Frankenweenie Page #5

INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY [LATER]

Mom is vacuuming while reading a book. She's quite

practiced at it.

INT. ATTIC WORKSHOP - DAY

Sparky is drinking from his water bowl. As he does,

water leaks from his seams.

He hears a LONG MEOW.

It's Mr. Whiskers, Weird Girl’s Cat and it's perched in

the open attic window.

Sparky BARKS at it.

Mom switches off the vacuum. Did she hear barking?

MOM:

No. Couldn't be.

She starts up the vacuum again.

INT. ATTIC WORKSHOP - DAY

Sparky jumps up on a chair, then onto the workbench.

Lunges for the cat -

EXT. HOUSE / ROOF - DAY

-- and goes right through the window. He lands on the

steeply-sloped roof and slides down the shingles,

falling...

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INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY

...right past the picture window. Fortunately, Mom is so

engrossed in her book that she doesn’t see him and she

continues her vacuuming.

EXT. HOUSE - DAY

Sparky lands in the driveway and Mr Whiskers watches him

from on top of the car. When he moves to make a run for

it, Sparky is in hot pursuit.

EXT. BURGEMEISTER'S YARD - DAY

Sparky chases the cat through the tulips, smashing them.

Mr Whiskers bounds on top of one of Mr. Burgemeister’s

flamingos and thinks he is safely out of Sparky's reach.

He smugly starts to groom himself, but the single

standing leg starts to buckle. The flamingo collapses

into a heap, spilling the cat onto the perfectly

manicured flowers, destroying everything.

The cat and Sparky run past the house and into the

neighbor’s backyard just as Mr Burgemeister looks out the

window to see his destroyed garden.

EXT BOB’S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

Mr Whiskers leaps onto a garbage can, and clambers up

onto the roof to safety.

Sparky unable to follow is distracted by a fly buzzing

around the knocked over garbage can. He gulps it down and

then suddenly stops. He feels a funny tickle in his

throat, neck and tummy before the fly emerges from the

stitches on his side.

Sparky continues to chase the fly into Bob’s yard where

Bob’s Mom is hanging out the laundry.

As she turns, she sees Sparky’s shadow cast on a bed

sheet. The shadow is double his size and his teeth look

huge. Bob’s Mom thinks it’s a hideous monster and runs

screaming into the house.

BOB’S MOTHER

What! *screams*

Sparky can’t understand why she is so upset but he just

heads out on his way.

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EXT. SUBURBAN STREET / SIDEWALK - DAY

Two MOMS sit on a park bench talking, while their

toddlers nap in their strollers.

FIRST WOMAN:

I know, and Helen said she thought

he was putting up some kind of tv

antenna on top of the roof!

SECOND WOMAN:

In the middle of a thunderstorm?

FIRST WOMAN:

That’s what she said!

Neither mother notices as Sparky trots up. One of the

babies starts to fall asleep and drops his pacifier on

the floor.

SECOND MOTHER:

And did you get that big power

surge in the night? Jack thought

it was a fuse box but apparently

it effected the whole

neighbourhood.

The baby looks round and sees Sparky guilelessly sucking

on the pacifier.

SECOND MOTHER (O.S.)

Sometimes I wonder just what goes

on in that house. I just don’t

feel safe walking by there.

Seeing Sparky up close, the baby is horrified. It

SCREAMS.

FIRST WOMAN:

Sweetie are you ok? Here you go.

Sparky hides under the bench out of sight as the first

woman tries to calm her little one and pops the pacifier

back in the babies mouth.

SECOND MOTHER:

So anyway Jack loves it here but

if the schools weren’t so great

sometimes I wonder if we would be

better of...

Both Mommies get up and start to walk away they don’t

notice Sparky cowering under the bench.

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EXT. NEAR THE SCHOOL - DAY

Sparky trots past the front of the school as the school

bell rings. Sparky heads for the garbage cans around the

back.

On his way home, E walks behind the cafeteria and sees

Sparky sniffing around the garbage cans. He can’t believe

his eyes.

E:

Sparky?

Sparky stops short and looks right at E before running

off home.

E's eyes narrow. Isn't Sparky supposed to be dead?

We end on a shot of E, hatching a plan.

EXT. BACKYARD - DAY

Sparky arrives home and heads straight to the backyard

fence to see if Persephone is around.

Seeing that she is, he peeks his head through the broken

slates. Persephone is overjoyed but she seems to know

that there’s something different about him.

Sparky is so excited to see her he pushes his head

through the hole and gets his bolts stuck on the fence.

Persephone comes over to get a closer look and sniffs at

him cautiously. He smells a little funny but he seems to

be the same old Sparky until she focuses on the bolts

sticking out of his neck. Cautiously, she licks one, and

gets

ZAPPED!

The force of the spark sends Sparky back through the

fence and into his own yard. Persephone is thrown clear

across her garden. As she woozily gets back up, she turns

and we see that she now has a Bride of Frankenstein

stripe in her hair!

EXT. HOUSE - DAY

Victor cycles home after school. He throws his bike on

the lawn and heads straight inside.

INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY

Mom is lying on the couch, reading one of her books.

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MOM:

Hi Victor. How was school?

VICTOR:

GoodGottaGo.

He's heads up the stairs just as Sparky walks through the

front door, following a few steps behind.

INT. ATTIC WORKSHOP - DAY

Victor enters the attic, looking for...

VICTOR:

Sparky?

Hearing no answer, he walks in further. He checks behind

the curtain.

VICTOR:

Sparky?

Slight panic creeps into Victor’s voice before Sparky

sneaks in behind him and nudges his leg.

VICTOR:

There you are. Good boy!

Relieved, Victor kneels down and pets him lovingly.

VICTOR:

Sorry you had to stay here alone

all day.

Sparky just keeps panting, not revealing a thing. He

starts to slow down coming to a rest at Victor feet.

VICTOR:

What’s the matter boy? Are you ok?

Hmmm. You're a little low. Are

you hungry, boy?

Sparky sighs.

VICTOR:

Alright, here lets top you up.

Victor runs an extension cord from the wall and clips

them to Sparky’s bolts. As he switches the plug on,

Sparky's eyes glow a bit. Sparky brightens up and barks.

MOM (O.S.)

Victor! Could you come down here

please?

Victor switches the plug off and heads downstairs.

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INT. KITCHEN- DAY

Victor is taken by surprise as enters the kitchen to find

Edgar sitting at the counter. Edgar looks particularly

smug as Mom is busies herself in the kitchen.

MOM:

Victor your friend is here.

VICTOR:

Edgar?

E:

Hey!

VICTOR:

Edgar. What are you doing here?

E:

I know.

VICTOR:

What?

E:

I know.

VICTOR:

Know what?

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