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.

To Feed The Dragon
by Shirley Day

Logline: A young orphaned Kurdish girl, Narin (10) is finally adopted by the “perfect” parents and their mysterious daughter, only after the couple transport Narin back to their remote home, do we begin to realize there is something deeply wrong about Narin’s new family.

Format: Feature
Length: 100

DON’T DIG
by Andrew Ionides

Logline: A metal detector digs for a mysterious object beneath a farmer’s land but as he digs deeper he picks up strange voices warning him to stop.

Format: Short
Length: 5

The Girl From The Village

by Gregory Fishwick

Logline: A young runaway’s sexual awakening takes a dark turn when she becomes the mistress of a modern day monster.

Format: Feature
Length: 97

From Another Place
by Darren Roberts

Logline: Whilst developing a quantum teleportation system, three scientists discover it has a few gremlins in it, real gremlins, with rabbit heads,
and the ability to create the undead

Format: Feature
Length: 95

The Dark Saint
by Gerry Byron

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.

Format: Feature
Length: 106

Border Heat
by Gerry Byron

Logline: A private investigator, and the wife of the man he is pursuing, encounter supernatural, or possibly alien events in an eerie Scottish borders village. They struggle to complete their mission while a group of New Age spiritualists draw them into danger that might consume not just destroy them, but trigger the Apocalypse.

Format: Feature
Length: 95

Crow Fair
by Alan Fleet

Logline: The thirteenth day of Christmas, a Punch and Judy show and the cryptic puzzle in a concealed painting reveal the whereabouts of the last Crow Fair; dare you attend?

Format: Feature
Length: 106

Rio Diablo
by Paul W Franklin

Logline: When a savage beast kills residents of a Wild West town, a hard-up gambler leads the hunt to claim its bounty, but what he unmasks is not a wild animal but a diabolical being of Native folklore. Most aptly summed up as “The Thing in the Wild West”

Format: Feature
Length: 90

Zoe
by Paul W Franklin

Logline: When zombies break out from an asylum on the edge of a city, Erik bumps into one of the escapees, and falls in love. Which was never going to be easy.

Format: Short
Length: 5

Foxes
by Gregory Fishwick

Logline: A young couple literally struggle to survive in the big city when suburban foxes embark on a murderous rampage.

Format: Feature
Length: 107

This Way Madness
by Glyn Carter

Logline: A young man renovates a dilapidated house, while the ghost of a young girl enters his mind, threatening his sanity and morality.

Format: Feature
Length: 90

44 Cawdor Crescent
by John Bale

Logline: Upon moving into a new flat, Kerry Burgess and her young children become tormented by a malevolent force with a past ingrained in pure evil.

Format: Feature
Length: 85

Six Degrees of Sinister
by Darren Roberts

Logline: Six sinister stories set in one very sinister world.

Format: Feature
Length: 120

Willow’s Waking Nightmare / The New Phone (Working title)
by Stanley Mackrell

Logline: After a car crash leaves her best friend in coma, Willow starts experiencing some strange and terrifying things. Whilst she battles with these visions, she slowly realises their meaning and the fatal consequences her actions could still cause.

Format: Short
Length: 20

Death and The Widow
by Gregory Fishwick

Logline: In Victorian-era England, a recently bereaved woman falls in love with the undertaker caring for her dead husband and daughter. Whilst voyeuristically spying on him, she discovers a bizarre, perverse side to his nature, which, in turn, awakens her own deep, dark desires.

Format: Short
Length: 16

Lucid
by Dominic Stewart

Logline: An emotionally broken man, having formed an addiction to a futuristic drug that allows him to lucid dream, spends time with his deceased infant son within his dreams. Having gradually built a resilience to the drug, decreasing the time he can spend with his son, The Man risks it all to make his dream life his permanent reality.

Format: Short
Length: 20

SANCTUARY

by Nicky Tate and Luke Fielding

Logline: SANCTUARY is an eight-part character-led horror drama TV series. It centres on eight inhabitants of a children’s home as they face a zombie apocalypse, setting ingenious traps against the undead to survive. The safest place is inside the trap.

Format: TV
Length: 60

Haunted Hearts – The School Ghost
by Martin Nicholson

Logline: Emails from beyond the edge of reason. Brad is happy, well balanced, no-one’s pussy cat and wants to kill himself at school.

Format: Short
Length: 20