House of 1000 Corpses Page #28

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Burning JACK-O'-LANTERNS beam from every window. Smoke rises

from the chimney.

It is Halloween night.

INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT

CLOSE-UP TV

Dr. Wolfenstein is on screen smashing pumpkins with a giant

hammer.

DR. WOLFENSTEIN

It is midnight my little boils and

ghouls, the witching hour. Time for

all monsters, murderers, maniacs and

madmen to go to work... so lock your

doors and bolt your windows, sit

back and prepare for a fright night

classic...

(lightning crashes)

...The House of Frankenstein.

The movie begins and we move off the TV to see:

Hundreds of CANDLES are lit, illuminating everything with a

flickering light. Music blares from a cheap stereo. BLACK

and ORANGE PAPER STREAMERS are draped from ceiling to floor.

Dead center is a LARGE OBJECT standing seven feet tall, it

is completely covered in paper Halloween decorations. A long

chain connects the object up into the rafters.

This is the Halloween party from Hell.

An intoxicated Grampa, dressed as FLASH GORDON, sits in his

wheelchair watching the TV, drinking MOONSHINE from an

unmarked bottle.

GRAMPA:

(slurred drunken

yelling at the screen)

Get those motherf***er... those high

water b*tches and rocketship

daisies... kill 'em, kill 'em.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! Tiny stands in a corner tunelessly

banging on a large oil drum. He is dressed like a low budget

BATMAN, in grey long johns and a black bat mask and cape.

A drunk Rufus, wearing a bloody police uniform, stands on a

table SHOUTING along to the music through a POLICE MEGAPHONE.

Mother and Baby, both dressed as SUPERHEROES, dance around

the covered object. Both are swigging moonshine from jugs.

RUFUS JR.

(shouting through

megaphone)

Show me, show me, show me, show me!

Mother and Baby start TEARING AWAY the paper covering from

the object in the middle of the room. They RIP at the paper,

spinning and dancing around in a wild pagan ritual.

As the shreds of colored paper fall to the floor we see:

Denise, Jerry and Mary tied back to back hanging from the

chain, each are dressed in a different animal costume. Denise

is a pig, Jerry is a donkey and Mary is a rabbit. They are

gagged.

Mother and Baby laugh at their helpless victims, splashing

moonshine in their faces.

BABY:

Drink up, it's party time.

MOTHER:

Enjoy your last night...

(looking around)

...where's Otis?

BABY:

Oh, he's coming, he got something

real special this year.

Rufus jumps down, begins to spin the bound captives around

and around.

RUFUS JR.

Otis, Otis, Otis, Otis!

MOTHER:

Quiet, quiet, you know he won't come

down with all this hoop-dee-doo

bouncing off the walls. Now, calm

down.

GRAMPA:

I shot an elephant in my pajamas

this morning... how he got in my

pajamas I'll never know.

BABY:

Grampa, shhhhhhhh.

GRAMPA:

Then we tried to remove the tusks,

but they were embedded in so firmly

that we couldn't budge 'em.

MOTHER:

(gesturing at Grampa)

Let him finish.

GRAMPA:

Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa,

but that's entirely irrelephant.

The room goes silent. All eyes are focused on the stairs.

A robed figure, Otis, appears at the top of the stairs, he

begins to descend.

Rufus waits at the bottom of the stairs. As Otis reaches the

last step Rufus hands him the megaphone.

Denise, Mary and Jerry struggle to watch as they in turn

rotate past the scene unfolding.

OTIS:

(through the megaphone)

I'm the one who brings the Christmas

candy... now tell me

(pauses and raises

his arms)

...Who's your Daddy?

Otis walks closer to the rotating captives.

OTIS:

I'm the one who brings the devil's

brandy...

(waits)

MOTHER:

Who's your Daddy!

OTIS:

Yes! I'm the one who beats you when

you're bad...

BABY:

Who's your Daddy!

MOTHER:

Who's your Daddy!

Otis stops the spinning of his prisoners and stands directly

before Denise.

He drops his robe, underneath he is wearing a SUIT OF SKIN

sewn together from pieces of Denise's father.

Denise stares in horror, tears stream down her cheeks, barely

able to comprehend the madness around her.

Otis moves in close and licks her across the face.

OTIS:

I'm the one who loves you when you're

f***ing dead!

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