House on Haunted Hill Page #24

And then Price's whole face goes fright-white: on the inside

of THE OTHER DOOR are the organs and parts of MELISSA MARR

likewise cut up and alphabetized -- her decapitated head near

the bottom, labeled "skull."

Price GASPS and dashes back down the corridor to find that

the Mass of Darkness has evolved into a HUGE, constantly

morphing THREE-DIHENSIONAL BEING that lets out a nails-on-

blackboard SCREECH and charges right for him.

INT. UPSTAIRS - HALLWAY

Where Sara, Eddie and Pritchett are trying with all their

might to pry open the slightly-ajar window -- when they hear:

PRICE (O.S.)

He was right! Pritchett was right!

PRITCHETT:

I am.

Sara and Eddie dash further down the...

INT. UPSTAIRS KALLWAY

... where Price staggers into the doorway that leads to the

basement stairs -- frenzied, nearly all his strength gone:

PRICE:

It's...the House!

And then the MASS OF DARKNESS swirls into sight from below --

envelops Price -- and sucks him back downstairs, screaming.

The door slams shut!

Beat. The three of them just stand there speechless. Then:

EDDIE:

What --

SARA:

-- was that??

PRITCHETT:

Something...that should probably

be...avoided --

-- they turn tail and tear from the room, back to

INT. HALLWAY

where they rush toward the partially pried-open window.

SARA:

The opening's still too small,

we'll never get through!

EDDIE:

For chrissake give me a hand!

Three pairs of HANDS grab onto the pry-bar and throw all

their weight behind it. As they strain and the metal shrieks:

SARA:

Pritchett:
what is going on?

PRITCHETT:

He must've unsealed the room!

SARA:

How, he's supposed to be dead!

A POWERFUL GROAN reverberates through the house: the sound of

timbers bending and twisting.

EDDIE'S HEAD whips right - out of the corner of his eye,

something seen MOVING:

THE DOOR TO THE BASEMENT - it's turning BLACK -- GANGRENOUS

-- it's PUTREFYING before their eyes -- bowing in and

collapsing as it ROTS.

SARA:

I think...it's time...to go.

They whip around and run down the hall toward the living

room. As they near the end they are stopped dead in their

track.

THEIR POV:

A WALL nearby TWISTS and BENDS into a new and different

WALL -- one with DOORS that now swing open -- leading to

some dark oblivion.

INT. HALLWAY

They stare at the sight before them.

PRITCHETT:

Hail Mary, full of grace -- the house is

growing!

EDDIE:

It's not going to let us out!

SARA:

(sensing something)

No. It's just trying to frighten us.

EDDIE:

It's succeeding!

SARA:

All the plates sealing the windows and

doors -- there's got to be some way of

raising them manually. They didn't just

appear out of thin air -- there's got

to be pulleys, cables or something, that

make them go up and down.

PRITCHETT:

In the attic?

The WALL at the end of the corridor is bending and twisting,

taking on a new, hideous shape.

EDDIE:

If you know where it is, get there!

PRITCHETT:

Me? You've gotta be kidding.

The SHADOW THING rounds the bend at the end of the corridor --

it's enveloped the entire CEILING.

Pritchett looks at Sara and Eddie plaintively --

SARA:

Move!

-- then BOLTS reluctantly down the hall. Just as THE THING

OF SHADOWS drops down from the ceiling; begins spreading out

across the floor and sinking into the floorboards.

Disappearing. And then a terrible SILENCE.

EDDIE:

Where did it go?

SARA:

Run.

EDDIE:

What --

-- and then the FLOORBOARDS of the corridor start EXPLODING

in a path toward Sara and Eddie.

SARA:

I said run!

They race down the corridor. Behind them the floor is ripping

up, sending debris into the air.

Sara and Eddie dash into another corridor. Sh*t! A cul-de-

sac, terminating with nothing but solid wall. They whip back

around, only to see:

THE EXPLODING FLOOR banging a hard right and hurtling

straight down the cul-de-sac right for them!

Trapped, they just stare terrified and helpless - and then

Eddie looks up and spots:

An ORNATE CHANDELIER hanging above them.

The EXPLODING FLOORBOARDS are nearly upon them.

EDDIE LEAPS up grabbing the bottom on the fixture. He begins

pulling himself up.

A FLOORBOARD next to Sara's foot detonates -- she screams:

SARA:

EDDIE!

He grabs her and pulls her up -- just as every floorboard

she's standing on ERUPTS AND GOES FLYING, opening a HUGE

CHASM below them!

The two of them exchange a glance that is simultaneously I'm

okay/you're okay/are we both going nuts? That's when they

hear a METALLIC SCREECH above them:

THE CHANDELIER is ripping out of the ceiling. PING! BAM! Two

of the three remaining screws pop free and go flying -- the

chandelier's mount takes a 90-degree screech'n'jolt - and

Sara's already tenuous grip is lost. She crashes helplessly

down into the CHASM, disappearing into the black void below.

INT. DECAYING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Sara lands with a THUD, buried knee-deep in the rotted floor

of the room below. The Room -- where Evelyn met her demise.

INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

Eddie manages to swing the chandelier over to the side where

the floor is still intact.

INT. DECAYING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

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