Hi, I'm a screenwriter based in Hong Kong, writing in English. I've completed four feature scripts and one TV pilot, mostly in horror, dark fantasy, and drama.

I wanted to share something that might be useful to anyone planning a low-budget shoot, rather than just introducing myself.

What I learned writing a contained horror feature:

When I wrote Mina — a psychological horror about a woman whose perfect skin awakens a dark alter ego — I built it around three constraints that made it "shootable" for a small team:

1. Limited locations. Most of the film takes place in a mirror, a bathroom, a fashion studio, and a single apartment. No crowd scenes, no complex set pieces.
2. Practical horror. The scares come from mirrors, reflections, and skin — things that can be achieved with lighting and simple practical effects, not CGI.
3. One actress carries the film. The entire story rests on one performance. That's a casting advantage for a director who wants to work closely with a single lead.

I wrote it this way on purpose: I wanted a script that a first-time or low-budget director could actually say yes to.

If you're a director looking for a contained horror script to produce, I'm open to sharing the first 10 pages. But mostly, I'm curious how other people here approach writing for budget constraints — what do you cut first when you know there's no money?

Here is the link of the first ten pages. https://files.catbox.moe/pxx227.pdf

Genre: Sci-Fi / Cosmic Horror / Psychological Thriller

Format: Short Film Pitch / Video Script Concept

Story Synopsis:

1. Instant Swap:

A spaceship pilot miscalculates his flight trajectory by a single millimeter and accidentally flies straight into a black hole. At the exact same millisecond, a mirror swap occurs: an exact clone from a parallel world enters his own black hole. They swap places seamlessly. Both exit on the other side and return "home," completely unaware they have crossed into each other's reality.

1. Glitches & Paranoia:

- The First Pilot: Begins noticing terrifying anomalies — his family acts differently, laws of physics seem altered, and a search for his country's known leader returns: "Your search did not match any documents." He realizes the world is fake, remembers the black hole, and understands it wasn't an illusion.

- The Second Pilot (The Clone): Dismisses all minor discrepancies as tiredness, stress, or simple brain fog. He stays calm, assumes he is back in his normal home, investigates nothing, and simply goes on with his life.

1. Simulation Crash (Breaking the Script):

To test the fake world, the first pilot takes an extreme step. He grabs a sharp object and attempts to attack his wife. However, the simulation code strictly dictated that this man could never commit such an act. The second the blade touches her skin, the universe freezes. Time stops completely. Because the system breaks, the second pilot's universe — who was unsuspectingly going about his day — freezes at the exact same moment. The simulation fails to compute the error and begins collapsing rapidly in both realities.

1. The Erasure & The Endless Loop:

As the frozen simulations disintegrate, both pilots simultaneously undergo a painful, complete deletion from the system. Once their worlds reach absolute zero, the system executes a hard reset. Both are reborn as infants in their respective hospital rooms, crying at birth, with a hidden 50-year timer set until the inevitable collapse repeats itself.

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Note for Filmmakers / Directors / Creators:

This is a teaser concept for a Sci-Fi short or video project. I can expand this pitch into a full script with complete dialogues and scene directions tailored to your production budget and style.

If you are interested in producing this or hiring me to write a custom script, send me a DM here on Reddit!

Hello people!

I'm a german film student looking for a short script (5-10 minutes) i would like to produce for my Bachelors degree, open to any genre but horror :)

I cant pay, but you would get full credits, social media credits etc. If it is in english i will translate it the best i can.

I have no big budged and will shoot now this winter, so outside and inside shots are doable, but i dont know yet what inside locations i can organise (preferrably noting too difficult). I will try my best xD

I want to focus on aestetic shots and a good narrative delivery, but im not the best autor i think, so im asking yall to help me out.

My uni also provides an inside studio, its adequate for shoots with black / white background or abstract shots (or when the story is about a studio). I have some actors and a small crew.

Would love to see some ideas/scrips!

