Beetlejuice Page #9

DELIA:

Attic space.

OTHO:

Let's see. Maybe we could turn

it into a media room.

They head up the stairs to the attic.

INT:
CATHY'S ROOM -- SAME TIME

ADAM'S HEAD has a look of terror on it.

ADAM'S HEAD

Oh God. I forgot to lock

the attic door.

ADAM's headless body jumps up off the floor and rushes out of the

room.

INT:
STAIRCASE TO THE ATTIC -- SAME TIME

OTHO and DELIA climbing. The headless corpse rushes past them,

around the bend in the stairs and out of sight.

DELIA:

Did you feel something?

OTHO:

I felt something cold.

INT:
LANDING OUTSIDE ATTIC DOOR -- SAME TIME

The headless corpse rushes through the open door into the attic.

INT:
ATTIC LANDING -- SAME TIME

DELIA tries the knob. The door is locked.

OTHO:

You don't have a key?

DELIA:

Maybe Charles does.

OTHO:

I have a feeling there's

something interesting behind

this door.

INT:
CATHY'S BEDROOM -- SAME TIME

BARBARA still holding ADAM'S HEAD.

ADAM'S HEAD

Whew! That was close. (Sighs)

What's the use of tearing your

head off in front of people if

they can't see you?

BARBARA:

I can't live with this.

ADAM:

We have to. We're dead.

BARBARA:

I'm getting out of here.

She puts down his head on an end table and storms out.

ADAM:

Barbara, where are you

going?

INT:
KITCHEN -- MOMENTS LATER

BARBARA storms in, straight from the room upstairs. She heads

straight for the back door. Just as she reaches for the door,

ADAM comes in -- putting his head back on.

ADAM:

Don't go out there. We don't

know --

BARBARA:

I can't stay inside this house

a minute more. Not one minute.

She flings open the door and steps outside. She promptly

disappears.

ADAM:

Barbara!

EXT:
THE SURFACE OF SATURN'S MOON TITAN

BARBARA is on Titan with an enormous Saturn looming in the sky.

She looks around with wonder and some fear.

A sulfur volcano erupts in the distance.

A meteor crashes with a lurid explosion.

As from a great distance she hears ADAM's voice.

ADAM:

Barbara!

She turns slowly in the dense sand that covers the surface of

this distant moon.

BARBARA'S POV --

ADAM is struggling towards her. Behind him, hovering isolated in

the air, is the kitchen door.

BACK TO SCENE --

ADAM at last catches up to her.

Behind them, something is burrowing rapidly towards them through

the sand. The Something looks as if it might be right out of

DUNE.

BARBARA and ADAM watch for a moment, and then realize that it

just might be a very fine idea if they got the hell out of there.

They turn and run towards the kitchen door.

The kitchen door has moved, but they veer in the new direction.

The Something gets right up to them and rises out of the sand.

Whatever it is is very big, very nasty, and very hungry.

ADAM and BARBARA slip and sink in the sand as they are pursued by

THE BEAST. They make it through the door just in time, swing it

open and hurl themselves through.

The door shuts with a bang.

The BEAST roars and roars in frustration, howling to the ringed

planet.

INT:
THE KITCHEN -- DAY

The kitchen is very much as it was when ADAM and BARBARA were

alive, and boy it sure feels good after a stint on Titan.

BARBARA, weeping, throws herself in ADAM's arms.

ADAM:

It's okay, kiddo. This house

may not be heaven for us any

more, but at least it isn't

hell.

As if demolishing ADAM's assurances, a 2500-pound, gleaming, six-

burner, double-oven Vulcan stove crashes through the breakfast

nook windows, and drops into place.

Outside can be seen the truck and crane which delivered this

monstrous piece of culinary extravagance.

BARBARA and ADAM duck out of its path, stumbling into the dining

room.

INT:
DINING ROOM -- DAY

Where they are greeted with hot blasts of noisy steam from the

guns of the WALLAPAPER REMOVERS, dressed in satanic red

jumpsuits, wearing Walkmans that resemble horns.

BARBARA and ADAM stumble through to the living room, where --

INT:
LIVING ROOM -- DAY

-- they are bombarded with plaster splinters and dust, and the

ear-shattering noise of drills, hammers, and electric saws,

carving up the ceiling to make room for DELIA's water clock

(which we'll see later).

Aghast, BARBARA and ADAM flee up the stairs to the second floor.

AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS --

A six-foot diameter spool of cable comes barrelling down towards

them, in a parody of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. They rush back

down the stairs, and then, without knowing how they accomplish

it, ADAM and BARBARA make a deft and ghostly hurdle over it to

the second floor landing.

INT:
SECOND FLOOR HALLWAY -- DAY

They're not out of this SoHo hades yet.

As they make their way down the hallway, they run the gauntlet

past every open door. Outside LYDIA's room, ADAM and BARBARA

pause and glance in the open door, looking for refuge. A HUNDRED

AND TWENTY DECIBELS OF EAR-SHATTERING DEATH ROCK send them on

down the hall, where next they are driven against the wall by a

JET STREAM of hot water -- the plumbers' error in the bathroom.

With the plumbers' curses ringing in their ears, they try to

hurry on towards the attic stairway.

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