Jessabelle
Huh? You sure you got that?
Don't strain yourself.
Well, that's it. Turned in my key.
Yep. No turning back now.
- You still think this is a good idea?
- What, me driving this thing?
I told you, I'm more than
happy to let you drive.
No, this, moving in with you. Having...
Having this baby.
Jessie, you're the best thing
that ever happened to me.
I've been ready for
this for a long time.
I just remembered the weirdest
dream I had last night.
It's the last chance to remove it.
A little more suction, please.
Can't see a thing in there.
It's skull. It's part
of the guy's skull.
Intertrochanteric fracture in your hip.
Your left clavicle and
three ribs are shattered.
You've got compound fractures
in your right and left tibia.
Good news is you will walk again
within three or four months of therapy.
My b... my baby?
I'm sorry.
I know it's been a long
haul for you, Jessie.
But we'll still need to send a
physical therapist to you at home.
Can someone come pick you up?
Your mother or father?
My mom died of cancer when I was a baby,
and my father gave me to my aunt
to be raised after my mom died.
I haven't seen him in years.
Miss Laurent, can he come
here to pick you up?
Dad?
Thanks for picking me up, Dad.
Glad I could help.
Sorry about your boyfriend.
This was your mother's room.
You're gonna have to stay in here.
The other bedrooms are upstairs.
Let's get you in bed.
When your aunt passed away, they...
they gave me some things you had there.
Clothes.
You hungry?
I could make you a
sandwich or something.
No, I'm fine. Just tired is all.
Oh, yeah, the water out of the
You just let it run
a little, it'll clear up.
Preston.
Dad?
You here?
I live in America
with a pair of Payless shoes
The Upper Peninsula
and the television news
And I've seen my wife
At the K-Mart...
Oh, my word.
Thank you, Mama.
Hello, Jessabelle.
- Mom.
- I went back and forth
not this was a good idea.
Making these tapes.
But as you can see, here I am.
It is March 14th, and it is 1988,
and I am seven months pregnant with you.
I love you, Jessabelle. I love you.
If you're watching this,
it means I'm gone. But I don't
want this to be a day of sadness.
I want it to be a day of happiness.
So I'm not even gonna talk about me.
The only thing that's important
is that you know that I love you.
And that... I have been
watching over you, always.
Okay. So, enough of that sad sh*t.
I told your father that I wanted him to
give you this tape on your 18th birthday.
So for you, it is 2006.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, baby!
I thought about having a cake,
but explaining all this to Mrs. Davis
just would have been a little too weird.
Mrs. Davis is our cook, and if she's there,
could you tell her I said hi?
She's so sweet. That ought
to freak her out, though.
She is scared of ghosts.
Anyway, I wanted to make this tape
because I wanted you to get to know me.
And I wanted to give
you a birthday gift,
a birthday reading with my cards.
I am really good at this.
I'm always right. You can't cut
the deck, so this will have to do.
Here we go.
I still have your bracelet, Mom.
Okay. So this is Death.
But it doesn't mean "death" death.
It means transition.
And this year, your 18th year,
is gonna be a year of transition.
You know what it says here? It says
that you've never left St. Francis
and that you're never gonna leave.
Baby, you've gotta get out
there and see the world.
There's so much great stuff out there.
Suits of Cups. That's the water sign,
and water is pragmatic.
It goes the way of least resistance.
But this is a lot of water.
Are you a swimmer,
- or do you do something with the sea?
- I can't even swim.
You're a homebody, just like your mama.
Wrong again. You're terrible at this!
Well, it says here
that you're not alone.
That there is a presence
in the house with you.
It's not a bad thing.
There are guardian angels everywhere.
Maybe I'm seeing me.
Yes, so she's a she. It's a female.
She wants you out of the house.
She says it's hers.
Jesus, Dad!
You scared the sh*t out of me!
Where did you get that?
I asked you a goddamn question!
I said, "Where did you get that?"
I found it in my room, in Mom's room.
Don't, Dad! Don't! What are you doing?
Dad? Dad, what are you...
Dad, what are you doing?
Oh! No, Dad. Oh, God, Dad.
No more snooping around.
Dad? Dad?
Dad.
Dad!
Dad.
It's past your bedtime, sweetie.
There is a presence
in the house with you.
Who are you?
Jessabelle.
I made... made breakfast.
Look, I'm... I'm sorry about last night.
I was a little drunk.
It's all right.
That was your mother's old chair.
It was out in the shed.
Didn't expect to see
your mother last night.
That tape, I didn't know
she made that tape,
that she actually went through with it.
You just found that one tape?
Just one.
Hello, Jessabelle.
- I love you.
- I love you too, Mom.
It's been three weeks
since our last reading.
There was so much weird stuff in there,
Not Ten Commandments Moses,
my church on Jerry's Creek.
Don't tell Dad. He'd kill me.
Moses taught me how to read cards.
So I showed him your reading,
and he said something interesting.
He said that the two presences
in the house, the two females,
they're both you.
You've been having nightmares, right?
And when you see it,
this presence, it's broken, right?
It's a demon, but it's an inner demon.
You were in some sort
of accident or something,
or maybe somebody you know was.
Now, I want you to listen to me.
It wasn't your fault.
Stop blaming yourself, sweetheart.
It wasn't your fault. Okay?
Now that we know that's what
that last reading meant...
I mean, that's what Moses says.
So, we're gonna get you
a new one. All right.
Death. That means transition.
You really don't have to worry about that.
I see a very horrible death.
Dad?
Miss Laurent?
I was knocking, but I know you're
in a wheelchair, so I got in.
Hi. It's just Jessie.
The hospital told you
I was coming, right?
No. Yes. Yes.
You must be Miss Arlenna.
Rosaura. You can call me Rosaura.
- It's great to meet you.
- Let's get started.
Okay. Okay.
You feel good?
I'll be back and check on you, okay?
No, no!
Dad!
Dad! No!
What the hell's going on?
Just calm down. Settle down.
It's nothing. It's nothing.
Where the hell were you?
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Mr. Laurent.
It was only five minutes.
Get out! Now.
- Get out!
- I'm sorry.
What did you mean by "nothing", Dad?
What's nothing?
- What are you doing?
- It's her goddamn tapes!
She's got you scared out of your mind.
I told her not to do this.
But, Dad, it's Mom.
It's all I have of her!
is not your mother.
Five weeks into her pregnancy,
we found out she had tumors in her brain.
She wouldn't do chemo. Nothing.
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