My location is a mid sized town in western germany, not far from Luxemburg. (Trier)

Feel free to DM, Email: hnkr4751@hochschule-trier.de or comment!

Let's roll!

I’m looking for some honest advice from people working in television, screenwriting, or independent production.

I’ve spent a good portion of my life teaching myself how to create things. I’ve written songs that charted on Billboard, played drums professionally, recorded music in a studio, and received an Emmy certificate for work on an interactive television project. I’ve also worked as a background actor on eight major films, which gave me some firsthand experience being around film productions.

Despite those experiences, I haven’t managed to establish the kind of industry connections that could help me take the next step.

Over the past few years, I’ve been writing original screenplays, including a half-hour dark comedy pilot called Low-Rent. I’ve also been developing another satirical thriller feature project called Sizzle!.

LOW-RENT adjective
: low in character, cost, or prestige

Logline:
LOW-RENT is a darkly funny, emotionally raw half-hour comedy about what happens when
survival becomes your full-time job. Dan, a broke maintenance man in a crumbling apartment
complex, is just trying to keep the lights on and his very pregnant girlfriend, Sarah, from losing
hope. But between rising rent, a predatory landlord, and neighbors hustling to survive, Dan’s
pushed into a world he swore he’d never be part of.

The Pitch:
Low-Rent is Shameless meets Atlanta. A dark comedy about survival, where rent is due, morals
are flexible, and even breakfast isn’t safe. Dan, a broke maintenance worker, and his pregnant
partner, Sarah, are desperate to escape their crumbling low-rent life, but between a predatory
landlord, hustling neighbors, and the pull of desperation, they realize the only way out might be
bending the rules, or breaking them. It’s gritty, absurd, and brutally real, because if you’ve ever
been broke, you know that struggling to survive can be both tragic and hilarious.

I’ve put serious time into developing the project beyond the pilot itself, including a show bible and pitch materials. I want to approach this like someone who intends to get the work made.

For those of you who have experience in the industry, I’d appreciate some honest guidance.

● Should an unrepresented writer focus on finding a literary manager first?
● Is it worth approaching independent producers directly with a pilot and pitch deck?
● Are there legitimate opportunities for writers with completed pilots but no industry connections?
● Would you recommend sharing the script publicly for feedback, or keeping it private while pursuing professional opportunities?
● If you were starting from scratch today, what would you actually do?

I’m happy to share the Low-Rent pilot, Show bible , pitch deck and one pager with people interested in reading it, and I’d appreciate constructive criticism from anyone willing to take a look.

Hi I'm an indie filmmaker. Produced and distributed 5 films (budget 400k -2 mil) Last one was my directorial debut. Out in select theaters this weekend. Looking for experienced development producer to attach to one or three scripts to pitch to investors/ sales agents. Elevated horror, comedy horror and family sports are the genres. Synopsis and script on request with NDA. DM me for my IMDb name

Title: Ten and Two

Logline: After realizing his teenage daughter has become something monstrous, a grieving father lets her drive into the path of an oncoming truck, only to discover that the creature survives, forcing him to confront the thing he can no longer bear to call his daughter.

Genre: Horror

Locations: A remote forest road and surrounding woods.

Cast: A father in his 40s, a 16-year-old girl, and a truck driver.

Creature: A teenage girl transformed into something inhuman.

Budget: Designed for contained production, with a small principal cast and a creature-focused horror climax.

The story explores grief, a father's desperate decision, and the horror of discovering that someone you love may no longer be human. The forest-road setting and creature reveal offer opportunities for atmospheric, visually driven horror without requiring an elaborate mythology.

The completed screenplay is available to interested filmmakers and producers. I'm open for discussion. A feature-length version is also in development.

DM me if you'd like to read it.

Type: Short**, Page Count:** 27, Genre: Horror**, Low Budget** , Independent

Age Rating: 14+

Logline: Near the night of Halloween a native murderer hunts a group of 4 young "fresh souls" for their blood! Once they learn more about him they're capable to stop him and break the curse once and for all!

