Every second-to-last Friday of the month, I post the five best loglines submitted to me. You, the readers of the site, vote for your favorite in the comments section. I then review the script of the logline that received the most votes the following Friday.
If you didn’t enter this month’s showdown, don’t worry! We do this every month. The deadline for September Logline Showdown is Thursday, September 21, 10pm Pacific Time. All I need is your title, genre, and logline. Send all submissions to carsonreeves3@gmail.com.
If you need help with your logline, I’m here. I’d say that about 20% of the entries I receive have good enough concepts to make the Showdown but are plagued by loglines that are either too messy, too unfocused, too long, or straight-up have the wrong approach. If you want a logline consult, they’re cheap – just $25. E-mail me at carsonreeves1@gmail.com if you’re interested.
SIX loglines this month.
Good luck to all the contestants!
Title: Milk & Whisky
Genre: Western
Logline: Following the unusual death of his best drinking buddy, a lonesome drifter pursues refuge from old temptations and growing accusations by attending the frontier’s first rehab for alcoholics.
Title: Wayward Son
Genre: Thriller
Logline: When her estranged son returns and takes her grandson in the night, a veteran park ranger sets out to rescue him from the clutches of a mysterious cult deep in the Oregon woods.
Title: HAUL
Genre: Western
Logline: A female bounty hunter must transport two valuable corpses across an unforgiving, lawless wilderness with the help of a mysterious drifter.
Title: Matadors
Genre: Coming-of-Age / Horror
Logline: After ditching their field trip in a wildlife refuge, a group of overachieving prep school kids come under attack by a rogue, performance-enhanced fighting bull.
Title: The Patriotic Hitman
Genre: Action Thriller
Logline: A rogue government sniper assigned to kill a presidential candidate at a rally becomes a national hero when he spots a suicide bomber in the crowd and shoots him instead.
Title: trAiLIENS
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
Logline: When a pencil-pushing FBI agent’s life is flipped ass-backwards by a UFO abduction, he launches a one-man probe to expose a mysterious Florida trailer park as ground zero for an imminent alien invasion.
