David regrets playing catch with his dead father.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
6pp
Genre:
Horror, Sport
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details
David wakes up from a dream. He was throwing the baseball around with his dad. On a hunch, David goes out to the yard to see if his father is back from the grave. Their unusual game of catch takes a nightmarish turn. Seems like Dad has been working on his fastballs and curves. One actor. Bedroom and backyard locations. Easy to film as long as you use stuffed baseballs instead of real ones.

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Submitted: 2022-Jan-30
Last Updated: 2022-Jan-30
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The Writer: Rob Herzog

My chief talent isn’t writing, it’s being afraid. As a kid, I freaked out about spontaneous human combustion, killer bees, and the prospect of a bathtub shark attack. And the 3,600 miles between me and the Loch Ness Monster wasn’t nearly enough. All of this youthful anxiety runs wild in my screenplays. Blame the neighborhood weirdo kid for setting me on this path. When I was six, he predicted that our neighborhood would be attacked by window ghouls. These ghouls supposedly would claw into our rooms and devour us all. Only those blessed with large dogs would survive, he said, because window ghouls hated them. Two nights later, I imagined the ghouls at my window, clawing the screen. At this… Go to bio
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