WRITING
FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
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VINYL
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: HORROR // SUPERNATURAL
*official selection in Horrorigins Film Festival 2020
When a grieving young man inherits a vintage record player after the sudden suicide of his best friend, a sinister melody turns his mourning into a nightmare.
THE FORTNIGHT
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: HORROR // CREATURE FEATURE
When a mysterious evil emerges from the coal mines of Brentwood Bluffs for the first time in decades, a mining magnate and his illustrious family must survive a lockdown known as The Fortnight, or face the wrath of the beast.
SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER
by Adam Santa Cruz & Ryan Santa Cruz
GENRE: ACTION COMEDY // CHRISTMAS
A Christmas-obsessed teen unwittingly joins a drug ring when he lands his dream job as one of “Santa’s Little Helpers,” but as the police catch on, he must prove his innocence by exposing jolly old kingpin, St. Nick.
URN
by Adam Santa Cruz & Ryan Santa Cruz
GENRE: ACTION COMEDY
After being unceremoniously removed from their billionaire grandfather’s will, two trust fund kids hold his ashes hostage in an attempt to steal back their inheritance.
PILOT SCREENPLAYS
WALTZ OF THE WICKED
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: YA DRAMA // HORROR
After an elite ballroom dancer vanishes from the cutthroat St. Vitus Academy, her twin brother must uncover the truth behind her disappearance, and fight the dark presence that threatens the lives of him and the other students.
ATARAXIA
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: YA DRAMA // HORROR
When group of college friends attends the music festival of the summer they must survive a series of horrific events alongside a bus full of mysteriously beautiful hippies with a secret.
GHOST LIGHT
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: YA DRAMA // HORROR
When a young ingenue breaks a notoriously ill-fated theatre’s ghost light after landing her big break, she must face the horrifying curse that she has unleashed.
SHORT SCREENPLAYS
PEOPLE DIE
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: HORROR // SLASHER
*Top 10 Finalist in Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition 2023
One year after surviving a horrific massacre on his college campus, the sole-survivor of a notorious serial killer must reclaim his life from the grief and paranoia that haunts him.
FREE SPIRIT
by Adam Santa Cruz & Ryan Santa Cruz
GENRE: HORROR // FOUND FOOTAGE
In the summer of 1973, a young music journalist lands the opportunity to profile an up-and-coming rock band with a mysterious secret. After a Hollywood Hills afterparty takes a sinister turn, her camera may hold the only truth behind their fates, and the evil that took place there.
HALLOWE’EN NIGHT
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: HORROR // SLASHER
When a sheltered college student begins to receive threatening greeting cards, he quickly realizes that staying home alone on Halloween night may not have been the safest option.
PAPARAZZI
by Adam Santa Cruz
GENRE: HORROR // SLASHER
When the young stars of Hollywood’s hottest new soap, “Whispering Heights,” start receiving threatening fan mail, they must unmask their stalker or risk being killed off just like their TV characters.