Thank you to all who submitted their screenplays to the 2023 International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival Short Screenplay Competition. We are very excited to announce this year's winners!
First Place
House of Wolves - by Andrew Yeremeyev
Bound to the earth and to each other, goat farmers Hal and Annalise attempt to conceive a child before the next full moon.
Second Place
Pietra Fredda - by Matthew Nicholson
The Italian Marble Institute hand-selects sculptress Ellen Corsair to study in the marble capital of the world, Carrara, Italy. Will the stone come alive or will it mark someone's grave?
Third Place
Deadly Resurrection - by Stanley Eisenhammer
A young widower invites a woman he met on Tinder to watch a movie in hopes of resurrecting his wife.
Finalists
(In alphabetical order by last name)
An Inconsequential Choice - by Ricardo Bravo
An easily obsessed scientist will put his life and relationship at risk to advance his research of parallel universes. Will he make the right choice?
Edgar and the Undead - by Montgomery Burt
An amiable couple and their cynical house cat face tough choices trying to survive a zombie apocalypse.
MIDNIGHT THUNDER : X - by Kyle Corcoran
A space-barbarian from the future must travel back in time to kill the cowboy in order to save his race from total annihilation.
Nightmare - Seth Jarrett
Do you have nightmares? Talk in your sleep? Be careful you don't invite an evil spirit into our world.
Housebroken - John Kestner
A family is stunned to discover that their young daughter's new puppy is a werewolf.
Max Q - by Brad Riddell and Joel Benjamin
A deep space survey team finds their relationships pushed to the brink when they embark upon a dangerous search and rescue mission on an unexplored alien world.
Flower - by Shiva Rodriguez
Desperate to find her missing daughter, a woman interviews the only known survivor of a sadistic killer.
