#bloodlist

Jack Fleming a three day old vampire just trying to figure out why the fuck the mob murdered him and now he has to deal with this :

The Babysitter (2018) I have had this one on my list for over a year and part of the reason I relaxed the theme this week is to make sure I had a place for it. I especially was interested after seeing that the script previously made the 2014 Blacklist and the 2015 Bloodlist. Both are yearly lists of well-reviewed but unproduced…

Book Review – Bloodlist (Vampire Files #1) by P.N. Elrod

Bloggos,

My brain is all melty from the 16+ hours I worked on editing The Steel Armada over the last two days. It was a wild time, where each chapter got about two hours worth of work, including three separate read throughs. I added a total of 68 words to the manuscript, and that’s after counting all the stuff I cut.

My brain is pudding dribbling out of one ear right about now.

So, let’s talk…

New Post has been published on https://nofspodcast.com/best-unproduced-horror-2017s-bloodlist/

The Best in Unproduced Horror in 2017's BLOODLIST

The Bloodlist was launched in 2009 in effort to shine a light on  to bring attention to unproduced dark genre screenplays & pilots in circulation. Each list is released annually around Halloween, and is compiled by industry executives. The BloodList has become a resource for dark genre producers searching for the perfect materia. They boast quite an impressive alumni; Black Swan, Warm Bodies, Stoker, Leatherface, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Before I Wake, The Shallows, and tons more. 

  Official Details:

67 film & television executives at the CE level and above voted for the #BloodList2017. A calendar year for a project to be considered for the list is October to October. This year’s BloodList is filled with mayhem, cults, witches, monsters and thrills.

Congratulations to the second annual #FreshBloodSelects! The selected projects are the top ten favorites from the BloodList team. There were 497 submissions this year to the free submission system, The Fresh Blood Initiative. The writers are unrepresented, and their scripts are available to view on BloodList.com.

BloodList was founded by: Kailey Marsh

Top Bloodlist 2017

Project Name: MEAT Writer: Logan Martin Genre: Horror Logline: A misanthropic man notices bizarre changes in himself, his wife, and the animals inhabiting the territory around their homestead as they attempt to survive self-imposed isolation. Management: Jake Wagner & Scott Stoops (Good Fear) Agency: Charlie Ferraro, Jordan Lonner (UTA) Status: Available.

Project Name: NIGHTLIGHT Writers: Tyler MacIntyre & Chris Hill Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: A monster-obsessed kid witnesses a murder in his neighborhood and must defend his house when it comes under siege by the killers. Management: Allard Cantor & Jarrod Murray (Epicenter) Agent: Jordan Berg (CAA) Status: Sold to Sony. Bob Shaye & Vince Gatewood (Unique Features) producing.

Project Name: THE LODGE Writers: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: A supernatural evil haunts a woman and her stepchildren in a cabin on Christmas. Agency: Sarah Self, Roger Green & Warren Zavala (WME) Status: Hammer Films producing. FilmNation financing.

Project Name: TILL DEATH Writer: Jason Carvey Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: A trophy wife’s psychotic and controlling husband kidnaps her to a romantic remote getaway location and kills himself while she’s handcuffed to him. She’s left to fight for her life, facing two dangerous men he’s sent to kill her. Agency: Chris Smith (Paradigm) Status: Available.

Project Name: CURFEW Writer: Dick Grunert Genre: Horror Logline: A rebellious teenage girl is sent to stay with her strict grandmother in the sleepy town of Cedar Falls, a place with many strange traditions, including a curfew banning anyone from going out at night. When she ventures out after dark she discovers the truth behind the town’s mysterious history. Management: Antonio D’Intino & Jeremy Platt (Plattform) Status: Available. Christian Armogida (Nightshade Entertainment) is producing.

Project Name: BLACK TIDE BEACH (Pilot) Writer: Brent Hyman Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: Investigative photographer, Dean, works to make quick money by shooting dead bodies before the police arrive on scene. When an old Hollywood Starlet employs his help looking for her wife, his life becomes entangled with the murderous and psychedelic side of the Los Angeles area. Agency: Melissa Solomon, Chris Noriega, Chase Northington, Parker Davis and Adam Weinstein (Verve) Status: Pilot set up with ITV.

Project Name: THE RED PILL Writers: Joe Russo & Chris LaMont Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi Logline: After a bacterial virus sweeps the globe, a government-mandated pill becomes an essential part of everyday life, you take it or you die. When everyman David MacReady begins showing symptoms of the infection, he takes his family on the run from the C.D.C.; only David isn’t getting sicker, he’s getting stronger. Management: Russell Hollander (Hollander Entertainment) Agency: Greg Pedicin (Gersh) Status: Available.

