1. THE MANSION
Author - Marlene Sosebee
Genre - Supernatural Murder Mystery/Suspense
Length - Feature

Logline/Synopsis - After meeting a mysterious woman in the park, Linda has an accident while leaving and is transported back 80 years to witness her own murder, over and over.

2. MOTIVATED TO MURDER
Author - Doug Herman
Genre - Suspense/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - Discovering that her subliminal recordings are killing her clients, people around her are dying violently, and her ex-boyfriend and previous bodyguard is stalking her, Katie Richards, a determined motivational speaker who is about to go big, teaming up with an eccentric detective who likes Fen Shui and gets his best lines from old movies... fights to stay alive.

Synopsis - Katie, a rising motivational speaker, assisted by Gwen, is receiving menacing e-mails when she breaks up with her jealous boyfriend and security guard, Brent, who threatens her. Several of her customers who hear her CD commit suicide. She assists detective Gilford, revealing that the CD subliminal recordings have been altered. Katie's workshop, where she spots Brent, is sabotaged. She and Gilford discover her apartment trashed. A longtime friend she runs into is murdered, and, due to incriminating evidence, Katie is arrested. With the help of Gilford's friend and high-tech wiz, Daz, she convinces Gilford and the law of her innocence. Daz is murdered. Katie and Gilford discover slashed photographs of her in Brent's abandoned apartment. At Katie's taped show at a civic auditorium, a trap is laid for Brent, who appears and is arrested. Katie is kidnapped and imprisoned in the auditorium by Gwen, who has made herself up to resemble her, and plays a deadly cat and mouse game with Katie until Gilford figures out who the real killer is and arrives in time to assist Katie to fend off Gwen, which allows Katie to eventually shoot her dead.

3. BLINDSTITCH
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Action/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - They say that love is blind and can kill. Unfortunately for Mandy, both of those are true.

Synopsis - He abducts young women to his isolated mountain cabin and stitches their eyes shut. He wants what everyone wants: that special someone who can look beyond his disfigured face, and see the person inside. He wants love, and this crazy man who only calls himself Joseph will kill until he finds it.

4. CHAOS THEORY (Wake Me When I'm Dead)
Author - Cynthia Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Action/Fantasy/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - "...It is said that when ONE finally evolves beyond the grasp of the Chaos Theory of the Universe, it will be as if the ONE comprehends the Mind of God...And to know the Mind of God is to be...godlike."

Synopsis - Sixteen years after her daughter Krissie's death, we find Lea remarried with three more daughters. Her depression takes it's toll and Lea undergoes an agressive therapy treatment called Process Healing, thrusting her into a Dream State of consciousness through a portal to a Parallel Universe, where Lea finds herself heading up an Elite Force known as the Guardians of the Universe who exist in a near perfect society built around the SEVEN ELEMENTS. And of these seven protected elements, we find LADY KRISTEN.

For Lea, these dreams take her far beyond the bounds of Surrealistic Fantasy as Chaos engulfs the Parallel. Draima, the Evil behind the Mutiny to unleash the Universal Chaos using Lady Kristen as the ultimate sacrifice, forces Lea to stand on the brink of her own Divinity by posing one question...Is Lea the Dream Maker, or is Lea herself a mere Ecliptic Echo; a Dream in a Realm of someone else's Reality, brought to Life to help Krissie save the Universe.

5. HUNTER'S MOON
Author - Christina Hamlett
Genre - Horror/Thriller
Length - Feature

Synopsis - Since the 16th century, the Russians have had a secret weapon, an elite military brigade which strikes terror in the hearts of its enemies each time the moon is full. As the modern war in the Middle East continues to draw world criticism, American intelligence officer Lucy MacDonald and her aide, Captain David Armstrong, are sent to Moscow to engage Soviet assistance in wresting nuclear weapons from Islamic fundamentalists. Lucy's forbidden attraction to Dmitri Volkov, charismatic leader of the Tsar's brigade, challenges her modern sensibilities against a backdrop of double-dealing terrorists, chauvinistic superiors, and a media that's literally out for blood. Compounding the unexplained presence of supernatural forces interfering with Allied maneuvers at the Pakistan borders is the legend that the brigade answers only to the man they recognize as their Tsar. Lucy's endeavors to uncover the truth regarding the 1918 survival -and subsequent birth-of an unacknowledged Romanov heir put her in jeopardy at the hands-or is it paws?-of the brooding officer with whom she feels an inexplicable bond.