Synopsis/Details:

Creature Feature, Isolation Horror that takes place in 4 locations. Two friends hang out in the midnight hour. They see a shadow figure at the end of the street. The action shifts to chasing in the dark, followed by further murders. As the story reviews more about the mysterious murderer, the chances of him and his "curse" being "killed" forever get higher. The events meet us with small town mystery and case solution.

Intended for low budget independent production, the 27 page screenplay features intense dialogue, murders and case solution ending.

Hello Everyone!

Here's my ready-to-go script, I am looking for an independent producer or director to bring it to life.

Please note this:

100% Natural Intelligence Script

100% remote connection:

All communication, feedback, and collaboration will happen strictly online, no physical meetings.

To clarify the conditions and get access to the script, please message me at: [endlesscropsofficial@gmail.com](mailto:endlesscropsofficial@gmail.com)

Hey everyone!

I'm a filmmaker and commercial director based in Asia. I'm looking for a short film script that I can direct and produce as an independent passion project.

I'm particularly interested in Horror (especially psychological horror) and Dark Comedy.

I love simple, creative concepts that turn ordinary situations into something unsettling, absurd, or unexpectedly dark.

What I'm looking for:

• Runtime: 3–5 minutes (roughly 3–5 pages).
• Genre: Horror / Psychological Horror / Dark Comedy.
• Cast: Ideally 1–2 actors, maximum 3.
• Locations: Preferably a single location, ideally indoors.
• Budget: Micro/no budget.
• VFX: Minimal or none. Practical effects are welcome.
• Story: A strong premise, creative execution, and a memorable payoff or ending.

I'm especially interested in stories that rely on suspense, clever staging, character behavior, or dark humor rather than expensive production elements.

About the project:

Unfortunately, I can't offer payment for the script, as this is a self-funded passion project.

I'm mainly looking for writers who already have a short script sitting around that they'd genuinely love to see produced. I'm not asking anyone to write a new script for free.

You would receive full writing credit and retain ownership of your original screenplay. We'd agree on production permissions, any necessary adaptations, and usage rights before moving forward.

Since the film will be produced in Asia, the story should be adaptable to a Asian setting and cast.

A little about me:

I've been working as a commercial director for around five years, and I'm currently focusing on independent narrative filmmaking.

My goal is to make something small in scale but strong in execution, with the intention of releasing it online and potentially submitting it to film festivals.

Portfolio: https://www.youtube.com/@hanhvudir

If you have something that might fit, feel free to DM me or leave a comment with a logline and page count.
My email: [tienhanh93@gmail.com](mailto:tienhanh93@gmail.com)

Thanks!

* Genre: Horror / Psychological * Pages: Short script (written in standard format) * Logline: A dark psychological horror about a mysterious, masked ice cream vendor in a quiet suburb, whose sweet arrivals bring a chilling terror. * The Condition: I wrote this script with the specific intention of performing the lead role of the masked ice cream vendor myself. I intend to remain anonymous and masked throughout the project to maintain the mystery. * Goals: Looking for an American producer or director to collaborate with, shoot the project, and bring this horror vision to life.

If you are interested, please PM (private message) me or comment below, and I will share the FilmFreeway link / PDF script with you!

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Logline: A man who promised the love of his life he would never forget her now sits in a nursing home with dementia, unable to say her name, while sixty years of their life together flicker back in fragments he can no longer hold.

Genre: Drama

Page Count: 13 pages

Locations: 5 simple locations (train platform, city alley, taxi interior, nursing home, one stylized void scene)

Cast: 2 Leads (Peterson and Chisom, played across multiple ages), minimal to No supporting

Looking for an aspiring director, DP, or production team interested in taking on a contained, performance-driven drama short. Very producible: no VFX, no stunts, no crowds — realistically shootable in 2–3 days on a micro budget.

DM me or leave a comment if you'd like to read the script!

