🏆 Logline Contest Winners

Celebrating the best loglines from our screenwriting community

DAILY WINNER
Oct 31, 2025

"When a remote Colorado town is ravaged by a genetically engineered blight that binds animal instincts to mountain life, a wildlife officer discovers her missing father's secret project—and the infection that killed him has made her the last, terrible line of defense."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it combines a high-concept sci-fi horror premise with personal stakes and broad market appeal, offering a compelling and timely narrative.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a genetically engineered blight merging animal instincts with humans is highly unique and memorable, tapping into fears of biotechnology and primal horror.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to sci-fi and horror fans with its thrilling, high-stakes premise reminiscent of popular films like 'The Thing,' appealing to audiences interested in environmental and scientific thrillers.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with strong conflict, as the protagonist's personal connection to her father's secret project raises emotional stakes and drives intense action against a spreading threat.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 30, 2025
APEX

"When a wildlife officer investigating a brutal, inexplicable attack uncovers a buried army lab and a fungal intelligence that is turning the Rockies into a living hive, she must choose between stopping the contagion or becoming the mountain’s final, terrifying apex."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it delivers a fresh, high-stakes sci-fi horror premise that blends real-world ecological fears with intense action and moral conflict, making it highly engaging and marketable.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a fungal intelligence transforming the Rockies into a living hive is highly unique and compelling, tapping into primal fears of nature gone wrong in a memorable way.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to a broad audience interested in contemporary eco-horror and thriller genres, especially given the timeliness of contagion and environmental themes.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers strong narrative potential with escalating conflicts, high personal and global stakes, and a protagonist's moral dilemma in stopping a spreading threat.
Script: APEX
By: Dane
Horror 50% Thriller 40% Science Fiction 25% Action 30% Drama 25% Fantasy 15%
From the Author:

I draw most of my inspiration from the state of Colorado

APEX
DAILY WINNER
Oct 29, 2025

"A grieving engineer whose world is literally woven into a cosmic Connection Matrix will risk everything — and bargain with a sentient satellite AI — to pull back the single thread that cost him his wife, only to discover every rescue has a catastrophic price."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly original and emotionally charged sci-fi premise that combines personal loss with cosmic consequences, offering a fresh and compelling narrative idea.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a grieving engineer bargaining with a sentient AI in a cosmic matrix to alter the past is highly unique, compelling, and memorable, blending personal emotion with grand-scale science fiction.
  • Audience Appeal: It has strong marketability among sci-fi enthusiasts and those interested in AI themes, though its niche elements may limit broader appeal compared to more conventional genres.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a rich narrative with intense personal conflict, high stakes involving catastrophic consequences, and deep emotional layers through the engineer's journey and moral dilemmas.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 28, 2025

"When a demon cult prepares to tear open a portal during a once-in-a-millennia planetary alignment, a young psychiatrist inheriting both a haunted family fortune and her mother’s occult gifts must become the last line of defense to stop the invasion — even if victory costs her everything."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a high-stakes supernatural thriller with a unique blend of personal legacy and cosmic horror, providing strong hook, appeal, and narrative depth.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a psychiatrist inheriting occult gifts to stop a demon cult during a planetary alignment is highly unique and memorable, merging psychological elements with epic horror.
  • Audience Appeal: It has broad marketability, appealing to horror and supernatural thriller fans with its high-concept premise and universal stakes of good versus evil.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a compelling narrative with intense conflicts, high personal and global stakes, and opportunities for character growth and escalating tension.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 27, 2025

"When his science-officer wife is fused to an alien crystalline consciousness and falls into stasis, a battle-tested starship captain must lead a ragtag crew into the future—into the arms of a mysterious intelligence—to recover her and prevent a threat that spans millennia."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its high-concept sci-fi premise that masterfully blends personal stakes with epic, universe-threatening conflict, offering broad appeal and rich narrative potential.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a starship captain racing through time to save his wife fused to an alien consciousness is highly unique and memorable, combining intimate drama with cosmic scale.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable to sci-fi fans and general audiences who enjoy thrilling space adventures, with strong potential for visual effects and cross-demographic draw.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a compelling narrative with high stakes, deep character conflicts, and a multi-layered plot involving time-spanning threats and personal redemption.
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Oct 26, 2025

