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Feature Loglines (click TITLES for individual project link)
THRILLERS
1) THE OUTPOST
Top 10% Nicholl's Fellowship Script Available
LGBTQ Coming-of-Age Thriller
Life quickly turns into chaos as two teen boys, struggling with their sexual identity, attempt to cover up an accidental murder, leading one to unravel a disturbing truth about the other.
Comps: Stand by Me meets Super Dark Times and Jindabyne
2) BUTTERFLIES (in discussions/link down)
Erotic Thriller
A female profiler puts her life at stake to entrap a serial killer whose childhood abuse is triggered by social media influencers exploiting their sensuality to get ahead.
3) 7
(Script through midpoint written and outlined)
SciFi Thriller
A woman born in a test tube, treated like a lab rat and chained like an animal, escapes only to find she must straddle the balance of keeping her monstrous tendencies in check in order to stay alive in a dystopian world when her biological father attempts to use her for self-gain in an underground fighting arena.
Comps: Harley Quinn meets Fight Club & Venom
4) BLACK BOX (link coming)
(Script available)
Thriller
A vigilante who watched his family suffer the cruelty of an alcoholic step-father becomes a protector for the defenseless and takes down the most heinous abusers in ways that mirror their own acts.
5) UNHINGED (link coming)
(script hrough midpoint and outlined)
Horror/Psychological Thriller
Three strangers participate in a malign sleep experiment in order to better their lives; when the experiment goes awry the thin line between reality and delusion snaps.
Comps: Memento meets Shutter Island and The Cabin.
6) CHOSEN (link coming)
(First 25 written and full outline)
Horror/Thriller/SciFi
When a wealthy inventor recruits eight exceptionally gifted professionals for an elusive accelerator, things turn deadly in a game of survival of the fittest for the unaware participants who discover they are being harvested for their DNA.
Comps: Get Out meets Hunt
7) WAYWARD
(Script available)
Thriller
A socialite from New York City pulls out her deep south roots in order to face Russian test subjects left behind on the island where she and her husband's small airplane crashes.
Comps: Backcountry meets I am Legend
8) LAST GUEST (link coming)
(Script available)
Thriller
Still recovering from her husband’s murder, an FBI Agent must outsmart a serial killer when she’s recruited to investigate the disappearance of an American Tourist in the remote Vancouver Outback.
9) MEET ME AFTER MIDNIGHT (link coming)
(First 25 written and full outline)
Erotic Thriller
A female detective tracks a serial killer who targets adulterous older women he finds through online BDSM sites -- she's unaware the killer is her boyfriend until a personal effect is discovered at a crime scene that only she recognizes.
Comps: It Follows meets Zodiac
10) WILDERNESS RETREAT (link coming)
(Script available)
Coming-of-Age Thriller
A teen girl fights for survival after being sent a way by her parents to a camp meant to help troubled teens that turns out to be a death sentence if she doesn't do exactly as told.
Comps: Holes meets Rustic Creek
11) NO BODY, NO CRIME (link coming)
(Script available)
Thriller
After a woman's best friend goes missing, she takes it up on herself to investigate the husband and his new girlfriend.
Comps: Gone meets Gone Girl
12) RESET (link coming)
(written through Midpoint and full outlined)
Thriller
A city man has to navigate through wilderness to save his family after a solar flare wipes out all power in the world.
Comps: 2012 Ice Age and Aftermath meet All is Lost
13) 92 Hours
(Outlined)
Thriller
Four friends on a non-stop 92 hour train ride to a wedding, encounter a psychopathic still reeling from murdering his adulterous wife and her lover.
Comp: Unhinged
HORROR
Partners: Radar Pictures/Buffalo 8/BondIt (NOT AVAILABLE)
(Based on the lore of the Leatherface Lady who slays hikers on the Appalachian Trail)
A young woman and her friends come face-to-face with the fabled Leatherface Lady, believed to slay hikers on the Appalachian Trail, only to discover the killer may, in fact, be the local urban legend’s grandson.
Comps: Melds Creep and Blair Witch with a touch of Psycho and Friday the 13th.
The distinguishing feature is the blend of horror sub-genres, paying homage to films of the past while keeping the found footage element front and center.
BRIGG'S STORY (after Leatherface Lady) and JUNE'S STORY (the prequel)
(written through first 25 and full outline)
Japanese Folklore Horror
Brady, one of the three Americans on vacation in Japan, must survive their encounter with the slit-mouth woman after losing two of his friends to legend’s gruesome mutilating tendencies, which marks him as the killer, landing him in an institution where the Yokai goes on a murderous rampage.
Comps: Candyman meets Nightmare on Elmstreet
3) THE CURUPIRA
(Script available)
A Brazilian Folklore Horror set in Vermont
A teen girl faces her worst nightmare when she has to protect her family from her father who is under the influence of the Curupira after he unapologetically kills a mother deer.
Comps: Strawdogs meets Hush and The Ritual
4) CHARLI CHARLI (link coming)
(Script available)
Coming-of-Age Horror
A teen girl's birthday turns deadly when her new classmates mix with her old, in a game orchestrated to kill -- planned to precision by either her new stepfather, her jealous best friend, a supernatural entity, or HERSELF!
Comps: Saw meets Truth or Dare
5) FORBIDDEN
(Outlined)
Inspired by Oscarville, Georgia (Lake Lanier)
A Ghost Story/Horror/Thriller Feature
A woman caught in a love triangle finds a hidden diary and becomes embroiled in a love story from the past buried under Lake lanier which makes her question her own forbidden love -- an affair that puts her life in danger!
Comps: The Notebook meets Candyman and a love story in 1950's Oppressive America.