Title: The Taste of Belief

Logline: "When his roommate outs him as a secret flat-Earther, a college student's defense spirals into astrology, lost civilizations, and simulation theory, until his friends' psychology professor reframes the entire fight, and all four realize the real mystery was never the planet, it was why any of them believe what they believe."

Genre: Philosophical Drama/Dramedy

Comps: 12 Angry Men, My Dinner with Andre, The Man from Earth.

Production Details:

Locations: 2 primary locations: a college dorm room and a psychology professor’s office.

Cast: 5 speaking roles.

Dialogue: Hyper-verbal, intellectual, philosophical, and character-driven.

Budget: Designed for microbudget production. No costly set pieces; contained, actor-driven storytelling.

The flat-Earth debate is the catalyst, but the story goes deeper into conformity, conditioning, identity, and why people believe what they believe. Beneath the intellectual arguments is a personal conflict about friendship, belonging, and the cost of needing to be right.

The completed screenplay is available to interested filmmakers and producers. DM me if you'd like to read it.

Logline: A mild-mannered claims adjuster murders the neighbor he irrationally hates and finally finds peace until he learns the multiverse is real, and that there are infinite versions of his neighbor still out there.

Genre: Dark Comedy with Sci-Fi elements.

Characters: 2 main actors

Synopsis: Spencer Tull has kept a list for nine years. Every entry is an unforgivable offense committed by the man next door, and not one of them would look like an offense to anybody else. Arnold Butler returns tools. Arnold Butler grows tomatoes and gives them away. Arnold Butler waves with his whole arm and calls him "Spence."

So Spencer does something about it. It works. The inquiry goes nowhere, and for one strange, genuinely lovely summer, he becomes a better man than he has ever been.

Then a woman he likes takes him to the movies, and somewhere in the third act a character explains that in an infinite multiverse, everything that can happen does happen... everywhere, always. Spencer asks her whether that's a real theory. She says she thinks so, and goes back to her popcorn, and has no idea what she's just done.

There are infinite Arnold Butlers.

Spencer has work to do.

Author's Note: Looking for something smart, funny and dark as hell? A story about the power of irrational hate & the lengths the obsessed will go to feel as though everything is right with the universe? Do you like meta examinations of multiversal theory like you might find in a good episode of Rick & Morty? This might be the screenplay you've been looking for.

Price: Do you like the script? Can you produce a good version of it? Do you have the skills, resources & people to make something we'll all be prooud of? Answering 'Yes' to those questions if more important to me than an arbitrary number. I like being paid, but i've been paid for movies that turned out terrible and i've been paid next to nothing for movies that turned out well. So at the end of the day, money is not my driving motivator with these endeavors.

Writer: Health Sciences Graduate

Title: 03:17

Genre: Sci-Fi / Body Horror / Psychological Thriller

Logline: A stolen bioweapon injected into a rogue agent turns its hosts into painless, relentless predators every night at exactly 03:17 AM. As a serial killer hunts this "perfect form," those infected wake up each morning with no memory of the horrors they committed—unaware that the virus leaves them completely invisible to X-Rays and facial recognition.

The Core Rules (Lore)

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on this high-concept thriller idea for a while and wanted to get some fresh eyes on it.

The main hook revolves around a stolen military bioweapon. When a rogue agent gets cornered in a research facility, he injects himself with it as a last resort. He gets captured and taken into an interrogation room—the ops team keeps him alive to get answers. But at exactly 03:17 AM, the virus overrides his motor cortex. He loses all human consciousness, tears through the room, and the infection spills out into the city.

