My name is Henrik Holmberg and I write horror and suspense scripts - perfect for microbudget filmmaking.
Teen girls alone in a house are terrorized by an old hag wanting their blood to stay young.
Genre: Horror/slasher
Gamblers are taken prisoners and are forced to gamble for their lives.
Genre: Suspense/horror
A collector of haunted objects unleashes dark forces in his own home.
Genre: Supernatural horror
A man tries to cure his loneliness by hiring a fake-family, but soon he wants to kill them just like he once killed his real family.
Genre: Suspense/horror
A nervous boyfriend meets his girlfriend's overprotective father who hates him and wants him dead.
Genre: Suspense/horror
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In a remote house in the countryside ELISABETH (19) is home alone, awaiting the arrival of her friends. But someone unknown sneaks around outside clutching a sharp SICKLE. Soon Elisabeth's throat is SLICED by this unseen killer!
Now we meet our heroine, innocent ZARA (17). She gets treated like she's not worth anything by her bossy big sister HOLLY (19). Zara is forced to be designated driver for Holly and her friends AUDREY, SKYLAR and NAOMI. They’re going to spend the day at Elisabeth's house, but she's missing when they arrive.
Zara glimpses an old lady outside in the distance, dressed in black, with a sharp sickle in her hand. A large hat hides her face.
The others try to spook Zara by claiming the old lady might be a famous legend: the serial killer Madame Blood. She only kills young women, wanting to drink their blood to try and stay young.
But the legend seems all too real when Audrey is MURDERED, her throat slashed! And the killings continue. Skylar is next to DIE! Now there's no doubt about it - Madame Blood is real! She wants to drink their blood!
Naomi tries to flee but is SLAUGHTERED outside by the ruthless killer!
Zara realizes the car key has been stolen, so they can't use the car to escape. She calls 911 and the sheriff is on his way.
Zara and her sister Holly barricade themselves inside a room to stay safe. When the sheriff finally arrives they feel brave enough to leave the room - only to discover the sheriff just got KILLED!
Holly is now attacked by Madame Blood!
Zara focuses on saving her sister, giving her mouth to mouth. It's successful. Holly is alive.
In the final battle Madame Blood's face is now seen for the first time. She's an old hag. Hideous. Wrinkled. Intense staring eyes. Blood smeared around her grinning mouth.
She heaves Zara to the floor - pressing the sickle to her throat. Zara will die in a second unless she can distract the killer.
Zara now flatters Madame Blood by saying "You don't need more blood. You look so young" The flattery works. Madame Blood rises to her feet and looks at her own reflection in the mirror. Disappointed she sees her old wrinkled face in the mirror.But the distraction gives Zara time to crawl away.She reaches for the dead sheriff's gun and SHOOTS Madame Blood! It takes several shots before the killer finally DIES!
Zara and Holly are both survivors as they're carried away on stretchers by medics.
In the final scene the killer's body rests inside a body bag, but a flicker of movement inside the bag makes us unsure if Madame Blood might be alive after all.
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
Our hero EDWARD (32) has a special hobby, he collects haunted objects. He keeps 168 haunted items in his house in the countryside. He hopes one of them will be genuine so he can experience a real haunting.
His wife is sick of his hobby so she leaves him.
Edward brings his skeptical buddy CARL to the house to assist him. Soon hauntings start. It seems several objects are really haunted:
A walkie-talkie from a major killed in a foreign war.
A wheel chair from a hospital.
A human eye from a beggar with the power to cause bad luck with its stare alone
A dog collar from a viscious dead dog.
A rope from a Hangman's gallows.
Edward gets more and more excicted as he witnesses these powerful hauntings, escalating in danger for every minute.
The wheel chair moves by itself, desperate for a patient, trying to hurt someone on purpose.
The rope appears with a NOOSE, hanging from a tree branch in the garden.
Both Edward and Carl experience bad luck in the presence of the beggar's EYE. Carl loses his job and gets sick. Edward suffers a heart attack.
The dead MAJOR communicates with Carl via the walkie-talkie and tries to convince him to kill Edward. Carl tries but fails.
Barking is heard in the house and soon the ghostly DOG appears and attacks! Edward manages to trap it inside a room.
The MAJOR'S GHOST shows up at the house - and kills Carl! Then his mission is to kill Edward too. The hunt is on.
Edward's wife returns to the house, but a HANGMAN appears! He hangs her in the rope from a nearby tree!
When Edward tries to escape using his car he only drives in circles - ending up back at the house again. It's impossible to escape. He also saw the BEGGAR sitting at the side of the road, wanting his missing eye back!
