The Halloween Short Film Festival

On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night.

Type:

Short

Status:

For sale

Page Count:

15pp

Genre:

Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Budget:

Shoestring

Age Rating:

13+

Copyright Details:

WGA # 2029980

All Accolades & Coverage

Finalist (3rd Place) - Script-Com Short 'N Scary Screenplay Contest - 2024

Story & Logistics

Story Conclusion:

Ambiguous

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Subgenre:

Action Suspense-Thriller, Anarchic, B-Movie, Black/Dark, Comedy, Comedy Thriller, Creature Feature, Drama, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Farce, Fish-out-water, Ghosts, Gore, Gothic, Gross-out, Halloween, Heroic Bloodshed, Horror, Horror Comedy, In Peril, Life Story, Lost World, Macabre, Man vs Nature, Mysteries, Other Dimension, Parody, Psychological, Quest, Satire, Sci-Fi Action, Sci-Fi Thriller, Science Fiction, Small-town Life, Social Commentary, Spoof, Supernatural, Survival, Suspense-Thriller, Teen/Youth, Teen Terror, Terror, Tragedy, Victim, Zombies

Equality & Diversity:

Female Centric

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Submitted: 2020-Mar-02

Last Updated: 2024-Nov-23

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The Writer: Jason K. Allen

Jason Allen is a writer and filmmaker from Nashville, TN. He is also a wilderness guide, nature photographer and award-winning journalist. His first produced screenplay was the 2009 feature comedy Lucky Fritz starring Corey Feldman and Julia Dietze. Since then he's won Best Screenplay honors at the Nashville Film Festival, San Diego Film Awards, Mountain of Laughs Comedy Fest, TSA Screenwriting Awards, and Artlightenment Film Festival, and is a seven-time finalist of the Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. His scripts have also been finalists in the ScreenCraft and ScriptVamp competitions. His writing credits include the award-winning short films You Destroy Me , American… Go to bio

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