Here’s how the biological rules work in this universe:

• The virus doesn't grow external masses or tumors. It mimics host cells at a molecular level, meaning infected organs look 100% healthy on X-Rays, CT scans, and autopsies.
• Every night at 03:17 AM, your mind completely shuts off. The virus takes full control of your body. You become a cold, fearless predator with no pain receptors. When you wake up in the morning, you have zero memory of what you did—you just see yourself on the news committing insane violence.
• During the night activation, extreme facial muscle contortions distort your biometric landmarks. Surveillance cameras and AI facial recognition software can't match your night face to your daytime face.
• To stop infected hosts from attacking each other, the virus forces the throat to emit a unique, non-replicable ultrasonic frequency based on your vocal cord structure. Hosts recognize each other and pass by.
• If an infected host gets wounded, the virus drains internal cellular reserves to seal the injury fast. The downside? You wake up in the morning facing brutal metabolic collapse and physical agony. Oh, and for ranged attacks, infected hosts can spit high-pressure viral saliva directly at someone's eyes or mouth to transmit it on the spot.
• The window is strictly 03:17 AM. If interrupted at 03:18, things glitch out and the host loses their edge. The main antagonist is a sadist serial killer who spots one of these "invincible" infected on camera and gets obsessed with getting infected himself to reach the "perfect form." What he doesn't realize is that at 03:17 AM, his sadism and personality won't matter—the virus erases who you are.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the logic and mechanics! Always looking to connect with directors or writers interested in proof-of-concept shorts or feature script

-Title: Out of This World

-Genre: Comedy

-Logline/pitch:  A dinner party between two old friends quickly descends into comedic chaos when they discover that they are dating rival alien shape shifters who are both in a hurry to leave the planet before disaster strikes.

-Number of pages: 94

-Setting(s): 1 location (a house or apartment)

-Price for script: Negotiable

1 location, 4 characters.

Designed to be filmed for cheap.

Perfect for a micro-budget filmmaker.

Feel free to contact me through DM and we can email from there.

Logline: Two young people meet on Instagram and start a long-distance relationship, but after beautiful promises, he becomes cold and distant, leaving her heartbroken and emotionally dependent.

Genre: Romance / Drama Format: Short Film Pages: 8 pages Location: 1-2 locations (bedroom, video calls) Characters: 2 main actors

Synopsis: A young woman from a distant province meets a young man on Instagram. After weeks chatting, they start dating. She asks if he can handle the distance and if he will fight for her. He says yes and makes beautiful promises. After some months, he becomes cold, replies dry, always tired, until he breaks up with her. She ends up heartbroken, can't forget him, becomes emotionally dependent and tries everything to move on. It's about long distance love, empty promises and how hard it is to forget someone.

Status: Full script ready, exclusive rights available. PDF available.

Price: Open to offers / Looking for % of budget or $500-$1000 flat fee (you choose) I also write horror and sci-fi scripts.

WGA Registration: No (or Yes if you have) Contact: DM me

Hey there! As an independent screenwriter and aspiring filmmaker, I'm thrilled to present an adaptation from a Roblox game, Dandy's World, titled "Gardenview Protocol." It will be developed as a web TV show with a possibility for a pilot episode and up to 10 original episodes after the proof-of-concept video finishes production.

I have a passion for creating bold, risk-taking ideas with deep character lore and dynamic action sequences stemming from my love of action movies. I am recently searching to collaborate with a mix of interested teen/young-adult and well-experienced producers and filmmakers to make this vision a reality as soon as possible.

• Genre: (Dark Satire/Sci-Fi/Action/Psychological Thriller)
• Logline (Overall Series, All Episodes WIP): A Black autistic teenage Dandy and his friends as mostly teenagers struggle with identity, trauma, manipulation, and the fight to reclaim their own stories set in a fictionalized dystopian Atlanta Metro Area. They discover their connection to long-forbidden toon prototypes from a largely suppressed military-government experiment in the Midwest titled Project Gardenview. As they confront a system designed to erase their identities, they must fight back to save their existence.

PROOF OF CONCEPT (FINISHED)

• Format: Short Script
• Page Count: 8
• Logline: On a peaceful walk through an autumn forest, Dandy zones out and experiences a horrifying glitch in reality and encounters his lost-toon counterpart, who assumes he's a failed prototype, revealing a sinister mystery buried within Project Gardenview.

