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Apr. 24th, 2026 03:19 pmThe r/Horror Restriction Screenplay Challenge - Read And Vote!
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allthingshorror_feedHello r/Horror, we at r/ScreenplayChallenge are back with another batch of horror scripts written by the horror community!
Throughout each year, we run horror screenplay contests for both short and feature length scripts. This time around, we've done our second-ever Restriction Challenge, where writers provided their own subjects or prompts (or asked for one) and received from their fellow entrants a condition (set in the future, main character is deaf, etc.) and a restriction (takes place in one location, no supernatural elements, etc.) to incorporate. We gave entrants less than two months to write a feature-length screenplay and we bring you the seven who finished today.
All scripts will have discussion threads on r/screenplaychallenge for you to provide any feedback or thoughts you have for the writers. For our contests, voting is done by the community. Once you read all of the in-competition scripts, sort them into a full ranking of strongest to weakest and send your votes to the r/ScreenplayChallenge modmail. Those with scripts in-competition are highly encouraged to vote, just leave your own script out of your rankings when you submit them to our modmail.
Votes are due May 17 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Voters are encouraged to consider the overall quality of the scripts, as well as how faithfully they followed their given assignments. Please remember that you do not need to finish every screenplay, although that would be ideal. If you read 20 pages and feel you can't finish a script, that's okay. As long as you give each script a chance, you are encouraged to participate in feedback and voting.
The three winners will receive signed copies of Van Helsing's Guide To Monsters And Dating, a novel written by our very own u/ScreamingVegetable adapting one of his previous contest scripts!
An important reminder for writers in this contest: Please remember that in order for your script to qualify for prizes, you must read and provide feedback for at least three other scripts in the contest. Your thoughts do not have to be in-depth, although that is certainly encouraged. The focus here is on community and other writers will love to hear from you. If you fail to give feedback on three scripts, then any votes for your submission will not be eligible.
If you are unsure about how to give feedback, you can peruse some of the other comments for examples or message the moderators for suggestions. If you are uncomfortable directly leaving feedback, you may also request that the moderators post your thoughts anonymously on your behalf.
Without further adieu, here are the r/Horror Restriction Challenge screenplays!
Prompt: Suburban Gothic
Condition: Main character is in a wheelchair
Restriction: None of your horrific scenes can take place at night
Logline: When a veterinary assistant and her uncompromising boss are summoned to an exclusive equestrian estate to treat a dying stallion, the family's ruthless refusal to let go begins to feel less like grief -- and far harder to diagnose.
All Secrets Known In The Puppet House by u/Porcupincake
Prompt: Contemporary Gothic Horror
Condition: Include a nontraditional romance
Restriction: Set somewhere that isn't the countryside
Logline: When an idealistic young caretaker arrives at the house of her elderly client (a once celebrated puppeteer), she discovers his old son is already living there in secret and doing her job against the family’s wishes.
Prompt: B-Movie Horror Comedy
Condition: The entire story takes place over a single night
Restriction: One of your lead protagonists has to die
Logline: Left for dead after being robbed of her limbs and various other body parts, a young woman, with the help of a jaded prosthetics engineer and a peculiar newfound ability, sets out to take down the billionaire elites who dismantled her and get her body parts back.
Billy Bear's Magic Matinee by u/Rankin_Fithian
Prompt: Creepypasta
Condition: Features nostalgia for a certain era
Restriction: The danger is non-paranormal
Logline: Loner Peter just wants to relive some good memories of a bygone childhood. The journey to uncover his once-favorite local access TV show spirals out from the annals of the internet into real-life shock and horror.
The Voice From The Screen by u/thenewmrtate
Prompt: Lovecraftian Horror
Condition: Takes place in Hollywood
Restriction: You cannot use anything from the established mythos as the framework of your story, all main characters/creatures/monsters/gods must be your own (you can however, reference things within the mythos, as long as they don't play an important part in your story)
Logline: In 1926 Hollywood, a reporter and a private investigator uncover sinister forces beyond comprehension as they pull the thread on a terrifying mystery involving the film industry elite, organized crime, and the emerging technology of sound in pictures.
Prompt: see logline
Condition: The MC is brash and rude.
