Frankenweenie Page #9

Sparky runs through town where the dutch day festivities

have officially begun. The town square has been

transformed into a European fun fair with rides and food

stalls set up all the way down main street. People in

costume are converging on hot dog vendors and beer

gardens.

Sparky is petrified but the townsfolk are completely

oblivious.

Sparky tries to stay out of sight, but everywhere he

goes, he’s scared off by some new terror.

EXT. VICTOR’S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

Victor looks in the backyard and shines his flashlight

into the empty dog house.

VICTOR:

Sparky? Are you in there!

Victor’s parents head out the front door and Victor

hurries past them on his bike.

VICTOR:

Mom! Dad! I’m going to check out

the school and the park, you guys

do the town square, ok?

DAD:

Got it.

MOM:

Sparky!

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DAD:

Sparky!

As they go in their respective directions we see

Toshiaki, Edgar, Nassor and Weird Girl skulking in the

bushes.

Toshiaki nudges Edgar forward and motions to the front

door which has been left ajar in their haste.

INT. ATTIC WORKSHOP - NIGHT

We see the shadows of all five of them slowly climb the

attic stairs.

E pulls the curtain back to reveal Victor’s sanctum

sanctorum. The apparatus glistens in the moonlight.

BOB:

Cool.

Nassor and Weird Girl check out the equipment - pushing

and pulling on the wires with clumsy curiosity.

Edgar tries to confer with Toshiaki who turns his back

dismissively. Its clear there are no more partnerships.

Its every man for himself.

Toshiaki examines the formulas and theorems on the

blackboard.

TOSHIAKI:

Interesting.

E:

It has something to do with the

lightning. I don’t really

understand it.

TOSHIAKI:

Ah-but I do.

PUSHING IN on his eyes...

NASSOR:

Tonight, we shall bring the dead

to life.

EXT. NEAR THE SCHOOL - CONTINUOUS

Victor runs around the baseball field shining the

flashlight under the bleachers and into the dug out.

VICTOR:

Sparky! Where are you? Sparky!

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EXT. PET CEMETERY - NIGHT

Sparky narrowly avoids some kids running towards the town

center by backing into an open gate.

As the revelers pass he looks around at where he is and

sees that he is surrounded by ominous looking headstones.

An eerie Cat

A giant turtle

A flock of bats fly out from behind a tombstone and force

him up the hillside where he finds himself at the foot of

his own grave.

He can’t read, but he seems to recognize what it is.

What it means.

He lays down, looking up at the moon.

EXT. TOWN SQUARE - NIGHT

Back in town we see Victor's parents searching under the

stage as the crowd starts to assemble for Dutch day.

MOM:

Sparky? Sparky?

The crowd applauds as Mr. Burgemeister steps up to the

microphone.

BURGEMEISTER:

Thank you, thank you so much. And

now, it's my pleasure to introduce

this year's Little Dutch Girl, my

niece, Elsa Van Helsing.

Elsa walks out to meet Burgemeister on stage. She is

completely transformed with wooden shoes and blond

braids. In addition to her costume, she is wearing a

wide crown of candles. She tries to walk very steadily

to keep wax from dripping on her.

ELSA:

I don’t think this is safe.

BURGEMEISTER:

Nonsense. We have the fire chief

over here.

We see a decrepit, 90 year old man dressed like a

fireman. He doesn’t inspire confidence.

BURGEMEISTER:

You know, a lot of girls would

kill to be in your place.

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ELSA:

I’d welcome death.

Burgemeister walks away from Elsa leaving her alone at

the microphone.

Nervous, she looks out over the crowd.

Elsa starts to sing.

ELSA:

(singing)

Praise be New Holland,

Streets so wide and sidewalks clean,

Modest homes at modest prices,

Everyone’s urban dream,

Praise be New Holland,

Happy children free from tears,

Free from all the worlds dangers,

Free from crime and free from strangers,

The crowd is so rapt that no one notices the big

THUNDERSTORM brewing overhead.

SONG CONTINUES UNDER:

EXT. PET CEMETERY - NIGHT

Cowering behind his tombstone, Sparky watches as Nassor

and Toshiaki enter the graveyard, each carrying a shovel.

EXT. TOWN SQUARE / STAGE

ELSA:

(singing)

In our houses tight and safe,

We have nothing to fear,

EXT. PET CEMETERY - NIGHT

Nassor heads up the hill towards a gothic mausoleum.

NASSOR:

Ah. The tomb of Collosus soon you

shall be awakened and we shall be

reunited once again.

Toshiaki stops in front of a tomb shaped like the shell

of a turtle. The inscription reads simply - Shelley.

He digs up a small bundle, he picks it up and smiles

wryly.

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TOSHIAKI:

Shelley.

EXT. SCHOOL - CONTINUOUS

E rummages in the school garbage cans and triumphantly

pulls out a dead rat.

INT. CLASSROOM - CONTINUOUS

E climbs through the window of the classroom and places

his dead rat on Mr. Ryzkruski’s desk. He attaches the

electrode clips to the rats paws.

EXT. BACKYARD POOL - CONTINUOUS

Bob feeds a metal leaf skimmer into his pool and then

rips open the container of sea monkeys and dumps them in.

EXT. PET CEMETERY - CONTINUOUS

Nassor enters the mausoleum and attaches two clips onto

the grave of Collosus. He exits the mausoleum and sends

four Mylar balloons off into the sky.

EXT. TOSHIAKI’S BACKYARD - CONTINUOUS

Toshiaki exits the gardening shed and walks over to his

bundle. He attaches two clips and hooks these up to a

kite by using a series of extension cords.

INT. WEIRD GIRL’S BEDROOM - NIGHT

We pull back through a skylight to see Mr Whiskers

delivering a dead bat to Weird Girl who sits on her bed

combing her doll’s hair. Weird Girl’s room is impossibly

girly with pink fluffy flowers all around.

She untwists metal coat hangers and attaches them to each

other, making a long lightning rod.

She lays the bat on her bed and attaches two clips to its

wings. She then grabs a large butterfly wall hanging from

above her bed. She attaches the butterfly to the coat

hanger pole and solemnly feeds it out of the window into

the night sky.

The balloons, butterfly and kite can be seen floating

over New Holland in the storm.

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While she stares out the window at the approaching storm,

Mr Whiskers sniffs curiously at the bat and starts to

take a bite.

EXT. TOWN SQUARE - NIGHT

Elsa finishes her song:

ELSA:

(singing)

Praise be New Holland,

May your windmill spin forever more.

The crowd APPLAUDS.

MR. BURGEMEISTER

Isn’t she adorable.

Motioning with his hands, Burgemeister signals for bigger

applause but a big clap of THUNDER gets everyone's

attention

And then lightning strikes.

INT. WEIRD GIRL’S BEDROOM - NIGHT

The lightning hits the butterfly and flies down the coat

hanger rod. It hits the bat which is still in Mr

Whisker’s mouth. The bed explodes.

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