TABLE OF CONTENTS

SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
TOP 25 UNPRODUCED FEATURE SCREENPLAYS & TOP 15 UNPRODUCED SHORT SCREENPLAYS
FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
ALL LIVING THINGS by Michael Vincent Montgomery
A series of interplanetary disasters turns a spaceship into a Noah’s Ark.
ANTIDOTED MAN by Jamie Sutliff
Aliens abduct humans to serve as test subjects for diseases that will destroy mankind and produce antidotes
for themselves. The Aliens have perfected DNA fusion and brain transplants into healthy cloned
human bodies. The aliens send Ethan to Earth to collect Ebola samples while a scientist on board the
ship unleashes an airborne virus that kills everyone aboard the ship. Ethan survives and carries the antidotes
in his blood for every disease known to man and world leaders want samples of his blood at any
cost. Dr. Drew Williams helps Ethan escape NSA and KGB agents and they plan to give the antidotes
to the world that will be worth trillions to the drug companies.
AOEDE’S ‘“WHAT ARE DREAMS MADE OF?” by Lisa Sniderman
In the magical kingdom of Wonderhaven, Aoede the Muse of Song is plagued with a terrible, haunting
dream (a nyxmare), and children are spirited away by a Siren. Aoede must explore realms of darkness
and light, overland and underworld, confront magical fairies, goblins and dream gods, and struggle to
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COMPULSION by Michael Nardelli
An ambitious medical assistant, working to disprove the afterlife via a new procedure that briefly reanimates
a deceased human brain, must face his own obsession with mortality when death follows
him home.
CREED’S CODE by Aaron Langvand
When aliens take the family of a former Civil War doctor hostage, he must break his Hippocratic Oath
to save them by procurring human specimens in the California west of 1878.
ETERNAL LIES by Craig Walendziak
When ancient relics wash ashore in the south pacific, a team of scientists set sail to investigate. The
closer they draw to their origin, the further they flail from reality.
FLIGHT OF THE FOWLER by W. Kent Smith
In the frantic last days of the war, even as the fall of Berlin was fast approaching, Hitler’s right-hand
man, infamous S.S. Commander Heinrich Himmler, was still convinced that nothing could spoil his
secret plans to escape to South America. After all, he still controlled the German’s underground escape
organization, code-named: The Spider; not to mention, he still controlled the Nazi’s most sacred
talisman, the Holy Lance, alleged to bestow world power upon whoever possessed it. As long as these
facts remained true, he had nothing to worry about. Or so he thought. Because the one thing he could
have never anticipated came not in the form of some sinister dark force summoned from the abyss, but
rather it came in the form of Himmler’s unassuming personal physician, Dr. Felix Kersten.
GRAZ by Jarrod Vanzo
To solve a chilling triple homicide, a lupine Federal Agent must defeat an ancient witch and prevent
Nazi Scientists from unleashing a demon in rural Indiana.
HELL’S REFLECTION by Wynn Reichert
A middle-aged couple stranded on a country road fights to escape the clutches of a demonic redneck,
only to discover that there are even more sinister forces to conquer and other victims to rescue.
KILLER APP v.2.0 by Joseph Ferrante
Haley, a high school senior, and her friends are tricked into a deadly social media popularity contest
where they must vote for each other to die through an app on their phones.
LARRY GONE DEMON by Matthew Lawrence
A frenetic, punk-rock nightmare centering on one asshole of a roommate.
LIL C by Jamie Sutliff
A girl 10 held captive from birth escapes child porn ring makes drawings of killer.
LONG WAY HOME by Emily Koopman
A depressed 21-year-old goes soul searching in the Mojave Desert only to get swept up in a government-led
manhunt for extraterrestrials.
LOVE POTION #666 by Nathan Ludwig & Chad Farmer
A sociopathic sexpot fresh out of prison and her dimbulb boyfriend steal her mother’s experimental sex
drug, arm themselves to the teeth and hit the road intent on selling it to a powerful narcotics kingpin
on the other side of the country. When the mother, a voodoo priestess-in-training, returns home from
Haiti to find her house ransacked and her love dust stolen, she assembles a savage voodoo zombie
chain gang to pursue the young lovers to the bitter, bloody end.
ONLY MAKE BELIEVE by Benjamin Owens
A university professor is terrified to find that the shadows that pervade his dreams are beginning to
manifest in his family’s life.
REDCAP TOWING by Ryan LaPlante
Katherine “Kat” DeLisle is the sheriff of a small town that’s living in fear. A serial killer is stalking the
highways and her mentor, a disgruntled alcoholic driven off the force after a breakdown, approaches
Kat to tell her the killer is supernatural. As the pressure to stop the killings mounts, Kat’s neighbor
becomes a victim and her 9-year-old daughter is thrust into Kat’s care. Kat needs to find a way to
stop these murders, while simultaneously caring for a little girl and battling her own demons. Everyone
knows… the killer is one flat tire away.
SARDIS THE MERCIFUL by Christian Thomas
A once-powerful king, now crippled and alone, must venture into the dark country of a monstrous
enemy in order to correct a tragic mistake.
SOLAR BUTTERFLY by D. Michael Martindale
Elaine has been abused since a child and decides to enter a program where she can genetically modify
herself into a new species that she designs so she can escape humanity altogether. She chooses to become
a Solar Butterfly, a large creature that can survive in interplanetary space with enormous wings
that use the solar wind to navigate. But once out in space, she begins to realize that isolation was not
what she wanted after all.
