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A Nightmare on Elm Street Page #6
She hammers against its thick wood.
TINA:
Nancy! Open the door -- Nancy!
The MAN slows. He has TINA now and knows it.
MAN:
She's still awake. Nancy can't
hear you.
TINA turns and looks full at the approaching MAN. Smudged by
deep shadow, he's big and hideous. He wears the same dirty
yellow sweater from the first nightmare -- from the wall-hanging
and blanket too -- and has the same sagging hat and leering grin
over his misshapen face. And on his fingers are the steel
talons.
29. CLOSE ON HIM as he takes the blade on the end of his right index 29.
finger and lopes off one of the fingers of his left hand. Then
another. We SEE the PIECES OF FINGERS fall past TINA'S face in
SLOW MOTION.
ANGLE ON THE GROUND of the FINGERS squirming on the ground, one
flopping onto TINA's naked foot.
TINA leaps back, sickened, and begins stamping on then as if they
were huge bugs.
The MAN snaps up his arm and the FINGERS fly back into place on
his hand. He leers at TINA -- then suddenly lunges at her,
sweeping with his cutting hand!
TINA's no weak sister -- blocks his arm, deflecting the spines,
and grabs the MAN's ugly face with her other hand. But the face
only slides off to the bone. The MAN presses in, and TINA
contorts in horror as the knives slash across her shoulder --
cutting her deeply.
29A. TINA staggers backward, GROANING, her foot now inexplicably 29A.
caught in bedclothes! She falls over her bed's conformter, twists
away from the man and, like a child, pulls the cover over her!
The skull-faced MAN crushes down, and there's a fierce grappling
-- punctuated by his GRUNTS and the girl's DEAFENING SCREAMS --
and they both become totally wrapped in the comforter -- until
they're beneath it, fighting for life and death.
30. INT. TINA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT. 30.
ROD lurches up into CLOSE UP in the lightless bedroom,
half-awakened by the tremendous struggle somewhere, somehow
inside the dark bed. ROD grabs groggily, lifting the blanket.
30A. IN HIS POV we glimpse the dark underside of the blanket -- see 30A.
TWO SHADOWY FIGURES flailing and clawing under the bedspread --
TINA and the MAN -- or a shape that could be a man -- raging
against each other.
ROD drops the blanket and leaps from the bed, scared full awake
and terrified. Then the horrible TINA's GASPS change to the
CRIES of a terribly wounded victim. ROD instantly jerks back the
bedspread.
IN HIS POV we SEE TINA struggling and flailing along on the
sheets, the MAN nowhere in sight.
ROD:
T-tina!?
Suddenly TINA -- eyes turned inward to her tormentor -- give an
awful jolt -- her arms and legs are spraddled as if by
overwhelming force and pinned to the bed. Next instant, her
nightgown flies apart and four long gashes chase across her
torso. From no visible instruments! A huge irrigation of blood
floods the bed.
Terrified, ROD dives for the light -- but at the same moment
something invisible grabs TINA, wielding her body in the air and
bringing it around in a swift blow that knocks ROD crashing into
the light -- smashing it to bits.
31. CLOSER ON HIM as he struggles around. In the blue FLASHES OF 31.
ELECTRICITY ROD sees TINA sliding up the bedroom wall in a dark
smear, dragged feet first!
ANGLE ON ROD -- paralized by terror!
ANGLE ON TINA'S DYING EYES -- moving with her up the wall and
bumping around the corner onto the ceiling. She's just looking
at who's dragging her, eyes glazing.
REVERSE IN HER POV -- to the shadowy, horrendously ugly MAN,
dragging her with fierce glee across the ceiling, literally
swabbing the ceiling with her bloody body. SEEN in FORCED
PERSPECTIVE, the SHOT carries her across a great distance without
seeming to get anywhere -- as if the ceiling is an endless
plane.
ANGLE DOWN ON ROD -- on his hands and knees -- the lamp next to
him blurting blue SPARKS and STROBING the nightmare room. ROD'S
screaming up at TINA'S invisible tormentor.
ROD:
What the hell's going ON here!
Tina!
ANGLE ON TINA -- upside down, clawing at the hanging swag lamp
above her mother's dressing table -- desperate for some anchor.
But she's dragged away from it. The lamp swings back, it's wires
gushing more SPARKS.
CLOSER along the ceiling as TINA rakes a long furrow in the
ceiling with her fingernails. But her eyes are glazing,
glazing. And then they fall closed.
WIDE, UP ON THE CEILING, as her body suddenly flops loose,
hanging for an awful moment by the feet over the bed.
REVERSE ON ROD -- staring like a terrified child.
ROD:
Tina --
REVERSE IN HIS POV -- as the body falls like a sack of rocks onto
the devastated bed, in SLOW MOTION, striking with a huge splash
of blood. A sick, awful GIGGLE floats around the room, then
ECHOES off into infinity. ROD staggers up, staring around as if
hoping to see this phantom.
ROD:
You motherf***er! I'll kill you
for that!
32. INT. TINA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT. 32.
NANCY is sitting straight up in bed, terrified. The CRIES of ROD
are ringing through the whole house. She forces herself to move
-- bolting from the bed despite her terror and sense of dread.
33. INT. HALLWAY. NIGHT. 33.
NANCY flies into the dark hall -- crashing directly into SOMEONE
who lurches out of the dark before her. She SCREAMS and jumps
back --
GLEN:
What the hell's going on!?
NANCY:
Oh -- jeez -- Glen! Rod's
gone ape!
ROD (OS)
(sobbing)
I'll kill you!
NANCY grabs the door; it's locked; she pounds on it. BAM! BAM!
BAM!
Things fall into sudden, awful silence on the other side. GLEN's
voice cracks with fear.
GLEN:
Rod?
(silence)
Rod, you better not hurt Tina...
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