are peculiar or under-represented with an emphasis on morally complex female leads. She is drawn to the thriller, sci-fi, and horror genres. Lizz believes these genres provide a creative vehicle for examining difficult subjects and encourag...
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Official Selection
TV Script
· Horror
· 62 Pages
A FBI agent with a tragic past and an adventurer from the family who created it must band together to track down the missing pages of a cursed book, hoping to destroy it before it destroys the world.
Sherman Oaks, CA
Cory is a USC film school grad and has pitched projects at NBC, USA and Syfy. His pilots have earned him meetings at Amblin, Bruckheimer, Silver, Gaumont and BBC America. He currently works in post-prod helping to make prestige documentaries including TINA, the 3x Emmy nominated Tina Turner doc for HBO. 2x Screencraft finalist/1x Winner, 1x AFF Fin...
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Official Selection
Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
A delinquent teenager is forced into a game of cat and mouse at a party after accidentally stumbling across his classmate's murdered family. Inspired by a true crime.
Moorestown, NJ
Growing up in a household prioritizing the arts, Sophia's a writer and actor. Her fascination with crime and psychology manifests itself into antagonists called “terrifying”, “unforgettable”, and “iconic” in her work. In 2022, her horror feature My House was an Official BloodList Selection. She lives in South Jersey with her sister, 2 tuxedo cats, ...
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Snatched
Private
Official Selection
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
A teenage girl and a parasitic alien living inside her head must work together to stop an evil invasion of body snatchers while navigating the hardships of high school, loss, acceptance, and growing up.
Los Angeles, CA
Ava is an only child, so yes, she has strong main character syndrome. She studied film production and English at San Diego State University. Ava enjoys writing comedy, sci-fi, horror, and coming of age stories...anything weird. Her horror comedy/sci-fi "Snatched" is a BloodList 14 Fresh Blood Selection. Ava was a drama fellow in the 2024 Fox Writers...
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The Allerdale Bus Tragedy
Private
Official Selection
Feature
· Horror
· 120 Pages
After the death of her estranged mother, Grace Sutter returns to her hometown of Allerdale, infamous for a horrific bus crash that killed over 40 people in 1974. When Grace discovers a link between a decades-old disappearance and the crash, she investigates, with devastatingly personal results.
Los Angeles, CA
I'm a Samoan American writer whose work is genre-focused and character-centric. I most recently served as Writers’ Assistant, Script Coordinator, and Post-Production Coordinator on Netflix's THAI CAVE RESCUE.
Official Selection
Feature
· Thriller
· 98 Pages
In the dying days of the Pony Express, a family is besieged at their remote Wyoming outpost by a pack of feral, frontier marauders unlike anything the west has known.
The writers mesh two genres I don't much care for - Western and "random psychopaths try to kill people barricaded in a single location" - and this script was great. A leading lady with a disability who uses her skills and smarts to help several other likeable and believable characters defeat said psychopaths.
Merry's Recommendation
Coverfly Writer Development Team
Los Angeles, CA
JOSH.
Picture him, our hirsute hero.
Roguish, affable. Very rootable-for!
And though his weight may yo-yo,
his passion to craft what he loves
DOES NOT.
Texas-raised; UT-schooled.
Infantryman & Iraq Combat Vet.
He's made stuff. And won a Streamy.
No one knows what that is, but he's got one, and it is HEAVY.
Love him, won't you?
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Official Selection
Feature
· Horror
· 89 Pages
Four years after narrowly surviving a violent encounter, a troubled teenager attempts to move on with his life, but a terrorizing figure from his past resurfaces at a high school event.
New York, New York
Maalik Evans is a New York City-based screenwriter & filmmaker originally from the Washington D.C. area. His breakout feature horror script The Lock - In was selected for The BloodList in 2022, earning recognition from The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Fangoria.
His latest short film Things Left Unsaid premiered at the New Faces New Voices Fe...
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Official Selection
Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
A stifled small town woman searches for her long-missing daughter who she comes to believe was taken by a creature of local legend.
Chicago, IL
Jef writes family-centered horror/thrillers driven by outsider and LGBTQ+ protagonists, drawing on his own experiences as a queer man in the process. He began writing professionally way back in 2005 and had his first script optioned in 2012 with his slasher-western NEVER KNOWS BEST. Jef also teaches at DePaul University & produces CadaverCast: A Mon...
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Official Selection
Short Story
· Horror
· 15 Pages
The wood in the window won't be enough this time. It never was.
Based on a true story.
Edmonton, Alberta, CA
Charlene should have known she was destined to write horrors & thrillers. In Grade 2 she wrote about a little girl's disappearance/murder that got a big red WOW! Subsequently, her mother was called in for a ‘meeting’. Teaching teenagers, she is engaged daily in a horror of a different kind. Bloodlist 14, prose winner HorrOrigins 2024, Killer Shorts ...
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