6) SWINE (link coming)
(Outlined)
Inspired by The Pig Butcher, One of Canada's most notorious serial killers
A woman hosts a housewarming party at her new farm, unaware they are about to fight to the death to survive a killer serial deadset on butchering them all, just like he does his pigs and selling their flesh as mixed meat in his shop.
Comps: Fresh meets Silence of the Lambs, Wolf Creek, and the Butcher's with a hint of Sweeney Todd
(written through midpoint and outlined)
After a missing woman's case is closed, her sister and a group of close friends head to the last place she was seen -- the remote Murphy Estate in Ireland famed for its ghost sitings of a woman with long white hair rumored to be the ghost of Lady Murphy, or worse -- a Banshee!
Comps: Sherlock Holmes meets The Vanishing Triangle
8) LUCY (link coming)
(Script available)
Horror
When a rash of mysterious disappearances plague a small town, in order to survive abduction from a necromancer, a young woman living alone must summon her inner courage and bond with her dog if she wants to survive.
9) LEORA
(Script available)
Hybrid Drama/Horror
A young woman who was abused as a child tries to find comfort in rescuing a neglected mute girl. She quickly finds herself surrounded by suspicious deadly accidents and her drive to protect the child makes her look guilty of the suspicious acts.
Comps: The Boy meets Orphan and The Good Son
STOKER (after Leora) & THE DOLLMAKER (the prequel)
10) HALLOWEEN HUNT (link coming)
(First 25 written and full outline)
First Fifteen/Two-page/Summary Available
Horror/Dark Comedy
A newcomer must survive the night when a murder, he is suspected of committing, wrecks a small Hamlet's annual Halloween competition and some of the neighbors join forces to cover up the incident until after the winners have been chosen.
Comps: The Burbs (twisted perceptions) meet Christmas with the Kranks (absurd neighborhood camaraderie) but dark, really dark comedy.
11) CUMBERLAND (link coming)
(Script available)
Horror/Thriller
An art student must confront a childhood evil, when she returns home to the Hoodoo South, following a family tragedy. Thrust back into this world she must fight to save those closest to her when the malevolent spirit wreaks havoc on the small island off the Coast of Georgia.
Comps: The Wicker Man meets The Thing set in the world of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
ACTION
1) GURCAN
(Script available)
Action Feature
(Inspired by true events)
A federal agent pushed beyond his limits is forced to awaken his military past when his son gets kidnapped by a human trafficking organization within the government.
Comps: The Marksman and Men On Fire meets the world of The Bridge
2) KIDDIE STROLL (on Gurcan Project Page)
(Outlined)
Action Feature
A female Border Patrol Agent goes undercover to take down the largest child human trafficking operation in the world, a mission that may well cost her, her own life.
Comps: Lara Croft meets Army of One and G.I. Jane
3) D.O.E.
(Outlined)
Action Feature
A federal Agent has to outsmart his partner who has stolen nuclear material and kidnapped his family.
Comps: Interceptor meets Broken Arrow
4) SHADOW
(Outlined)
Action Feature
A retired Air Force pilot encounters a sixth generation fighter plane while flying as a test pilot -- unable to decipher whether this is an enemy or not, he has to discover the truth and expose who is behind the attacks that ensue utilizing cities where drone conventions are being held.
Comps: Top Gun
5) JUMPER
(Outlined)
A world famous parachute jumper, assigned to instruct Vietnamese forces, is dropped in a jungle, alone, and must find a way to get away from the local drug cartel.
DARK COMEDY
1) MISHIT
(Script available)
Dark RomCom
When a famed murder mystery novelist turned serial killer targets a dimwitted con, he must outsmart her in order to save his and his girlfriend’s necks.
Comps: Mr. Right & Agatha Christie meets Pulp Fiction
2) NO WINNERS, NO LOSERS (link coming)
(written through midpoint and outlined)
Dark RomCom
The wife of a rich, witless husband kidnaps the con man who planned to scam her, so she can practice the art of the kill before going after her spouse. He soon becomes her lover and partner in crime.
COMEDY
1) CAMP MERRIMACK
(Script available)
Co-writer: Jana Zinser
Comedy
After their mother's death, three siblings must come together in the midst of sibling rivalry in order to save the family camp from ruin or rip each other apart during the process.
2) THE MANUSCRIPT
(Outlined)
Comedy
A young writer must make a pact with a feisty ghost when odd things start happening after she introduces a recently required manuscript to her book club.
SCIFI
In the Writer's Room
9 Armadillos is developing:
DRAMA
1) THE PACT (link coming)
Drama
An aging widow and her son make a pact to crash self-help groups as a cure for grievance, instead of facing life, after he moves back home from being wrongly accused of committing a crime.
2) SUGAR BABIES (link coming)
Cowriter: Mary Albanese
Drama
When an employee of a well known brokerage firm goes missing, the woman's twin sister goes undercover, masquerading as her sister, and discovers an elite escort ring with ties to human trafficking.
Comps: Wolf of Wall Street meets Sounds of Freedom
3) PERCEPTION (link coming)
Drama
After his wife's murder by an illegal migrant, a man joins the US Border Patrol to serve and protect the border after returning from war. He questions his loyalty to his oath when he falls in love with a migrant, until he discovers his best friend is a corrupt agent.
Comps: Frontera (2014)
ADULT ANIMATION
1) THE TWELVE (link coming)
Adult Animation
(based loosely off The Twelve Dancing Princesses)
Life for the twelve Morganfield sisters was already far from ordinary, but when the family cemetery is disturbed by an oil pipeline project, a fantastical menagerie of ancient spirits awakes, bonding the young women with unlikely ancestral allies to settle old scores and set things right for future generations.