Screenwriting
Ben has written several screenplays from television pilots, sketches, to full length features. His work has been pitched to studios such as New Line Cinema, Legendary Pictures, Sony Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Newform Pictures, and SuperGravity Pictures. He continues to write on his weekends, entering his work into festivals, collaborating with industry writers, and improving his hand each screenplay he completes.
All scripts are cutdown versions of the full screenplay. Please contact Ben individually for full screenplays.
Black Marble
Logline: A renown motivational speaker visits a depressed New England mill town of recovering young addict Carly Coppola. When the town's morale soars, Carly and her friends find the motivational speaker is hiding a dark paranormal history.
Genre: Horror/Thriller
References: It Follows meets Shallow Hal
Written by: Ben Pacocha
Creatures of Habit
Logline: Benji and James are two stoned college kids just trying to get by, but their drug induced paranoia renders strange happenings around the quirky town of Burlington, Vermont forcing them leave the couch and solve their mysteries.
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
Reference: Harold & Kumar meets Goosebumps
Written by: Ben Pacocha
Concept by: Ben Pacocha & James Sheehan
Social Jack
Logline: After possibly the most embarrassing event in high school history, Jack Atkins has the help from his two friends Lenny and Tazer to reinvent Jack's image via social media. When that fails, Lenny creates an AI clone of Jack sending it to school in place of him, allowing the chance for the clone to realize it might be the better version of the two Jacks.
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
Reference: Superbad meets Weird Science
Written by: Ben Pacocha & James Sheehan
Young Hollywood
Logline: Three social media stars move into a rundown mansion in the hills their manager talked them into getting. After finding an old wooden game in the basement, their labyrinth world of internet fame takes literal form in a fantasy game they must escape from.
Genre: Adventure/Action
Reference: This Is The End meets Jumanji
Written by: Ben Pacocha & Mark Edwin Robinson
What She Sees
Logline: Troubled by a past tragedy, young artist Katie has her reality shattered with the arrival of a mysterious painting with a past of its own.
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Reference: The Babadook meets The Anguished Man
Written by: Ben Pacocha & James Sheehan
The Faun
Logline: When Jenna Royce is given the opportunity to adopt a dangerous unknown animal from the slaughter farm in her small town, she realizes that the animal is far more human than the rest of the world knows.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
Reference: Okja meets We Are What We Are
Written by: Ben Pacocha
Hell Yeah!
Logline: Unknown to the cause of their demise, the souls of three dead teenagers are stuck in purgatory. After choosing to go to hell, they are tasked with demonic missions on earth to prove their sinister worth and... can't seem to do them right.
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
Reference: What Dreams May Come meets Horns
Written by: Ben Pacocha & James Sheehan
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