David Chirchirillo

Soon we’ll be releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the writers who made the Hit List in 2015 — where they were, and how far they’ve come in just one short year.

We’re thrilled to announce that on Monday, October 3 we will be releasing the 2016 Young & Hungry List, comprised of the 100 best up-and-coming writers in the business, as voted on by industry professionals. Now just days away from the release of this year’s Young & Hungry List, we wanted to recognize one more group of writers: those who made the list just one year ago.

#BloodList 2015 is upon us… These are the 13 most liked, unproduced dark genre screenplays of the year, as well as the 6 most liked, unproduced dark genre pilots according to our friends at BloodList.com.

Pitched in the vein of Insidious, Let The Right One In, and The Others. Having moved into a “clean house” to treat his auto-immune disorder, 11-year-old Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, Eli soon realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than they appear.

Having moved into a “clean house” to treat his auto-immune disorder, 11-year-old Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, Eli soon realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than they appear.

The thriller is going out all over town!

Logline: Pitched as a hostage thriller in the vein of “Dog Day Afternoon”. When a hapless would-be-criminal winds up stuck in a drug tunnel with the cartel on the Mexican side and the DEA on the American side, the hostage he takes might be the only thing keeping him alive.

A wealthy but morally depraved couple pick up a few cash-strapped guys at a dive-bar, hoping for a fun-filled evening of cheap thrills.

A wealthy but morally depraved couple pick up a few cash-strapped guys at a dive-bar, hoping for a fun-filled evening of cheap thrills.

A wealthy but morally depraved couple pick up a few cash-strapped guys at a dive-bar, hoping for a fun-filled evening of cheap thrills.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A wealthy but morally depraved couple pick up a few cash-strapped guys at a dive-bar, hoping for a fun-filled evening of cheap thrills.

Logline: In 1864 four confederate POWs find themselves on the run from a pack of blood-thirsty Native American werewolves.