Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP) have announced the 14th annual BloodList! The list features the best unproduced horror and dark genre screenplays, highlighting Fresh Blood selections from new unrepresented voices. VRP and Brillstein have selected Sophia Baratti’s My House for the ultimate prize of immediately moving forward with development. The program is committed to producing on Fresh Blood honoree per year, VRP’s Nic Gordon, and BEP’s Kailey Marsh will supervise the development of Baratti’s My House.
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Creator of the BloodList and literary manager and producer at Brillstein, Kailey Marsh said, “The quality of this year’s list absolutely blows me away. We’re so incredibly happy and proud to elevate a new generation of horror voices using the BloodList platform.”
Jillian Apfelbaum and Tristen Tuckfield, EVPs of Feature Film at Village Roadshow, added, “The BloodList is exceptionally valuable for its ability to spotlight scripts from outside the traditional Hollywood ecosystem. Each of this year’s selections is excellent and deserving of the attention and accolades that will inevitably follow. We’re especially thrilled to collaborate with Sophia and her film MY HOUSE.”
MTV Movie Award-winning directing duo, M.A.Y.O., comprised of Priya Sanghvi and Dan Scott Goldstein (Delfina, Bathtub) is currently in the process of directing 2020 Fresh Blood winner, Little India. . In 2021, VRP opted to develop two Fresh Blood entries — holiday slasher On The First Day Of Christmas and horror comedy Zero Feet Away. Past BloodList entries that have made it to the screen included Dan Erickson’s Severance , Darren Aronofsky’s Academy Award-winning Black Swan, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe, The Shallows, and Netflix’s BAFTA-winning His House.
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This year’s Fresh Blood projects, listed alphabetically below, are available to read via BloodList.com:
THE ALLERDALE BUS TRAGEDY
Writer: Taylor Foreman-Niko
Logline: After the death of her estranged mother, Grace Sutter returns to her hometown of Allerdale, infamous for a horrific bus crash that killed over 40 people. When Grace discovers a link between a decades-old disappearance and the crash, she investigates, with devastatingly personal results.
Genre: HorrorALMA’S GRAVE
Writer: Lizz Marshall
Logline: After killing his pregnant mistress, a man is tormented into insanity as he’s trapped in a cabin with her antagonistic spirit.
Genre: Horror/Psychological ThrillerBLACK BOOK (Pilot)
Writer: Cory Marciel
Logline: A FBI agent with a tragic past and an adventurer from the family who created it must band together to track down the missing pages of a cursed book, hoping to destroy it before it destroys the world.
Genre: HorrorTHE HARVEST (Pilot)
Writer: Caroline Glenn
Logline: In a town kept alive in the wake of a global climate disaster by devout adherence to a yearly harvest ritual, a young woman with a devastating secret must fight off the dangerous accusations of her community as it threatens to collapse into chaos.
Genre: Folk HorrorTHE HORSE KILLERS
Writers: Ben Hurst, Josh Flanagan
Logline: In the dying days of the Pony Express, a family is besieged at their remote Wyoming outpost by a pack of feral, frontier marauders unlike anything the west has known.
Genres: Thriller, Western, Horror, ActionTHE LOCK-IN
Writer: Maalik Evans
Logline: Four years after narrowly surviving a violent encounter, a troubled teenager attempts to move on with his life, but a terrorizing figure from his past resurfaces at a high school event.
Genre: Horror / ThrillerMY HOUSE
Writer: Sophia Baratti
Logline: A delinquent teenager is forced into a game of cat and mouse at a party after accidentally stumbling across his classmate’s murdered family. Inspired by a true crime.
Genre: Crime/Thriller/HorrorTHE ONES WHO STAY
Writer: Jef Burnham
Logline: A stifled small town woman searches for her long-missing daughter who she suspects was taken by a creature of local legend.
Genre: Horror/ThrillerSNATCHED (Pilot)
Writer: Ava Anderson
Logline: A teenage girl and a parasitic alien living inside her head must work together to stop an evil invasion of body snatchers while navigating the hardships of high school, loss, acceptance, and growing up.
Genre: Horror Comedy / Sci-FiTHE WOOD IN THE WINDOW (Short story)
Writer: Charlene Clarke-Todoruk
Logline: The wood in the window won’t be enough this time. It never was.
Genre: Horror
