My name is Henrik Holmberg and I write horror and suspense scripts - perfect for microbudget filmmaking.
After losing yet another game the players of the local football team get killed off one by one by a furious masked supporter.
Genre: Horror/slasher
A female student moves into an apartment where the previous tenant committed suicide, and soon the student feels an urge to kill herself.
Genre: Horror
Gamblers are taken prisoners and are forced to gamble for their lives.
Genre: Suspense/horror
A man starts a frantic search for his missing wife who went outside to walk the dog - but never came back.
Genre: Suspense/mystery
When a teen student returns to her childhood home - her parents are missing, and soon she's stalked by someone unknown.
Genre: Horror/suspense
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An unseen football supporter, a HOOLIGAN, is disappointed his team "Hallbury Hammers" lost once again. He uses a merchandise hammer to SMASH the TV in anger.
Now we meet out hero JOSH (20) who's a player in the football team. He's in the locker room after the game. Frustrated after the loss.
Other players are: OLIVER (19), AARON (20), SANTIAGO (19), ZACK (20) and THEO (21).
The players get hate in social media.
An influencer ELIJAH (28) points out the team's six worst players in a video. They're Josh and his friends. "The team would be better off without them" Elijah says.
Now the hooligan starts stalking these six players. The hooligan's identity is hidden behind a hoodie, dark glasses and a team scarf.
Oliver gets attacked in his apartment. The hooligan SLAMS the team's merchandise hammer in Oliver's head.
Luckily Oliver survives and ends up in the hospital. But soon the hooligan kills him in the hospital bed.
Josh and his friends now understand they're targeted because of the video.
When Aaron visits the locker room he gets attacked and killed by the hooligan.
Josh asks the police for protection but they say they don't have the resources to protect an entire football team.
Josh and his friends look at hateful comments on social media and they realize the killer could be any anonymous hater. It's like finding a needle in a haystack.
Santiago is out jogging in the forest when he gets killed by the hooligan.
In a video the influencer Elijah speaks about a rumor that the police have arrested the janitor as a suspect.
Josh and his friends are relieved. Could the killings be over now?
Unfortunately not. The janitor was innocent. The murders continue.
Zack is next to be killed in his own home.
Finally Josh convinces the police to give him and Theo protection. But Theo doesn't trust anyone. He moves to a hotel. Soon he gets killed in the hotel room by the hooligan.
Now only Josh remains alive out of the six players mentioned in the video.
He borrows his dad's gun for protection.
The policeman watching Josh's house is found dead. And soon the hooligan enters Josh's house - ready to kill.
Josh escapes the house and flees out into the forest. He lives in a tent to avoid being found. But still the hooligan finds him.
Josh fires the gun and tries to shoot the hooligan, but misses. Soon he's out of ammo.
The hooligan sneaks up behind Josh and SLAMS the hammer in his head. Josh falls to the ground.
Now the hooligan demasks himself. It's the influencer ELIJAH. He says "I'm ready to do anything to make the team great again. Including getting rid of weak players like you."
In the final battle Elijah wants to kill Josh with the hammer.
Josh gets the upper hand and STRANGLES Elijah with his team scarf.
The unconscious Elijah drops the hammer. Josh takes it.
But Elijah isn't dead. He makes one final attack.
Josh now CRUSHES Elijah's head with the hammer.
Elijah is DEAD.
After a couple of months Josh is back playing football in the team. And they're finally winning.
In the final scene an angry FOOTBALL FAN from the losing team "Darville Daggers" can't accept the loss. He grabs a merchandise dagger. God knows what he's capable of. Perhaps we'll find out in a sequel.
The End
In an apartment a depressed goth-girl, ABIGAIL (18) commits suicide by slicing her wrist with a kitchen knife.
Now we meet our heroine, EMMA (17). She's a sweet-natured student living in a house with her alcoholic MOM (42). Emma wants to get a life of her own so she meets with a LANDLORD (49) and rents a furnished apartment in town. This is the same apartment where the suicide happened. At first Emma is happy living by herself, but soon she gets depressed and stops going to school. She has a nightmare about finding a pool of blood on the floor.
An OLD LADY (68) in the building tells the truth about the apartment - that a suicide happened there.