Restriction: Bouts of amnesia complicate things
Logline: Returning to her small island hometown for her brother's funeral, a bestselling author confronts her dark past while investigating a local murder.
I Put A Spell On You by u/Pantserforlife
Prompt: Witchcraft
Condition: Liminal Spaces
Restriction: Antagonist gets their way and it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Logline: No logline provided
Please join us over at r/screenplaychallenge for script discussions, a link to our discord server, and past and future contests
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
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poetryDid u hear about the Rose that grew from a crack
in the concrete
Proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet
Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams
It learned 2 breathe fresh air
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
When no one else even cared!
- Tupac Shakur
Rituals (1977)
Apr. 24th, 2026 03:03 pmallthingshorror_feedThis movie was a very intentionally grainy film and I love it. Very well paced this film has a near silent antagonist stalking his prey. I say near silent because while he never says it on screen He does utter his brother's name when killing one of the main characters. This film especially it's finale is going to stick for quite some time. 9.6/10.
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I never said why I want a better backpack
Apr. 24th, 2026 09:41 amthe_shoshannaWhee! and also 😱
The Channel Islands were the runner-up for choice of destination last year, but we decided to go to Wales instead -- partly because we could do a supported hike there. But the hike turned out to be on the verge of too hard for us; apparently we are several years older than we were the last time we did one, which is just unfair. Anyway, this year we're just going to park ourselves in one place -- well, two places, ten days each on Jersey and Guernsey - and do day hikes out and back. Both islands seem to have good bus systems, so we should generally be able to take a bus to a starting point, hike for *mumble* hours, and catch another bus home. And we'll try to do a day trip to Herm, or maybe Sark, but Herm looks more appealing if we only go to one.It's a little strange and stressful planning a trip entirely on our own! I mean, we had time on our own in Wales after we finished the supported hike, but we expected to be exhausted, so "eh, we'll just noodle around Aberystwyth and visit the National Library" was plenty of planning. Here, though, I keep trying to research specific hikes we could do, and getting overwhelmed by the confusing and incomplete way info is presented. Like, a site just gives a text list of walks, but I want to see them plotted on a map so I can tell where they are relative to where we're staying. An app tells how to get to the beginning of a hike by bus, but gives no information about what buses can get us home from the end. Another site shows walks on a map but says nothing about how to get to them, so I have to have the walking site, the island's bus route map (very schematic and abstract), and Google Maps open to try to cross-check bus routes and stop locations. After a while I just throw up my hands and hope that the tourist info places will have better info on site.
(Ahahahah, I initially typed "better" as "beer," and, well, yes please, that too.)
We have booked a couple of activities in advance. The seabed slopes very gradually away around the islands, so when the tide goes out it goes waaaaaaay out, and we have booked a three-hour guided walk across the exposed sea floor, which sounds amazing; and the next day we've booked a couple hours of guided sea kayaking around the coastline. Other than that, though, we're winging it!
Well, winging the day-to-day part. We have booked our hotels and our ferry tickets between Jersey and Guernsey in advance, because I don't feel comfortable trying to arrange things like that on the fly. And after our hotel snafu in Aberystwyth, I have made sure to directly contact each hotel with a plausible-sounding query ("we'll be arriving before our room is likely to be ready, would we be able to drop our luggage off?" is always a good one) that translates to "please confirm that you have actually received our reservation and planned for our arrival"! Yes, this wouldn't be a problem if I booked directly instead of going through Booking.com, but the fact is that many hotels don't have direct booking anymore; they outsource it all to third parties like B.c.
And of course there's the ongoing uncertainly about the world's supply of jet fuel. Will we be able to get home? Geoff keeps bringing this question up, and saying we ought to look into our options if there's a problem, but he doesn't come up with anything really actionable. Other than exploring UK-to-CA cruises? But I'm like, there is absolutely nothing we can do to affect the possibility of our being stranded for a bit; if British Airways cancels our flight it will be on them to find us an alternate means of travel; it will still be both faster and cheaper to wait for a new flight than to try to sail across; we are fortunate enough to have the ability to absorb an unexpected extra few nights in a hotel if necessary; sweetie, you are stressed about this and you're dealing with your stress by just venting it in my direction, please stop. I mean, yes, it's a stressful prospect (and I acknowledge that the whole goddamn world is a stressful prospect right now and "what if our vacation in a few days longer and more stressful than planned?" is completely a "diamond shoes gave me a blister" problem), but since there is absolutely nothing we can do I prefer not to spend nervous energy on it, thanks.
