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Official selection WRPN.TV
(2026)
Semi-Finalist INROADS Screenwriting Fellowship
(2026)
Quarter Finalist Creative World Awards (Short Screenplay)
(2026)
Official Selection Military Story Showcase
(2026)
Semi-Finalist SCI-FI FADE IN Awards
(2026)
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The Long Drift
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Film
Screenwriter After a catastrophic failure sends Earthβs first Mars mission drifting beyond rescue, the crew embraces an alien signal offering salvation β leaving their flight surgeon the only one who sees the trap as they vote to follow it into the unknown.
SPECULAR REFLECTION (Short)
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Film (short)
Screenwriter Companion Short to THE BUSHMEN.
THE LAST OFFERING
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Film
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Screenwriter THE LAST OFFERING
Feature Film | Prestige Horror | Hard R | $8β15M
A retired homicide detective pulls an autistic orphan from a burning bronze idol in the basement of a Virginia church and accidentally breaks a four-hundred-year-old covenant with Moloch. His son becomes the replacement offering. A god is trapped on earth until the debt is paid. The only resolution available is one he will not take.
The Roanoke Colony didnβt disappear. A priest named Thomas White made a deal in 1588, sacrificed a child to survive, and built a covenant that has been running continuously ever since β embedded in the founding of the Marine Corps, the Barbary Wars, and the civic infrastructure of a prosperous Virginia town called Canaan. The triangle in CROATOAN was the first tradecraft mark. The all-seeing eye on the dollar bill may be the same god wearing a different name.
Comparables: Hereditary. Midsommar. The Witch.
The debt will be paid.
Writer-Director: J.H. Calder
Status: In Development β Script in Progress
Contact: calderwarstories.com
NINE LIVES
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Film (short)
by Calder War Stories (Action and Adventure)
Writer A highβconcept action thriller with commercial appeal. Fastβpaced, characterβdriven, and built around moral stakes and survival.
THE LINE OF DEPARTURE
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Film
by Calder War Stories (Horror, Military/War and Science Fiction)
Writer / Director A mythic, psychological sciβfi feature exploring fear, identity, and the unknown. Built around a unique phobiaβdriven canon and grounded emotional storytelling.
THE UNMAKING
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Film
by Calder War Stories (Horror)
Writer A prestige psychological horror feature exploring identity, trauma, and the unraveling of the self. Grounded, characterβdriven, and built around mythic and emotional stakes.
THE BUSHMEN
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TV Mini Series
by Calder War Stories (Drama and Military/War)
Writer A prestige drama series based on lived Special Forces experience. Follows a new Green Beret drawn into the violent, absurd, and deeply human world of Special Forces combat in Afghanistan. Built around brotherhood, myth, and the emotional cost of war.
THE LAST OFFERING Horror ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When a retired detective extracts a missing boy from a Virginia orphanage, he unknowingly delivers him into a centuriesβold ritual β and must fight a living covenant that has already chosen his family as the next offering.
NINE LIVES Action ⋄ Adventure When lockdown enforcers seize and discard the only companion he has left, a withdrawn veteran tears through his quarantined high-rise in a relentless, near-one-shot drum driven descent to save his suffocating cat before the world welds shut around him.
SPECULAR REFLECTION Military/War Wounded in combat and slipping into a dream of home, a Green Beret medic is carried through gunfire toward rescue as his collapsing consciousness mirrors the chaos around him in a musicβdriven portrait of survival and the unseen cost of war.
THE BUSHMEN Drama ⋄ Military/War A new Green Beret joins his team in Afghanistan and is drawn into the violent, absurd, and deeply human world of Special Forces combat, where men become legends — and every tale leaves a scar.
The Unmaking Horror ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When her teenage daughter murders her husband, a Miami mother tears her family's life apart looking for a rational explanation β and discovers that a woman she barely remembers has been systematically dismantling that life, piece by piece, for forty years.
THE LINE OF DEPARTURE Science Fiction ⋄ Thriller / Suspense After fleeing a collapsing coup, a Special Forces team escapes into a forbidden jungle where time fractures, reality bends, and the men are hunted by a feral entity that was once one of their own. As the survivors are scattered across past, present, and future, they discover their escape is the very event that traps them in a closed loop they cannot break.
THE LONG DRIFT Horror ⋄ Science Fiction When a catastrophic failure sends Earthβs first Mars mission on a oneβway trajectory beyond rescue, the crew clings to an alien signal promising salvation β leaving their flight surgeon the only one who sees the trap as they vote to follow it into the unknown.
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