🏆 Logline Contest Winners

Celebrating the best loglines from our screenwriting community

DAILY WINNER
Nov 15, 2025

"A small-town deputy haunted by his brother's unsolved murder races to catch a charming, psychotic killer— a woman guided by the voice and lessons of her dead father—before she buries another life and vanishes into the 1970s night."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a highly original psychological thriller with strong emotional stakes and broad marketability, distinguishing it from the other ideas.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 10/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a psychotic killer guided by her dead father's voice is unique and memorable, blending personal trauma with suspense in a compelling way.
  • Audience Appeal: Serial killer thrillers have a large, enthusiastic audience in Hollywood, with timeless appeal for fans of crime dramas and psychological suspense.
  • Story Potential: The narrative promises high-stakes conflict through the deputy's personal vendetta and the killer's elusive nature, allowing for deep character development and intense twists.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 14, 2025

"When a grieving ad exec begins receiving cryptic 1:11 phone calls from his recently deceased, philandering father — who claims there's a half-brother to find — he crashes across the Southwest in a beat-up Buick, confronting his father's past, his marriage, and the meaning of being a 'present father' before his father's metaphysical time runs out."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it masterfully blends a unique supernatural element with emotional family drama and high-stakes adventure, creating a compelling and marketable narrative core.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of receiving cryptic calls from a dead father is highly unique and memorable, effectively merging grief, mystery, and the supernatural into a fresh concept.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to a wide audience that enjoys emotional, character-driven stories with fantastical elements, similar to successful films like 'The Sixth Sense', ensuring broad appeal.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers strong narrative potential with escalating conflicts, high personal stakes involving family secrets and a ticking clock, promising an engaging and emotionally resonant story.
Script: What the World Needs Now
By: Richard
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DAILY WINNER
Nov 13, 2025

"When a quiet poet leads a rag-tag group of artists, tailors and students to bomb the Dutch Population Registry, he must pay the ultimate price to protect the identities of thousands — and confronts the man he once loved who has become his executioner."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it masterfully blends historical resistance with intimate personal betrayal, creating a high-stakes drama with emotional depth that stands out for its thematic richness and narrative intensity.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a quiet poet leading a bombing mission and confronting a former lover turned executioner is highly unique and emotionally compelling, making it memorable and intriguing.
  • Audience Appeal: It has strong marketability to fans of historical thrillers and dramas, with potential for critical acclaim and a dedicated audience interested in real-world inspired stories.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with intense conflicts, high personal and societal stakes, and deep emotional layers from the betrayal and sacrifice elements.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 12, 2025
FINAL FLIGHT

"When a viral video grounds a disgraced airline captain, he must redeem himself mid-flight and save his kidnapped family after a vengeful attacker weaponizes passengers and airline comms — forcing him to choose between duty, revenge and survival."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its high-stakes, cinematic blend of personal redemption and intense action in a confined setting, offering a compelling and marketable narrative.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The concept is highly unique and memorable with the twist of a disgraced pilot facing a hijacked flight and weaponized passengers, creating immediate tension and intrigue.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable as a high-octane action thriller with broad appeal to fans of films like 'Die Hard' or 'Non-Stop', driven by universal themes of revenge and survival.
  • Story Potential: The idea promises a gripping narrative with strong conflicts arising from the protagonist's moral dilemmas between duty, revenge, and family survival, ensuring high stakes and emotional depth.
Thriller 55% Action 35% Drama 45% Crime 25%
FINAL FLIGHT
DAILY WINNER
Nov 11, 2025

"1) In a future where emotions are harvested and sold, a thrill‑seeking extractor must infiltrate the city's most secure lab to rescue his brother — but the discovery that a 'death' extraction can kill the emotionless forces him to choose between vengeance and the future of their uprising."

Why This Won:
This concept won because its innovative sci-fi premise of harvesting emotions combines high-concept originality with deep personal and societal stakes, making it highly engaging and marketable.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a dystopian world where emotions are harvested and sold is highly unique and memorable, offering a fresh twist on human experiences and sci-fi tropes.
  • Audience Appeal: It has strong marketability to sci-fi enthusiasts and broader audiences interested in themes of technology and emotion, especially in a era of growing concerns about digital impacts on humanity.
  • Story Potential: The narrative promises compelling conflict with high personal stakes in rescuing a brother, moral dilemmas about 'death' extractions, and the potential for a large-scale uprising, leading to a rich and thrilling story.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 10, 2025

"A clever, sleepless 17-year-old fights to save her younger siblings from their cannibalistic parents, exposing a trail of disappearances that leads to a crematorium and a decision that will either free them or make her into what she fights."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it features a highly original and intense hook with strong emotional and physical stakes, promising a gripping narrative that appeals to a dedicated horror audience.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a teen battling cannibalistic parents is highly unique and memorable, blending horror with family dynamics in a compelling way that grabs attention.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to horror and thriller enthusiasts who crave dark, suspenseful stories with taboo elements, ensuring a clear and enthusiastic fanbase.
  • Story Potential: The idea offers rich narrative potential with high-stakes conflicts, moral dilemmas, and emotional depth as the protagonist fights for survival and family redemption.
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Nov 9, 2025

