2026 OIF Riot Challenge

Script Selections

Horror

Dark Daze – Derek Ziegler
A surrogate experiencing dark, vivid nightmares, questions her sanity as she loses her grip on reality. [PG-13]

Hell Lake – Trent Duncan
Four friends experience ultimate terror when the lake the live on reveals a deadly secret [PG-13]

Something Awful from Above – Joshua Shaffer
When a UFO crashes outside their home, four friends discover the creature that was inside doesn’t want to invade Earth. It needs to repair its ship with something they can’t stand to offer. [PG-13]

Casting Call – James Bateman
Casting Call. Angelica Wallace thought the role sounded perfect for her. Too bad for her, it is! [PG-13]

Exit Interview – Jonathan Silva
A man gives his exit interview [PG-13]

Snipes – Tiffany Cribbs
After failing at his father’s lawn company and his Aunt Ethel’s bar, Avery Buchanon believes he’s finally found his calling as a summer camp director. But when a harmless snipe-hunt prank awakens something in the woods, Avery and his campers discover that the creature can use his own voice against them. [PG-13]

Tooth Fairy – Doc Bravo
When a young girl secretly tries to cash in on her sister’s lost tooth, she unwittingly summons a grotesque, demonic Tooth Fairy. Which unfortunately comes with a deadly price. [PG-13]

Cinderella’s Curse – Stephanie Kirves
A tortured Cinderella gains supernatural power and a path to royalty, but when her abusive family pushes her too far, the fairytale turns into a bloody revenge story. [PG-13]

The Woods – Austin Jacobs
When a couple go camping out in the woods, Caleb intends to propose, but he finds out that Natasha has kept a secret about this place. [PG-13]

FINAL TRIP – James Ridgley
Final Trip. A mysterious drug that allows users to see the exact circumstances of their death. But what happens when knowing your fate doesn’t allow you to escape it? [PG-13]

WAKE – Matty Murillo
WAKE “Some grief opens doors…” [PG-13]

Induction Night – Tyler Sussmann
Four freshman hopeful to join their college’s most famous fraternity submit themselves to a night of ritual. What they don’t realize is that they are submitting themselves to something far more sinister. [PG-13]

Can You Say Hola? – Jennifer Ackerman Lopez
Best friends Marie and Izzy finally see all their dreams coming true. That is until Izzy has a mental breakdown on set and attacks her cast and crew when they don’t do what she says. [PG-13]

Romy – Gregory Mohn
Left on her own at night for the first time, a 13 year old girl is confronted by a dark secret that changes her forever. [PG-13]

For Her Eyes Only – Kendall Rose
After the accidental killing of her girlfriend Rachel, Violet is unable to move on. Every attempt she has to move forward she finds herself confronted by the ghost of Rachel. Each girl Violet finds herself alone with turns into Rachel, terrified Violet attacks each woman leaving her roommate to cover up the murders. [PG-13]

Comedy

Unscripted – Brittney Anderson
A socially awkward financial assistant gets her first shot at landing a high-profile client, only to turn an important brunch into a spectacular disaster- but what she sees as her biggest embarrassment may be exactly what sets her apart. [PG]

L-Assistante – Sally Green
A talented chef tries desperately to recreate a long lost recipe of his dead grandmother. [G]

No Kingdom – JC Perez
A conniving knight rigs a royal pageant to marry the princess and seize the throne, until a hapless peasant, dragged in as a pawn, refuses to lose on cue. [PG-13]

Money Trees – Jacob Schwarz
A door to door peddler struggles to interest people with an offer that seems too good to be true. [PG-13]

A day in the life of a sleep paralysis demon – Joshua De La Vega
A camera crew follows an unconventional sleep paralysis demon who rejects traditional terror tactics, experimenting with bizarre alternative methods to scare his victims while a documentary crew captures the awkward failures, workplace politics, and supernatural chaos behind the job. [PG-13]

Lesser of Evils – Noah Camenker
Dracula or Frankenstein? A new citizen gets a crash course in the logic of American elections. [PG]

Crazy Grandma – Alec Acevedo
A grandma and her grandson are out when a bunch of punks steal grandma’s purse. Something very precious (and potentially illegal) is inside the purse and this hot rod grandma isn’t gonna let no punks take what’s hers. [PG]

Patriot Centers – Jeffrey Fowler
A group of political loyalists, opportunists, and a bureaucrat convene a secret meeting to chart the course for America’s future. [PG]

THE LIFT (Floor 13 ½) – Jay Bogdanowitsch
Three strangers meet in an elevator, however, the malfunctioning machinery is the least of their worries. [PG]

Kayfabe is Life – Josh Warmenhoven
After years of being pushed around, two mild mannered wrestling nerds finally snap when their bullies commit the ultimate insult, calling wrestling fake! Unleashing their inner fighting machines and a 7 foot tall secret weapon who turns a regular donnybrook into the main event of a lifetime. [PG-13]

The Buchanen Family Adventures – Brandon Blackburn
JB has no idea why his wife is always mad at him. Everyone watching will. [PG-13]

Thumbs Up – Russell Sanders
Two strangers compete to win over a flirty hitchhiker, turning a simple offer of a ride into a roadside battle of egos and skill. [PG-13]

It’s KFX Radio! – Neil Kirby
Two small time radio hosts give bad advice to callers who may already be on the brink of divorce! [PG-13]

ORANGAMAGEDDON – Danny Day
Three days before a giant orange destroys Earth, a cynically exhausted detective takes on a missing-husband case—and discovers that some things are easier to ignore than others. [G]