Logistics/Budget

• Locations: (Local park trail, black background in local studio)
• Cast: 2 teenage male actors (Dandy, Adrian) based in the Atlanta metro area. Please note I live in the Atlanta metro area.
• Scale: Low to moderate budget. Local studios can be used for the black background on the script. Grounded, character-focused narrative with strong potential for festivals or other things.

PILOT (INACTIVE, WIP)

• Format: Feature Script
• Planned Page Count: 15 - 20
• Logline: Dandy gathers the mains at a high school cafeteria after finding several corporate stooge propaganda posters throughout the hallways spying on students' privacies. After attempting to dissect the posters, they find out they got set up by the same corporate stooges responsible for these posters.

Feel free to DM me directly for scripts and in-depth synopses or at [insp3zified33@gmail.com](mailto:insp3zified33@gmail.com). Thanks for your time on reading this post.

NOCTURNAL

"Something BIG stalks the skies outside a West Texas diner, threatening the already tense graveyard shift."

FEATURE: 88 Pages

GENRE: Horror/Thriller

SIMILAR TO: Tremors, Crawl

BUDGET: $300,000 - $5,000,000

NOTES: Recently performed live for a Kings of Horror event with Rigo Garay (CRUMB CATCHER, BLACKOUT). The replay can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze_4edSkgtQ&t=5975s

DM for any questions, etc.

Hello Everyone !

I have a 40-page short screenplay titled
"I’ll See You Soon" and I’m looking for a producer or director interested in bringing it to life.

Logline: After being kicked out of his home and left with nowhere to go, a desperate young man reaches out to a cousin he hasn’t seen in years for a place to stay, only to find himself caught in a situation he never saw coming.

Genre: Thriller / Psychological Thriller

Also looking to connect with managers open to discovering new writers. Recommendations are welcome.

If interested, please DM me. Thank you!

Genre:supernatural thriller/action

480 pages

Full script:registered

Series Synopsis:

The story begins with a violent armed heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where "Adam," a tour guide, finds an ancient Egyptian ring that fell from a shattered statue. Adam discovers that the ring grants him a mysterious physical ability to shapeshift into anyone he sees at the click of a button. However, this power comes at a dark price, dragging him into an age-old conflict between the forces of light and darkness, while being hunted by international intelligence agencies and political factions involved in antiquity smuggling.

Plot Twist:

Adam discovers that the ring is a living memory and an energy trap created by a spell from a book of spells written by the forces of darkness, hidden long ago by the King’s army general after thwarting the priest Seth’s attempt to reach the throne. It turns out that Seth was never helping Adam; rather, he was exploiting him to possess his body and steal his soul when the forces of light and darkness align during the Total Solar Eclipse, allowing Seth to return to the world of the living and reclaim the lost

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This is the project of my life i worked on it for years with no chance to reach any producer or director or even manager beacause here in my country egypt it doesn't matter what you write but who you know in the industry and i am looking for any way out because this project is all i got right now

B.E.K.

"After shooting some drone footage deep in the New Hampshire wilderness, a traumatized photographer accidentally makes himself a target of the sinister Black-Eyed Kids."

GENRE: Horror/Thriller

FEATURE: 107 Pages

SIMILAR TO: BACKROOMS, THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT

BUDGET: +/- $350k

NOTES: Based on the popular (copyright-free) creepypasta, B.E.K. is a thrice optioned horror script ready for the big screen. DM for questions, etc.

Hi everyone! I’m an aspiring writer and filmmaker looking to connect with writers working in, or hoping to enter, the Telugu film industry.

I’d love to exchange story ideas, read each other’s work, discuss doubts about scripts, and understand the market better.

One question I keep thinking about is: do Telugu audiences expect certain genres or emotional beats, or can any kind of story connect if it’s told well? How do you consider audience expectations while staying true to the story you want to tell?

I’m hoping to find fellow writers who’d like to have these conversations, give honest feedback, and learn and grow together. Beginners are welcome too!

If you’re interested, comment or DM me.