Project Name: HIS HOUSE Writer: Remi Weekes Genre: Horror Logline: Two African refugees who are relocated to London find a host of horrors in their new home. Management: Stuart Manashil (Novo) Status: Available.

Project Name: THE HARROWING Writers: Matthew Leslie & Stephen J. Smith Genre: Horror Logline: When a pregnant social worker is called upon to investigate a murder involving a teenage mother, she uncovers an insidious plot with possible ties to the occult that has her questioning her sanity and the very nature of her unborn child. Management: Jeff Portnoy (Bellevue) Agency: Jordan Berg (CAA) Status: Cinelou Films producing.

Project Name: RUIN Writers: Matthew K. Firpo & Ryan Firpo Genre: Thriller Logline: After World War II ends, a former Nazi captain hunts down and kill his team of SS officers in Germany. Management: Harry Lengsfield (LBI) Agency: Rob Carlson, Geoff Morley, Peter Dodd (UTA) Status: MadRiver Pictures is producing. Justin Kurzel directing. Gal Gadot attached to star.

Project Name: THE OTHER LAMB Writer: Catherine McMullen Genre: Psychological Thriller Logline: This is a young female coming of age story set within an alternative religion – in the vein of THE WITCH and MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. Management: Krista Carpenter & Chris Deckard (Fictional Entity) Agency: Candice Thom & Dayne Kelly (RGM) Status: David Lancaster & Stephanie Wilcox (Rumble Films) producing.

Project Name: THE SWALLOW Writers: Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer Genre: Horror Logline: Climb the trees… swim the lake… scale the fence… but whatever you do… Don’t. Touch. The. Ground. Management: Adam Goldworm (Aperture) Agency: Rich Cook, Mike Fera (WME) Status: Available.

Project Name: HEARTBEAT (Pilot) Writer: Tim Macy Genre: Horror Logline: A controversial high tech company pays the dying to keep their spirits alive in their homes after they pass so they can market these ‘haunted houses’ to high-paying visitors (think haunted Airbnb). Heathcliff Gill is a recruiter for the company who begins to realize the immortality he’s selling isn’t as blissful as he thought. Management: Jeff Thal (Ensemble Ent.) Status: Available.

Fresh Blood Selects

Project Name: BAD WITCHES (Pilot) Writer: Amber Alexander Genres: Thriller, Dark comedy Logline: BAD WITCHES follows the supernatural, no-holds-barred quest of two immortal teen lovers separated by a curse and their revolutionary fight for the rights of their descendants, Witches. TRUE BLOOD meets JESSICA JONES.

Project Name: THE BIG A Writer: Amy Taylor Genres: Horror, Dark Comedy Logline: A young girl struggles to obtain an abortion after discovering that she is pregnant with the Antichrist.

Project Name: BREAK Writer: Eli Black Genre: Thriller Logline: College couple Willy and Angelica head to the country for a romantic summer getaway, unaware they’ve been followed by Angelica’s unhinged ex. When Angelica sustains a head injury and wakes with severe memory loss, Willy must fight not only for Angelica’s love, but also her ex’s sinister incursion.

Project Name: DON’T RUN Writer: Malcolm Badewitz Genres: Horror, Adventure Logline: When a local boy goes missing, a young girl must face her fears if she hopes to rescue him from the monsters lurking beneath their sleepy suburb.

Project Name: KILLING TIME Writer: Jose Prendes Genre: Horror Logline: A teenger and his best friend use time travel technology to stop the brutal murder of his sister and uncover the identity of her killer.

Project Name: RUNT Writer: Marc Bloom Genre: Thriller Logline: A woman rescues an injured wolf pup, holed up inside a cabin, but when the wolfpack returns and threatens her life and the pups, she is sent on a gruelling journey of self-discovery fighting for survival. The Grey meets Gravity.

Project Name: SECOND CHILDHOOD Writer: Clifton Wilder Koons II Genre: Dark Comedy, Thriller Logline: A debaucherous children’s author checks herself into an unconventional rehab center that recreates her childhood with actors and stage tricks to help her get over her mother’s death and save her career. She struggles to relive her rough past with only a psychotic patient and her fictional animal characters by her side.

Project Name: THE MADDENING FILTH Writer: Siobhan Gilbert Genre: Thriller Logline: Ignaz Semmelweis is a Hungarian doctor teaching medicine in Vienna. He develops Germ theory and the practice of handwashing before medical examinations from his experience of life on the obstetrics ward and the dying mothers due to childbed fever. He and his theory are rejected by the scientific community. He is cast out. Has a mental breakdown and dies of the same illness that his theory had saved countless women from.

Project Name: UNDERGROUND Writer: Brendon Udy Genres: Horror, Dark Comedy Logline: A handful of London Underground passengers must fight for survival after their train is attacked by ferocious, blood hungry beasts.

