A nine-year-old boy tries to outwit the visitor who scratches at his window screen in the middle of the night.
Type:
Short
Status:
Sold
Page Count:
6pp
Genre:
Horror
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details

This script was formerly titled "Windows Wicked."

Eddie Quinn is up past his bed time, when someone or something starts scratching on his window screen. Things are about to become very uneasy.

This screenplay is old school horror--more suspense than blood and guts.

It would look and sound great on film. A filmmaker's delight.

All Accolades & Coverage

These awards were won in the version of this script that was titled "Windows Wicked."
First Place - Poe Halloween Contest 2017. Cash prize winner.
First Place - Short Script - Lowlight Pictures International Screenplay Competition - 2017. Cash prize winner.
Second Place - Short Script - Poe Contest Finals - 2018
Top Ten in Talentville Short Script Listings -2017
Official Selection - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival - 2017

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Submitted: 2017-Jul-19
Last Updated: 2020-Dec-16
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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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