The October One Week Challenge genre was Family Horror (in other words, a horror movie you could watch as a family). The theme, as selected by my nine-year-old son, was “At the Halloween festival, strange things happened”. Participants had one week to write a 12 page script on the genre and theme. We had 29 scripts which were read and discussed over on the discussion board. One script was selected to be audio performed by the fine folks over at iScript.com. That selected script is Old Ninty-nine Face by Cameron Mitchell .

Evan, new to the neighborhood, hears the legend of Old Ninety-nine Face, a hermit whose ghost supposedly haunts a nearby house. As the story goes, steal something from the house on Halloween night, and the ghost of Old Ninety-nine Face will come for you. Evan doesn’t believe it, but he soon will.

You can read along with the pdf version of the script. You can discuss this script and all the OWC entries here. Click the “Play” button to listen to the script.

{note: This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons, attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives 3.0 license. You can share the audio recording in its entirety, but you can’t change it or sell it. }

Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge. – Don

Very special thanks to iScript.com for sponsoring the challenge and judging the final scripts.

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There are 29 entries which you can read here. Click the title to open the discussion thread of the script. Click the title in the scripts discussion thread to read the script. – Don

In 1775, at the age of 17, David Taylor is thrust into this new world of the Fempiror when he disobeys a decree against being out at night to be with his beloved, Beth. Now, he is forced to follow a new set of laws – to protect humanity from the dark side of the Fempiror race.

The Fempiror^* are a race created for a war in a country long forgotten. Like a science experiment gone awry, they share an incurable condition that gives them superior speed, strength, and lifespan, but sacrifices a life in the sun and a sense of normalcy with the rest of humanity.

Read the prologue and first chapter, free (pdf format).

The entire novel is available at CreateSpace and Amazon.com

^*Fempiror: pronounced fem-PEER-or

About the Author:

George Willson is from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He has written over sixty plays, musicals, shorts, screenplays and teleplays, of which four have been produced. He plays piano, drums, bass, guitar, trombone, saxophone, and clarinet (among several others). He regularly writes songs to perform in a small group he plays piano and sings with. He produced and directed a feature length screenplay which he also edited and wrote the music for. The Fempiror Chronicles: The Initiation of David is his first novel.

There is a quick intro over on Daily Actor as well as the full interview in audio form.

The script has been floating around for a while. A February 5, 2007 draft can be found here among other places. (Thanks “V”, “phutreclash”, “dave” and anonymous es for the heads up – Don

Directed by: Danny Hein

Share the joy here. – Don

Check out the trailer below. Look for the film in the fall, 2009 festival circuit.

Join the Discussion of the script.

thanks to Aaron from the discussion board for the heads up on what may be the Coen Brothers latest A Serious Man which, according to Coenesque just wrapped filming.

Links to those and more are over on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Sean filmed his script over the summer. You can watch it below. Shout-outs and such here.