Destroying Angel
PITCH: Kelly Thrones is a serial murderer. She just doesn't know it yet.
LOGLINE: A woman is arrested for hunting down and killing known murderers in her sleep, but soon the feds realize she could be used to their advantage.
SYNOPSIS: Kelly Thrones is a serial killer of serial killers. Or is she? All the FBI knows is that she's the only one who can prevent a meltdown at the Blue Jay Nuclear Power Plant.
- Los Angeles Script and Film Festival Best Drama Award.
- StoryPro International Screenwriting Challenge, Finalist.
- 2010 California Film Award, Silver Award Winner.
- Scriptoid Writer's Challenge Finalist.
- 2010 Jacksonville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition: THIRD PRIZE WINNER
- Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood - WINNER, SCRIPT AWARD OF MERIT
- Nominated for the CLAW award by the TERROR FILM FESTIVAL
- SLAMDANCE Writing Competition - SEMIFINALIST - Horror Category
- FINAL DRAFT Big Break Screenplay Competition -SEMIFINALIST
- NextTV Writing and Pitch Competition, QUARTERFINALIST
- Finalist, Horror Category, 2011 Hollywood Screenplay Contest.
- Cinestory Screenwriting Awards 2011 Quarterfinalist
Feature Length Screenplay by John Leary & Alison McMahan.
PITCH : Kelly Thrones is a serial murderer. She just doesn't know it yet.
LOGLINE: A woman is arrested for hunting down and killing known murderers in her sleep, but soon the feds realize she could be used to their advantage.
- Los Angeles Script and Film Festival Best Drama Award.
- 2010 Jacksonville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition: THIRD PRIZE WINNER
- Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood - WINNER, SCRIPT AWARD OF MERIT
- Scriptoid Writer's Challenge Finalist.
- StoryPro International Screenwriting Challenge, Finalist.
- Nominated for the CLAW award by the TERROR FILM FESTIVAL
- SLAMDANCE Writing Competition - SEMIFINALIST - Horror Category
- FINAL DRAFT Big Break Screenplay Competition -SEMIFINALIST
- NextTV Writing and Pitch Competition, QUARTERFINALIST
- Cinestory Screenwriting Awards 2011 Quarterfinalist
DESTROYING ANGEL
Kelly Thrones is a serial murderer; she just doesn’t know it yet.
She has killed six people by the time the FBI arrests her. They have all of the evidence against her. Fingerprints, DNA, and video proof of her leaving the latest murder scene. Kelly does not remember any of this and she passes a lie detector test.
FBI agent Malachi Powers has trouble believing his own evidence. It all points to Kelly, but she doesn't fit any known the profile and she doesn' have a motive.
Then the unthinkable happens: while in lock-up, Kelly kills an inmate. Now Kelly suspects she is possessed.
Agent Powers discovers that each victim was not a random, average, citizen. Kelly, it seems, has a unique talent. She is able to track down killers and then put them down. Kelly is shocked by this new turn.
Agent Powers decides to give Kelly a test without her knowledge. While in a trance, she leaves the prison. Powers and his team follow her to a truck stop where Kelly confronts a truck driver. The FBI arrives and search the truck driver's cab and discover a dead girl.
Now the FBI no longer wants to prosecute Kelly. They want to hire her.
Kelly wants to be free of this entity possessing her. She communicates with the rogue angel and using all of her sales skills she strikes the deal of her life. The angel leaves.
Agent Powers also offers Kelly deal: her freedom if she will help bring down Dillon Crompton, an arsonist who has been setting bigger and bigger fires.
Kelly agrees and heads into the Blue Jay Nuclear Power plant to stop a killer alone.

BIO for JOHN LEARY
John Leary is the award winning author of thriller, horror, and fantasy screenplays and animation. He’s contributed scripts to the cable series LAST NIGHT ON EARTH and the Saturday morning Fox series EEK! THE CAT.

BIO for ALISON McMAHAN
Alison McMahan is an optioned and award winning screenwriter and a documentary producer with over a dozen years experience.

