Murderland

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EXT. NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT

Opening credit sequence plays against :

The busy streets of Manhattan. Pizza guys tossing the

dough.

Cabs pick up passengers.

Doormen wave greetings.

EXT. CENTRAL PARK - NIGHT

Central Park's trees blow in the wind.

People walk in the park on the tracks.

A gang hovers over a bridge, heckling people.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. SUBWAY - NIGHT

Commuters still linger in the subway waiting for a

train.

A tollbooth attendant reads a paperback.

A train roars by, the sound of which mixes into.

PAN DOWN TO:

INT. MAIN STREET, MURDERLAND - NIGHT

The roar of the train can be heard overhead.

SIMPSON, an exec of about 45, balding on top wearing a

three piece suit, is sitting on a 1890's style park

bench. He is out cold. He starts to stir. He lifts his

head, it appears as if it is day time. He looks around

him.

SIMPSON's P.O.V. - The overhead lights are so bright, it

simulates a mid day noon sun. There are even Dusk sky

colors and clouds painted on the ceiling.

SIMPSON is very confused....

He looks around him to see several multi colored

buildings and he appears to be on a checkered red and

white brick road between two rows of buildings. He sees

a miniature castle at the end of the road that is about

1/50th scale of another similar theme park.

The whole room is about 600 yards long and it gets small

as you go near the castle. There is a Merry Go Round

just to the left of castle and there are only four doors

on the entire street. One labeled "Movie Theater", the

second labeled "The Old West", the third "Fantasy Land"

and the last labeled "The Real World". The ceiling is as

high as a high school gymnasium.

From beside the miniature Castle comes a giant human

sized SCRAPS THE DOG. A theme song starts to play over

the intercom.

ANNOUNCER:

(cheesy, generic announcer

voice over the loud speakers)

Ladies and gentlemen, the official

mascot of Murderland.... Scraps the Dog

!

Scraps is a human sized fluffy human in a dog suit.

Scraps looks friendly as he waves and moves stiffly like

he's animatronic. SIMPSON starts to laugh to himself.

Then as the song is playing, Scraps pulls out a Tommy

Gun and starts to shoot at Simpson.

ANNOUNCER:

Choose the doorway that starts you on

your magical journey into

(the voice turns from cheesy

to evil)

MURDERLAND !

Simpson ducks, and glass breaks behind him from a store

window.

As he hides behind the bench, the Merry Go Round starts

on and the horses begin to fire bullets as well.

Simpson is forced to go toward the Movie Theater. He

goes in, barely missing the bullets.

INT. CONTROL ROOM, MURDERLAND - NIGHT

We see the action on television monitors. This room is

set up like a Newsroom with about twelve T.V. monitors

and computer counsels and mixing boards. At the controls

in this dark room is BRUCE, late thirties, unshaven and

cold as ice.

Behind him are JOHNNY, his assistant, mid twenties and

semi Italian looking, and lurking in the shadows is

ZACH, a corporate ass kiss who wears $600 shoes and

wears GQ glasses with his Armani suit.

The room is colored with blue light from the monitors

and the electronic lights surrounding all the computer

consoles. Behind the two seat console is the couch where

Zach is sitting. This room is impeccably clean.

JOHNNY:

I didn't think he'd make it past

Scraps.

BRUCE:

Let's just see if he can make it into

round two....

Johnny pulls out a bag of chips and starts to eat a

handful. Bruce shoots him a look.

BRUCE:

Don't.

JOHNNY:

(chomping on the chips)

What ?

BRUCE:

Don't eat at the console.

JOHNNY:

(mouthful of chips)

What ? Are you my mother ?

BRUCE:

It's my control board and I don't want

it acting squirrelly because you

dropped a few crumbs into the keyboard,

no put the sh*t away.

JOHNNY:

Yes, sir Mom.

(puts the chips down)

INT. MOVIE THEATER, MURDERLAND - NIGHT

SIMPSON is panting and stops to catch his breathe. A

Black & White silent film is playing on the big screen.

The movie playing is showing the making of Murderland.

There are only about four or five rows of seats.

ANNOUNCER:

(from the movie screen)

Have a seat Mr. Simpson ! Murderland

was created in 1987. Taking the

original 82nd street subway station

which was abandoned in 1913, our

engineers were able to construct all

thirty rides in less than......

The doors all close and lock. Simpson looks panicked. He

claws helplessly at the doors.

He sits at one of the seats and gets an electrical shock

that would kill a small animal. He falls to the floor,

when he looks up he sees at one of the doors, the exit

light flickers on and off.

He goes to it. The door opens.

ANNOUNCER:

(from the movie screen)

..... all thirty rides and attractions

! Our engineers have built.....

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