Amityville: The Awakening Page #4

How can I help you?

(BELLE SHUDDERS)

(BEEPING)

BELLE (TREMBLES): No...

No, I can't do that.

(BEEPING)

(WHISPERS):
No.

(SOFT, TREMBLING BREATHS)

(CRYING):
I love you so much.

(TREMBLING BREATHS)

(CRYING SOFTLY)

Are you sure you want me to do this?

(BEEP)

I'm gonna take this out.

(CRYING QUIETLY, SNIFFLING)

(DEEP, RASPING GASP)

(SNIFFLES)

(MACHINERY POWERS DOWN)

- (GASPS)

- You're the one who's gonna f***ing die!

(BEEPS CONTINUE)

JOAN :
Is he all right?

Are you okay, honey? What's going on?

Jimmy, you okay?

What did you do?

- I...

- What did you do?

You have no right to do this!

(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)

He's breathing.

He's breathing on his own.

(KISSES)

(JOAN LAUGHS SOFTLY)

Jimmy wants to live.

He deserves... to live.

JOAN :
Get out.

(SNIFFLES)

If you touch him again, I swear... (SNIFFLES)

BELLE (VOICE-OVER): It's bad enough

that he's trapped in

his own body, and now he's...

what, he's... there's

something in there with him?

Wha... What am I gonna do?

I...

- I have to help him.

- Look, Belle,

you have to help your entire family, okay?

I mean, whatever's in there

with James, if it... if it wins, you know,

it it takes over completely,

it will kill everyone.

Belle, you got to get

your family out of there.

Or we have to prove it to your mom somehow.

Find a way to show her

that your brother is being controlled

by whatever is in that house.

(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)

Belle?

Why aren't you in school?

I wasn't feeling well.

I'm sorry.

I'm sure I'll be fine.

No, I'm sorry about last night.

For what?

If you hadn't pulled Jimmy

off the respirator, w...

we wouldn't know that

he could breathe on his own.

I know you...

were doing what you thought was right.

But now you know how wrong it is.

Right?

Jimmy was always going to come back.

You do want us to be a family

again, don't you, Belle?

Of course.

Good.

Get some rest, sweetie.

I love you.

Hey, James. How you doing today?

(WEAK, RASPY BREATHING)

(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)

"Outside walk."

Those are your biggest words yet.

You're doing so great. Yes, we can!

(INDISTINCT VOICES IN DISTANCE)

(INDISTINCT TALKING CONTINUES)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

JOAN :
Honey! Be careful by the water, okay?

JULIET :
Okay!

I don't know why it's so hard

for everyone to believe

- he's getting better.

- Well, he's getting better,

but don't you want to know why?

He's really...

I think a second opinion would be good, too.

CANDICE :
We can do that.

A second opinion's okay.

- Have you asked Dr. Milton about this?

- JOAN :
Mmm,

I haven't been in contact with him yet.

(INHALES)

Ugh.

(SCREAMS)

Juliet!

What happened? You okay? Come here, baby.

Come on.

- What's wrong? You tell me. What's wrong?

- (CRYING)

JULIET :
It's Larry.

CANDICE :
Okay. Don't look at it.

TERRENCE (VOICE-OVER):

Is that a bounding circle

- in the backyard?

- BELLE :
A bounding circle?

TERRENCE :
If they thought

an area was evil, they would do

a ring around it with, like,

salt or fire, whatever,

(ECHOING):
to try and keep the evil

contained... the evil contained...

CANDICE :
It's gonna be okay.

- (GENTLY):
Okay.

- (GRUNTING)

(DISTORTED, ECHOING WHISPERS)

(EERIE WHISPERING): Kill, kill, kill...

kill, kill...

Kill...

- (FADING):
kill, kill, kill...

- (MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)

CANDICE :
Okay.

All right, that's great. Thank you.

So, the vet can be here first thing

tomorrow morning to pick up the body.

JOAN :
Thank you for doing this.

- Thanks for everything.

- Of course.

Joan...

- don't worry about it.

- I know.

And Juliet is gonna be okay.

I know.

