Frankenweenie Page #12

THE VAMPIRE CAT swoops right past her. With a blood

curdling screech, he grabs Persephone and flies off

towards the windmill.

ELSA:

No!

Elsa races after her dog, dropping her hat and wig in her

haste.

ELSA:

Peresphone! Help! Bring her back.

Victor hears Elsa’s screams and goes after her. The

Weird Girl is still dazed and confused, still calling for

her kitty.

WEIRD GIRL:

Mr Whiskers?

VICTOR:

I’m coming Elsa!

Sparky tries to keep up, but his legs are too stubby.

PANTING, he grabs Elsa’s wig and turns back in the other

direction.

EXT. TOWN SQUARE - NIGHT

Now that the mayhem seems to have ended, the townsfolk

start to assemble to review the damage. Since the power

lines went out, they carry lit torches

Burgemeister pulls himself out of the wreckage and dusts

himself off. All around him are remnants of his beloved

dutch day; broken tulips and decimated wooden shoes.

BURGEMEISTER:

What happened?

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He can’t take much more devastation when -

Sparky runs past with Elsa’s wig in his mouth.

Sparky sees Mom and Dad and drops Elsa’s wig at their

feet.

DAD:

Sparky! There you are!

MOM:

Are you alright?

Sparky barks at Mom and Dad. Doing his best Lassie, he

tries to explain what has happened.

DAD:

What you got there boy?

BURGEMEISTER (O.S.)

Let me through!

Burgemeister pushes his way through the crowd that has

gathered around Sparky.

BURGEMEISTER:

I knew it! It’s the boys dead dog!

Sparky steps back to show Burgemeister Elsa’s wig.

BURGEMEISTER:

That’s Elsa’s wig! Where’s my

niece!

BOB’S MOTHER

He’s killed the little girl!

The crowd has clearly misunderstood. Desperate, Sparky

runs, hoping they will follow.

Burgemeister leads the crowd in a chase up to the

windmill.

Still wearing their costumes from Dutch day and carrying

torches, they look like a mob of medieval villagers.

BURGEMEISTER:

After him kill the monster!

Mom and Dad follow close behind.

EXT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Victor arrives at the windmill and rushes inside.

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INT. WINDMILL - CONTINUOUS

He can hear Elsa’s scream coming from the rafters and he

looks up at the winding, rickety stair that leads to the

crows nest.

The vampire cat is creeping towards Elsa pushing her

further and further up the windmill.

ELSA:

Help! Stay away from us.

EXT. ROAD UP THE HILL - DAY

Sparky leads the way towards the windmill with the angry

mob trailing close behind.

EXT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Sparky arrives at the base of the windmill and tries to

make them understand that Elsa and Victor are inside.

BURGEMEISTER:

Get him!

Burgemeister signals to one of the villagers to throw a

rope around Sparky’s neck.

BURGEMEISTER:

Where’s my niece?

In his hysterical zeal Burgemeister waves his torch

around and inadvertently sets the windmill overhang on

fire. The sails are quickly engulfed in flames but the

blades keep turning.

The crowd gasps in horror.

TOWNSFOLK 1

Look out it’s on fire!

Sparky continues to bark and pull on the leash, trying

desperately to make them understand.

Bob’s Mom sees something at the top of the windmill and

points to Elsa who has climbed out onto the hub.

BOB’S MOM

It’s Elsa!

ELSA:

Help!

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INT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Victor continues to climb the stairs trying to get to

Elsa as quickly as he can.

EXT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Elsa and Persephone have now backed all the way to the

edge of the hub and when the vampire cat swoops past

them, they lose their balance. Elsa grasps onto a sail

but she can barely hang on.

BURGEMEISTER:

Elsa!

The crowd recoils in horror and Sparky breaks free and

runs into the burning windmill.

MOM:

Sparky!

INT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Victor arrives at the top level of the windmill. Smoke

and flames are rising.

EXT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

He climbs out the window towards Elsa.

ELSA:

Victor! Help!

VICTOR:

Hang on don’t let go

Victor holds his hand out trying to get hold of Elsa.

ELSA:

I can’t reach.

The vampire cat lunges towards Victor and is about to

finish him off when Sparky appears through the window and

launches an attack.

He chases the Vampire cat up the sails leaving Victor to

reach again for Elsa and Persephone.

VICTOR:

Hang on!

ELSA:

I can’t hold on much longer!

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Victor turns to look around and grabs a rope and throws

it over the side just as Elsa loses her grip. Just in the

nick of time, she catches the rope and swings to safety.

Burgemeister breaks her fall.

ELSA:

Aaaaah! Whoah!!!

Seeing that Elsa has landed safely, Victor looks up to

see the Vampire Cat and Sparky fighting on the end of the

sail.

VICTOR:

Sparky!

The Cat tries to knock him off but Sparky scampers out of

the way and slides safely down the sail into Victor arms.

The Vampire Cat is undeterred and he makes one final

lunge towards them, knocking Victor off the side.

The crowd gasps in horror as Victor and the Vampire cat

plummet through the floor boards and disappear into the

bowels of the burning windmill.

Mom and Dad try to run forward but are held back by a

fireman. The flames are too high.

MOM:

Victor!

FIREFIGHTER:

Stay back it’s too dangerous!

DAD:

That’s my son in there!

INT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Sparky battles the flames and races to the bottom on the

windmill to find the Vampire Cat and Victor lying

unconscious on the floor.

Grabbing Victor by the collar, Sparky uses all his

strength to drag Victor out of the Windmill to safety.

EXT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Mom and Dad see Sparky and Victor appearing out of the

smoke.

DAD AND MOM:

Victor?

DAD:

Victor!

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MOM:

Honey are you alright?

The crowd cheers and Victor and his parents share a

relieved embrace.

Sparky barks with joy and is about to run to join Victor

and his parents when the vampire cat rears up from out of

the flames and drags Sparky back into the collapsing

windmill.

VICTOR:

Sparky!

INT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

Back inside, The vampire cat and Sparky fight to the

death. The flames have almost completely enveloped the

windmill and shards of burning debris falls all around

them.

The vampire cat knocks Sparky backwards and corners him

against the wall. He bares his fangs and moves in for the

kill.

Sparky steels himself for the worst as a flaming shard of

wood breaks off the rafters and plummets to the ground,

impaling the cat through the heart.

Sparky is saved and tries to run for the door when

EXT. WINDMILL - NIGHT

The windmill finally collapses.

A CLOUD of SPARKS and CINDERS.

The crowd jumps back to safety and through the smoke,

Victor shouts...

VICTOR:

Noooo!

EXT. WINDMILL - TWILIGHT

The sun hasn't quite risen. Thanks to the FIREMEN, the

blaze is out.

Victor wipes away tears, smudged with soot. His Mom hugs

his shoulders.

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