"A grief-haunted ex-FBI agent hunts the analog reincarnation of a murderous AI through a ruined, retrofitted world of typewriters, cathode-ray cores and church bell transmitters — and must confront the creator who birthed the monster if he hopes to rescue the wife he lost to the machine."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

This concept was selected over the runner-up because it combines high-stakes action with timely AI themes and broader commercial potential, whereas the runner-up focuses more on intimate emotional exploration without the same level of visceral excitement.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"After a small-town hum opens a tear between parallel domestic realities, a grieving designer trapped between worlds must race the boundary of erasure to find the husband who vanished — before she fades from her own life forever."

It stands out with its innovative use of parallel universes to explore deep themes of grief and identity, creating a visually striking and emotionally resonant narrative.

DAILY WINNER
Oct 26, 2025

"When an openly queer artist leads a daring Resistance attack on the Nazi Population Registry, he must face the brutal cost of defiance when his former lover—now an SS commander—returns to pronounce judgment."

Why This Won:
This concept wins due to its highly original blend of personal romantic conflict and high-stakes historical drama, offering a fresh and emotionally charged perspective on WWII resistance.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of an openly queer artist facing off against his former lover turned SS commander in a resistance attack is uniquely compelling and memorable for its intimate betrayal within a grand historical context.
  • Audience Appeal: The concept is marketable to a broad audience interested in WWII dramas and LGBTQ+ stories, with timely relevance that could attract both mainstream viewers and awards consideration.
  • Story Potential: It promises a gripping narrative with strong conflicts between personal relationships and wartime loyalties, high stakes involving life and death, and deep emotional and moral dilemmas.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 25, 2025

"A grief-haunted farmhand and lisping former high-school lineman must walk on at Auburn to win back his family farm—facing boosters, a brutal SEC, and his own fear—with one last, improbable touchdown as the town’s fate hangs in the balance."

Why This Won:
This concept won as the sole entry by delivering a strong, emotionally charged underdog story with high-stakes sports drama.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a grief-stricken farmhand using college football to reclaim his family's legacy is unique and memorable, blending personal trauma with athletic spectacle.
  • Audience Appeal: The concept appeals to sports enthusiasts and fans of inspirational dramas, with its heartland setting and redemption arc making it marketable to a broad American audience.
  • Story Potential: It promises a compelling narrative with multilayered conflicts, including internal fears, external rivalries in the SEC, and high stakes tied to the town's survival.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 24, 2025

"When a covert SOG recovery mission goes disastrously wrong, a haunted operative must confront the man he once called brother — now a superheated weapon created by the same secret program that turned them both — and stop a new generation of augmented killers before they reshape warfare."

Why This Won:
This concept wins due to its compelling blend of personal betrayal and high-stakes action in a sci-fi setting, offering rich emotional depth and broad narrative possibilities.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of an operative confronting his augmented brother from a shared secret program is highly unique and memorable, combining family drama with sci-fi elements in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable to fans of action-thrillers and sci-fi genres, with clear appeal similar to successful films involving augmented humans and personal conflicts.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises strong conflict through personal transformation, loyalty dilemmas, and global stakes in stopping augmented killers, allowing for a dynamic and engaging narrative.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 23, 2025

"A grief-haunted ex-FBI agent hunts the analog reincarnation of a murderous AI through a ruined, retrofitted world of typewriters, cathode-ray cores and church bell transmitters — and must confront the creator who birthed the monster if he hopes to rescue the wife he lost to the machine."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly original and compelling blend of sci-fi elements with personal grief, offering a fresh hook, strong marketability, and deep narrative potential.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of hunting a murderous AI reincarnated in analog form is highly unique and memorable, blending technology horror with a personal vendetta effectively.
  • Audience Appeal: It taps into current fears about AI and technology, making it marketable to sci-fi and thriller audiences who enjoy high-concept stories with emotional stakes.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with intense conflict between the agent's personal loss and the global threat, allowing for strong character development and high stakes.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 22, 2025

