Loglines & Screenplays by Elisa Manzini

GENRES: Sci-fi, Drama

COMPS: ALL OF US STRANGERS meets PETITE MAMAN 

When a troubled forensic psychiatrist visits her childhood home, she finds herself trapped in 1978 with her parents’ younger selves and the chance to prevent the tragedy that made her an orphan.

GENRES: Horror, Drama

COMPS: DONNIE DARKO meets ROOM

When a hot-headed orphan is incarcerated for assault, she must examine the decade of horrific trauma that turned her into a killer in order to escape the terrifying woman in her nightmares.

Semifinalist at WeScreenplay Diverse Voices – 2021

Semifinalist at The Script Lab – 2021

Semifinalist at SoCal Screenplay – 2022

GENRES: Drama

COMPS: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE meets ELLE

Years after being sexually abused, a successful art curator encounters her now famous abuser and seeks to get her revenge.

Second rounder at Austin Film Festival (2023)

GENRES: Horror

COMPS: CABIN FEVER meets DRAG ME TO HELL

After four friends rent a lake cabin to escape the commercialism of Halloween and celebrate Samhain in a more spiritual way, they get inked by a demon tattoo artist and begin to fall victim to their new tattoos, which come to life and push them to horrifying actions.

GENRES: Drama

COMPS: BODY HEAT meets UNFAITHFUL

Suffocated by her small-town life and a passionless marriage, a battered young woman in the 1980s begins an affair with her husband’s best friend, only to find herself trapped in a maddening spiral of events. Based on the acclaimed novel "Thérèse Raquin" by Émile Zola

GENRES: Drama, Crime

COMPS: BREAKING BAD meets MARY KILLS PEOPLE 

After helping her terminally ill boyfriend end his life, a shattered but determined medical director opens an illegal assisted suicide clinic that pits her against big pharma and politicians, and she’s forced to flee to Europe after killing the wrong person.

GENRES: Drama

Set in Italy. In an attempt to escape a life of domestic violence, Nora flees to Sicily with two suspicious suitcases, unaware that her past and guilt will follow her, and she will once again have to fight for her life.

GENRES: Horror

After the loss of her father, an insecure aspiring librarian hits a disturbing mime with her car. When the monster begins haunting her, she must figure out how to get rid of him before it’s too late.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

After having her heart broken for the umpteenth time, hopelessly romantic Alyssa picks up a handsome hit-and-run victim with amnesia at the hospital and tricks him into falling in love with her, unaware that he’s gay and his partner is looking for him.