Screenplays

David Sakmyster - Neighborhood Watch

Neighborhood Watch

In a remote and neglected trailer park, a grief-stricken military widow trying to afford her son's medical treatments accepts a job from an obsessively paranoid resident; but on her first night watching over the community with hi-tech cameras from his decked-out trailer, she confronts terrifying supernatural events centered around her son, and only by overcoming her own heartache and guilt can she save him and her new friends.

David Sakmyster - Roadside Assistance

Roadside Assistance

A psychiatrist trying to balance his life is bought a new GPS device for his car but it starts to take on a life of its own and he is drawn into a world of psychosis and murder.


The Lazarus Group

Transformed by a Near Death Experience a formerly crooked cop realizes he may have had a larger purpose in surviving when he discovers that members of his support group are being murdered... by one of their own.

Isolation

After a space shuttle accident an astronaut marooned aboard the International Space Station suffers mind-bending hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks all leading to a shocking revelation.

Blindspots

Trapped in a snow-bound Vermont hospital seven strangers afflicted with Prosopagnosia (face-blindness) discover they are somehow able to see each other - but before they can figure out why they are targeted by a preternaturally-gifted killer who has been waiting more than one lifetime for their arrival.


The Red Envelope

A naive American is tricked by a local Chinese custom into marrying the spirit of a dead girl; then unexpectedly he finds himself honor-bound to obey his vows -- at the cost of destroyed relationships and a life without intimacy. But when he meets the perfect woman can he risk everything to undo the bonds of marriage?

Desert Demons

- cowritten with Brian M. Logan

A security guard and the townspeople of an upscale New Mexico community must survive a night of horror when deadly creatures are unleashed from an old Spanish well.

The Supernaturals

- Adaptation of David L. Golemon’s novel.

An extraordinary team of ghost hunters accepts the challenge of a live television broadcast and ventures into the ultimate haunted house.


N.D.E.

After a Near Death Experience radically transforms the life of an eccentric billionaire; he recruits others with similar experiences to study the global phenomenon.

The Pharos Objective

A reluctant psychic joins a team of remote-viewing archaeologists to hunt for a legendary treasure chamber hidden beneath the remains of the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. (adapted from my novel part one of a trilogy from Variance Publishing).