6. CARJACK
Author - Cynthia Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Drama/Action/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - You should never leave your kids alone in a car. But if you do, make sure you never take your eyes off of them... especially while following your carjacker for almost 1000 miles at 90 miles an hour.

Synopsis - KATE JOHNSON is an overprotective mother of two very sprite daughters, one of which just boosted a CD from a store. It’s pouring down rain. She hesitantly locks the girls inside the van and runs the CD back into the store. When she returns, the girls unlock the door, only to find an escaped felon forcing his way into the van. When Kate comes to, her worst nightmares are realized as she watches the felon driving away with her daughters. But you better believe she’ll never leave let them leave her sight.

What Kate doesn’t know is that there is a history that ties her, the Carjacker/Kidnapper, the News Reporter, the FBI Agent Stokes, her husband, and her husbands’ mistress all together and must rely on her rebellious daughter to help her stop the Carjacking kidnapper before history has a chance to repeat itself.

7. SCARED TO DEATH
Author - Deb Havener
Genre - Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - A stranger with blood lust abducts his last two victims for a joyride - a middle-aged woman who suffers from conflicting disorders of a false sense of security and a fear of dying, and the high school's worst baseball player.

Synopsis - Having fled their city home where violence and crime abound, Meg and Tom Strader rejoice in the simpler pleasures of their new country lifestyle - an apple picked fresh off a tree, the rain on their slate roof, uninhibited sex in front of a picture window where no one else can see or hear them. But a strange man named Kevin is watching ... and waiting. Meg is next in line in Kevin's long series of abductions. He unwittingly picks up another victim in an attempt to cover his tracks -- seventeen-year old Harlan, the worst baseball player in high school and who is beside himself with fear.

While the local police pull a Barney Fife and sing songs about hot, steaming java to stay awake, the trio waxes philosophical along their terrifying journey that ends in a dark and grisly twist.

8. WOUNDED
Author - Ed Tasca
Genre - Mystery/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - Mute, in a dialogue-free cinematic narrative, battles with wild bear for son's body.

Synopsis - A mute and his son are fishing when the son turns on the father and tries to kill him. But the son is the one who is seriously wounded in the scuffle. When the father goes back to camp for a blanket and aid, a bear drags off what it considers a hunter's treasure in the body of the dying son. The remainder of the movie is a fierce primal battle between the father and the bear for the son's body. During the conflict, the father has to figure out why his son attacked him. He finally pieces it all together and so does the viewer through the father's flashbacks. To create the sense of mute's world, the entire narrative, including the flashbacks, unfolds visually, with no dialogue.

9. PRISON OF THE MIND
Author - Jay Woelfel
Genre - Sci-Fi/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - The grinding wheels of technology and futuristic bureaucracy force Aaron Dunn out of a job and into the path of a sadistic serial killer (Dexter Beaumont) with extraordinary mental powers. Beaumont uses his powers to switch identities with Dunn and escape from prison. Dunn must escape himself...and stop Beaumont before he starts World War III.

Synopsis - Set in a bleak, not-too-distant future, government virus expert, Aaron Dunn becomes redundant, losing his job due to rapidly advancing computer technology. Unable to find work, Dunn is forced to accept a job as a prison guard brokered by a black market recruiter. It’s a strange job; his co-workers are of below-average intelligence, and his female shift partner, Sandy, suffers from dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Their entire job is to guard one prisoner, Dexter Beaumont. Everyone but Dunn is oblivious to the subtle magnetism of Beaumont.

