LEN ARCHIBALD - Screenwriter/Editor

THE BEAT YOU HEAR (feature): Horror/Musical

LOGLINE: After stumbling upon a cursed ‘90s hip-hop playlist that warps reality and kills its listeners, a washed-up stoner and former aspiring rapper must unravel deadly riddles hidden in the tracks—while battling his own self-doubts—to break the curse before he becomes the next victim. The Beat You Hear...Hears you back!

 

BLOODLINES (short): Historical Drama

LOGLINE: Across five generations, a Black family fights for freedom and dignity while the descendants of the dogs that once hunted them live in comfort, bringing things to a fateful and surprising full circle development.

 

THE COOKOUT (feature): Horror/Dark Comedy

LOGLINE: A group of privileged white friends discover the residents of a thriving all-Black town are werewolves protecting themselves from oppression. While confronting their own hypocrisy and complicity in systemic injustice, the group struggles to survive the hunt. Grab a plate...There won't be seconds.

 

CUTS (short): Psychological Thriller

LOGLINE: After finding fleeting acceptance in a local Black barbershop, a socially isolated man’s obsession with the charismatic barber he forms a friendship with spirals out of control-threatening everything the barber holds dear.

 

FISHBOWL (short): Psychological Thriller

LOGLINE: After a wild fishbowl party in 1975, a free-spirited woman brings home a charismatic stranger, only to find herself battling for survival when he turns into a sadistic predator.

 

INSOMNIMANIAC (short): Horror

LOGLINE: A sleep-deprived man battles relentless insomnia, disturbing visions, and a creeping sense of unreality—until police storm his home and uncover a horrifying truth lurking beneath the surface.

 

THE MATTHEW EFFECT (feature): Comedy/Drama

LOGLINE: A new divorcee must battle depression, a new love life and a mysterious black pick up truck that seems to follow him everywhere in this absurdist semi-autobiographical slice of life.

 

PISSED (short): Comedy

LOGLINE: After a desperate roadside bathroom break, a man unexpectedly locks eyes with a woman in the same predicament—an awkward yet fateful encounter that leads to an unconventional love story.

 

REMINDER: (short): Sci-Fi/Thriller

LOGLINE: After recieving a post-it note reminding him to complete a task he doesn’t remember, a man haunted by eerie déjà vu experiences a series of unsettling distortions in time and reality, leading him toward an inescapable fate.

 

THE SAFE (short) Horror/Comedy

LOGLINE: When a laid-back dispensary clerk is held at gunpoint by a desperate robber, he warns him not to open the store’s safe. But the robber doesn’t listen—unleashing something far worse than he could have ever imagined.

 

TUNNEL: (short) Horror

LOGLINE: A weary businessman fights to survive a terrifying, otherworldly creature that can only be seen in the darkness of the tunnels of a late-night Toronto subway train.

 

USED (short) Horror

LOGLINE: A family man battling a hidden porn addiction arranges an online sex session with his favorite adult star, only to find himself trapped in a twisted nightmare where his darkest secrets are exposed, and his past sins come back to haunt him in ways he never imagined.