How about I come by and check

on everybody after my shift tonight?

That sound all right?

(SIGHS) Yeah, that sounds great.

CANDICE :
Okay.

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

He can't leave the house.

(VOICE-OVER):

Hey, Mom, I need to talk to you.

Mom, stop.

Are you listening to me?

Look, I know you're

gonna think I'm crazy, okay?

But I... I got a really

bad feeling about this house.

I think it's doing something to James.

It's... it's, like, possessing him

or infecting him.

I... I don't know.

There's this room in the basement, okay?

I've been down there. I've seen it myself.

I swear, I think that's what's...

making him all of a sudden better.

Please say something.

I don't think you're crazy, sweetheart.

I know about the Red Room.

Come here.

Wait, wh... what did you just say?

You know I always believed in God.

And then your father got sick.

And we had to watch him

rot away from the inside from cancer.

Every day I prayed.

And then James got sick.

But still I prayed.

Two years.

The doctors are giving up on him, right?

They said he'd never come out.

- I won't accept that.

- What are...

what are you talking about?

God gave up on us, sweetheart.

So I gave up on God.

And I moved us here.

Because if...

if there is some...

power...

that can make your brother better...

Better? No, Mom, no, you don't understand.

James isn't better.

(WHISPERING):
This house is evil.

This house is really bad.

It's gonna drive James to kill

our whole family, just like the DeFeos.

You, me,

- Juliet...

- Shh. Stop. Stop.

Come here. No, no, no, no, no.

James would never do that.

Okay?

He would never do that. He's getting better.

- (WHISPERING):
Hi, baby. Hi. Hi. Get up.

- Belle?

Yes. I need you to put this on, okay?

I want you to hurry. Just stay quiet, okay?

- Where are we going?

- I'll be right back. Shh.

(JOAN YELLS)

(GROANING SOFTLY)

(SIGHS)

(SOFT POP SONG PLAYING IN DISTANCE)

(JULIET SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

Hi, honey. Come sit down.

We're just about to start dinner.

- Hey, guess what, Belle?

- Chicken smells great, Mom.

Oh, hey, Belle.

How'd you sleep?

I hope you're hungry.

Mom made all this great food.

Juliet, pass the chicken, please.

JOAN (QUIETLY):
So strong.

JULIET :
There you are.

Where's your bed?

JOAN :
In his room.

It's about time we had a proper dining room.

Jimmy.

Of course.

JAMES :

Dad would be so happy to see us all here...

together.

Don't you think, Mom?

Yes, I do.

(SONG GROWING LOUDER)

(SONG STOPS ABRUPTLY)

(SCRAPING)

(DOOR CREAKS)

(LOCK CLICKS)

(CRACKLING)

(CREAKING)

(LOCK CLICKS)

(RATTLING DOORKNOB)

(EERIE WHISPERING VOICES)

- (AMPLIFIED HEARTBEAT)

- (CRACKLING)

(RATTLING DOORKNOB)

(GASPING BREATHS)

Oh, f***.

- (AMPLIFIED HEARTBEAT)

- (LOW, RASPY BREATHING)

- (PANTING)

- (RATTLING DOORKNOB)

- (AMPLIFIED HEARTBEAT)

- (LOW, RASPY BREATHING)

Candice?

- (THUMPING)

- Candice?

- (AMPLIFIED HEARTBEAT)

- (RASPY BREATHING)

(QUIET, PAINED GASP)

- (PAINED GROANING)

- (CRACKLING)

Don't come in!

- Call the police!

- (POUNDING ON WALL)

(AMPLIFIED HEARTBEAT,

EERIE SCREAMS, CRACKLING)

(RASPY BREATHING, GROANING, CRACKLING)

(AMPLIFIED HEARTBEAT GROWING LOUDER)

(DISTORTED, ECHOING BREATH)

(ECHOING BREATH FADES)

- (PANTING)

- (DOOR CREAKS)

Joan?

CANDICE (IN DISTANCE): Joan? You awake?

Belle?

(GUNSHOT, BODY THUDS)

(GASPS)

(RATTLES DOORKNOB)

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