Hollywood in general has the Black List of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays as voted on by insiders, and horror and the related genres have their own Blood List of the top scripts that have yet to see fruition. Appropriately enough, Halloween has seen the revelation of the 2011 Blood List, which is led by the undead opus MAGGIE.

Variety reports that MAGGIE, written by John Scott III and set to be helmed by visual FX veteran Henry Hobson, was the top choice of the 75 industry insiders who voted on the Blood List titles. The list is the brainchild of Kailey Marsh, who heads up Kailey Marsh Management and previously worked for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY producer Steven Schneider and at the Circle of Confusion company. She also co-executive-produced this year’s Toronto International Film Festival title THE DAY and has a number of other feature and TV projects in the works. Below is the info about the 13 screenplays that made the Blood List (including one controversial remake); for more, check out the list’s official website. 

MAGGIE by John Scott III
15 votes
Agents: Billy Hawkins & Dan Rabinow (CAA)
Logline: After a zombie infects a 16-year-old girl, she has six weeks before she transforms.
Genre: Horror/sci-fi
Status: Pierre Ange financing. Henry Hobson attached to direct. Casting.

BETHLEHEM by Larry Brenner
13 votes
Agent: Martin Spencer (CAA)
Manager: Mitch Soloman (Magnet Management)
Logline: In a postapocalyptic world overrun by flesheating zombies, a benevolent vampire teams up with a group of humans to survive.
Genre: Horror
Status: Joe Roth and Palak Patel producing. Julius Sevcik directing.

SUBJECT ZERO by Dave Cohen
13 votes
Agent: Emile Gladstone (ICM)
Manager: Jeremy Platt (Generate)
Logline: It’s a love story on par with ROMEO & JULIET. It’s a father-and-son movie. It’s a tragedy. It’s a monster movie tipping its hat to FRANKENSTEIN, and most importantly it’s an origin story explaining the birth of a viral scourge.
Genre: Horror
Status: Available

MR. ALLEN by John Hulme
11 votes
Agent: Adam Levine (Verve)
Manager: John O’Morisano (Powder Room Graffiti)
Logline: When his childhood bogeyman returns, a father must fight to protect not only his inner fears, but also his family.
Genre: Horror
Status: John Hulme is attached to direct.

THE BOY NEXT DOOR by Barbara Curry
7 votes
Manager: John Jacobs (Smart Entertainment)
Logline: A lonely woman in her 30s has a one-night stand with the 17-year-old boy next door, but his obsession proves to be deadly. In the vein of FATAL ATTRACTION.
Genre: Thriller
Status: Available

THE DEVIL’S PUNCHBOWL by Alex & Max Schenker
6 votes
Agent: Greg Pedicin (Gersh)
Manager: Jeremy Platt (Generate)
Logline: Upon inheriting a ranch, a man becomes mired in an age-old blood feud with his new neighbors.
Genre: Thriller
Status: Available

IN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER by Mike Jones
6 votes
Agent: David Kopple (CAA)
Manager: Lindsay Willams (Gotham Group)
Logline: A retelling of the first moon landing, but in this version disaster strikes the astronauts.
Genre: Thriller
Status: FilmNation producing.

MARTYRS by Mark L. Smith (based on the French film of the same name, written and directed by Pascal Laugier)
6 votes
Agent: Stuart Manashil (CAA)
Logline: Two best friends who grew up in foster care take revenge on those that brutalized them.
Genre: Thriller
Status: Temple Hill and Morgan White producing. Daniel Stamm is attached to direct.

WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK by Scott Milam
6 votes
Agent: Adam Levine (Verve)
Manager: Brad Kaplan (Evolution)
Logline: After a girl wakes up from a brutal attack, she begins to have supernatural visions, which leads her to unravel a disturbing truth about NYC’s Washington Square Park. In the vein of POLTERGEIST meets SALEM’S LOT. Based on true events.
Genre: Horror
Status: Daniel Alter and Caliber Media Co.’s Jack Heller producing and looking to partner.

NO GOOD DEED by Jessica Chandler-Fay
5 votes
Manager: Ken Freimann (Circle of Confusion)
Logline: After saving the life of a young woman left for dead in an alley, a Good Samaritan couple realize the dying girl was just bait and quickly find themselves in an escalating game of cat and mouse with the twisted family who set the trap. In the vein of THE STRANGERS.
Genre: Horror
Status: Available

CUL-DE-SAC by Evan Hoyt Wasserstrom
4 votes
Agent: Ryan Saul (APA)
Logline: When a group of teenagers carpool to a Friday-night party together, looking for a good time, they end up at the wrong house which is occupied by squatters (a murderous husband and wife) who will do anything to get their hands on a young female to procreate for them.
Genre: Horror
Status: Available. Dan Scheinkman attached to produce and looking to partner.

THE FACES by Eric Reese
4 votes
Agent: Stuart Manashil & Matt Rosen (CAA)
Managers: Jeremy Bell, Nate Matteson & Peter McHugh (Gotham Group)
Logline: A newlywed couple find themselves the target of an organization that uses terror as a means of entertainment.
Genre: Horror
Status: FilmNation producing. Paul Solet directing.

RATTLE MAN by Victor Salva
3 votes
Agent: Abram Nalibotsky (Gersh)
Manager: Dave Brown (Artist International)
Logline: Three brothers encounter the evil Rattle Man, a shadowy figure that terrorizes them and their small coastal town.
Genre: Horror
Status: Available

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