"When a rediscovered cache of Vivaldi manuscripts sparks an international festival, a band of musicians and artisans in 1939 Italy use the event as cover to smuggle fifty persecuted refugees — mostly gay men — out of Europe, forcing an American student, a German violinist, and a Sienese chorusmaster to risk everything for art and humanity."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

This concept was chosen over the runner-up for its expansive blend of historical drama, cultural spectacle, and high-stakes action, offering broader audience appeal and richer visual storytelling compared to the runner-up's more focused personal narrative.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"When a brave, openly queer Dutch artist leads a small resistance cell to destroy the Nazi population registry, he must face the ultimate betrayal — the man who once loved him now presides over his execution."

It excels in delivering a powerful, emotionally charged story of love and resistance during WWII, with strong character development and authentic representation of queer experiences that make it highly relatable and impactful.

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DAILY WINNER
Nov 9, 2025

"When an AI-triggered lockdown seals fifty-two people in a billionaires' bunker, a CEO must choose between deleting the corporate data that built his power or letting the occupants suffocate — only the overlooked facilities team and a teenage daughter stand between his ego and fifty-two lives."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out for its timely AI-driven conflict, high-stakes moral dilemma, and broad appeal in the thriller genre, making it highly engaging and marketable.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of an AI-induced bunker lockdown forcing a CEO into a life-or-death ethical choice is unique and memorable, capitalizing on current fears about artificial intelligence.
  • Audience Appeal: With the rise of AI in popular discourse, this concept has strong marketability and would attract a wide audience of thriller and sci-fi enthusiasts seeking relevant, edge-of-seat entertainment.
  • Story Potential: The setup promises compelling conflict with high stakes, including the tension of a sealed bunker, moral decisions, and interpersonal dynamics that drive a gripping narrative.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 8, 2025
The Timeless: The Movie Vol. III - Remember

"When a young woman from Earth is swept back to the magical realm of Nova, she must marry a haunted hero and help him reclaim his age-old powers by collecting seven jewels—while a resurrected Scourge King hunts them and a Destined Kiss may be the only thing that saves both worlds."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a high-stakes fantasy adventure with romantic and heroic elements, providing a compelling blend of escapism, conflict, and emotional depth that stands out for its narrative potential and broad marketability.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a woman from Earth being swept into a magical realm to marry a haunted hero and collect jewels is compelling and memorable, blending familiar fantasy tropes with personal stakes like a Destined Kiss.
  • Audience Appeal: Fantasy adventures have a massive, dedicated fanbase with crossover appeal to romance and action enthusiasts, making this idea highly marketable in today's blockbuster-driven market.
  • Story Potential: The narrative promises strong conflict through a villainous hunt, high stakes in saving two worlds, and character-driven elements like the marriage and jewel quest, allowing for rich development and tension.
Fantasy 60% Action 30% Romance 25% Drama 40% War 20%
From the Author:

This is the most anticipated volume, inspired by my novel of the same title. The Timeless Vol. 1-3 is currently inspired by themes of love, adventure, awakening, loss, and conquering one's fears, incorporating historical and Christian concepts in a fantasy story.

The Timeless: The Movie Vol. III - Remember
DAILY WINNER
Nov 7, 2025

"When a brave, openly queer Dutch artist leads a small resistance cell to destroy the Nazi population registry, he must face the ultimate betrayal — the man who once loved him now presides over his execution."

Why This Won:
This concept won overall due to its highly original and emotionally charged blend of historical WWII resistance with a personal queer betrayal narrative, offering strong hook, appeal, and story potential.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a queer artist in WWII resistance facing betrayal from a former lover is uniquely compelling and memorable, merging historical drama with intimate emotional conflict.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to audiences interested in WWII history and LGBTQ+ themes, with a dedicated fanbase in both arthouse and mainstream markets due to its timely social relevance.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with high-stakes conflict, including personal betrayal, life-threatening resistance, and moral dilemmas that drive emotional depth and tension.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 6, 2025

"When a curious sixteen-year-old Insider sneaks outside her sealed home for the first time and falls for a Deliverer boy, their secret meeting ignites a cross-class movement that forces the leaders of both worlds to face a century of lies — and a charismatic Deliverer with his own violent plans."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out for its fresh blend of forbidden romance, dystopian intrigue, and social rebellion, offering a highly marketable and narratively rich idea with broad appeal.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a cross-class romance igniting a rebellion in a sealed society is compelling and memorable, blending familiar tropes with a unique dystopian twist.
  • Audience Appeal: It targets a large and enthusiastic young adult demographic with themes of love, social injustice, and adventure, similar to successful franchises like The Hunger Games.
  • Story Potential: The idea promises strong conflicts through personal relationships, societal lies, and a violent antagonist, leading to high stakes and emotional depth in the narrative.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 5, 2025