Anyway, on top of all that hiking, we want to visit some of the Neolithic passage tombs, and also some of the museums of the Nazi occupation. *shiver* And I plan to eat my own weight in seafood, although Geoff won't join me in that. And maybe we will even lounge about!
Chopping Mall (1986)
Apr. 24th, 2026 02:23 pmallthingshorror_feedWhat a fun film. I mean it's a sci-fi slasher about killer security robots what's not to love. It is a goofy ass movie that takes itself seriously enough to still have some genuine tension and scares. 8.5/10
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29 Heartwarming Friday Felines for a Gentle Meowment of Soft Kitten Serenity
Apr. 24th, 2026 06:30 amicanhascheezburger_feedFridays seem like they should be the calmest day of the week, but that's the farthest from the truth it can be. As everyone rushes to get everything done before the weekend, you can catch us as cool as a cucumber thanks to these wholesome felines full of soft kitten serenity.
Fridays feel like everyone all of a sudden remembered that they have a hundred unfinished projects that must be finished by 5 PM. Where was all of this energy and work on Tuesday? Finish this, close that deal, let's meet with this client before the weekend - all combined with a feline frantic rush of stress that the world will end if they don't cross all these things off their To-Do list before Saturday. We try not to let it get to us, but when you're stuck in an office with everyone running around like a crazed chicken, you can only hold out for so long before you start pulling your hair out.
We have a few techniques to stave off the Friday stress, one of them is hiding in the bathroom and taking a nap in the stall, but that can get pawsitively pungent. Our preferred choice, and a much less smelly one at that, is to feed our brains with something that counteracts stress, and for us, that's heartwarming kitties.
Think kittens napping in the tiniest boxes, black cats blepping with the best of them, and silly orange cats with one purrfectly useless brain cell making the derpiest faces your hooman brain can only dream of. They're the purrfect antidote to all that Friday stress, and without them, we'd be as bald as a Sphynx cat by now. Enjoy this soft landing of fluffy felines for the end of your work week, and we hope you have a purrfectly pleasant weekend!
icanhascheezburger_feedMacho on the outside, a softie who baby-talks at your cats behind your back on the inside. The cutest 30-year-old tough-guy roommate.
A part of you always worries about the way that your roommates treat your cats when you're not there. You're afraid of the worst. Because you're the internet, and you have seen the worst. You have seen roommates steal cats, locking them in their rooms. You have seen roommates mistreat cats and expect you to take care of them. You have seen roommates allow cats to escape and then act like they didn't do anything all that wrong. And then, something good happens with your cat and roommate, and somehow, that is way more shocking than the other stuff.
Having a manly, macho 30-year-old man roommate who is indifferent to your cats kind of seems like a good deal in comparison to all of the other things that we have seen. Indifference is not positive, maybe, but it's certainly not negative either. Catching that manly macho man baby-talking at your cats behind your back when he thinks that you are not home to see it, shocked into stillness when he sees you looking… yeah, that's much better. We wish all roommates were like this dude.
annoyingly annoyed
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What I saw on the web on 2026.4.23
Apr. 24th, 2026 07:56 amreblogarythm- All of humanity is on this card.
by Jessica Hagy
https://thisisindexed.com/2026/04/all-of-humanity-is-on-this-card/
i feel seen
via rss - What if Columbo could regenerate like Doctor Who
by Christopher Bird
https://bsky.app/profile/mightygodking.com/post/3mjzmr6clqs2j
including detailed discussion of all the choices of actors
via discord - Monkey out of Me
by Troy McClure et al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy6CFTMnYa4
it was Earth all along!
via it suddenly getting stuck in my head - Monstrous octopus terrorized seas off B.C. in Age of Dinosaurs, study suggests
by Emily Chung
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/giant-octopus-fossil-9.6956377
in case you need some ancient gigantic octopodes
via rss
All my friends hate me is a great shift in perspective movie (spoilers)
Apr. 24th, 2026 12:16 pmallthingshorror_feedIt's about a guy who suspects his friends have a problem with him because of one rando's manipulations, only to learn that all of his friends genuinely hate him purely by their own free will. Even more, by the end of it, his friends manage to successfully convince him that their hatred of him is his own fault.
