Poltergeist Page #19

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THE RAIN HAS STOPPED.

Teague’s Bronco pulls up to the driveway of the Freeling

home. Steve gets out, sees the house in turmoil, and runs to

the front door. Teague gets out of the car, his eyes afloat.

159 INT. ENTRYWAY - NIGHT 159

Diane finally reaches the front door. She throws it open and

is about to step out when...

160 EXT. ANGLE ON FRONT STEPS - NIGHT 160

THE FRONT STEPS CRACK OPEN, AND SUDDENLY SOMETHING EXPLODES.

ONE ORNATE CASKET RISES UP OUT OF THE GROUND SENDING A GEYSER

OF DIRT AND SPLINTERS INTO THE HOUSE, SHOWERING DIANE, THE

KIDS, AND STEVE WHO HAS JUST ROUNDED THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE.

161 INT. ENTRYWAY - NIGHT 161

Diane picks up Carol Anne and she and Robbie run toward the

kitchen.

162 EXT. FRONT YARD - NIGHT 162

Steve turns and is knocked off his feet by an exploding

casket. Bones, mud, and decaying flesh spill over him.

163 INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT 163

As the family runs for the side door, the kitchen tile bulges

horrifically, splits open with a MOAN and two caskets shoot

into the clean eating area, lids blowing off and rotten,

rotting corpses reaching out at Diane as they pitch forward.

As they reach the door, the kitchen wall explodes with the

impact of the BEAST.

164 EXT. FRONT YARD - NIGHT 164

Steve claws his way up out of bones and flesh and runs to the

front of the garage.

103.

165 EXT. FREELING’S HOUSE - FRONT YARD 165

Dana steps out of a car with two young men and stands with

her mouth agape.

166 EXT. FREELING DRIVEWAY 166

Steve looks back at the house then at Teague.

STEVEN:

You moved the cemetery! But you

left the bodies didn’t you! You son

of-a-b*tch! You left the bodies and

only moved the headstones!!

167 EXT. POV FREELING HOUSE 167

Every window in the house blows outward with bright flashes

in every room.

168 EXT. FREELING HOUSE - SIDE - NIGHT 168

Diane, carrying Carol Anne, and Robbie come running from the

back yard. Two coffins pop up in their path. They dodge the

cascading bodies and scramble towards the station wagon.

169 EXT. FREELING DRIVEWAY 169

Steve jumps behind the wheel as the rest of the family piles

into the car. He throws the car in reverse just as a coffin

blasts through the garage door in front of them.

170 EXT. PLATANO DRIVE - NIGHT 170

The station wagon roars back, crashing into Teague’s Bronco

shoving it into the street. Steve guns the car forward past

Teague who stares after them.

171 EXT. FREELING SIDEWALK - NIGHT 171

ON TEAGUE:

He turns as a coffin launches out of the lawn ripping up

wires and cables and causing electrical shorts and flashes

all around it.

104.

It flies open and a hideous corpse lurches across the

sidewalk at Teague. He falls backwards into a hole, the

corpse landing on top of him.

Teague tries to scream but only night breath gushes out.

172 EXT. STREET IN FRONT OF TUTHILL’S HOUSE - NIGHT 172

As the Freeling car passes the house, a coffin explodes from

under Tuthill’s VW knocking it out into the street. Steve

swerves but cannot avoid hitting the VW, causing it to spin

on it’s top. Steve fights for control of the car.

173 EXT. PLATANO DRIVE - FREELING CAR - NIGHT 173

The car continues past a fire hydrant. Another casket bursts

out of the ground, sending mud and water 30 feet into the

air. Steve slams on the brakes, stopping inches from the

coffin and mud that block their path. Steve jumps out to

clear the path. An incredible noise blasts forth from down

the street. He turns...

.

174 EXT. FREELING HOME - WIDE ANGLE - NIGHT 174

STEVE’S POV

The children’s window is glowing with an almost radioactive

intensity.

The entire hose starts to suck inward, imploding at an angle

that suggest that the closet is consuming everything in its

lust and anger.

175 EXT. FREELING HOME - WIDE ANGLE - NIGHT 175

CLOSE - STEVE

He is stunned by what he sees.

176 EXT. HOUSE - NIGHT 176

A CONCUSSION OF SUCH AWESOME POWER BLOWS ALL SHINGLES OFF THE

ROOF AND A CLOUD OF THIN BLUE ECTOPLASM, LIKE FINGERS AND

ARMS REACHING UPWARD, ESCAPES LIKE A GREEN COMET TO THE

HEAVENS.

105.

177 EXT. FREELING SIDEWALK - NIGHT 177

CLOSE - TEAGUE

Dripping mud and putrefying flesh he looks up at the house.

The imploding house creates a whirlwind around him. Teague

stumbles backward, but cannot lock away power of the house.

178 EXT. HOUSE - WIDE ANGLE - NIGHT 178

STEVE’S POV

THE ENTIRE FREELING HOUSE IS TOTALLY CONSUMED BY AN AREA IN

SPACE FOURTEEN FEET FROM THE FOUNDATION THAT WAS ONCE THE

CLOSET.

179 EXT. FREELING CAR - NIGHT 179

Water rains down on Steve from the broken hydrant. He jumps

back in the car, backs up, and drives through the coffin and

mud that were blocking their exit.

180 EXT. PLATANO DRIVE - HIGH ANGLE - NIGHT 180

The street is in chaos. Neighbors are streaming from their

houses, cars careening out of driveways. A gas main is

broken. Water shoots high in the air from the broken hydrant.

Coffins and corpses lie everywhere. The Freeling car turns a

distant corner and disappears.

181 INT. MOVING CAR - THE FAMILY - NIGHT 181

Everything is hysteria in here. We can’t make out what is

being said. The rain lashes at the windshield and Steve tries

to see out.

182 EXT. STREET IN FRONT OF CAR - LOW ANGLE - NIGHT 182

The street cracks wide open and an old wooden coffin is

launched upward. It comes crashing down onto the hood of the

station wagon. A hideously deformed carcass stares crazily

through the rain and wind at Steve.

SCREAMING WELLS UP inside. Steve throws the car into reverse.

106.

183 EXT. STREET BEHIND CAR - LOW ANGLE - NIGHT 183

The ground opens up trapping the car on a narrow island. Five

coffins rise to block it... a body falls into the open rear

tailgate window and among the family. Steve plows right into

the coffin, flattening them and using them as a wooden bridge

to cross the chasm.

184 INT. BACK OF MOVING CAR - NIGHT 184

ON ROBBIE - CORPSE

No longer is Robbie afraid. He’s fighting mad and takes the

dead remains, flinging them out the back window as the car

heads out of town.

185 EXT. ROAD SIGN IN THE RAIN - NIGHT 185

“You are Now Leaving Beautiful Cuesta Verde Estates”. Steve’s

Oldsmobile station wagon shoots past this point, its taillights

diminishing into the vanishing point.

DISSOLVE TO:

186 EXT. HOLIDAY INN SIGN - NIGHT 186

There is a mist in the air as CAMERA MOVES TO THE SIGN

ANGLE - ROOM 237 - NIGHT

CAMERA SLOWLY MOVES INTO the door and number.

187 INT. ROOM 237 - NIGHT 187

The Freelings, Dana, Robbie, Steve, and Diane are asleep, on

two beds still in the clothes we last saw them wearing. It is

very quiet except for the snoring. The nightmare has ended.

CAMERA PANS around the room to Carol Anne who is the only

family member not sleeping.

Carol Anne is fiddling with the RCA Vistacolor television

trying to get it to work.

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