Awards

The Devout — Written by Ash MacReady, Mark Hardcastle, & Dred Baird — was named a Finalist in the 2025 13Horror.com Screenplay Contest, an international competition celebrating the best emerging voices in genre storytelling.

The Red Pen Men — a writing collective united by the mantra “Three Voices. One Shadow.” — fuse psychological horror with emotional realism, exploring the sacred and the monstrous within everyday faith.
The Devout marks their breakout work, recognized for its haunting tone, layered characters, and chilling meditation on belief, guilt, and inherited sin.