Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP) today announced the 14th annual BloodList, which features the best unproduced horror and dark genre screenplays, highlighting Fresh Blood selections from new unrepresented voices.
In addition to highlighting the below 10 feature and pilot scripts, VRP and Brillstein have selected Sophia Baratti’s MY HOUSE for the ultimate prize of immediately moving forward with development, in accordance with their commitment to produce one Fresh Blood honoree per year. VRP’s Nic Gordon will supervise development of Baratti’s project.
Kailey Marsh, creator of the BloodList and literary manager and producer at Brillstein, 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.”
LITTLE INDIA, which VRP and Brillstein selected for production from among the 2020 Fresh Blood screenplays, continues to move forward, having recently attached MTV Movie Award winning directing duo, M.A.Y.O., comprised of Priya Sanghvi and Dan Scott Goldstein (DELFINA, BATHTUB) to direct. In 2021, VRP opted to develop two Fresh Blood entries — holiday slasher ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS and horror comedy ZERO FEET AWAY — and past BloodList entries that have made it to the screen include Darren Aronofsky’s Academy Award-winning BLACK SWAN, THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE, starring Brian Cox, THE SHALLOWS, starring Blake Lively, and Netflix’s BAFTA-winning HIS HOUSE.
This year’s lineup includes…
ALMA’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 Thriller
BLACK 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: Horror
THE 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 Horror
THE HORSE KILLERS
Writers: Ben Hurst, Josh FlanaganLogline: 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, Action
THE LOCK-IN
Writer: Maalik EvansLogline: 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 / Thriller
MY HOUSE
Writer: Sophia BarattiLogline: 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/Horror
THE 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/Thriller
SNATCHED (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-Fi
THE 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
This year’s Fresh Blood projects are all available to read via BloodList.com.
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