Eight Legged Freaks Page #11

CHRIS:

What other spiders did Joshua

have?

MIKE:

Spitters, jumpers, orb weavers,

tarantulas...

CHRIS:

Why couldn’t he keep goldfish like

a normal person?

Sam checks the phone. It’s dead.

SAM:

We need to warn people.

CHRIS:

How about the radio station?

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CONTINUED:

SAM:

Good one. We’ll go to Harlan’s.

ASHLEY:

Outside? You want to go outside?

EXT. RESIDENTIAL STREET -PALMER HOUSE-NIGHT

Chris and Sam open the front door of the house. Sam

looks one way. Chris the other.

No giant spiders lurking about. Chris and Sam continue

onto the lawn. Mike and Ashley watch from the safety of

the doorway. They listen to the comforting SOUNDS OF a

SUMMER NIGHT.

SAM:

It’s okay...

Mike and Ashley move out of the doorway. Joining the

adults. They move toward the cop car.

EXT. STREETS (TOWN) -NIGHT

The cop car cruises. The occupants peer out the windows.

Everything appears normal. Although no people are

visible.

EXT. HARLAN’S TRAILER -NIGHT

Sam, Chris, and the kids move away from the cop car to

the door. They are at the far end of town. All appears

to be normal.

INT. HARLAN’S TRAILER -NIGHT

Harlan is broadcasting.

HARLAN:

... I’m saying the invasion has

already occurred. The aliens are

among us. But they’ve taken

common forms. They hide in plain

sight.

Harlan is startled as Sam and the others enter with guns.

SAM:

We need to make an emergency

broadcast.

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HARLAN:

What happened?

MIKE:

Giant spider invasion.

Harlan’s jaw drops. Sam takes the microphone.

CHRIS:

What are you going to say? You

can’t tell them the truth.

SAM:

(into microphone)

Is this thing on? Hello? This is

Sam Palmer. We have an emergency

situation.

EXT. STREET (TOWN) -NIGHT

SAM (V.O.)

A pack of rabid coyotes is loose

in town.

Wolf spiders crawl across rooftops. Spitters scale

buildings Tarantulas lurk in the shadows. Jumpers

scuttle out of the mineshafts. Trapdoors prepare their

burrows.

INT. HOUSE -LIVING ROOM -NIGHT

This funky old couple relaxes in their LaZee-Boys.

SAM (V.O.)

They are extremely dangerous.

The forelegs of a tarantula reach over the top of the

man’s recliner, yanking him clean out. The woman is

oblivious as her husband is dragged away across the

floor.

EXT. HANK AND EMMA’S HOME -NIGHT

Emma bursts out of the front door, screaming

hysterically. Hank is behind her with the SawzAll. A

wolf spider crawls after them from inside the house.

SAM (V.O.)

Arm yourselves with any weapons

you can find.

Hank raises the saw, overextending the power cable. He

loses power. Drops the saw and runs for his life.

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INT. BARBERSHOP -NIGHT

Floyd and Leroy use brooms to fend off several wolf

spiders.

SAM (V.O.)

Stay together and head for the

mall.

INT. DINER -NIGHT

A spider eats the chef. The waitress roller-skates away

from an arachnid. She jumps through the window into the

street.

EXT. HOUSE -NIGHT

A family piles into their mini-van. Oblivious to the

jumper hiding in the "way back." They close the door and

drive off.

INT. HARLAN’S TRAILER -NIGHT

Harlan has donned a vintage football helmet and pads.

CHRIS:

The mall?

SAM:

The walls are concrete and the

exits have steel gates. We could

hold an entire army of giant

spiders from inside.

ASHLEY:

You just said giant spider on the

air.

Sam sees the microphone is keyed.

HARLAN:

Now that’s great radio!

SAM:

Not giant spiders! I meant to

say...

Harlan notices long spider legs passing the window.

HARLAN:

The aliens!

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EXT. HARLAN’S TRAILER -NIGHT

Sam and the others spill out of the trailer. They head

for the cop car. As they get closer, a wolf spider

climbs onto the car’s roof and gnaws on the light bar.

Sam raises her gun to blast it.

MIKE:

Wait, Mom! The noise will attract

more of them!

CHRIS:

Let’s try for the mall.

Sam leads the others toward town.

EXT. MAIN STREET -NIGHT

Chris and Sam hang onto the panicked kids. Harlan brings

up the rear. The place is chaos. People are chased by

spiders. Dragged by spiders. Killed by spiders. Eaten

by spiders.

CHRIS:

My truck’s at the museum.

SAM:

Your keys?

CHRIS:

In my other pants.

MIKE:

Look out!

The group flees a trio of goo-firing spitters. Suddenly

a familiar mini-van races past.

HARLAN:

Stop! Take us with you!

Harlan tries to flag down the speeding ride but sees...

The van’s occupants are locked in combat with a jumper.

The beast is inside their vehicle and tearing them to

pieces. The van crashes.

EXT. POWER LINES (MAIN STREET, TOWN) -NIGHT

A group of orb weavers scurry across power lines. They

hit a transformer, shorting it out. The entire town is

suddenly plunged into darkness. Headlights. GUNFIRE.

Moonlight. Spotty illumination for the arachnids’

feeding frenzy.

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EXT. ALLEY (TOWN) -NIGHT

A dumpster. The lid rises slightly. Wade Hale peers out

from within. He lifts the lid higher, oblivious to the

wolf spider on top of it. The spider reaches down at

him.

WADE:

No! Please!

The spider is suddenly BLOWN AWAY by Sam and Chris. Wade

climbs out of the dumpster.

WADE:

Thank you!

Chris and Sam move on with the kids. Wade runs after

them. Mike looks at garbage-covered Wade.

MIKE:

You stink.

WADE:

(to Ashley)

Have you seen Bret?

ASHLEY:

He was out at the dunes.

SAM:

Go ahead. I’ve got your butt.

CHRIS:

What?

SAM:

Your back! I’ve got your back!

Chris gives Sam a funny look. Maybe Gladys was right...

EXT. MAIN STREET -NIGHT

Sam leads her group down toward the mall. Other groups

of survivors do likewise. As they get closer to the mall

the groups coalesce into one large pack. We recognize

Deputy Pete. Fireman Travis. The roller-skating

waitress. Floyd. Leroy. Hank. Emma. And many other

locals.

EXT. DESERT (NEAR MALL) -NIGHT

Sam and Chris are at the front of the mob with their

kids.

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

Suddenly a trapdoor spider pops out of the ground. It

grabs Travis the fire chief, and pulls him under, quickly

replacing the roof of its den. TRAVIS SCREAMS

underground.

MIKE:

Trapdoors! They’re all around us!

SAM:

How can we spot them?

Mike consults his Cassiopeia.

MIKE:

I didn’t download that part!

ASHLEY:

You dork!

The group wheels at the MUFFLED SOUNDS. They see

nothing. They hear another MUFFLED SCREAM, and the top

of the spider’s den pops up. Travis drags himself out of

it.

TRAVIS:

Help... me... please...

He is dragged back underground.

The group continues toward the mall entrance. Suddenly a

gun-toting hunter is grabbed by a trapdoor. He goes

cyclic, madly FIRING his GUN into the air as he’s dragged

under.

More beasts rise out of their dens. Reaching for the

humans.

CHRIS:

Keep going!

Chris and the others flee toward the mall. Some of them

SHOOT at the spiders as they run.

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