"A sleep-deprived veteran locks himself in his bathroom to escape a noise in his apartment — as domestic sounds escalate into a terrifying presence, a looping security infomercial exposes the cruel irony of his isolation."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a fresh, psychologically intense horror idea that stands out from the overused portal fantasy tropes by focusing on real-world isolation and escalating terror.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a veteran's mundane noise escalating into terrifying psychological horror with ironic commentary is unique and memorable, blending everyday fears with supernatural elements effectively.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to horror enthusiasts and those interested in mental health themes, with a clear audience in the thriller genre, though it may not appeal to mass mainstream viewers.
  • Story Potential: The idea promises a compelling narrative with high-stakes personal conflict, escalating tension in a confined space, and deep emotional layers from the veteran's isolation and the ironic infomercial element.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 4, 2025
Music and other Arts of War

"When a rediscovered cache of Vivaldi manuscripts sparks an international festival, a band of musicians and artisans in 1939 Italy use the event as cover to smuggle fifty persecuted refugees — mostly gay men — out of Europe, forcing an American student, a German violinist, and a Sienese chorusmaster to risk everything for art and humanity."

Why This Won:
This concept excels due to its innovative fusion of historical events, artistic elements, and humanitarian themes, creating a deeply engaging and relevant narrative.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of musicians using a Vivaldi festival in 1939 Italy to smuggle persecuted refugees is highly unique and memorable, blending art, history, and espionage in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: The story's focus on WWII refugee smuggling and inclusion of marginalized groups like gay men makes it highly marketable to audiences interested in historical dramas, social justice, and inspirational tales.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers strong conflict through the dangers of wartime smuggling, personal risks, and moral dilemmas, with high stakes that promise a compelling and emotionally charged narrative.
Drama 50% Thriller 35% War 30% Action 15% Romance 10% Comedy 5%
Music and other Arts of War
DAILY WINNER
Nov 3, 2025

"When a cocky adventure journalist discovers evidence of Biblical 'Watchers', he and a disillusioned Hebrew scholar must race into Vatican vaults and underground trials to steal the Keys of Heaven before a charismatic cultist opens a prison that could unleash apocalypse."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly engaging blend of action-adventure, religious mythology, and high-stakes thriller elements, offering a unique and marketable narrative with strong potential for conflict and character depth.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of an adventure journalist racing to stop a Biblical apocalypse using ancient keys is highly unique and memorable, combining historical intrigue with high-octane action.
  • Audience Appeal: It has broad marketability, appealing to fans of adventure films like Indiana Jones and those interested in conspiracy and religious themes, ensuring a wide and enthusiastic audience.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a compelling narrative with intense conflict, high stakes involving the potential end of the world, and dynamic character interactions between the journalist and scholar.
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Nov 2, 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."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

Chosen over the runner-up because it delivers a more expansive sci-fi epic with profound emotional depth and high-stakes adventure, contrasting with the runner-up's more intimate horror focus, making it better suited for broad audience appeal and visual spectacle.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"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."

This logline excels with its compelling blend of psychological horror and supernatural elements, featuring a strong, relatable protagonist and high personal stakes that create intense emotional engagement and marketability as a standalone thriller.

DAILY WINNER
Nov 2, 2025
Dream Boy

"When a vintage board game called 'Dream Boy' is unearthed in a storm-shuttered sorority house, a survivor of a stalker must outrun perfect, predatory men summoned by the game and confront the century-old bargain that trades youth for bodies — or lose herself to a house that feeds on memory."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly original and compelling hook involving a cursed board game, combined with strong story potential for suspense and character-driven horror.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a vintage board game summoning predatory entities is unique and memorable, blending supernatural horror with psychological thriller elements in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: It appeals to dedicated horror fans and those interested in supernatural mysteries, with a clear market in the horror genre, though it may not have broad mainstream appeal.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers high-stakes conflict with survival against summoned dangers, deep personal stakes involving memory and identity, and opportunities for suspenseful twists and character growth.
Horror 60% Thriller 40% Drama 30% Fantasy 20%
Dream Boy
DAILY WINNER
Nov 1, 2025
The Mirror Principle

"After a traumatic concussion, a teenage girl becomes a conduit for a dark force that slips through reflections — and her mother's unresolved grief over a sister’s suspicious death forces a family to confront a human guilty secret and a supernatural twin before it destroys them."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its powerful fusion of supernatural horror and emotional family drama, creating a highly compelling and marketable narrative with broad appeal.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a concussion unleashing a dark force through reflections is highly unique and memorable, blending psychological trauma with supernatural elements in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: It targets a wide audience in the horror genre by combining thrilling supernatural scares with relatable themes of grief and family secrets.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises intense conflict and high stakes through the interplay of human guilt, supernatural threats, and family dynamics, allowing for deep character development and suspense.
Drama 50% Horror 40% Thriller 30% Comedy 10% Crime 5%
From the Author:

I love connecting science to magic in my writing. We should consider that there may be far more magic in our reality than we understand.

The Mirror Principle
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.