Now, brainwashed and uncertain about his own reality, the guy is about to marry a girl who is just like them and have to deal with psychopathy disguised as humor every day until he probably commits murder sui.
Brilliant tension. I can't believe the movie is listed as a comedy thriller/horror, I was completely ignoring it because of that. The movie is a comedy as much as his friends are comedians, and if that's your sense of humor then every horror is really a comedy because people in distress are hilarious.
Highly recommended.
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Movies that are “fun” & completely take your attention suggestions please
Apr. 24th, 2026 11:14 amallthingshorror_feedHi
I’m looking for horror movies that are exciting, fun(not funny- a little bit of comedy throughout is okay, but still being scary) and will basically distract me from my thoughts for a little while.
I’ve been binging horror movies the past few months as they make my brain go quiet, which is what I need.(I am in therapy & all that, incase people suggest it lol)
Issue is, I feel as if I’ve run out of movies now.
I love FF but have seen 90% of the ones suggested.
I also love psychological horrors(the invitation, the gift, coherence, Midsommar, who invited them, the endless)
Fun horrors to me include - Cabin in the woods, all the slashers(scream,ready or not, totally killer etc), Megan, Smile.
Can anyone suggest movies that have the same vibe of the invitation/coherance(takes place in one house)?
Or just an engaging fun easy horror?
The more suggestions the better because as I’ve said, there’s a high chance I’ve seen them.
Ps apologies this post is very disjointed
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23 Meowgical Cat Memes Full of Mischief and Marvel
Apr. 24th, 2026 04:00 amicanhascheezburger_feedCats have a special talent for creating chaos in the most innocent, endearing way possible. That's why we've collected this collection of juxtaposing cat vibes just for your scrolling pleasure.
Cats really do span so many different vibes. Maybe you're in a chill mood and just want to veg on the couch in a hoodie and bag of Cheetos. Cats will be there for it. But what if you want to dance in your living room with chaotic music that you never want anyone to see you listening to? They also want to be a part of that vibe; they'll happily accept the zoomies while you're dancing to your own chaos. Cats have a meowgical mischief to them. It starts with their endless fascination and curiosity about the world, and goes into places that you never expect. Their sneakiness is playful, and their whole demeaner is just too adorably innocent for anyone to tell them to stop.
We forgive these mischievous animals for basically anything. At I Can Has Cheezburger, we accept cats no matter how chaotic they are. We're big believers in fate, and if your cat knocked your keys off the table, well I guess that's just how the fates would have it for you. So please scroll below for the silliest and best meowgical cat memes full of mischief.
3 weeks for dreamwidth!
Apr. 24th, 2026 08:52 ammelagan
3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥
There's going to be a dent in my planned posting because I'll be visiting family in the middle of this. But I want to cheer everyone on!
24 Uplifting Pics of Cute Cats To Cure Your Case of a Fluffing Bad Day
Apr. 24th, 2026 03:15 amicanhascheezburger_feedBad days happen to the very best of us, but it is not the day which is the obstacle, it is what we decide to do with it. Which is why we made this list of uplifting cat pics to give you something good to do.
After all, starting something is the hardest step you will ever take. Once you have started it is much easier to keep going and get deeper and deeper in to the fine details. But getting your engine going, that is the tough part. So considering that is the main obstacle to overcome we figured we would get out ahead of the problem and deal with it for you. Hence this lovely list of mood boosting cat children doing cute and crazy things.
Once you have given yourself a good scroll of these meowtivating cat children then there is a good chance you will go on to see more, to feel better and to generally be more on top of being proactive in your self care. As such, we invite you to jump in and get the ball rolling on feeling better and taking this day from a bad one to a brilliant one.
travel: Georgia - Kutaisi
Apr. 24th, 2026 08:52 pmtielan( Day 5: I'm not even going to talk about the wine... )