This morning Kailey Marsh’s (literary manager at Brillstein Entertainment partners and Executive Producer on Hulu’s “Light as a Feather”) BloodList celebrates its 12th anniversary with “BloodList 12: Fresh Blood Edition”.

This year “BloodList” is shining the spotlight on the Fresh Blood creators, the unrepresented writers in the horror, thriller, sci-fi and dark comedy genres who are waiting to be discovered. The selected projects were chosen out of 457 submissions that were received via “BloodList’s” free submission system.

Some of the most popular produced scripts that have been featured on the annual BloodList include Arrival, BirdBox, The Shallows, The Voices, and Blackcoat’s Daughter. The most recent BloodList alum are The Other Lamb, Wally’s Wonderland and We Summon the Darkness. More produced films can be found here.

Visit BloodList.com for more information.

(In Alphabetical order)

Black Mourning Cemetery (Pilot)
Writer: Briana Bougard
Logline: When a Black person is unjustly killed, their spirit torments anyone connected to their murder. To prevent this, their remains are buried at a private cemetery owned by a witch, who performs a ritual to reveal the disturbing events leading up to their death, and hopefully bring them peace.
Genre: Horror

Company Man (Feature)
Writer: Nancy Duff
Logline: A lonely insurance adjuster living in a post-zombie-apocalypse world becomes marked for termination by the government agency tasked with zombie control. When he meets the adult daughter he never knew he had, they must race against time to steal the cure.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Dark Comedy

Little India (Feature)
Writer: Raj Balu
Logline: In financial ruin, an immigrant jeweler in Artesia, California’s “Little India” summons the powers of Hindu black magic, resulting in hellish consequences.
Genre: Dark Comedy

Paragone (Pilot)
Writer: Travis Neufeld
Logline: In an alternate universe where the vast proliferation of paranormal entities has given rise to a multi-billion dollar paranormal remediation industry, a downtrodden crew of ParaGone™ ghost hunters work to uncover the truth about entities, the afterlife, and the agency they work for — all in a bid to stop one of the most violent malevolent entities in history.
Genre: Horror

Taroko (Feature)
Writers: Kerry Yang & Steve Emmons
Logline: Deep within the vast Taroko wilderness, a devastating earthquake has released the spirits of those who have been trapped in limbo since WWII. A little girl named Mei Mei is brought to Taroko to attend her grandmother’s funeral when she’s swept away in a landslide and wakes up way down river. She’s alone in the woods like The Jungle Book, but instead of animals, she’s surrounded by ghosts of the past. In order for her to get back to her family, she is given the mission by the mountain god of Taroko called Gaya to lead all the trapped ghosts out.
Genre: Dark Fantasy

The Butter Street Hitchhiker (Short story)
Writer: Chris Hicks
Logline: Haunted by his past, a driver picks up a ghostly hitchhiker who will answer his deepest, darkest question if he drives him to his destination.
Genre: Horror

The Figure (Feature)
Writer: Michelle Hsu
Logline: In the male-dominated field of bio-tech, a female scientist aims to further her career by building a larger-than-life synthetic human being. Things do not go according to plan.
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi

The Witch Elm (Pilot)
Writer: William Gillies
Logline: After discovering a skeleton buried deep inside a wych elm tree, a West-Midlands family becomes plagued by an ancient, malevolent witch intent on tearing them apart through sickness and disease. Inspired by the real-life unsolved mystery of Bella in the Wych Elm in the UK.
Genre: Horror

Thin Blue Veins (Feature)
Writer: Josh Evans
Logline: Siblings fleeing their abusive father are caught in a game of supernatural cat-and-mouse when they attempt to seek shelter in the wrong “abandoned” home.
Genre: Horror/Thriller

Wilder Than Her (Feature)
Writer: Jessica Kozak
Logline: After the death of their friend Beth, three friends reconnect on an annual camping weekend, but things grow increasingly strange and uncomfortable in the isolated forest as their friendship unravels and they begin to question each other’s motives for the trip.
Genre: Horror/Thriller/Dark Comedy