Scream Page #10

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SIDNEY:

What am I doing?

She sticks her finger up her nose, pretending to pick.

Silence. No answer.

SIDNEY:

Good try, Randy. Tell Tatum to hurry.

Bye now.

MAN:

If you hang up, you'll die just like

your mother.

Sidney stops dead in her tracks, speechless.

MAN:

(deadly)

Do you want to die, Sidney? Your

mother didn't.

His seriousness unnerves her. Sid flies off the handle.

SIDNEY:

F*** YOU! YOU CRETIN!

She hangs up on him. Moves back inside the house. Locks,

chains, and bolts the door when...

A FIGURE COMES LEAPING OUT OF THE HALL CLOSET

rushing her, ramming into her side... the phone flies... the

FIGURE is on top of her as she goes down... SCREAMING...

She looks up to see the FIGURE, darkly dressed with a pale,

distorted face, white and ghostly... a mask.

Her instincts surface and she kicks up with her foot making

the contact with his leg... he topples over... coming right

at her, his hand finding her neck. Suddenly, along, silver

blade appears above her.

Sidney pulls, jerks, twists... finally she lifts her torso

forward knocking the FIGURE off her... sending him reeling

into the living room. Wasting no time, Sidney leaps to her

feet.

She moves to the front door, unlocks it... pulls it open...

it catches on the chain. Sh*t! She pushes it closed again

looking behind her... the FIGURE has risen, knife in hand.

Sidney pulls on the chain and then -- inexplicably turns

and...

RUNS UP THE STAIRS. The FIGURE right behind her.

INT. UPSTAIRS LANDING

The FIGURE leaps at Sidney taking hold of her foot, she grabs

madly at the wall... her hands grasp a framed painting -- a

quiet country home, subdued colors, done in oils -- she rips

it from the wall swinging it behind her...

It catches the FIGURE head on, smashing against his skull,

sending him backwards, tumbling down the stairs. Sidney races

to her bedroom...

INT. BEDROOM

She locks the door shut, the pulls her closet door open,

placing the edge right at the door knob just as...

THE FIGURE POUNDS AGAINST THE BEDROOM DOOR...

ramming it, it rips open, but the closet door catches it in

a crazy vice-like hold.

Sidney grabs the desk phone. It's dead... off the hook

downstairs.

The figure rushes the door several times... the frame

splinters... but won't give.

Sidney is at her computer, she punches at the keypad madly.

CLOSE ON SCREEN AS WORDS APPEAR.

FAX MODEM:

9-1-1 SEND

The knife slashes through the crack in the door wildly.

ON SCREEN AGAIN:

HELP KILLER:

34 ELM ST

Sidney presses SEND when it occurs to her -- all is quiet.

The FIGURE is gone. A fearful silence. She looks around...

the only sound her own rapid, terrified BREATHING.

ON THE SCREEN:

"Stay calm. Police enroute."

Suddenly a NOISE at the window... Sidney looks up to see...

BILLY:

her boyfriend, staring at her, surprised.

SIDNEY:

Oh Billy... Please... God...

BILLY:

I heard screaming. The door was

locked. Are you okay...

SIDNEY:

He's here. He's trying to kill me...

Billy pulls himself through the window. As he does, a small

black object falls from his dark jeans. It hits the floor as

Sidney eyes it... a sleek, compact cellular phone.

Sidney stops in her tracks. Their eyes meet... an eternity.

A SIREN is heard in the distance. Sidney bolts...

BILLY:

Hey... wait... what's goin...

Billy reaches for her. Sidney unblocks the bedroom door and

tears out of the room.

INT. LANDING

Sidney nearly falls down the stairs...

INT. FOYER

She rips the chain off the door, pulls it open, coming face

to face with a white, ghostly mask. A massive SCREAM erupts

from her gut as...

THE CAMERA PULLS BACK

to find Dewey -- Deputy Riley, holding it. Red lights flash,

sirens BLAST as car after car surrounds the house.

Sidney falls into the safety of Dewey's arms.

EXT. FRONT YARD - MINUTES LATER

The yard is a whirlwind of activity. An ambulance, squad

cars, cops everywhere...

CLOSE ON BILLY'S FACE

as it SMASHES against the hood of a police car. His hands

are being cuffed, his rights being read.

BILLY:

(screaming)

I didn't do anything! Sid... where's

Sid? Ask her, she'll tell ya...

Dewey holds a car door open as Sheriff Burke steps out.

DEWEY:

We got him, Sheriff. Billy Loomis.

SHERIFF BURKE:

Hank Loomis' kid? Aw... Jesus...

DEWEY:

He's her boyfriend.

They approach Billy as he's being placed in a squad car.

BILLY:

Sheriff... I didn't do it... please,

call my Dad... please...

The squad car disappears with Billy as another car comes to

a stop in front of the house. Tatum gets out, freaked beyond

belief.

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