the 13 MOVIE screenplays created by
Lee Andrew Taylor
So far -
The first 8 screenplays written by Lee Andrew Taylor
DEAD GULCH
(a Zombie Western horror)
Logline – When the town of Dead Gulch becomes infected with the recent, walking dead, a sheriff, Indian chief, and a drunk ex-outlaw must team up to save the day.
1 paragraph pitch –
After an Indian Chief’s daughter becomes too sick for the medicine man to heal, he takes a bottle of elixir from a travelling salesman to cure her. But she dies and wakes again as a super-strong demon, killing tribes people who rise to infect others. The town of Dead Gulch comes under attack by a new breed of enemy that wants to eat them, consisting of Indians and the recently buried, but can the sheriff and his band of local helpers win against an undead army led by the chief’s daughter who moves swiftly in the darkness?
the Devil's Diary
(horror/thriller)
Logline – After a woman takes a book that collects souls, she becomes haunted by a mysterious man who wants it back. But if he gets it will her soul end up inside it?
1 paragraph pitch –
A woman steals a book from an old bookstore but is left shocked after seeing images of tortured souls inside it. The images disappear, leaving the pages empty for new souls. Whoever looks inside the book will die horrifically and end up as an image, but can the woman get rid of the book before the Devil returns to reclaim it?
BEDBUGS
(can you see them?)
(a sci-fi horror with
traces of comedy)
based on my novel.
Logline - An unsolved murder case from
73 years earlier comes back to haunt a police
chief after recent deaths are linked to the
original crime that his grandfather witnessed.
1 paragraph pitch –
Night, night, sleep tight, & don’t let the bedbugs bite!!
A dark shadow, consisting of thousands of alien bedbugs,
is eating its way through the town of Lemonsville, murdering
people in the night. It leaves the police chief struggling to
solve the mystery of why the shadow is back after being
dormant for the past seventy-three years. But can he save
the people before the bedbugs and their dormant queen
wipes out the town?
The S.T.A.R.S Project
(a killer rat story)
based on my novel.
Logline – The blood of a rat is used to help heal the sick, but when rats escape a lab and go on a killing spree, a police chief must decide whether to catch them because of their uses. Or destroy them.
1 paragraph pitch –
When hungry rats trap a chief inspector and a group of police officers inside a farmhouse, they have to work together to find a way out. It leads them to investigate why the rats escaped a nearby laboratory. But will they catch the rats, knowing their blood is used to help cure the sick? Or will they destroy them before more people are killed?
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Shark Cove
(Killer shark horror)
Logline - A father and his high school
sweetheart become trapped inside a beach
cave by a killer shark, leaving them fighting
for survival as the shark torments them.
1 paragraph pitch –
When a father’s sons go on their annual surfing
vacation without him, it takes him on a journey
to find them. He bumps into his ex-girlfriend,
who’s out petitioning to clean up the local beach,
and two friends of his sons. They follow him
towards the cove, but, after a storm blows and
the tide comes in, a shark attacks to leave them
trapped. It torments them, scaring them, but will
they find a way back to shore before the shark
picks them off one by one?
Blood Twins
(Vampire horror/comedy)
Logline – After seventeen years of living with vampires, a teenage girl must find a way to escape before they work out how to hunt in the daylight without her.
1 paragraph pitch
After one-year-old twins, taken by separate vampire cults, meet for the first time in seventeen years, the brother rescues his sister from the ruthless vampires she lives with. But can they convince the police to help before an experiment to allow the vampires to hunt in the daylight is used?
The cat that Fetches
(Family thriller)
Logline – A murder case from twenty-five years ago comes back to haunt a father and his family after he moves them into the house where his mother was killed.
1 paragraph pitch
After a family moves into the father’s childhood home, they buy a cat that fetches items thrown. But, after the son’s friend takes a key that the cat brought into the house, he disappears with his girlfriend to leave the son accusing his neighbour of taking them. He spies on the neighbour but the police warn him off, but, after he finds out who was killed in his house, realises he may be spying on the wrong person.
The Land at the End of the Trees
(Family animation style)
Logline – After a boy finds a key that opens a door into an animation world, he leaves it open for a cartoon enemy to escape into his. Now he must stop them before they find the key to controlling both worlds.
1 paragraph pitch
When a boy and his sister visit their grandmother at the edge of a forest, he finds a key wrapped in old cloth with a riddle-style map engraved. It leads him to a large oak tree where he enters a cartoon world, but, as he befriends a cartoon family, their enemy escapes into his. Now, the boy needs the cartoon family’s help to rescue his grandmother before the enemy finds the key to controlling both worlds.