Project Name: YULE CATS Writers: Chad Ghiron and Lizzie Goodman Genre: Horror, Dark comedy Logline: A Gremlins style horror/comedy in the vein of Chris Columbus about thirteen-year-old Isabelle, who receives an odd souvenir from her deceased scientist father in the form of a preserved, prehistoric feline — a creature which winds up contaminating the cats in Isabelle’s small town and forcing her and her two best friends to fight for survival against this rapidly growing horde of attackers.

New Post has been published on https://nofspodcast.com/best-unproduced-horror-2017s-bloodlist/

The Best in Unproduced Horror in 2017's BLOODLIST

The Bloodlist was launched in 2009 in effort to shine a light on  to bring attention to unproduced dark genre screenplays & pilots in circulation. Each list is released annually around Halloween, and is compiled by industry executives. The BloodList has become a resource for dark genre producers searching for the perfect materia. They boast quite an impressive alumni; Black Swan, Warm Bodies, Stoker, Leatherface, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Before I Wake, The Shallows, and tons more. 

  Official Details:

67 film & television executives at the CE level and above voted for the #BloodList2017. A calendar year for a project to be considered for the list is October to October. This year’s BloodList is filled with mayhem, cults, witches, monsters and thrills.

Congratulations to the second annual #FreshBloodSelects! The selected projects are the top ten favorites from the BloodList team. There were 497 submissions this year to the free submission system, The Fresh Blood Initiative. The writers are unrepresented, and their scripts are available to view on BloodList.com.

BloodList was founded by: Kailey Marsh

Top Bloodlist 2017

Project Name: MEAT Writer: Logan Martin Genre: Horror Logline: A misanthropic man notices bizarre changes in himself, his wife, and the animals inhabiting the territory around their homestead as they attempt to survive self-imposed isolation. Management: Jake Wagner & Scott Stoops (Good Fear) Agency: Charlie Ferraro, Jordan Lonner (UTA) Status: Available.

Project Name: NIGHTLIGHT Writers: Tyler MacIntyre & Chris Hill Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: A monster-obsessed kid witnesses a murder in his neighborhood and must defend his house when it comes under siege by the killers. Management: Allard Cantor & Jarrod Murray (Epicenter) Agent: Jordan Berg (CAA) Status: Sold to Sony. Bob Shaye & Vince Gatewood (Unique Features) producing.

Project Name: THE LODGE Writers: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: A supernatural evil haunts a woman and her stepchildren in a cabin on Christmas. Agency: Sarah Self, Roger Green & Warren Zavala (WME) Status: Hammer Films producing. FilmNation financing.

Project Name: TILL DEATH Writer: Jason Carvey Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: A trophy wife’s psychotic and controlling husband kidnaps her to a romantic remote getaway location and kills himself while she’s handcuffed to him. She’s left to fight for her life, facing two dangerous men he’s sent to kill her. Agency: Chris Smith (Paradigm) Status: Available.

Project Name: CURFEW Writer: Dick Grunert Genre: Horror Logline: A rebellious teenage girl is sent to stay with her strict grandmother in the sleepy town of Cedar Falls, a place with many strange traditions, including a curfew banning anyone from going out at night. When she ventures out after dark she discovers the truth behind the town’s mysterious history. Management: Antonio D’Intino & Jeremy Platt (Plattform) Status: Available. Christian Armogida (Nightshade Entertainment) is producing.

Project Name: BLACK TIDE BEACH (Pilot) Writer: Brent Hyman Genre: Horror, Thriller Logline: Investigative photographer, Dean, works to make quick money by shooting dead bodies before the police arrive on scene. When an old Hollywood Starlet employs his help looking for her wife, his life becomes entangled with the murderous and psychedelic side of the Los Angeles area. Agency: Melissa Solomon, Chris Noriega, Chase Northington, Parker Davis and Adam Weinstein (Verve) Status: Pilot set up with ITV.

Project Name: THE RED PILL Writers: Joe Russo & Chris LaMont Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi Logline: After a bacterial virus sweeps the globe, a government-mandated pill becomes an essential part of everyday life, you take it or you die. When everyman David MacReady begins showing symptoms of the infection, he takes his family on the run from the C.D.C.; only David isn’t getting sicker, he’s getting stronger. Management: Russell Hollander (Hollander Entertainment) Agency: Greg Pedicin (Gersh) Status: Available.

Project Name: HIS HOUSE Writer: Remi Weekes Genre: Horror Logline: Two African refugees who are relocated to London find a host of horrors in their new home. Management: Stuart Manashil (Novo) Status: Available.

Project Name: THE HARROWING Writers: Matthew Leslie & Stephen J. Smith Genre: Horror Logline: When a pregnant social worker is called upon to investigate a murder involving a teenage mother, she uncovers an insidious plot with possible ties to the occult that has her questioning her sanity and the very nature of her unborn child. Management: Jeff Portnoy (Bellevue) Agency: Jordan Berg (CAA) Status: Cinelou Films producing.

