Psychological Thriller

Between March 1st and March 31st, 2024, we tracked a total of 30 new specs on the market. This was an increase from February mostly due to one management firm’s big push into the market. Of the 30 scripts we tracked, 3 were TV pilots and 3 were Animation projects. Comedy dominated the top genre spot once again with 16 projects associated with the genre. Drama came in a distant second place with 8 projects. Then the genres Fantasy, Horror and Thriller tied for third place.

Entertainment Lab is out with THE BODY by Jack Messitt. With a dead body lying in their coffee table trunk, a couple on the edge of divorce tries to put on a good face for their friends and family during a….

Blumhouse Television is looking for a writer to develop THE QUIET TENANT.

Schemers Entertainment is out with ORIGINAL DOLL by Briggs & Wes Watkins. A debilitated pop princess experiences a series of strange circumstances within the confines of her smart home.

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—”Bad Monkeys” for short.

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—”Bad Monkeys” for short.

Logline: When a listless author learns of the death of an old muse and lover, he realizes that the mystery behind her alleged suicide is intended to provide the ending to his incomplete novel.

A blind musician hears a murder in the apartment above her and finds herself pulled into the dark underbelly of London until we realize she has been following her own path of revenge for some time.

Dreamworks has picked up Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone novelist Dennis Lehane’s latest after a heated bidding war. The psychological thriller looks to be the next in Lehane’s long-list of big screen adaptations.

Gone Girl-like psychological thriller alternately unreliably narrated by a paranoiac and slightly agoraphobic woman and her con artist husband who is being hunted by some very bad guys over a botched venture capital swindle.

Logline: A New York psychologist infiltrates an esoteric cult, uncovering the mystery of his own traumatic past.

Logline: When a series of grisly murders threatens to expose a famous author’s dark past, how far will she go to keep it a secret as the body count rises?

Logline: Bored with life after traveling the world, a dying medical examiner attempts to quench his thirst for exploration by vicariously traveling through Hell via tales told by the executed Death Rowers he secretly revives.

Logline: Bored with life after traveling the world, a dying medical examiner attempts to quench his thirst for exploration by vicariously traveling through Hell via tales told by the executed Death Rowers he secretly revives.

Logline: Pitched as “Jacobs Ladder” meets “Natural Born Killers”. The son of an infamous serial killer, and the daughter of one of the victims go on the road in hopes of tracking the killer down only to find themselves haunted by demonic forces intent on driving them mad.