Emma has another nightmare, this time about committing suicide herself with a kitchen knife.
Emma searches the internet and finds information that negative energy can remain in an apartment after a suicide - and affect the next tenant.
Mom wants her to move back home and Emma agrees. As they're packing Emma tries to slice her own wrist with a knife, but mom intercepts and saves Emma.
As Emma moves back into mom's house the depression goes away.
Meanwhile the landlord lets another girl, REBECCA (18) rent the apartment. Soon she gets depressed. Emma warns her about the apartment, but Rebecca doesn't believe her. Later Rebecca kills herself with a kitchen knife. Emma is devastated that she couldn't save her life.
Emma confronts the landlord and makes him promise to let the apartment stay empty from now on. But the landlord lied and lets another girl, NATALIE (17) rent the apartment.
Emma warns Natalie about the negative energy in the apartment, but Natalie performs a cleansing ritual with salt that's supposed to get rid of bad energy.
But it doesn't work.
Natalie gets depressed and changes her appearance into a goth-girl, just like Abigail.
Natalie now slits her wrist with a knife. Emma tries to save her but gets suicidal herself and cuts her own wrist.
It looks like an unhappy ending with both Emma and Natalie lying on the floor, bleeding, dying.
But Emma finds the power to rise to her feet. She leaves the apartment carrying Natalie in her arms.
Both Emma and Natalie survive. A happy ending after all.
In the final scene the landlord enters the apartment and gets depressed. Moments later he slashes his wrist.
The End
SCOTT is a gambling addict. He lives with his caring wife and cute baby. He's made many promises to quit gambling, but he never follows through.
One day he gets kidnapped by a HENCHMAN who takes him to a house where MR BLITZ awaits. Mr Blitz is a loan shark Scott owes 150.000 dollars.
In the house Scott is joined by other kidnapped gamblers who also owe Mr Blitz lots of money.
Mr Blitz explains he's given up on them. He knows they'll never pay him back. But now he wants some entertainment in return. He puts them through games of chance and pure luck. The loser in each round gets SHOT to death by the henchman! In the end only one person will be left alive - and he gets to walk away debt-free.
In the first round the gamblers have to roll a dice each. The person who rolls the lowest number gets shot.
The next round includes a roulette wheel. If the ball lands on red you live - if it lands on black you die.
When Scott tries to escape a GOON waits outside and captures Scott at gunpoint.
Scott is brought inside the house again and the games of chance continue - including a lottery, drawing straws, trying to "find the lady" among three playing cards, betting on which team will win a hockey game, and guessing which hand holds a coin.
One by one the gamblers get shot as they lose each game. In the end only Scott remains alive. As he tries to walk away to freedom - he gets SHOT in the back. Mr Blitz broke his promise. He says "You didn't really think I would let you walk out of here alive, did you?"
Scott is wounded but he manages to overpower Mr Blitz and his goons and take their GUNS. Scott is now in control. He decides to put Mr Blitz and his goons through games of chance as well. The loser in each round Scott will SHOOT.
First up is "spin the bottle" and the person the bottle points to gets shot.
Next they have to cut a deck of cards. If they cut to a red card they live - if they cut to a black card they die.
And finally coin toss. If the coin lands heads up you live - tails up you die.
The goons die, but Mr Blitz survives. He thinks he can walk away alive. Scott SHOOTS him and says "You didn't really think I would let you walk out of here alive, did you?"
Scott returns home to his wife and baby. He deletes his gambling accounts on his computer. He's decided to stop gambling for good.
The end
An alcoholic with a short temper, DANIEL (29) lives with his redhaired wife SIENNA (25) in a house in the countryside. She leaves the house to walk the dog. When she doesn't come back Daniel gets worried. He starts searching outside, but no sign of his wife or the dog. When Daniel tries to call Sienna her phone number is no longer in service.
Daniel calls her friends and family but no one has seen her.
Daniel calls the sheriff to report his wife missing. The SHERIFF (41) arrives and asks for specifics. Daniel says Sienna has a birthmark, a mole on her right shoulder.
Daniel's car is still parked outside the house, so they know Sienna didn't drive off with it. And besides she doesn't even have a license.
In the house they find Sienna's purse containing her wallet and ID.