Dunn learns that Beaumont is a vicious serial killer with the ability to control the minds of (intelligent) people. Dunn was recruited illegally, was not screened, and soon falls under Beaumont's control. He begins to have strange dreams. His confused mental state ultimately allows Beaumont to switch places with him and escape, killing two of the mentally inferior guards and injuring Sandy in the process. Dunn is interred for several weeks. The new guards don’t know he’s the wrong prisoner.

On the outside, Beaumont has assumed Dunn's life, using his powers to kill indiscriminately and to get his old job back, with a considerable raise and access to new computer technology. Beaumont's hatred of a civilization that imprisoned him for his mental gifts boosts his powers and his need to destroy on a massive level. He plans the war to end all wars.

Meanwhile, Dunn plans his escape from prison but has to improvise when he learns that the death penalty has been reinstated (Beaumont's doing) and he will soon be executed. Dunn tries to escape. In the havoc that ensues, Sandy realizes that Aaron has been wrongly imprisoned and helps him escape just as the police are arriving.

Dunn tracks down Beaumont, who is staying in his apartment, and a violent confrontation ensues. Just as it seems Beaumont is overpowering Dunn, Sandy shows up and saves him, killing Beaumont at the very last minute.

10. "PSI"
Author - Cynthia Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - How can you save what you cannot see?

Synopsis - DAVID CROSS, Lance "TINKER" Tobin and their team, known as the "Psi Hunters," taken from the greek letter meaning "Unknown", investigate what should've been a routine farmhouse haunting.

There is no question that what they encountered was not of THIS WORLD. Aliens, called AMMITS, are living amongst and enslaving some of the most brilliant minds of GHOSTS, with the help of our own government, in trade for technology, as they've been doing for thousands of years. They thrive on the Energy of Lost Souls to survive.

This young team find themselves in a race against time to solve some of Earth's Oldest Mysteries to help save not only the planet Earth, but those who have been protecting it for millions of years. They rely on the psychic abilities of GRACIE ELLIS, the "special" talents of 12 children, and join forces with leading Ghost Hunter, Troy Gates, to lead them all to Zion before the AMMITS get there first.

11. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
Author - Lis Anna
Genre - Drama/Action/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - A gritty, hard hitting tale of murder in a corrupt Texas town.

Synopsis - DALE JACOBS is a decent man with a checkered past. When he can't take the back hand of misfortune anymore he makes a call to his sister's old boyfriend, TIM, who says he'll help out. Driving for two days to Texas he arrives to find the ex-boyfriend more of a loser than he'd thought. Frustrated and broke Dale accepts a job as a bouncer at a topless bar so he doesn't have to live in his car again.

Befriended by a stripper, TIFFANY, Dale crashes on her sofa and puts together the pieces of a life for himself. Tiffany introduces him to SEBASTIAN who owns a computer software company. Dale and Sebastian hit it off and Sebastian offers him a job as a "courier". Knowing the job is shady, Dale accepts it anyway because of the high pay. Late at night, he transports duffel bags to a small boat out on the Gulf that are picked up by off duty cops.

When Tiffany moves in with Sebastian, Dale goes to stay in the extra bedroom. Late one night Dale accidentally bumps into Tim at a gas station. Tim and his friend CURTIS start hanging around Dale, threatening to harm Sebastian and Tiffany if Dale doesn't help rob them. When the pressure is high enough the situation spins out of control.

When Dale is arrested for the murder of Tiffany and Sebastian, he begs the police to find the surveillance tape from the house but it's missing. Now, he races against Death Row to make his attorney PRISCILLA MANNING believe his story and find the evidence that sets him free if it still exists.

12. BED BUGS
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Horror / Thriller / Action
Length - Feature

Logline - Nighty night, sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite...

Synopsis - A small Island becomes infected by mutated bugs, slowly eating away at the flesh of the islanders. The beautiful driven island doctor, Stephanie Baker, rushes to find a cure with her friend Amanda and her frustrated boyfriend Pete. They search for her eccentric father; Gus, who they believe has the answers to contain these bugs before they make their way off the island.