"After a small-town hum opens a tear between parallel domestic realities, a grieving designer trapped between worlds must race the boundary of erasure to find the husband who vanished — before she fades from her own life forever."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its highly original and emotionally charged sci-fi premise involving parallel realities and personal erasure, which combines strong hook, broad appeal, and narrative depth better than the others.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a tear between parallel realities causing the protagonist to risk fading from existence is uniquely compelling and memorable, blending high-concept sci-fi with profound personal stakes.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable with its timely multiverse theme and emotional core of grief and love, attracting a wide audience including sci-fi enthusiasts and those drawn to character-driven thrillers.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with intense conflict, high stakes of personal erasure and a race to save a loved one, offering opportunities for deep character development and suspenseful twists.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 21, 2025

"A hapless Bronx car salesman on the run after a blind date massacre is mistaken for a legendary assassin—now he must survive Valentine’s Day, a mob boss’s vendetta, and the revelation that the mysterious Red Rose who’s been protecting him is the absentee father he never knew."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly memorable and unique hook involving mistaken identity and a personal family twist, strong audience appeal in the action-comedy genre, and excellent story potential with layered conflicts and high stakes.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
DAILY WINNER
Oct 20, 2025

"A fresh-faced college grad takes his first day selling cars at a morally bankrupt dealership and must decide how far he'll go to pay rent, keep his fiancée, and survive a system that rewards lies."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its relatable and compelling exploration of moral dilemmas in a high-pressure sales world, offering strong character-driven conflict and broad audience appeal through everyday stakes.
Hook Strength 7/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 8/10
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Oct 19, 2025
TIME TRACKER

"A burned-out ex-CIA operative haunted by Arthurian dreams must learn to time-travel with the help of a wisecracking Merlin to stop a presidential investigator’s assassination, discover who murdered his parents, and save a makeshift family — before the past and future erase everything he loves."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

Chosen over the runner-up for its innovative fusion of time-travel, Arthurian mythology, and personal redemption, which creates a more layered and emotionally complex narrative with broader thematic appeal, compared to the runner-up's more singular focus on sci-fi action and individual heroism.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"When a former girl-scout-turned-wrestler discovers she carries a fragment of an alien meteorite in her arm, she must race against a megalomaniacal scientist to rescue her kidnapped father and stop a weapon that can rewrite life itself."

This concept shines with its fresh blend of wrestling and sci-fi elements, offering high-stakes action, strong character development, and a compelling female protagonist that could translate into a visually dynamic and emotionally engaging film.

Fantasy 30% Action 25% Thriller 35% Drama 40% Romance 15% Comedy 15%
From the Author:

Coming to grips with a loved one's death is a powerful theme. Yet it can be placed into a comedy, adventure or thriller, all of which I've written. I created these screenplays motivated subconsciously by the death of my younger son, David (See THE SEARCH: A Mystical Journey on Amazon).

TIME TRACKER
DAILY WINNER
Oct 19, 2025
TIME TRACKER

"A burned-out ex-CIA operative haunted by Arthurian dreams must learn to time-travel with the help of a wisecracking Merlin to stop a presidential investigator’s assassination, discover who murdered his parents, and save a makeshift family — before the past and future erase everything he loves."

Why This Won:
This concept's innovative blend of espionage, time-travel, and Arthurian mythology creates a highly original hook that merges high-stakes action with personal redemption, making it commercially viable for a broad audience through spectacular visuals and emotional depth that could drive box office success.
Fantasy 30% Action 25% Thriller 35% Drama 40% Romance 15% Comedy 15%
From the Author:

I've always been fascinated by time travel, especially since I believe all time is NOW. I'd love to go back in time to find out if Shakespeare really wrote the plays with his name on them. And like my hero Adam, to discover things hidden in my own past. The pieces of this screenplay are unique, and I believe the story could be a tentpole for a franchise.

