Thank you to all who submitted their screenplays to the 2024 International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival Short Screenplay Competition. We are very excited to announce this year's winners!
First Place
House Broken - By Joseph Douglas Lint
A young couple learns that house breaking their new puppy can be more terrible than they imagined.
Second Place
Just A Quick Nap - By Joao Paulo Fadil
A grieving man suffering from insomnia buys a dangerous piece of technology so he can finally have a good night’s sleep.
Third Place
The Exorcism Of Father Gabriel - By Pierre Langenegger
While performing an exorcism on a young girl, a priest recognizes the voices of the demons speaking through her, from his past, and now he is desperate to escape.
Finalists
(In alphabetical order by last name)
Your Husband Was A Good Man - By Jamie Alvey
The bereaved wife of a teacher who died prematurely resorts to ritualistic magic to resurrect her beloved husband. The results have unintended bloody consequences.
Zits - By David Bornstein
In Los Angeles, a charming but hard-boiled covert narcissist is doomed by fatal acne when she incurs the evil eye from a mysterious woman
Milk Before Meat - By Melinda-Catherine Gross
Two sisters question how alone they are in the universe, and the woods, when an unidentified aerial phenomenon crashes in their religious neighbor's backyard.
Secondhand Crystal - By Christine Makepeace
A thrift store crystal turns out to be more expensive than anyone bargained for.
Phantom Questions - By Andreas Mortensen
After his mom's funeral, Benny digs up her body to take it to a haunted house he's found online. He's hoping the place will reanimate her spirit, so he can ask the questions he never asked. But in the spooky house he instead meets the ghost who already haunts it.
Hotel Del Charro - By Jason Von Godi and Dylan Silvers
A woman awakens in a locked hotel room with no memory of how she got there. When alarms sound and the television broadcasts an impending nuclear attack, she assumes things can’t get any worse. She’s wrong.
A Thing Of Nightmares - By Logan Walker
A woman tries to recount the events that led to her sister's death.
