Loglines & Screenplays by Travis Seppala

GENRES: Horror

After playing “Bloody Mary” three ways, a group of teens find themselves hunted by all three versions of the mirror witch.

GENRES: Thriller

Haunted by hallucinations of his murdered partner, a former detective comes out of retirement when her killer strikes again. 

GENRES: Thriller, Fantasy

A group of teenage witches call forth a biblical-age god to do their bidding, but things go wrong when he enacts his own plans for dominance.

GENRES: Horror

After dealing with bratty preteens and a douchey ex, a swim instructor finds herself trapped in the gym pool with a monster.

GENRES: Horror

A shipping vessel carrying coffins from Transylvania to England come under siege by a supernatural stowaway: Dracula.

GENRES: Historical, Horror

When Thomas Edison creates a machine to communicate with the dead, it pits him against the most notorious skeptic of the day - Harry Houdini.

GENRES: Thriller

When a woman having a mid-life crisis accidentally kills her ex-husband-turned-lover she must hide her affair and the murder from her family, the cops, and the P.I.  her husband hired to follow her.

GENRES: Fantasy, Drama

(based on a YA novel by Carolee Dean)

After malicious ridicule and bullying, a teen girl must choose between facing life or remaining a ghost forever.

GENRES: Family, Drama

After an accident leaves a teenage ballerina in a wheelchair, she meets a young man (also in a wheelchair) whose faith in God - and in her - becomes her inspiration to try to walk again.

GENRES: Fantasy, Adventure

The story of how James Hook went from family man in London to the most feared pirate of Neverland.

GENRES: Thriller, Sci-fi

In order to capture video footage of the world’s only superhero in action, a genius slacker must become the world’s only super villain. 

GENRES: Thriller, Action

It’s SPEED meets SAW when a madman threatens to kill a detective’s daughter unless she keeps running through the city and meeting all his demands.

GENRES: Thriller, Fantasy

Peter Pan has gone insane and become a tyrant in Neverland. Now, an aged Wendy and Captain Hook must work together to stop him from destroying the world they once called home.

GENRES: Thriller, Horror

When a newlywed's husband dies on their honeymoon, she bonds with a Shadow she thinks is his spirit, until it kills anyone she gets close to.

GENRES: Horror

An American couple travels to China to adopt, but encounter an evil entity in the body of an orphan.

GENRES: Thriller, Sci-fi

When a soldier with model good looks is hideously deformed in an explosion, he gets a new look with the help of nanobots. But fresh skin can’t change the ugliness on the inside.

GENRES: Thriller, Horror

An elderly woman kills and buries her abusive husband only to face his wrath again when a meteor crash re-animates the dead. [single continuous shot]

GENRES: Sci-fi, Horror

An office worker gets stuck in traffic on his way to pick his daughter up from school when there’s an invasion of alien monsters.

GENRES: Thriller, Drama

When a tank crew gets ambushed, they find themselves trapped in their tank…upside down.

GENRES: Thriller, Sci-fi

A gifted chemistry student replicates the infamous Jekyll/Hyde serum with murderous results.

GENRES: Thriller

A family falls victim to home invasion, but the tables are turned on the intruders when Daddy Dearest turns out to be a serial killer.

GENRES: Sci-fi

A fringe scientist works at perfecting time travel to save his fiancée from being killed… no matter the cost. [found footage]

GENRES: Horror

A group of boys tell vampiric stories around a campfire: a detective battles a shadow monster, a suicidal man combats a vampire coven, a teen girl becomes dependent on her vampire lover, and an old west town comes under siege.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Action

When a twenty-something witnesses the murder of his grandfather – a geriatric superhero – he takes up the old man’s Vigilante persona to seek vengeance on the crime syndicate responsible.

GENRES: Thriller, Drama

A man who suffers beatings at the hands of his abusive wife finds the courage to take their son and leave… only to be stalked by her years later.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

A family dramedy about a mixed-race family with two teenage girls, one of which has Asperger’s.

GENRES: Fantasy, Family

A group of misfit kids get a magic page that brings them into the world of any book.

GENRES: Sports, Drama

A former boxer loses his factory job and turns to his sport-of-choice in the form of illegal underground fights and a new reality series. Meanwhile, his wife turns to a life of crime to save her failing bakery.

GENRES: Fantasy, Family

A man wakes up with amnesia and discovers he’s a 7yr-old boy’s invisible friend.