At the same time, the egotistical head of the CDC, Kirk Mason fights to regain control of a losing battle with the creatures in the now infected research lab.

13. DEMONS WITHIN
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Horror / Thriller / Action
Length - Feature

Logline - Deep in us all, there are demons. The trick is not to let them surface.

Synopsis - Overprotective mother, Celia Packard has almost driven her daughter, Diane Packard, over the edge with her religious talk and overbearing ways. Diane tries to escape her mother’s grasp, only to find out that there are other powers at work. Evil powers that haunt her mother’s past that are now catching up with them to threaten the future of their existence. The key to fighting the evil is in a city park that received its name from a woman who claimed to be a witch that hung herself in a hidden graveyard. Diane soon finds out what her mother really is and the evil forces that lay hiding within them.

14. OUTAGE
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Horror/Action/Supernatural Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - During a scheduled power outage between the hours of eleven at night till six in the morning, "IT" decided to come out and play.

Synopsis - In 1977, for five nights of blackouts, terror reigned at the River Street Apartments. A man was caught torturing a woman and was convicted for his acts as well as the disappearances of four other women in the complex.

Present day, some 28 years later, that man is released from prison on good behavior. At the same time, the River Street Apartments are scheduled for a power outage from eleven at night to six in the morning. Strange things start to happen within the apartments and some believe he has come back to kill again. Others think there are evil powers at work. There is a twist that will leave one woman in a state of shock, remembering back to a horrific time. Either way, the people at River Street Apartments are being hunted down and killed. It’s a fight to stay alive through the night and it all comes to a climatic end, just before sunrise, when the power is set to come back on.

15. FEROCIOUS
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Horror/Action/Thriller
Length - Feature

Logline - We all would like to get away and get some rest, but not this type. Rest in Peace.

Synopsis - Consumed with running his own business, Greg Putman has put his marriage in trouble and decides to rent a Bed and Breakfast for the weekend so he and his wife Allison, who is completely stressed out, can have some time together. Along for the trip is his business partner Frank Cross and his wife Barbara, good friends to Allison. What they stumble across is a house filled with horrific memories and an unforgiving evil that is locked behind a door, which, when it is unleashed, will let nothing stop it from its murderous rampage.

16. GORE HOUNDS
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Horror
Length - Feature

Logline - Even the most vicious dog has nothing on these puppies.

Synopsis - Halloween time and the biggest party of the school year is being thrown by two of the most popular girls in school, Brooke and Gail. Three friends who find themselves not invited because they aren't part of the "in" crowd find a way to crash the party and live out their fantasy to party with the popular people. Only the fantasy quickly become a nightmare as the party guests are literally taken apart one by one in bloody ways by a violent new breed of dog that is on the hunt. And this new breed has the worst craving any animal can have. They hunt and kill for the fun of it, not for survival. As the body count rises and bloodbath ensues, the five college students and a strange man must find a way out of this or become victims themselves.

17. DARK INTENT
Author - Jay Woelfel
Genre - Psychological Thriller, Supernatural
Length - Feature

Logline - Dark Intent examines the impact of survivor guilt and how it can be psychologically manipulated into the unspeakable.

When struggling ex-cop Steve Morton tries to silence raucous lovemaking in an upstairs apartment, he stumbles into what might actually be a murder. Seduced by Rachel, a hypnotically captivating woman, he becomes inextricably drawn into a labyrinth of lies, delusions and death. In the end, Morton must choose between becoming a victim or a murderer himself.

Synopsis - Dark Intent begins at night with a man videotaping a grisly murder scene on the railroad tracks. Finished, he flees to the apartment upstairs from Steve Morton, a recently widowed, “retired” police officer. Morton is a deeply troubled man, plagued with the belief he may have caused his wife’s death in an automobile accident.