TIME TRACKER
DAILY WINNER
Oct 18, 2025

"An undefeated, retired boxing champion is pulled back into the ring when a tech company engineers an AI-generated viral fight to humiliate a social-media star — but when the company offers to fund the champion's granddaughter’s life-saving treatment in exchange for one last bout, he must risk everything for a second chance at glory and family."

Why This Won:
This concept innovatively merges the classic underdog sports comeback with contemporary AI themes, offering a fresh hook that combines high-stakes action and emotional family drama, making it highly marketable to a wide audience including sports enthusiasts and tech-savvy viewers who would be drawn to its thrilling trailer potential and relatable character arcs.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 17, 2025
friends in High Placesw

"When a warm-hearted, forty-something London receptionist who talks to angels decides to stop waiting for life to happen, her meddling, glamorous guardian angel forces her into messy, hilarious attempts at career reinvention, love, and purpose."

Why This Won:
This concept masterfully blends everyday life struggles with a fantastical guardian angel element, offering a fresh and humorous take on personal reinvention that has broad commercial appeal to audiences seeking uplifting, relatable stories with laugh-out-loud moments and emotional depth.
By: Rosemary
Drama 40% Fantasy 20% Comedy 30% Romance 25%
From the Author:

Friends in High Places is inspired by my personal experience.

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DAILY WINNER
Oct 16, 2025
Perfect Moments

"A meticulous brand strategist whose life is built around perfect timing begins experiencing literal 'rewinds'—moments of sensory collapse that undo her instincts. As her panic episodes threaten her work and the new relationship she’s finally allowed herself to have, she must decide whether to keep editing the world to feel safe, or surrender to the messy human moments that make love possible."

Why This Won:
This concept brilliantly combines a supernatural 'rewind' ability with themes of anxiety and human connection, offering a fresh psychological twist that can captivate audiences through its emotional depth and relatable character journey, making it highly marketable for both indie and mainstream appeal with strong potential for viral buzz and repeat viewings.
Script: Perfect Moments
Drama 60% Fantasy 30% Romance 40% Comedy 20%
View Analysis
From the Author:

I'm always interested in finding new ways to explore universal themes and situations.

Perfect Moments
DAILY WINNER
Oct 16, 2025
Deoxy

"A guilt‑haunted FBI agent who joined to save the innocent must protect a young woman who can speak to a changing Earth, while a shadowy government project decides whether to weaponize, contain—or destroy—the next stage of human evolution."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out with its original blend of sci-fi thriller elements and environmental themes, offering a fresh take on human evolution that immediately hooks audiences with high-stakes protection and moral dilemmas. It has strong commercial viability, appealing to a wide demographic through exciting action sequences and profound character arcs that could foster deep emotional connections and box office success.
Script: Deoxy
By: John John
Action 30% Crime 15% Drama 40% Fantasy 20% Science Fiction 25% Thriller 25% War 10%
From the Author:

My goal is simple: to craft bold, emotionally charged stories that feel one headline away from reality.

Deoxy
DAILY WINNER
Oct 15, 2025

"A Hollywood 'sweetheart' who’s been living by other people's scripts secretly begins stripping in a Van Nuys club and, through a double life as a dancer, rediscovers the messy freedom to choose herself — even after a tabloid leak threatens to destroy everything she’s built."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out for its fresh exploration of a celebrity's double life, blending high-stakes Hollywood drama with themes of personal empowerment and raw authenticity, creating an immediate hook that captivates audiences. Its marketability is enhanced by the universal appeal of scandal and self-discovery, evoking excitement for visually dynamic scenes and emotional resonance that could draw wide demographics to theaters.