Project Name: RUIN Writers: Matthew K. Firpo & Ryan Firpo Genre: Thriller Logline: After World War II ends, a former Nazi captain hunts down and kill his team of SS officers in Germany. Management: Harry Lengsfield (LBI) Agency: Rob Carlson, Geoff Morley, Peter Dodd (UTA) Status: MadRiver Pictures is producing. Justin Kurzel directing. Gal Gadot attached to star.

Project Name: THE OTHER LAMB Writer: Catherine McMullen Genre: Psychological Thriller Logline: This is a young female coming of age story set within an alternative religion – in the vein of THE WITCH and MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. Management: Krista Carpenter & Chris Deckard (Fictional Entity) Agency: Candice Thom & Dayne Kelly (RGM) Status: David Lancaster & Stephanie Wilcox (Rumble Films) producing.

Project Name: THE SWALLOW Writers: Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer Genre: Horror Logline: Climb the trees… swim the lake… scale the fence… but whatever you do… Don’t. Touch. The. Ground. Management: Adam Goldworm (Aperture) Agency: Rich Cook, Mike Fera (WME) Status: Available.

Project Name: HEARTBEAT (Pilot) Writer: Tim Macy Genre: Horror Logline: A controversial high tech company pays the dying to keep their spirits alive in their homes after they pass so they can market these ‘haunted houses’ to high-paying visitors (think haunted Airbnb). Heathcliff Gill is a recruiter for the company who begins to realize the immortality he’s selling isn’t as blissful as he thought. Management: Jeff Thal (Ensemble Ent.) Status: Available.

Fresh Blood Selects

Project Name: BAD WITCHES (Pilot) Writer: Amber Alexander Genres: Thriller, Dark comedy Logline: BAD WITCHES follows the supernatural, no-holds-barred quest of two immortal teen lovers separated by a curse and their revolutionary fight for the rights of their descendants, Witches. TRUE BLOOD meets JESSICA JONES.

Project Name: THE BIG A Writer: Amy Taylor Genres: Horror, Dark Comedy Logline: A young girl struggles to obtain an abortion after discovering that she is pregnant with the Antichrist.

Project Name: BREAK Writer: Eli Black Genre: Thriller Logline: College couple Willy and Angelica head to the country for a romantic summer getaway, unaware they’ve been followed by Angelica’s unhinged ex. When Angelica sustains a head injury and wakes with severe memory loss, Willy must fight not only for Angelica’s love, but also her ex’s sinister incursion.

Project Name: DON’T RUN Writer: Malcolm Badewitz Genres: Horror, Adventure Logline: When a local boy goes missing, a young girl must face her fears if she hopes to rescue him from the monsters lurking beneath their sleepy suburb.

Project Name: KILLING TIME Writer: Jose Prendes Genre: Horror Logline: A teenger and his best friend use time travel technology to stop the brutal murder of his sister and uncover the identity of her killer.

Project Name: RUNT Writer: Marc Bloom Genre: Thriller Logline: A woman rescues an injured wolf pup, holed up inside a cabin, but when the wolfpack returns and threatens her life and the pups, she is sent on a gruelling journey of self-discovery fighting for survival. The Grey meets Gravity.

Project Name: SECOND CHILDHOOD Writer: Clifton Wilder Koons II Genre: Dark Comedy, Thriller Logline: A debaucherous children’s author checks herself into an unconventional rehab center that recreates her childhood with actors and stage tricks to help her get over her mother’s death and save her career. She struggles to relive her rough past with only a psychotic patient and her fictional animal characters by her side.

Project Name: THE MADDENING FILTH Writer: Siobhan Gilbert Genre: Thriller Logline: Ignaz Semmelweis is a Hungarian doctor teaching medicine in Vienna. He develops Germ theory and the practice of handwashing before medical examinations from his experience of life on the obstetrics ward and the dying mothers due to childbed fever. He and his theory are rejected by the scientific community. He is cast out. Has a mental breakdown and dies of the same illness that his theory had saved countless women from.

Project Name: UNDERGROUND Writer: Brendon Udy Genres: Horror, Dark Comedy Logline: A handful of London Underground passengers must fight for survival after their train is attacked by ferocious, blood hungry beasts.

Project Name: YULE CATS Writers: Chad Ghiron and Lizzie Goodman Genre: Horror, Dark comedy Logline: A Gremlins style horror/comedy in the vein of Chris Columbus about thirteen-year-old Isabelle, who receives an odd souvenir from her deceased scientist father in the form of a preserved, prehistoric feline — a creature which winds up contaminating the cats in Isabelle’s small town and forcing her and her two best friends to fight for survival against this rapidly growing horde of attackers.