David Bentley

David Bentley

Peabody, Massachusetts

ScreenwriterPlaywright

About David

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Life Experience

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Achievements

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Awards

  • Hollywood Horrorfest Best Short Script: Don't Speak
    (2025)

  • Los Angeles Fantasia Fest Official Selection: Don't Speak
    (2025)

  • Phobia Film Festival Official Selection: Don't Speak
    (2025)

  • Parallax Studioworks Best Short Script Award: Don't Speak
    (2025)

  • Happenstance Horror Fest Honorable Mention: Don't Speak
    (2025)

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Loglines

  • Control-Alt-Delete

    Control-Alt-Delete Thriller / Suspense Science Fiction Imprisoned and offered a chance at redemption, Nyra (Subject 0195) agrees to join a mysterious AI experiment. But when a system failure leaves her isolated in the lab with only her assigned companion bot, she discovers the experiment hides a far more disturbing purpose: one that could redefine what it means to be human.

  • Don't Speak

    Don't Speak Thriller / Suspense Horror Ten years after escaping a childhood marked by silence and violence, a withdrawn young woman is haunted by the darkness she tried to bury — until tragedy forces her to return home and face the horrors she thought she had escaped.

  • Dissonance

    Dissonance Fantasy Drama While growing up with living, personified emotions known as "alters" in which only she can see, a troubled young woman must harness their power to stop a dark force from reclaiming her soul. *first 3 pages available to read*

  • Deception (One-Act Play)

    Deception (One-Act Play) Experimental Thriller / Suspense When a psychiatric patient claims her life is nothing more than a scripted performance, her therapist’s attempts to help unravel turn into a battle of control, identity, and authorship—until she finally snaps.

  • Cocoon (2025)

    Cocoon (2025) Thriller / Suspense Horror When a woman awakens bound in an abandoned warehouse, a familiar voice from her past forces her into a chilling ritual — one that will test the limits of guilt, vengeance, and the supernatural.

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