SCREAM PITCH: Our annual round-up of the best horror projects in town.

Yes. They’re back.

And this time no one gets out alive.

It’s SCREAM PITCH!!!!

To read complete pitches and to contact any of the writers, please email andy@shootingpeople.org

DRACULA IS OUT OF HIS BOX!
By NICHOLAS HORWARD

Genre: Comedy
Length: 90
Author: Nicholas Horwood

Logline:

London, 1889. A group of Victorian vampire hunters do battle with the evil Count Dracula and his disfunctional family.

THE NIGHTSHIFT
By SEAN-PAUL THOMAS

Genre: Horror/Black comedy/Gore-fest.
Length: 90 Minutes
Author: Sean-Paul Thomas

Logline:

A group of Nightshift workers trapped inside their DIY superstore, must survive until sunrise as a powerful evil entity awakens and hunts them down one by one to feed on their souls.

Think Evil Dead/Nightmare on Elm Street meets Clerks set in your local hardware store.

CROW FAIR
By ALAN FLEET

Genre: Horror
Length: 107mins

Logline:

To a young DPhil student researching pagan traditions, Cornwall, Punch and Judy and the dance of the crows was just too tempting.

NIGHT SHIFT
By ELLIOTT MAGUIRE

Genre: Horror
Length: 85 pages
Author: Elliott Maguire

Logline:

A night shift security guard fears he is losing his sanity after making a terrifying discovery while watching over the cities CCTV.

FROM ANOTHER PLACE
By DARREN ROBERTS

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Comedy
Length: 95 mins

Logline:

Whilst developing a teleporter three scientists discover the system has a few gremlins in it, real gremlins, with rabbit heads, and the ability to create the undead.

PLAGUE OF THE APES
By DARREN ROBERTS

Genre: Horror Comedy
Length: 83 mins

Logline:

A group of friends wake up to find their town is over run with mutant zombie were-apes. They decide doing a runner to the countryside is probably a good idea. The key word being, probably.

A NIGHTMARE AFTER CHRISTMAS
By ANNE-SOPHIE MARIE

Genre: Horror/Dark Comedy
Length: feature
Author: Anne-Sophie Marie

Logline:

Boxing Day: Three teenagers find themselves bored to death on Boxing Day. Clockwork Orange style.

THE BAD PLACE
BY ELLIOTT MAGUIRE

Genre: Horror
Length: 95 pages

Logline:

A grieving widow and her rebellious teenage daughter go for a weekend away at an isolated holiday camp, where they are forced to fight for survival against a dangerous stranger with a sinister secret.

THE DARK SAINT
By GERRY BYRON AND STUART WILSON

Genre: Supernatural Horror / Contemporary
Length: 106

Logline:

When a conflicted couple take shelter in an ancient stately home, they interrupt a ‘Ghost Hunt’ TV production unit. They must struggle with the TV crew as much as supernatural forces – to survive the night of horror that then engulfs them.

LLANDFILL
BY NICHOLAS HORWOOD

Genre: Comedy, horror
Length: 110 pages

Logline:

A heavily pregnant ex-police woman moves to a small Welsh village and ends up doing battle with a seven foot mutant spawned by the local landfill.

THE DEBT COLLECTOR
BY ELLIOTT MAGUIRE

Genre: Horror
Length: 93 pages

Logline:

An ex-con seeking redemption is hired to protect a wealthy family from a psychopath, but finds himself in a life or death situation when he discovers horrifying secrets hidden by the family.

The Devil’s Out by Heather Hampson

Title: The Devil’s Out
Genre: Horror
Length: 9 pages
Author: Heather Hampson

Logline:

Two teenagers and a drug dealer encounter Lucifer himself as a strange ley line folk tale reveals itself to be true.