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Just letting you know about something that might be of use for you.
A friend of mine is looking to create an Horror Anthology...in the vein of Trick or Treat...4 stories linked with a central conceit.
He's an actor, but the Director on his latest film has strong links with a couple of major studios and is confident he could get a distribution deal if the final product is high quality enough.
My friend is hiring four different directors to create 4 short films based around this conceit and they are looking for scripts:
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A party of teenagers go camping in a woods near a mental asylum. They scare each other with stories of the inmates - how they became mental (these are the 4 separate anthology stories). During the film they are being stalked by an escaped mental patient, who attacks them at the end.
Sounds like the kind of thing a few of you will already have in their lockers, and certainly something well within your remit.
Everybody said I should expand it, but I never could, really -- but if one were to carry the story forward a bit, it is not unreasonable to assume that Pinto ended up as a mental patient...
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Clocking in at 25 pages, "Think of me and I'll be there..." may be more than they are looking for, but the girl in this story also has mental patient potential....
Don't know how I missed "Think of me.." but it's a great little story.
Not sure if it fits in with that mental asylum thing as it stands...feels like it would need one of the main characters (probably Evie) who ended up in the asylum, but I'd personally be loathe to change it as I think what you have is right as it is.
Something Dark would be perfect for an anthology. I'll have to check out the second one.
Rick, not sure if you remember Scottish Lullaby from last year's Feb OWC. After I wrote that, I wrote a couple more related stories with the idea of a trilogy. They all involved the idea of the Celtic Otherworld, and I tried to amp up the horror a bit in the others.
The 2nd involved an asylum, actually. It's a found footage script(not posted here). A reporter investigates mysterious murders in a sewer tunnel(the same where the sacrifice took place in Lullaby) that have been hushed up by authorities. The gist of the story is that a lonely young girl with artistic talent begins to hang with the same imaginary friend(Dougal) from Lullaby. She learns how to open a temporary portal to the Otherworld by drawing, and a terrible creature comes through and slays a group of children. The girl is not slayed and ends up in an asylum where she draws images of the slayings.
The third short was posted here, and takes place in the same seedy nightclub from Lullaby, with the same witch like old woman. It's a poker game where she raises the stakes to a bloody level. No asylum, though. I suppose one of the survivors could end up in the asylum. Or, even more likely, this script just doesn't fit the criteria!
These scripts are in very raw, amateur shape. Scottish Lullaby was my first short and very early in the writing process, and the others were soon after. Something Dark is definitely much better. When you said anthology it made me think of these stories for the first time in a while.
I think the demonology collection I have can fit into this criteria especially the soul shadows one (entitled Caine revised version 31 pgs) or Rachael 11 pgs . Whats the page limit?
Gabe
Just Murdered by Sean Elwood (Zombie Sean) and Gabriel Moronta (Mr. Ripley) - (Dark Comedy, Horror) All is fair in love and war. A hopeless romantic gay man resorts to bloodshed to win the coveted position of Bridesmaid. 99 pages. https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1624410571/
I can trim Bert's addition which will probably make the page limit go down to at least 25.
I can add more content to Rachael. I have ideas brewing on what to include.
But, I'll let you decide if you something interesting.
Gabe
Just Murdered by Sean Elwood (Zombie Sean) and Gabriel Moronta (Mr. Ripley) - (Dark Comedy, Horror) All is fair in love and war. A hopeless romantic gay man resorts to bloodshed to win the coveted position of Bridesmaid. 99 pages. https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1624410571/
Award winning screenwriter Available screenplays TINA DARLING - 114 page Comedy ONLY OSCAR KNOWS - 99 page Horror A SONG IN MY HEART - 94 page Drama HALLOWEEN GAMES - 105 page Drama
Rick, if you're interested, the script is linked above. It's done in mockumentary form, with an element of found footage.
It's 25 pages, but that's a little deceiving. There's a longish super at the beginning and at the end, and because it's in the form of a studio documentary, there are things like photo and film inserts that take up space.
I was much earlier on the learning curve when I wrote this. I like to hope I can do better now. But there were some cool ideas in it.