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Hi all — Barry Miller, WGAE Registered #I347110, Phillipsburg NJ — Stage32 Logline Rated 5.0/5 (3 ratings).
Introducing STEVEN — 100p contained 1975 horror.
LOGLINE: John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN meets THE OMEN and CARRIE — On Halloween night, 1975, a silent 6-year-old boy, cursed at birth in a hospital, sets his entire world ablaze.
WHERE IT STANDS: Locked one-pager v11 matches public FilmFreeway synopsis. 100-page script offline for qualified review only (not public). Festival circuit.
AWARDS — 13x for STEVEN in 2021:
• Best Horror Script — Gold Star Movie Awards (Newark, NJ)
• Best Feature Script / Screenplay — Gona Film Awards — WINNER
• Best First-Time Scriptwriter — Horror Bowl — WINNER
• Best Debut Script Writer — Red Dragon Creative Awards (Dallas)
• Best Plot — Adbhooture Film Festival
• Best Villain / Award Winner — Frights! Camera! Action! UK
• Award Winner — World Film Carnival Singapore + Virgin Spring Cinefest
• Quarter Finalist — The Script Showcase (Best 1st Time Writer Feature)
• Selected — Venice Shorts, New York Independent Cinema Awards, Montreal Independent, Horrors4You London
Full list in one-pager.
TEASE (public only):
Oct 15, 1968 — Scott Hask delivers his own son in backseat. Same night, deranged woman steals newborn Steven from nursery, chants in strange tongues — eyes flash solid black — curses him. Hospital covers it up.
1975 — Steven is 6, silent, odd, obsessed with fire. Mom was 3 months sober at birth, now drinking. Dad's plant closing. Sister embarrassed. Baby Heather screams near him. Bullied as "Creepy." Matches disappear. Learns fire step by step — movie → bird → haunted house at County Fair → County Fair fire that shouldn't have happened.
Halloween Night 1975 — hasn't hurt anyone yet that day — until a car crash. That crash is the trigger. That night's payback is family-focused. All practical fire — matches/fuel, no powers.
TONE/BUDGET: Slow-burn 1970s small-town horror. Contained (small town + hospital), $100K-$1M range. Practical fire only.
WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR: Producer, financing, or sales/distribution conversation for contained practical horror.
Attached: One-Pager v11 with full awards + 13x Award Winner banner.
— Barry
Introducing STEVEN — 100p contained 1975 horror.
LOGLINE: John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN meets THE OMEN and CARRIE — On Halloween night, 1975, a silent 6-year-old boy, cursed at birth in a hospital, sets his entire world ablaze.
WHERE IT STANDS: Locked one-pager v11 matches public FilmFreeway synopsis. 100-page script offline for qualified review only (not public). Festival circuit.
AWARDS — 13x for STEVEN in 2021:
• Best Horror Script — Gold Star Movie Awards (Newark, NJ)
• Best Feature Script / Screenplay — Gona Film Awards — WINNER
• Best First-Time Scriptwriter — Horror Bowl — WINNER
• Best Debut Script Writer — Red Dragon Creative Awards (Dallas)
• Best Plot — Adbhooture Film Festival
• Best Villain / Award Winner — Frights! Camera! Action! UK
• Award Winner — World Film Carnival Singapore + Virgin Spring Cinefest
• Quarter Finalist — The Script Showcase (Best 1st Time Writer Feature)
• Selected — Venice Shorts, New York Independent Cinema Awards, Montreal Independent, Horrors4You London
Full list in one-pager.
TEASE (public only):
Oct 15, 1968 — Scott Hask delivers his own son in backseat. Same night, deranged woman steals newborn Steven from nursery, chants in strange tongues — eyes flash solid black — curses him. Hospital covers it up.
1975 — Steven is 6, silent, odd, obsessed with fire. Mom was 3 months sober at birth, now drinking. Dad's plant closing. Sister embarrassed. Baby Heather screams near him. Bullied as "Creepy." Matches disappear. Learns fire step by step — movie → bird → haunted house at County Fair → County Fair fire that shouldn't have happened.
Halloween Night 1975 — hasn't hurt anyone yet that day — until a car crash. That crash is the trigger. That night's payback is family-focused. All practical fire — matches/fuel, no powers.
TONE/BUDGET: Slow-burn 1970s small-town horror. Contained (small town + hospital), $100K-$1M range. Practical fire only.
WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR: Producer, financing, or sales/distribution conversation for contained practical horror.
Attached: One-Pager v11 with full awards + 13x Award Winner banner.
— Barry
