Eight Legged Freaks Page #13

EXT. MALL -ROOF -ANTENNA -NIGHT

Harlan checks the phone.

HARLAN:

I’ve got a signal!

He dials 911.

EXT. MALL -ROOF -NIGHT

Chris is surrounded by spiders. He starts climbing up

the antenna.

CHRIS:

They’re coming!

EXT. MALL -ROOF -ANTENNA -NIGHT

Harlan is on the phone. He hears...

OPERATOR (V.O.)

911 Emergency.

HARLAN:

I’m calling from Prosperity

Nevada! We’re being attacked by

giant spiders! The entire town

has been overrun!

Chris yells up to him.

CHRIS:

No! Don’t say that!

OPERATOR (V.O.)

This is Emergency Services. Not

dial-a-joke.

(CONTINUED)

74.

CONTINUED:

CLICK. The LINE GOES DEAD. Chris climbs up beside him.

He FIRES several BLASTS at the approaching spiders.

CHRIS:

What happened?

HARLAN:

They didn’t believe me!

CHRIS:

What a shock! Try again!

The spiders are closing in as Harlan re-dials.

OPERATOR (V.O.)

911 Emergency.

HARLAN:

There was a massive explosion!

Everybody’s dead!

OPERATOR (V.O.)

Sir, your number has been flagged

as a source of a crank call. I’m

afraid I must terminate this

conversation.

CLICK.

HARLAN:

She hung up on me!

CHRIS:

Climb!

Chris FIRES the SHOTGUN. The spiders are closing in.

INT. MALL -NIGHT

Sam gazes up at the skylight. She can see the silhouette

of Chris and Harlan climbing the antenna. Pursued by

spiders.

SAM:

(sotto)

Oh my God...

Ashley screams in horror nearby.

ASHLEY:

They’re inside!

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

Sam whirls to see Ashley pointing at several spiders

coming out of Victoria’s Secret. Sam runs over to fight

them.

WADE:

Over here!

He faces off against more spiders coming through the Home

and Garden store.

EXT. MALL -ROOF -ANTENNA -NIGHT

Harlan is at the top. Chris is a bit lower. The spiders

are still coming. Chris SHOOTS at them. His GUN RUNS

DRY. He flips it around and butt-strokes an approaching

arac.

A spider fires a web at Harlan. Nails the poor guy. And

drags him off the antenna.

Harlan falls off the antenna, back toward the spiders.

Chris reaches out and grabs him. Holding Harlan’s hand.

CHRIS:

I’ve got you!

Harlan makes eye-contact with Chris. They’re both about

to be killed unless...

HARLAN:

Defend the human race!

CHRIS:

No!

Harlan jerks away from Chris’s hand. He cannonballs down

into the horde of spiders. Splattering several of the

beasts along with himself.

Chris throws the useless shotgun at an approaching arac

and climbs even higher. He pulls out his machete and

begins hacking at the guide-wires that hold the antenna

upright.

The spiders close in. Chris slices one wire. The

antenna quivers. Chris slices another wire. The antenna

shakes.

INT. MALL -NIGHT

Deputy Pete is standing with Sam and the kids when he’s

jerked off his feet and hauled into the maw of an

arachnid.

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

SAM:

Ashley! Mike!

She sees Mike and Ashley avoid an arac by taking refuge

inside the tunnels of the jungle gym.

Sam FIRES the GUNS like Annie Oakley, putting spiders

down left and right, trying to reach her kids.

Floyd the barber confronts a spider with his chain-saw.

FLOYD:

Having a bad hair day?!

The spider charges. Floyd slices its legs off.

FLOYD:

How about a little off the top!

He slices another arac.

EXT. MALL -ROOF -ANTENNA -NIGHT

Chris dodges a spider’s webline. Several more come at

him.

CHRIS:

You’re going down!

Chris cuts the last wire and hikes out over the skylight.

The antenna keels over. Chris hangs tight as he drops

toward the glass.

INT. MALL -NIGHT

Sam looks up to see Chris come crashing down through the

skylight on the antenna. The antenna tilts in at a sixty

degree angle. Chris hangs off the end. Orb weavers ride

their weblines down to the floor of the mall.

Mike peeks out from the top of the jungle gym. He sees a

hundred spiders coming in on webs. Flooding out of the

stores. The devil-spawned monsters are everywhere!

MIKE:

Arac attack!

Chris leaps from the antenna to a nearby web. He slides

down it like a pole, squashing the orb weaver at the

bottom. Sam runs to his side.

(CONTINUED)

77.

CONTINUED:

SAM:

Did you get help?! Is anybody

coming!?

CHRIS:

We’re on our own!

Sam tosses him a gun and they head toward the jungle gym.

The waitress roller-skates away from the spiders. She

slaloms clear of several spitters. But gets tackled by a

jumper.

INT. MALL -JUNGLE GYM

Ashley and Mike are hiding.

ASHLEY:

I can’t stay in here!

Ashley starts to move out of the tube. She discovers the

end has been covered with web. She pushes it. Something

on the other side pushes back. Ashley scrambles back.

Mike is already moving. The kids flee through the tubes

to get away.

ASHLEY:

What are they doing?

MIKE:

(checks Cassiopeia)

They’re trapping us like ants in a

log! Once they have all the exits

blocked, they’ll come in through

the last one!

They see a way out, head for that exit, only to find a

spider coming through it. Mike tosses one of his perfume

grenades at the spider, covering their retreat.

Another spider comes after them through one of the tubes.

Mike chucks another perfume bottle. The spider cowers.

MIKE:

We’ve gotta go!

Ashley finds a hole that leads to the slide.

ASHLEY:

Here!

She starts down with Mike close behind. A large spider

looms at the end. Ashley tries to arrest her slide. But

it’s no use. At the last second Sam’s boot kicks the

arachnid clear.

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INT. MALL -NIGHT

Ashley and Mike pour out of the slide. Chris and Sam

finish off the spider and then run with the kids.

Emma runs parallel to them across the playground’s

sandbox. Only to be yanked under by a trapdoor spider.

Hank sees this and goes after the spiders with all his

tools. Getting revenge with a nail gun in each hand.

HANK:

It’s tool time!

Floyd is still going crazy, slicing spiders with his

chain-saw, he lets out a victorious yell until a hungry

spider descends on him from above and knocks him to the

floor.

Chris passes a clothing store displaying Levi 501s. He

stops for a moment to look at the jeans.

SAM (O.S.)

Chris!

Chris continues on.

All of the survivors meet in the middle of the mall and

prepare for Custer’s last stand. Spiders charge from all

directions.

Mike throws his perfume grenades. Sam and Chris SHOOT.

Others use their make-shift weapons.

Norman pulls out a joint and sparks it. Mike sees this

and gets an idea.

MIKE:

Where do you grow your weed?!

NORMAN:

Dude, if I tell you, I have to

kill you.

Norman takes a hit on his reefer.

MIKE:

They’re going to kill us, you

stoner!

Norman sees the army of spiders closing in.

NORMAN:

Over here!

(CONTINUED)

79.

CONTINUED:

Norman opens an access door. Sam and the other survivors

run over and crowd through it. Norman shuts the door

behind them. The groups of pursuing spiders collide and

begin ripping each other to pieces in a feeding frenzy.

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