He starts hearing the sounds of relentless, rowdy sex upstairs and when he goes to investigate, he meets Rachel, an incredibly seductive, mesmeric woman and her bizarre entourage, including the man from the railroad tracks.

When Morton finally stumbles on the true identity of the man upstairs, he fears for Rachel’s life and his cop instincts take over. As he delves into Rachel’s world, he becomes increasingly confused and under her spell. What is on the videotape and in the package in the woods? As the police make a crucial, horrible discovery, Steve starts to second-guess his already rattled assumptions and his nightmare intensifies.

Using a lethal combination of sex and paranormal manipulation, Rachel gets Steve to reveal his secret about the death of his wife. She preys on his instability, grooming him to become one of her deadly puppets. In the end, after Steve witnesses incalculable destruction forced by Rachel’s hand, he regains his inner strength and destroys her capabilities, dramatically ending the cycle of death.

As he buries a body in a fresh grave, Steve realizes his dark secret was not so horrible. He drives off, serene; he’s made peace with his past.

Dark Intent ends abruptly with an otherworldly reminder that Steve's brush with evil may reoccur, despite his inner absolution.

18. CATERED OBSESSION
Author - Sheri Tor
Genre - Drama/Thriller
Also Available in MOW Format

Logline – Running your own business is hard. Running it while having to deal with a stalker is next to impossible. Ellen's life is being turned upside-down by a maniac who is cunningly smart, emotionally unbalanced, and totally infatuated with her.

Synopsis – Ellen Patterson is a happy, attractive young woman who runs a small catering service. She has one employee, her best friend and confidant Monica Gleason, and a handful of loyal customers who keep her in business. Life couldn’t be better....until she acquires a personal stalker.

It starts out slowly - an act of vandalism here, a suspicious package there - but things soon escalate as the man’s infatuation grows. Suddenly there are nocturnal visits to her home and repeated break-ins at the shop where customers are being roughed up or, in one case, murdered outright. But for Ellen, the worst comes when Monica is abducted while trying to help her boss capture the perpetrator. A plan Ellen implemented even after the detective handling the case had expressly forbidden it for being far too dangerous.

As the story continues to unfold, Ellen’s antagonist becomes increasingly brazen. He eventually kidnaps her outright, forcing a showdown between himself and police as she looks for a way to escape and he tries to make sense of the confused signals his mentally unbalanced mind is sending.

19. GUILT
Author - Sheri Tor
Genre - Thriller/Drama
Also Available in MOW Format

Logline - It began as a game.........and ended up a web of terror.

Synopsis - Five people receive an invitation to a murder mystery weekend being held at an out of the way bed and breakfast. "You're our lucky winner!" the parchment reads. "Bring your brains and your wits to help us unravel a crime."

On arrival the group is met by the owners of the property, a nice enough couple with penchant for dated clothing, and given a set of instructions. A gruesome double homicide has been committed somewhere on the grounds and the guests have forty-eight hours to work together, find the clues, and discover the guilty party.

At first, it's a lark. But it isn't long before the group finds itself being drawn into a mental and emotional spiral as they begin to experience the sights, sounds, and feelings of the actual killings themselves. It's as if the walls could talk and were hell-bent on sharing their secrets. And the owners? Well, let's just say they're not exactly what they seem to be either...

20. 472
Author - Sheri Tor
Genre - Drama/Thriller
Also Available in MOW Format

Logline - It was designed to help........

Synopsis - Ormond Laboratories is one of the leading pharmaceutical manufactures in the world. Boasting top-name researchers and state-of-the-art equipment, Ormond's stock is rising yet again as the public eagerly awaits its new sleep medication.

Dr. Maria Henderson is in charge of Ormond's testing facility. She's witnessed the violent tendencies and spiraling psychological horrors of their human subjects first-hand. Yet for some reason her reports have a habit of disappearing and Henderson, in mandatory lockdown at the site, must find a way to alert the authorities before Ormond's money-hungry president packages 472 and lets it loose on an unsuspecting public.

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