AfterLifers – Chris Ballinger
When a new outbreak brings a wild, unrefined generation of zombies into his suburban neighborhood, a control-obsessed undead father fights to protect the civilized life he’s spent decades building. [PG]

No Tip – Jackie Smith
A frantic actress battling an invasive gas pump on her way to a career changing audition fails to notice the very real disaster waiting to derail her. [PG-13]

Magic 8 – Lauren Butterfield
Eight people, Two young lovers, one family secret…. what could go wrong? [PG]

Baggage Claim – Arlene Lagos
The year is 2030. USA has fallen into a Mental Health crisis. The current administration has mandated mental health school for every American Citizen age 18+; using influencers as teachers and offering $50k to each citizen that graduates the six-month program. [PG-13]

You Thought Wrong – Gabriela Valle
When this husband thinks he is ready to move on after 2 years of his wife’s passing, surprises arise because his wife’s ghosts has other plans for him. [PG-13]

Crime

Animal Instincts – Jonna Volz
When a home invasion puts his family in deadly danger, a terrified teenage boy must rely on his instincts to outsmart an armed intruder—until his younger sister makes a split-second decision that changes all of their lives. [PG-13]

Ice Cream – Geoff Scott
A disillusioned contract killer faces a crisis of conscience as a routine job threatens his code. [PG-13]

Karmic Injustice – Ashley Aponte
A girl is kidnapped and must survive the treacherous path ahead laid by her kidnapper. [PG-13]

The Starlet – Lisa Kathleen Mark
A gumshoe detective investigates the of an ingenue actress only to discover the clues lead him to something else. [PG]

No Way Out – Hugh DiMauro
A former triad member wanting to distance himself from his past is asked to return, a request he’s not permitted to make. [PG]

IRIS – Josiah Sampson
A father desperate to prove his son’s innocence uncovers a hidden industry built around manufacturing guilt. [PG-13]

No Greater Love – Shawn Thompson
When tension inside a struggling family reaches a breaking point, one devastating night changes their lives forever. “No Greater Love” is a story of family, sacrifice, and the choices we make for the people who matter most – exploring the bond between brothers and just how far one person is willing to go to protect those he loves. [PG-13]

The Stiletto’s Kiss – Zachary Tuttle
Detective Donny Chandler is in over his head when the lovely Josephine enters his office, as the Detective uncovers more then he should. [PG-13]

The Envelope – Will Urbina
THE ENVELOPE: How one night can change your life and realise who really is your family, the story of Jose, a working man, and how it is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and he would do whatever he can to save his family and himself. [PG-13]

SEALANT GREEN – George Ellis
SEALANT GREEN: Dr. James Harris is an ambitious surgeon and lead researcher for a new surgical product. The product is clinically successful and garners financial success for the doctor, the hospital and the product sponsor. However, there is a fine line between healthy ambition and destructive greed. [G]

After The Last Song – Kylee Peck
One nurse. One deadly night. And a secret that could destroy them all. When a night of music ends in murder, a close-knit group of friends is left questioning who they can trust—and whether the person they fear is the person they know. [PG-13]

Cold Feet – Danielle Hollobaugh
When a down on his luck plumber can’t make an impossible choice, he meets the one woman who can. [PG]

Sunspire P.D – Brandon Miles
After transferring to Sunspire PD from the NY police department. DET. Jamie Diaz get thrown into solve a high profile case. DET. Diaz is a wisecracking, rule bending New York detective learns that someone in his department has vanished, forcing him to go rogue and follow a trail of clues they secretly left behind, all while dodging Internal Affairs and uncovering a conspiracy connected to the very case he was brought in to solve. [PG-13]

A Knock in the Night – Jordan Jackson
When a sheriff investigating a brutal stabbing knocks on the door of a newly moved-in man, both men grow increasingly suspicious of each other as a seemingly routine conversation becomes a tense game of cat and mouse. [PG]

the_time_is_now – Louie Castillo
To save the family he has terrorized for years, a deeply abusive man robs a bank to solve their financial ruin, only for his wife to finally find her voice, rejecting both his stolen money and his violence to protect herself and their daughter. [PG-13]

The Consequence of Loyalty – Kayla Irish
After walking away from the violent brotherhood that has already cost his family everything, a former enforcer discovers that leaving doesn’t mean escaping the consequences. When the club retaliates by targeting the only family he has left, grief, loyalty, and revenge collide—and force him to decide whether he can truly leave the man he used to be behind [PG-13]

Say Grace – David Kashner
Allie brings home her much older, broke, and annoying fiancé to meet the family and some decide to kill him. The Agatha Christie-reading grandfather decided it’s up to him to figure out which family member killed the fiancé. [PG-13]

Crash Out – Anthony Cintron
Crash Out. Accused of murders she can’t remember, Lily faces mounting evidence, a relentless detective, and her unraveling mind. With only a mysterious lawyer on her side, can he save her from a fate worse than death, or will they both be consumed by the secrets no one sees coming? [PG-13]

FRAGMENTS – Aris Ramos
A woman’s perfect life begins to unravel when mysterious strangers, haunting visions, and fragments of forgotten memories force her to confront a truth she was never meant to remember. [PG-13]

Better Left Closed – Guillermo Garrido
A private investigator works to solve the murder of a wealthy banker’s wife, but as the clues fall into place, he realizes the killer may be closer to home than he thought. [PG-13]

Blood & Lies – Malvin Delgado
A family dinner turns deadly when a shooting exposes betrayal, corruption, and a shocking blood secret that forever connects two rival families. Two families. One gunshot. Thirty-three years of lies. [PG-13]

Free Repairs for Life – Julien DeSantis
A phone repair man takes every repair personally, anyone that damages his repairs, pays the consequences. [PG-13]