The sheriff has lots of theories. Maybe she committed suicide? Or was in accident? Or kidnapped? Or ran away with a lover? The sheriff also seems to think Daniel could be behind her disappearance.
Daniel discovers Sienna's social media pages have been erased.
He seeks help from the public and offers a reward. "Anyone who has information about Sienna, please contact me."
Daniel calls hotels, hospitals and morgues in search of his wife. No luck. He puts up "Missing person"-posters.
Daniel suspects a man who's previously been in prison for rape. Daniel visits the man and accuses him of kidnapping Sienna. They get in a fight. Daniel beats him badly.
A dead body of a woman is found in the area. Daniel thinks it's Sienna, but it's not. It's some homeless woman.
Daniel hires a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR (45). He finds out Sienna's social security number doesn't exist. When the private investigator examines Daniel's past he finds out Daniel spent a couple of weeks in a mental hospital as a teen. Maybe Daniel is delusional and his wife never existed at all? Daniel gets furious and fires the private investigator.
An OLD LADY (64) arrives with information: She saw Sienna in a white car the day she disappeared. A pudgy woman was driving. There was a sticker of a white cat on the car.
Daniel gets the help of the public and soon someone has seen a white car with a cat sticker in the big city.
Daniel drives to the city and finds the white car. A PUDGY WOMAN (39) owns it.
Daniel assaults her to get information about Sienna. She refuses to give any.
Daniel examines the white car's gps route history to find locations where the car has travelled. He finds an apartment building where he goes.
He spots a female looking like his wife - but with a different hair color. Daniel follows her and forces himself into her apartment.
It's Sienna. No doubt. Daniel pulls down her clothing to reveal a mole on her shoulder.
But she claims her name is YVETTE and she's got the ID to prove it.
The dog is in the apartment as well. It recognizes Daniel.
Sienna calls 911 and asks for help with an intruder.
Now Daniel finds out the truth. He's a wife-beater. But he forgets his sins when he's drunk.
Sienna is part of a program for abused women who get a new identity to get away from their abusive husbands. The pudgy woman was a social worker who organized Sienna's escape.
Daniel now realizes he's a drunken monster in denial. He grabs a kitchen knife and threatens to kill Sienna.
Now the POLICE arrives and SHOOTS Daniel. His final words to Sienna are "I love you..." Daniel DIES.
Now Sienna is truly free. Hope is seen in her eyes. This is the first day of the rest of her life.
The End
Our story starts 5 years ago. A GIRL home alone in a rural house gets creepy text messages from a stalker, and soon the girl is killed.
Now it's present day. Our heroine ELLA (17) is a student in a big city. She has pepper spray in a drawer for protection.
When she returns home to her parents' house in the countryside - she can't find mom or dad anywhere. They're missing.
Soon Ella gets weird text messages on her phone from an unknown stalker.
Her ex-boyfriend RICHARD (17) arrives at the house. He tries to help her figure out where her parents are.
They talk to the SHERIFF (52) who doesn't believe there's any foul play involved. He thinks the parents will show up soon.
A NEIGHBOR (51) returns a lawn mower he borrowed. Ella asks him if he knows where her parents are. He doesn't. Richard is suspicious of him.
Ella gets more creepy messages from her stalker, and she even accuses Richard of sending them, but he denies it.
Terror escalates when Ella's parents are found DEAD underneath a tarp in the garden!
Ella calls 911 and is told the sheriff is on his way.
Richard now gets KILLED by the stalker!
The sheriff arrives, searches the house, but soon disappears. Did something bad happen to him?
The neighbor wants to save Ella by taking her to his house. Ella gets suspicious and refuses
Now the neighbor gets KILLED by the stalker.
The stalker's identity is finally revealed. It's the SHERIFF. He's been killing girls in the area for a long time. And now it's Ella's turn.
But Ella escapes the house and flees in her parents' car.
She returns to her apartment in the city, but the sheriff finds her.
She sprays him with pepper spray and manages to take his gun. When he attacks her she SHOOTS him. The sheriff is now DEAD.
In the final scene Ella has a nightmare that's she's stalked by the sheriff again. She realizes that the scary memories will haunt her forever.
The End