2016 BloodList: See the Year’s Best Horror Screenplays, Pilots and Shorts
Joe Russo‘s “Soul Mates” and Natalie Hanson’s “Safe and Sound” are among the projects included on horror genre guru Kailey Marsh’s 2016 BloodList of the most-liked screenplays and pilots in horror, thriller, dark comedy and sci-fi.
The seventh annual list, announced Wednesday and based on a survey of 74 industry executives, was topped by “Orb,” written by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman.
Screenplays previously featured on the BloodList include “Arrival,” “Autopsy of Jane Doe,” “The Shallows” and “The Boy Next Door,” which starred Jennifer Lopez.
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Inspired by actual events from a phenomenon that occurred in 1974, the story follows a young married couple who discover a mysterious metallic orb in the woods near their house following a meteor shower.
While the unusual object dazzles the couple by exhibiting some awe-inspiring properties, its true purpose is revealed to be far more sinister than they could ever imagine.
After an alien invasion takes over the minds of humankind, one survivor known as “Man” must make peace with this alien to fight a greater evil.
Data analyst Mark Scout heads up a team of pencil-pushers, each of whom has had their memories surgically split between work and home life.
After a colleague goes missing, Mark begins to see the company’s dangerous secret agenda, and must try to contact his “outside” self to help take them down forever.
When a couple living in a Brooklyn high-rise think that a man in the building across the street is looking through their window, their paranoia grows until they begin to suspect he might actually be a killer at large who the news refers to as The Headhunter.
The film is about two unsuspecting strangers who find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service that forces two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their Soul Mate – or die trying.
The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse — until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
[...] when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbor might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous.
After two friends leave the bar after a night of drinking, they discover their car missing from the parking lot, an RV in its place, and a woman trapped inside.
Logline: A runaway comes home for her sister’s wedding only to suspect that one of the guests is a killer who knows her darkest secret: she, and everyone in her family, is a witch.
Centers on a NYPD detective who struggles with black periods in her memory.
Logline: A mousey housewife hoping to make friends at her bridge club is paired with a mysterious newcomer she comes to think is trying to kill her.
Logline: A young man and his buddies host a local vodcast called ‘The Bullshit Boys’, where they debunk or as they’d say, “call shit”, on local folklore.
Eight strangers wake up in an eerily exquisite hunting lodge, only to unknowingly become the prey in a “specialized” commercial gaming facility.
In 1870, famous American mediums, “The Fox Sisters”, admit their fraud and publicly deny the existence of spirits, forcing them to rely only on each other (and a mixed bag of parlor tricks) when, while fleeing the country by ship, they’re suddenly terrorized by vengeful ghosts.
Logline: A female serial killer with a penchant for porridge stalks a true crime author she wants to write her life story.
The most famous home invader in fairy tale history has never gotten her own movie, until now.
Logline: A containment team boards an offshore drilling platform in the South Pacific after an oil spill, only to discover it’s a black site developing experimental weapons thats crew has been wiped out by a bio engineered contagion – one that causes those it infects heads to spontaneously explode.
Logline: 16 year old Reagan is placed in a mental institution after her newborn son is stolen by a vengeful witch on Halloween night and dragged to the pits of hell.
Along with the help of her misfit friends, Reagan will have to prove her sanity while battling a demonic cult, dark forces and a coven of Witches, stopping at nothing to get her son back!
When an unpopular young sheriff discovers an abandoned train stalled, robbed, and teaming with leprous undead, he must pursue the charismatic bandit who carries both the stolen loot and a deadly germ.
Logline: A perpetually unemployed guy who faints at the sight of blood and his ex-con sister-in-law start a cleaning business, but an unexpected twist leads them to become the new cleanup crew for the local mob.
Logline: A young girl’s imaginary friend starts killing her family off one by one.