Below you will find a selection of feature scripts that are currently available for purchase or option. If you wish to read one of the scripts, you will need to complete an NDA. There are several short scripts also available for development and can be optioned for free. For further information or a copy of the scripts please GET IN TOUCH.
FEATURE SCRIPTS
BETWEEN THE WALLS
GENRE: Comedy/Horror Feature
LENGTH: 83 minutes
STYLE: Toolbox Murder (2004) meets Carry On Screaming (1966)
SYNOPSIS: The Park Hotel, Morecambe, England. An abandoned and historic building with a genuinely dark past is the basis of our story. Mystery has surrounded it for almost 200 years, and now it lies abandoned. A local businessman decides to breathe life into the building. He reopens it as an apartment block. But, questions must be asked when some of its new occupants disappear. The Park takes on a life of its own, and some disturbing discoveries are made. Trapped, the remaining tenants must fight for their lives.
THE KAMENKA EXPERIMENT
GENRE: Horror Feature – 90 minutes
STYLE: Das Experiment (2001) meets Hunger (2005)
LOGLINE: Who knows what doors are unlocked when you’re trapped without sleep.
SYNOPSIS: The Defence News USA stated: US Special Operations Command is developing performance-enhancing drugs. The aim is to push the abilities and endurance of its military forces. PharmoTech is at the cutting edge of developing enhancement drugs for the military. They have developed a new wonder drug – Kamenka 194, which is ready for its final test. The aim is to create a better, strong, faster and aggressive soldier. Five soldiers are chosen to take part in the experiment. The experiment takes place deep underground in a post-war nuclear bunker. Locked in a chamber for 21 days, all the soldiers have to do is survive their time there. If ever revealed, what happens to them during confinement will shock the world.
Also available through SCRIPT REVOLUTION
WINDSCREEN (Windshield)
GENRE: Black Comedy/Crime Drama
STYLE: Shallow Graves (1994) meets Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
LOGLINE: It’s the middle of the night and Charlene has just committed a hit-and-run… She might have gotten away with had her victim not come home with her!
SYNOPSIS: Jack has lost everything through extreme depression. Now he’s on a slow journey to drink himself to death. On a late Friday night, Nurse Charlene drives home across the moors drunk and high on drugs. Losing concentration, she fails to see Jack walk into the road and smashes into him. He crashes through her WINDSCREEN and becomes stuck. She is terrified at the thought of being found out. Unable to pull him out, she believes him to be dead! Left with no choice, Charlene drives home. But to her surprise and horror, she finds him very much alive and living in her garage. Added into the mix is a mistress, a nosy neighbour, an errant boyfriend and betrayal. The question is: Who will pay the ultimate pay the price of their sins?
Also available through SCRIPT REVOLUTION
THE DEVIL FINDS WORK
GENRE: Crime/Thriller
SCRIPT: Anthony Straeger
BOOK AUTHOR: Ian McKnight
Commission: Script Adaption from Book
OUTLINE: Having survived the Bradford terrorist attack, Bryony Peters transfers to CID. Her first case is that of a young woman found dead from an overdose of cocaine. Further investigation opens Pandora’s box that starts with Joy-riders and small-time drug dealers and moves through corruption, murder and arson. A house of cards stands before her, and with few people in the Division to trust, Peters sets out on a journey that she hopes will expose the leader of an International Drugs Operation.
The commission was to develop the first draft for a first read-through with a cast of selected actors, the script is available along with an outline proposal.
STAN
GENRE: Psychological Horror
STYLE: The Machinist (2004) meets Fight Club (1999)
LOGLINE: Take the life of a loser, a pinch of Schizophrenia, a Box Cutter Knife with a mind of its own, and you have a receipt for disaster… Psychologically – It’s a bit of a carve up!
SYNOPSIS: STAN is one of life’s great losers. He suffers from low self-esteem has fumbled his way through life. Karen, his long-term girlfriend, is feeling the strain of propping him up. Life seems to be conspiring against him. STAN gets a calling – But is it from within, or is it real? Stanley is a box cutter with a mission, and he calls STAN to a meeting in a DIY store. Once the connection is made, it seals the fate of both STAN and his victims. Wrestling with conscience and psychosis, he’s driven down a road of murder, madness and mayhem.
SURVIVING THE MAZE
GENRE: Horror
STYLE: REC (2007) meets My Little Eye (2002)
LOGLINE: 1 game show, 6 contestants, 24 hours to play and £250,000 to the winner… It’s dead easy!
SYNOPSIS: SURVIVING THE MAZE is an Internet reality Game Show. The aim is to test your fears and phobias in isolation & darkness. It takes place where contestants can compete to win £250,000. The catch is simple – Survive 24 hours against the Pharmotech walking dead or die! Only the wealthiest and sickest people on the planet can watch the game. The program is nothing more than a highly covert snuff site. Six contestants have gone through what appears to be a legitimate casting process. What seems like a good idea and fun to begin with turns into a horrible nightmare. Under 24-hour surveillance and with endless murderous possibilities, it’s game on! Who will win the cash prize? But as they die one by one, the game is on, but not for money – But survival!
SURVIVING THE MAZE is a sequel to THE KAMENKA EXPERIMENT and part of a trilogy concluding in BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW… DEAD!
DOCUMENTARY
THE WILHELM BUSCH STORY
GENRE: History/Arts/Animation/Education Documentary | 90 minutes
AVAILABLE: Proposal – Treatment – Top-sheet Budget
Written & Directed by Anthony Straeger
OUTLINE: One of Germany’s most famous artists and poets remains unknown to the rest of the world. His legacy as the Godfather of the modern cartoon and his outspoken nature makes him a compelling and original subject for a landmark English language documentary.
- Wilhelm Busch is one of Germany best known and most loved artists and poets
- His most famous work Max and Moritz (1837) (sold 430,000 copies over 56 editions by 2008)
- By 1997 Max and Moritz had been translated into 281 Languages and Dialects
There has never been an English Language documentary about this man and his phenomenal body of work. The objective is to create the first documentary on his life and works, and secondly to create a new animation of Max and Moritz (his most famous Bilderposse) using the original artwork.
SHORT FILM SCRIPTS
RETRIBUTION
LENGTH: 7 pages
BAD BUNNY
GENRE: Comedy Short
LENGTH: 11 pages
CAST: Three Hander
SYNOPSIS: Benny’s a Bad Bunny who sells drugs to children. But that’s not why he’s in trouble. Vinnie the Viper is his boss and as mean and ugly as it gets! Maria the Minx is Vinnie’s wife. And Benny has made the cardinal mistake…
The question is… will he survive his ordeal.
Also available through SCRIPT REVOLUTION
DEAR MR. FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR,
GENRE: Comedy Horror Short
LENGTH: 5 pages
CAST: 2
SYNOPSIS: AN AMAZING INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER unable to take the rejection of his films any more seeks revenge on MR. FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR. (A cautionary tale)
Also available through SCRIPT REVOLUTION
BETRAYED
GENRE: Crime Drama Short
LENGTH: 7 pages
CAST: 3
SYNOPSIS: Some men love to play a game of infidelity. But you can’t play a winning hand forever. Trapped between his wife and a mistress, Michael finds the hand stacked against him as the truth is revealed.
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