SPIDER EATERS by Michael Klug
In a last-ditch effort to save their failing relationship, Allison and Bobby embark on a spider-eating
adventure into the remote Australian Outback, accompanied by a “Strange Foods” television crew.
Their trip coincides with the arrival of a mysterious and eco-conscious spider fanatic as well as the
spiders’own violent retaliation -- turning the “tables” on the hapless tourists.
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
TOP 25 UNPRODUCED FEATURE SCREENPLAYS & TOP 15 UNPRODUCED SHORT SCREENPLAYS
FEATURES CONTINUED
THE FIEND by Richard Reed
Their susceptible teacher being lured to the mountain retreat of a controversial and oversexed female scientist,
a group of college students visit her secluded biological laboratory. There, they find weird creatures roaming
the grounds. Eventually, they discover that, one by one, the students’ throats are being slashed --- by something.
THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM by Michael Vincent Montgomery
A galactic game of thrones helps defeat a tyrannical king.
THE MAN AND THE MOON by Paul Forrest
After an untimely death following completion of a final edit of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, Stanley Kubrick’s widow
Christianne mourns his passing in self imposed solitary confinement. Intrigued by the sloppy way
in which the strap to Stanley’s personal dictation device hangs out of the nightstand next to her bed,
she presses play and his narrative begins. Stanley discloses his confession early on. He was responsible
for the hoaxing of the moon landings. In flashback, he explains, as it was explained to him, how it all
started in 1962 as the Secret US Government Propulsion programme struggled to implement stolen
Nazi technology intended to propel America’s space programme, literally.
THE NAUGAHYDE MAN by Randy Gross
McMANUS looks brutish, but he’s not. Though he once lived in the Tibetan wilderness, he is anything
but wild. In fact, if it hadn’t been for so many tourists despoiling the nearby monasteries, he would
have never reacted so aggressively … nor been captured by the owner of a traveling circus sideshow. In
America, he receives top billing as Monkey Boy, but that’s just the beginning of his exploitation.
THE NIGHTMARE HALLS by Olivier Rongione
After drug smugglers crash their plane somewhere in New Mexico, they discover an apparently deserted
underground complex where strange things are going on.
THE SIX by Jim Menza
In 1940, Adolf Hitler sent a team of German spies to the United States with instructions to sabotage
vital structures and landmarks. What would have happened if they succeeded?
TOP 15 UNPRODUCED SHORT SCREENPLAYS
ALICE’S MISFORTUNES IN UNDERLAND by Nikki S. Colt
In the streets of London, a lonely and homeless girl named Alice realizes just how deep she can fall.
APT. 215 by A.J. Briones
A desperate man in search of his missing wife seeks guidance from an enigmatic spirit healer with an
eye for the supernatural.
DEADHORSE LICK by Charles Hall
A young boy sets out to rid his hometown of a wild animal that has been killing the townspeople’s pets,
only to wind up becoming its next target.
HIBERNATION by Joel Benjamin
On a damaged and drifting interstellar science vessel, an aging mother watches over her cryogenically
frozen son and husband as she waits and hopes for an improbable rescue.
SHORTS CONTINUED
ISOL by Kristin Ruff-Frederickson
An isolated woman has just three minutes to come to terms with her impending death when she awakens
in the medical bay of a decimated spaceship.
LOVE IN DRONES’ TIMES by Kiki Vasilescu
An inventive teenager steals jewelries with her flying drone, when suddenly a secret lover uses his
drone to steal her heart.
PAGE TURNER by Marc Roussel
A young woman finds a notebook on her way home from work and calls the ‘Please return to’ number
printed inside the front cover and makes plans to meet its owner the next day. That night, while alone
at home, her is curiosity piqued by the books contents and she begins to read the unsettling ravings
of a troubled mind and discovers that her life is inexplicably tied to the dark journals object of desire.
RED COATS by Lachlan Marks
An unfortunate accident sees a pioneering scientist and his squabbling interns trapped in a secret
laboratory on the day of a make or break presentation with a new investor. Can he commit to an unthinkable
act in order to preserve “the cure” and get out in time?
SECRET BOX by Charles Hall
The tenuous bond between a surly mechanic and his gifted son is tested when a strange metallic box
turns up in their home.
SIX-LEGGED COUCH by Kate Longoria
Holly and Fiona are moving into their first apartment after graduating from college. After purchasing
a couch from Craigslist, the girls have to deal when they realize the couch is infested with roaches.
SYMPOSIUM by Tom Grady
A roving appliance raises the eyebrows of a Central Park West resident and the service man she calls
to make sense of it.
THE ART OF DNA by Mary Anzalone
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THE OFFERING by Julie Hindkjær
A college student offers shelter for a friend who lost her best friend in a horrific way, but as the friend
moves in, mysteries sounds and occurrences comes along, disturbing her studying and comfort in her
own apartment.
THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE by Bryan Hansen
A young man, runaway from home seeks a place among the outlaws of the old west but soon finds his
fate intertwined with two cursed revolvers.
VIRAL by Michael Nardelli
A confident college freshman longs for permanence in a world of ephemeral tweets andinstagrams,
but soon regrets the lasting impression she’s made on campus when online rumors go “viral” about her
contracting a horrific STD.
*The 2016 Screenplay Competitions features the top unproduced screenplays submitted to FilmQuest, and all
screenplays were judged by qualified readers. The winners were selected by a 3rd party company, Coverfly.
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