screenplay contest winner announced
Winner of unofficial Paranormal Activity screenplay challenge announced.
Well, we’ve struggled with some technical issues (why oh why do hackers think we want a flaming skull on our homepage?) but we’ve finally got control of the site back, and we can announce the (belated) winner of our second screenplay writing challenge: The End.
As a reminder, we asked you to submit your best shot at rewriting the ending of 2009′s most successful horror film, Paranormal Activity. Our referee was the awesome Denise Gossett, scream queen and founder of the Shriekfest Film Festival.
So who took the prize? Read more 
Denise Gossett signs on as new challenge referee
Write Club Screenplay Challenge announces new screenplay contest referee Denise Gossett.
We’re stoked to announce the referee for our second challenge, Write a New Ending for Paranormal Activity.
Denise Gossett is the founder and Director of the Shriekfest Horror and Sci Fi Film Festival, which runs in L.A. each October, and an actor. A certified Scream Queen in her own right, Denise has seen a lot of screenplays come through her festival, as well as of course having appeared in a few flicks herself: Carnies, Fright Club, The River, Decaying Orbit, Chain of Souls, Nightwatch, Sheila Takes a Bow, When Silence is Dangerous, Self Inflicted, Crustacean, and tons more!
We appreciate her making some time in her extremely busy schedule. Read more
Challenge Two – the end.
UPDATE: Winner announced!
** SPOILERS ** This screenplay contest assumes the entrant has seen the film Paranormal Activity, and knows how it ends. Virgins tread no further lest the cherry be popped.
Is it too soon for this?
As you may know from my review of Paranormal Activity, I’m a fan of 98% of the film. The last 3o seconds, however? Not so much.
And I’m not alone. The film has developed into quite a phenomenon, and so has the heated discussion around the supposed “studio imposed” ending. This thread at Roger Really has information about two other alleged endings, and the comments section makes for good reading on the variety of reactions to all the alternatives. Likewise the IMDB forums for the film. Or HorrorSquad. Read more
