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‘Shut In’ Kicks Off Kailey Marsh’s 11th Annual ‘BloodList’!

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Artwork: Seth M. Sherwood

This morning Kailey Marsh’s (literary manager at Brillstein Entertainment partners and Executive Producer on Hulu’s “Light as a Feather”) BloodList celebrates its 11th anniversary with “BloodList XI”, a list of the most-liked screenplays & pilots in the horror, thriller, sci-fi and dark comedy genres and also the fourth annual #FreshBloodSelects. The selected screenplays & pilots are available to read here.

53 film & television executives at the Story Editor level and above voted on the this year’s BloodList. 25% of the scripts that have been featured on the annual BloodList have gone on to be produced (statistics via Studio 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 and We Summon the Darkness, both of which are currently doing the festival circuit. More produced films can be found here.

Visit BloodList.com for more information.


Title: SHUT IN
Writer: Melanie Toast
Genre: Thriller
Logline: A single mother must do everything she can to protect her children and survive when she is held captive by her violent ex, and her two young children are left at risk.
Status: Set up at New Line. Cinestate, Farah Films and Vertigo Entertainment are producing.

Title: APEX
Writer: Stephen Vitale
Genre: Psychological Thriller/ Horror
Logline: A mysterious loner heads to Muscle Beach in 1985 to pursue a career as a competitive bodybuilder. Struggling to transform his physique, he unleashes a darker side of himself as he descends into madness.
Status: Stephen Vitale is attached to direct. Keep Your Head Productions, Free Will and Wild Bunch are producing.

Title: DEEP WATER
Writer: Tracee Beebe
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Logline: Trapped on a sinking boat in shark infested waters, two young women must work together to survive a threat worse than the predators lurking beneath the waves…
Status: Vincent Newman Entertainment and Joe Russo are producing.

Title: THE TRAVELER
Writer: Austin Everett
Genre: Sci-Fi
Logline: At the same time every morning, Scott Treder has started jumping forward in time. First a day, then two, four, eight, etc. He struggles to keep his family together and find a cure, all as his secret spreads throughout the world.
Status: Set up at MGM.

Title: DON’T WORRY DARLING
Writers: Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Logline: A psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath.
Status: Set up at New Line. Olivia Wilde attached to direct and star. Vertigo Entertainment, Olivia Wilde & Katie Silberman are producing.

Title: 10/31
Writers: Based on a story by Laurie Ashbourne, Screen Story by Kathy Charles, Screenplay by Ian Shorr and Peter Gamble.
Genre: Horror
Logline: The story follows a young woman who takes her niece and nephew trick or treating and discovers a note inside a candy wrapper that says there’s a killer loose on her block.
Status: Set up at Orion. Arts District Entertainment and Bellevue Productions are producing.

Title: FIRST HARVEST
Writer: Kevin McMullin
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Logline: A goat farmer discovers a newborn baby among the bodies of a cult’s mass suicide. In nurturing the baby, the farmer’s cancer-ridden wife starts getting better. But there’s something dark about the child’s power.
Status: Available. Kevin McMullin is attached to direct.

Title: DETOX
Writers: Kevin Armento & Jaki Bradley
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Logline:When an overstressed young woman joins her best friend at a wellness retreat in the Arizona desert, she begins to suspect that the revitalizing spa treatments, serums, and macrobiotic meals are part of something closer to a dangerous cult, run by the retreat’s charismatic leader.
Status: Divide/Conquer and XYZ Films are producing.

Title: NO GOOD DEED
Writer: Christina Pamies
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Logline: A woman with a troubled past takes in her moody teenage niece to live in the family’s isolated farmhouse but the two are soon tempted and tormented by a sinister creature that can take their pain away for a price.
Status: Available.

Title: SCARS
Writer: Marco Mannone
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Logline: SCARS is a contemporary horror story about an engineer who moves her family to Detroit for a dream job at a major auto plant only to find herself in the middle of a company-wide cover up, which has summoned a vicious demon to destroy the souls of those responsible.
Status: Matt Baer Films is producing.


