It's almost midnight when a lost trick or treater rings the bell of the Clark residence. What their doorbell camera reveals makes them think twice about helping the frantic child.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
9pp
Genre:
Horror, Sci-Fi
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Copyright Details:
WGA Registered
Synopsis/Details
The entire script is filmed through the perspective of a doorbell security camera. At 11:15 on Halloween, an 8-year-old girl rings the bell of the Clark family and asks for help. She has lost her mother. When Alan Clark goes on his porch to help her, the girl is gone. A call placed to the Police Department goes straight to a voicemail, which states that all officers are dead or dying and cannot help. The couple dismisses these events as a Halloween prank, but then the girl's mother shows up...and the night truly goes off the rails. Sometimes what appears on a screen cannot be trusted. Four actors. Can be produced cheaply. An impactful short horror script.

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Submitted: 2024-Jan-06
Last Updated: 2024-Jan-06
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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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