Jason Henderson, author of The Sword of Dracula, (you can read a script excerpt here) has a new series – Alex Van Helsing. The first in the series, Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson, comes out today from HarperCollins.

Fourteen-year-old Alex has no idea that he’s descended from the world’s most famous vampire hunter, but that changes fast when he arrives at Glenarvon Academy and confronts two vampires in his first three days.

When two of Alex’s friends are kidnapped by Icemaker, it’s up to Alex to infiltrate the Scholomance and get them back – alive. Assisted by the Polidorium, a top-secret vampire-hunting organization with buried ties to the Van Helsings, Alex dodges zombies, bullets, and lots – and lots – of fangs on his way to thwarting Icemaker’s plans and fulfilling his family destiny.

Take a look inside Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising

Alex Van Helsing Facebook Fan Page
Alex Van Helsing: The Blog

About the Author:

Jason Henderson is the creator of several comic series, including Sword of Dracula, which has been featured on NPR, PRI, CNN, and MTV. He has written for Electronic Arts, Marvel Comics, Activision, and more. Jason lives in Grapevine, Texas, with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs

This ‘just’ in from Kevin of Kangas Kahn Films.

Hey, recently noticed you linked to my script for Fear of Clowns –very cool! Thought you might like the link to my first produced screenplay, “Hunting Humans”, from MTI Home Video…

-K

Hunting Humans - 1999 unspecified draft script by Kevin Kangas – hosted by: Kangas Kahn Films – in html format

Meet Aric Blue. He’s young. He’s handsome. He’s successful. He’s also a serial killer. He picks his victims at random, stalking them and taking advantage of the patterns in their life to kill them. He’s the ultimate serial killer. But when he finds his next victim already dead, a note on the body reading: “I’VE GOT YOUR PATTERN”, Aric realizes he’s being stalked by a serial killer every bit his equal. When two serial killers wage war, the rules are simple: Don’t Get In The Way.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Read it and other on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Thanks to Splatter Boy for the heads up on the script The Lost Boys: The Beginning.

Joblo’s Arrow in the Head snagged a script exclusive. The undated, unspecified draft (first draft, maybe) was written by Eric Red based on a story by Eric Red and Joel Schumacher. Joel Schumacher was the director of the original The Lost Boys.

According to Arrow, the script is set in San Francisco at the turn of the century and followed a vampire that hooks up with the five kids who were to become The Lost Boys.

Skip on over to Arrow in the Head and read the writeup of the script and the script (pdf format). – Don

Michael Cornetto’s short horror, Don’t Go In The Bathroom (8 pages in pdf format) has been filmed by WithinFilm, directed by Terry VanDerHeyden.

A brutally assaulted young woman believes her bathroom is haunted by the assailant she killed, but a social worker tries to convince her otherwise.

Discuss the Film or the Script

or Fear of Clowns. Thanks Mitch for the heads up on this one.

Fear of Clowns - 2002 unspecified draft script by Kevin Kangas – hosted by: Kangas Kahn Films – in html format

An artist with coulrophobia (“fear of clowns”) is stalked by a murderous clown resembling one of the ones she paints.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

More scripts on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

The October One Week Challenge selected script is Old Ninety-nine Face by Cameron Mitchell (cam17)
Read by: iScript.com

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.

 

 Old Ninety-nine Face by Cameron Mitchell [15:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4266)

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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The October, 2009 One Week Challenge scripts are up. This month, the genre was family horror. Participants were challenged to write a 12 page family horror script on the theme At the Halloween Festival, strange things happened

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

Author George Willson has graciously allowed SimplyScripts readers an exclusive sneek peek of his breakthrough novel, The Fempiror Chronicles: The Initiation of David.

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 Fempiror Chronicles, The Initiation of David by George Willson: Download (827)

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.

David Johnson, screenwriter of the film, Orphan sat down and talked with Lance of DailyActor.com during Comic-Con. They talked about David’s new movie, Orphan, if he writes with actors in mind, improvising and other stuff.

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