Edward researches online and finds out the only way to stop the ghosts is to destroy the haunted objects.
In the final battle he's attacked by ghosts in every direction. Edward follows his plan and destroys some objects by crushing them with a sledge hammer, and other objects he burns. As the objects are destroyed the ghosts DISINTEGRATE and vanish completely!
The only object he can't smash to pieces is the wheel chair, and in the end it HITS him so he FALLS down the stairs! It's a nasty fall. He's paralyzed.
A week later Edward is taken care of by nurses. He sits in the wheel chair, a drooling, paralyzed vegetable.
The End
ISAAC (40) is tired of being alone so when he sees a commercial for an agency called "Family for hire" he contacts them. They rent out actors pretending to be family members.
Two actors, GRACE (41) and MILA (18), arrive at Isaac's house - pretending to be his wife and teen daughter. But soon Isaac wants to keep them forever. When they try to leave he threatens to kill them.
Now it's revealed Isaac KILLED his REAL wife and daughter because they were trying to leave him. "No one leaves me!" he says.
Isaac even forces Mila to have the same hairstyle as his real daughter - the hair in a bun held in place with a hair pin.
Grace and Mila now fear they're next to be murdered and replaced. When they try to escape Isaac attacks them with a corkscrew, and he leaves them for dead in the basement.
Isaac contacts the agency and gets them to send new actors. JOSEPHINE (43) and AURORA (19) arrive, pretending to be his wife and daughter.
In the basement Mila awakens - she's not dead!
She manages to knock Isaac out with a hammer and stabs him with a knife.
She explains the situation to Josephine and Aurora. They all decide to escape in a hurry.
But now Isaac is back on his feet again. He begs for them not to leave.
Josephine and Aurora jump into their car and drive off. They manage to get away alive.
In the final battle Isaac catches up with Mila. He heaves her down to the ground. He starts strangling her.Mila now grabs the hair pin in her hair. She shoves the hair pin into Isaac's EYE! He finally lets go of her.
Mila escapes in her car.
Isaac crawls after the car. It's his death-struggle. His last words are "Don't leave me..." Then he dies.
In the last scene the commercial for "Family for hire" is seen again. The commercial seems so innocent in contrast to the terrifying events that just took place.
The End
ALEXANDER (18) is a peaceful boy who hates guns and violence. He recently met the love of his life, easy-going JORDYN (18). When the story starts Alexander has a nightmare about being KILLED by Jordyn's overprotective father ZANE (42).
Now Alexander is nervous as he's about to meet Zane for the first time in the flesh. To prepare he watches a video online of a male influencer who gives tips for meeting a girlfriend's dad for the first time - ending with the words "Good luck, you're going to need it."
Alexander and Jordyn arrive by car at Zane's house in the countryside. Zane makes a dramatic entrance on a motorcycle. He's a tough guy. A body-builder. And he instantly hates Alexander and wants to make his life hell.
Zane shows a bullet with Alexander's name on it, but pretends it's a joke. It's not.
Zane accuses Alexander of stealing a gold chain from the house, but it's later found on the floor - so Alexander was innocent.
When Alexander tries out Zane's motorcycle he falls off and scratches the bike. Zane is not happy about that.
Zane humiliates Alexander by making him fail at lifting heavy weights in a training session, and beats the crap out of him in boxing sparring.
Zane also tries to break up Alexander and Jordyn by snooping in Alexander's phone - revealing text messages from his ex-girlfriend.
Zane grabs his rifle and takes Alexander out hunting in the forest, but Alexander can't kill an innocent animal. He can't fire the rifle.
Zane ends up threatening to shoot Alexander if he doesn't end the relationship with Jordyn. Alexander refuses and is now being HUNTED like an animal by a furious Zane - who wants to KILL him!
Zane FIRES the rifle! But he accidently shoots Jordyn instead! She's DEAD! Zane killed his own daughter!
A SHERIFF arrives and Alexander pleads for help. But Zane SHOOTS the sheriff as well.
Alexander runs for his life and finally reaches his car. He drives home at full speed. But Zane follows him home.
Zane breaks down the door to Alexander's apartment. Ready to shoot him. Alexander KNOCKS him out with a heavy candlestick and takes the rifle.Zane wakes up. Pulls a knife. Lurches closer. Alexander hesitates. He hates weapons. Can he really fire the rifle? In the end he has no choice. Alexander FIRES! Zane is HIT and finally DIES! It will take Alexander a long time to process what he's been through.
In the final scene the video of the influencer is seen once again. He gives his tips for meeting a girlfriend's dad for the first time - ending with the words "Good luck, you're going to need it."
The End
