The top scripts written by new and emerging writers. The next 12 indexed L to O.
Welcome to 2023 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 4 of 6), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 12 titles, indexed from L to O for easy access.
Highlights on this page include Last Resort, Lure, and Old Time Hockey. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
If you’re a writer, read like a craftsperson: track how the premise is framed, how scenes turn, and how quickly the pages earn your attention.
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Last Resort
Written by: Laura Stoltz
Votes: 11
When a grieving woman takes a trip to a posh, Icelandic resort designed to assist its guests with ending their lives, she meets people who finally force her to accept the things she cannot explain.
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Last Tower, The
Written by: Aaron Sala
Votes: 10
When a disaster strikes, a family is trapped in their high-rise Miami hotel. With danger closing in fast, they’re left with only one way to go: Up.
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Light at the End, The
Written by: Arun Croll
Votes: 11
When a solar event fills the sky with endless light that kills everything it touches, a young woman must find a way to escape the house where she is trapped with a doomsday cultist.
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Love and War and Guernica
Written by: Sam Zvibelman
Votes: 14
Against the backdrop of a present-day, war-torn, America, Love and War and Guernica is a dark comedy about Neil Mudd, a reporter for the Union who is suffering from writer’s block ever since his break-up, and his engaging with a mysterious horse following him through war torn Los Feliz, California. When the Union recruits Neil for a top secret mission, he and the horse go on an epic journey that, emotionally, serves as a metaphor for the war going on inside Neil’s heart.
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Lure
Written by: Nick Tassoni
Votes: 8
When a park ranger ventures into the wilderness to find a missing hiker before a storm, she finds herself lured into the woods by a dangerous, unearthly predator mimicking her dead daughter.
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Masque of the Red Death, The
Written by: Charlie Polinger
Votes: 13
A grotesquely hilarious dark comedy based on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story "The Masque of the Red Death."
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Molepeople
Written by: Nathan Elston
Votes: 7
When an unhoused teen turns up brutally murdered, his estranged brother searches for answers in the underworld of New York City and uncovers a series of horrifying crimes hiding deep in the abandoned subway systems.
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Nest, The
Written by: Aaron Benjamin
Votes: 17
Confined to "the nest," a Secret Service Sniper gets a strange call on the radio from a deranged mastermind who’s holding his family hostage in a box suite during America’s biggest game -- The Super Bowl.
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Nowhere Game, The
Written by: Alex Pototsky
Votes: 9
Two young women are kidnapped, brought deep into the woods, given a head start, and then hunted down by their sadistic captor all for the pleasure of the online fans of "The Nowhere Game."
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Old Time Hockey
Written by: Kevin Jakubowski
Votes: 7
A forty-three-year-old snowplow driver decides to get his high school hockey team back together to play a state championship game.
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Our House
Written by: Will Youmans
Votes: 12
When she wins an essay competition, Leila Moseley is brought to Capitol Hill to be honored by the United States Congress, but her luck runs out when the ceremony intersects with a violent insurrection, and she must team up with a group of aides, interns, and nepo babies to battle for survival against a legion of protesters and a secret society.
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Our Man in Miami
Written by: Ozzy Inguanzo
Votes: 12
A Miami construction contractor transforms into a notorious sports agent when he hatches a highstakes scheme to steal Fidel Castro’s most prized assets–Cuban baseball players–for the New York Yankees. Based on the wild true story.
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