The Blood List 2013
Via Deadline:
Franklin Leonard’s Black List has become a buzzy barometer for promising screenplays, but here’s a genre-centric version of the script service suited for the spooky season. The Blood List names the 13 best unproduced horror, thriller, and sci-fi scripts of the October-to-October calendar year as voted on by more than 100 film execs. This year’s #1 pick: Ink and Bone, Zak Olkewicz’s horror spec about a writer held hostage by his own creations that Dimension snapped up earlier this year. Independent manager Kailey Marsh runs the annual Blood List, which has no affiliation with the more mainstream-leaning Black List but in its fifth year is turning out more and more high-profile alums. 2012 Blood List topper The Disciple Program landed at Universal with Mark Wahlberg attached to star for Morten Tyldum, while Barbara Curry’s 2011 selection The Boy Next Door is in production under the Blumhouse banner with Jennifer Lopez starring.
The list:
Ink and Bone
Writer: Zak Olkewicz
Logline: When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds that all of his creations are holding him hostage.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Writer: Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing
Logline: A father/son mortician team try to uncover the cause of death on a Jane Doe. But the more they uncover, the more mysterious and terrifying their world becomes.
Patrol
Writer: Jayson Rothwell
Logline: A group of Marines, embedded in South Asia, embark on a patrol of a remote island in search of drug runners. What they end up finding is something much more deadly and demonic than they ever could imagine.
There Are Monsters
Writer: Bryan Bertino
Logline: A mother and daughter find themselves stranded in the middle of the night on an abandoned road. Deep in the surrounding woods a nightmarish terror stalks them, and they must find the courage to face the beast or be destroyed by it.
Patient Z
Writer: Mike Le
Logline: In a post-apocalyptic world, a man with the ability to speak the language of the undead interrogates zombies with the hope of finding Patient Zero and a cure for his infected wife.
Family Vacation
Writer: Eric Reese
Logline: A family embarks on a cross-country road trip, but the vacation takes a horrifying turn when they are hunted by a group of drifters.
Somacell
Writer: Ashleigh Powell
Logline: A female prison worker in the near future discovers that the virtual reality process that rehabilitates convicts is not all it promises to be.
For my exclusive interview with Ashleigh Powell, go here.
On Your Doorstep
Writer: Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman
Logline: When a young journalist suspects that an abducted girl is being held somewhere in her own neighborhood, she decides to delve into the secret lives of her neighbors to determine which one is capable of the horrific crime.
Momska
Writer: Simon Rumley
Logline: A teenage girl thinks her mother is trying to take over her life, but discovers the truth is much more sinister.
All The Good Ones Get Away
Writer: Elliott San
Logline: A weekend get-away for two lovers turns into a nightmare of torture and psychological mind games.
Capsule
Writer: Ian Shorr
Logline: A young man mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self.
Limerence
Writer: Richard Hobley
Logline: Feeling ignored by her husband and child, a self-harming, sexually repressed teacher falls into a dangerous relationship with an obsessive new student.
Revelations (fka Lord of Light)
Writer: Hernany Perla
Logline: A prison psychiatrist meets a death row inmate on the verge of his execution who claims to be the only thing stopping the end of the world. As she begins to investigate his predictions, she finds them to be eerily accurate, and that she may be a central figure in the events to come.
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