The End of the Screencraft Saga

Got this e-mail from Screencraft on Friday, September 7th:



Congratulations to the 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest semifinalists!

We’re excited to announce the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest. Horror is one of the proven genres for newcomers to the craft – and we’re always looking for talented new writers. Our Hollywood judges have produced some of the most iconic horror and dark-genre films of the last decade including A Quiet Place, Paranormal Activity, Get Out, Unfriended and Insidious.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries next year, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Take a minute to congratulate these talented writers on Twitter here and Facebook here.

See the list of semifinalists here.

 

I then clicked on the link and saw the list of semi-finalists:  

 

We’re excited to feature the screenplays listed below, comprising the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest. Horror is one of the most successful proven genres for newcomers to the craft – and the industry is always looking for talented new horror writers. Our Hollywood judges have produced some of the most iconic horror and dark-genre films of the last decade including A Quiet Place, Paranormal Activity, Get Out, Unfriended and Insidious.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next couple weeks! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries next year, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Without further ado, here are the 2018 horror semifinalists:

700 Feet	Jason Goldberg
A Precise Understanding of Darkness	R. Shanea Williams
Alpha	Nathan Alan Bunker
Anora	Eric Williford
Babes in the Woods	Billy Thompson
Black Death Zombie	Geoffrey Uhl
Black Friday	Andy Greskoviak
Burner	Mukilan Thangamani
Buzz Kill	Kyle McDonald
Colomi	Sam Yano
Consumered	Robert Klinger
Crushing Black	Wes Crandall
Cryptodome	Nathanael Vass
Curse The Ground	Gabby Gruen
Darklands	Paul Sheridan
Darling	Kevin  Bauer
Dead Strays	Neil Chase
Deadville	Jeffrey Boggio
Desperate Times	Kimberly Britt
Devil’s Delights	Nickolas Shepherd & Toni Shepherd
Devotion	Brian Thompson
Eblis	Tom Omokaro
Extranjero Supremo	Theo Sariklis
Flesh and Blood	Jordan Light
Forget-Me-Nots	John Dummer
Freaky Friday… the 13th!	Derek Steiner
Good Luck, Nightingale	Shannon Wells
Harvest	Ted Horning
Havenwood	Jai Brandon
Hell Is An Open Door	Jim Lopezzo
Hers	Nicole Muller & Elizabeth Eromosele
Hot Southern Mess	Justin Farmer
i,Phine’d	Jeff Bassetti
In The Blood	Samuel Minier
Kabul Nights	Christian Kaps
Landlord	Ben Grover
Last Period	Dylan Kim
Mad Molly	J.R. Halterlein
Method	Louis Paxton
Miss Violet	Christopher Schrack
Monsters of Men	Scott Dale
Mysterium	Sheldon Woodbury
Nite Stalkers	James Morgan
Ocean Effect	Heather Farlinger
OmegaDawn	Eric Taylor
Partricks Road	Terry Crist
Remember the Fire	David Snee
Resurrection Girl and the Curse of the Wendigo	Nathan Ludwig
Settlement	Jason Sheedy
She’s Next	Timothy Mendonca & Lizz Dorovitsine
Shimmerverse	Eric Humble
Skins of the Father	Paul Fulton
Spine	Danny  Glasgow
Terror/13	Darren Callahan
The Babysitter	Leah Welch
The Cleansing	John Kennedy
The Crossing	Joshua Bartolome
The Dark Place	Jim Hunsaker
The Demon Factory	Bradley King & Zeb Wells
The Desolation of Stoneheir, Alaska	Sean Buckley
The Drifter	A. Jake Hansen & David Christopher Pitt
The Endling	Devin Fearn
The Festival	Dene Stark
The King in Yellow	Kein  Carroll
The Night Before the Exhibition	Kirston Fortune
The Night Walk	Nikhail Asnani
The Ones That Got Away	Bobby Gorman & Marc Adams
The Rules That Keep Us Safe	Gemma Hurley & Markus Meedt
The Unkind	Neth Knowles
The Vultures	Eric Dickson
There’s Nothing Wrong with Us	Nathan Crooker
They Keep Me Around	Nikhail Asnani
They Whisper	David Bush
Tight Lips	Martin Wathen
Undertow	Kevin Bauer & Erin Whittemore
Violet	Lori Bowen
When Horror Met Sally	Ervin V. Anderson
Whitetails	Sean Bode
Wolves Don’t Cry	Scott Fleishman

Okay, I have a few things to say here.

The first is that this list of semi-finalists is longer than some of Jack Kerouac's roadtrips.

That's the first thing.

And what frustrated and perplexes me the most is that Personal Demons was good enough to advanced to the next level after being submitted, but not good enough to make it into this hilariously long list of semi-finalists?

Whatever.

Okay, then there's the scripts in this list which have just unforgivably terrible and cheesy names.

 "When Horror Met Sally"... "The Desolation of Stoneheir, Alaska"... "Shimmerverse"... "The Babysitter" (isn't that already a movie?)...  "Black Death Zombie"... "Cryptodome"... "Deadville"... 'Freaky Friday... the 13th!"... "Resurrection Girl and the Curse of the Wendigo"... I know you can't judge a script by its name, but I refuse to believe that any of these scripts are better than Personal Demons.

Mind you, I would have to read them to find out, but I'd rather not.