FRESH BLOOD: The 4th Annual Fresh Blood Selects are below. These 10 scripts were discovered out of the 513 projects that were sent in through the free submission system this year. The screenplays & pilots are available to read and watch on BloodList.com

Title: BARBARIC (Pilot)
Writer: Jason Cho
Genre: Horror
Logline: Radical environmentalists, cattle ranchers, and backwoods homesteaders come to violent clash over their differing ideologies on morality and humanity. An alternate history period piece taking place in a new, but old America.

Title: FIND WHAT YOU LOVE AND LET IT KILL YOU (Short)
Writer: Alessandro Pulisci
Genre: Horror
Logline: Trying to distract herself from work, a young woman’s obsession with a video game turns deadly.

Title: INCUBUS (Pilot)
Writer: Regina Kim
Genre: Psychological Horror
Logline: After causing a near-fatal aviation disaster, insomniac air traffic controller Camille Park seeks help from famed neuroscientist Kenji Kamitani to better understand her sleep paralysis. But when Kenji puts her on a Phase 0 clinical trial, this experimental manipulation of her amygdala brings about a terror she’s never known before: a bloodthirsty incubus.

Title: MORGAN AND THE EVIL (Pilot)
Writer: Skye Tenorio
Genre: Dark Comedy
Logline: Morgan Ramos is just your typical teenage girl juggling school, friends, love, and parental problems. Oh yeah, and she just found out she’s destined to unleash hell on earth.

Title: PREY (Short Film)
Writer/Director: Bill Whirity
Genre: Horror
Logline: While on a first date, a young couple finds themselves being pursued by more than just each other.

Title: SECOND ACT LIBRARY (Feature)
Writer: Kimberley Elizabeth
Genre: Dark Comedy
Logline: Six different horror movies. Six unique survivors. All looking for answers… at the same time.

Title: SYNDROME (Pilot)
Writer: Monica Lee
Genre: Horror
Logline: Helen (a 21st century Scully) is an expat American Neuroscientist pursuing research in Mexico City, who draws two men into her orbit of science and self-experimentation at their peril.

Title: THE APOLOGY (Feature)
Writer: Alison Star Locke
Genre: Horror
Logline: A retired schoolteacher spent 30 years searching for her missing daughter, only to learn a horrible truth that may cost her everything one dark Christmas Eve with the return of an old friend.

Title: THE NIGHT FREQUENCY: “A CHARMING LITTLE HOLE IN THE WALL”(Pilot)
Writer: Wes Black
Genre: Horror
Logline: Small town losers Harold Perkle and Chester Robbins stumble upon a hole in the basement of their failing diner. One that grants all those who gaze inside the rarest of gifts: joy. But when the hole unleashes a new brand of gift—a virulent disease of the mind— the town is soon looking to Harold and Chester for a cure.

Title: THIS BEDROOM IS DEAD (Short)
Writer: Karl Gan
Genre: Dark Comedy
Logline: A good wife in a troubled marriage fights against both her dead bedroom and the start of the apocalypse.

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Get the Hell Out of the House’ – Makers of ‘Mixtape Massacre’ Announce Christmas Horror Game

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From the mind that brought you the slasher board game Mixtape Massacre and the aquatic horror game Float comes Get the Hell Out of the House, a brand new gameplay experience.

A mysterious package has arrived at the Bloody Disgusting offices this week announcing the upcoming tabletop horror game, which looks to have a Christmas Horror theme.

The board game is set in Springbrook Falls on Christmas Eve…

“Steve Collins has organized a party for the kids and staff of Ruthie’s House; something to remind them all that this is home for them as long as they want it to be. But just as the celebrations begin, there is a ring at the door. As Steve goes to open it, he has no idea the nightmare that is about to walk in.

“Protect your friends and family as Jeffrey Tombs comes home for the holidays. Uncover the secrets of the Tombs’ estate as you fight back, rescue your loved ones, and most importantly…

“GET THE HELL OUT OF THE HOUSE.”

The holiday horror-themed tabletop game is launching on Kickstarter Q3 2024. Stay tuned. In the meantime, be sure to follow the game’s official account on Twitter/X for updates.

And check out the teaser package we received below…

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