GENRES: Sci-fi

[co-written with Ken Gord, executive producer of HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES]

When the heroine of a videogame is transported to the real world she seeks the help of the game’s designers to find a way home and defeat the evil Overloard who threatens both their worlds.

GENRES: Sci-fi

[co-written with Ken Gord, executive producer of HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES]

When the heroine of a videogame is transported to the real world she seeks the help of the game’s designers to find a way home and defeat the evil Overloard who threatens both their worlds.

GENRES: Historical, Biography

The story of Hannibal Barca, the elephant-riding warlord who brought ancient Rome to its knees. [8-part mini-series]

GENRES: Sci-fi, Drama

When the Robot Rights movement is targeted by anti-bot protestors, a non-binary domestic bot finds themself in the middle of a developing uprising.

GENRES: Horror, Drama

After her American husband is killed in an accident, a Japanese woman must save his children from a pack of mythological demons.

GENRES: Thriller, Drama

In a modern retelling of the classic novel, set at a performing arts school, Christine gets stalked by the obsessive Phantom of the Opera.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Drama

A security guard uses his newfound psychic superpowers to reconnect with his family while evading the company that wants to study him.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Drama

Three operatives are sent back in time to find and stop the event that sparks WWIII, forced to relive the day in a time loop until they get it right. They are a chauvinistic detective, a scientist whose drug addiction causes her to hallucinate the future, and a postal worker with temporal amnesia.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Drama

When a mysterious woman with angelic powers crashes through his barn during a meteor shower, a small town farmer must protect her from the military assassins who come looking for her.

GENRES: Thriller, Sci-fi

A soldier has his model good looks ripped away in an explosion, but his vanity returns when he’s given new skin.

GENRES: Horror, Drama

A young psychiatrist on a mission to cure his own mental disorder is given his most challenging patient yet: a killer who claims to be the Native American equivalent of a werewolf.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Crime

When a vice detective follows a lead in a missing persons case, she uncovers a human trafficking ring across parallel earths.

GENRES: Thriller, Drama

[co-written with my wife, Annette Palmer - a double lung transplant recipient]

A disgraced transplant surgeon gets pulled into the black-market organ trade by both an FBI agent and the crime boss she’s after.

GENRES: Crime, Animation

An 11-min children’s police procedural set in a world of dinosaurs.

GENRES: Sci-fi

A young girl with psychic powers seeks to escape her captivity when she discovers there’s someone else like her in the facility.

GENRES: Horror

A group of urban explorers uncover the Hansel & Gretel Gingerbread House and find themselves trapped inside an evil labyrinth.

GENRES: Horror

A deaf man returns to his childhood home to relive his memories in a house full of ghosts. [no spoken dialogue]

GENRES: Fantasy

A “Lord of the Rings” style origin story of Santa Clause… When the Krampus escapes his prison, a group of men and magical creatures must team up to stop him from eating all the children of the world.

GENRES: Horror

A magician devises an escape performance from an over-sized Dybbuk Box and finds himself trapped in a coffin-sized hell. [found footage] 2022 WRAC List| formerly optioned

GENRES: Thriller

A cult deprogrammer is forced into a deposition for the murder of all 27 members of a demonic cult.

GENRES: Thriller

After their reentry goes wrong and they splashdown hundreds of miles off course, five astronauts and two space tourists must await rescue from shark-infested waters.

GENRES: Sports, Sci-fi

(adapted from the short story “The Starfish Girl” by Maureen McHugh) After suffering a paralyzing accident, a young gymnast undergoes a treatment using starfish DNA to heal and compete again – which causes extreme controversy both in and out of the sports world. 2022 WRACList

GENRES: Historical, Sci-fi

A UFO crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947… and the U.S. Military covered it up.

GENRES: Sci-fi

[adapted from the novel “Ocean Slayers Racing: Zero Car” by Alex Knowles]

An orphaned scrub has an accident in The Wilds which awakens his dormant energy-based abilities, allowing him to become an Icarian racer.

GENRES: Horror, Drama

A family moves to a New England town and finds themselves the targets of both a re-awakened 1600s witch and an anti-witch cult.

GENRES: Horror, Action

In the near future, the few humans remaining must survive enslavement from the Undead and slaughter the original Vampyres while trying to find a cure to restore the human race. 2022 Screencraft TV Pilot Contest quarter-finalist