Scream Page #28

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INT. NEWSVAN - CONTINUOUS

Kenny finishes off a soda and crushes the can in his hand.

He tosses it to the floor when a movement from the monitor

catches his eye.

ON THE MONITOR is Randy, still on the couch, engrossed in

the movie. Directly behind him... the GHOST. Kenny does a

double-take. No f***ing way. He watches as the GHOST stands

still, unmoving, knife raised.

KENNY:

JESUS... F***...

The GHOST takes a silent step forward.

KENNY:

(screaming at the

monitor)

BEHIND YOU! LOOK BEHIND YOU!

This kid needs help. Kenny bolts out of his seat and goes

for the side door. He slides it open and sticks his head out

as...

LONG, SHARP BLADE

comes at Kenny, fast and furious... slicing into his throat.

Kenny falls forward... out the door as the GHOST MASKED FIGURE

is upon him.

THE CAMERA PANS TO THE MONITOR

just in time to see the GHOST MASKED FIGURE turn away from

Randy, leaving him unharmed, moving instead, out the front

door, on a thirty second walk to the newsvan.

INT. ATTIC - CONTINUOUS

The attic is long and narrow... cluttered with furniture,

boxes, and the likes... moonlight filters in through a small

raised window on the front wall of the house.

Sidney moves through the attic... BUMPING into this, KNOCKING

over that... she passes a dusty mirror, jumping at her own

reflection. She cringes at her image, drenched in Billy's

blood. She stares long and hard... something about the blood,

the redness of it. She moves on, determined.

She eyes the raised window above her... a way out... if she

could only reach it...

EXT. FRONT YARD

Gale and Dewey come running up the drive, frantic.

DEWEY:

I'll call for backup.

GALE:

I'll get my camera.

They split up. The CAMERA FOLLOWS GALE as she rushes to the

newsvan, throwing open the door.

GALE:

Kenny! Camera! Quick!

The van is empty.

GALE:

Kenny?

A CAR HORN goes off. Gale spins around. It came from the

patrol jeep in the driveway.

GALE:

(calling out)

Dewey?

She moves across the yard to the jeep, the door hangs open...

Dewey is nowhere to be found.

GALE:

Dewey? Where are you?

A look of pure dread comes over Gale.

INT. ATTIC - CONTINUOUS

Sidney has stacked object after object building a ladder to

the window. She climbs to the top, holding onto the window

frame.

She spots Gale almost immediately. She SCREAMS OUT, looking

for the window latch. But there's not one. It doesn't open.

Sidney starts beating on it... trying to break it...

EXT. FRONT DOOR - CONTINUOUS

Gale, hanging tough, approaches the front door, unable to

hear Sidney's SCREAMS three floors up. Gale reaches for the

door just as she hears LOUD, HORRIBLE SHRIEKS from just

inside. She backs away.

INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

AN EAR-CURDLING JAMIE LEE CURTIS SCREAM BLASTS through the

empty living room as the horror movie on TV comes to it's

horrifying climax.

Randy is now gone.

EXT. FRONT YARD - CONTINUOUS

Gale races across the yard putting distance between her and

the house. She moves back to the van...

INT. ATTIC - CONTINUOUS

Sidney has found an old tennis racket. She swings a solid

forehand at the window.

THE WINDOW SPRAYS GLASS

Sidney moves quickly, lifting herself up over broken glass

and pulling herself through the window frame.

EXT. SIDE OF THE HOUSE

Sidney wastes no time. She looks for Gale, SCREAMING, but

Gale is gone.

Sid lowers herself down the ledge, sliding down a sloped

portion of the roof onto...

THE MASTER'S BEDROOM BALCONY.

Then she eases herself over the railing and lowers herself,

letting herself hang as low as she can... then she lets go,

free-falling the rest of the way... but in a split instant...

THE GHOST APPEARS

grabbing her wrists in midair.

Her body hangs, dangling against the side of the house. The

GHOST begins to lift her, pulling her back onto the balcony.

Sidney jerks, pulls, twists... but the HANDS have her,

hoisting her up... Sidney SCREAMS MADLY... yanking one last

time, freeing herself.

SHE DROPS TO THE GROUND, a good seven feet, landing on her

back, hitting hard. She grabs at a pained leg and brings

herself upright.

INT. NEWSVAN - CONTINUOUS

Gale is frantic. She starts the engine up and hits the

headlights when she discovers she can't see out of the

windshield.

Gale rubs at the glass. Sure enough, something is on the

windshield outside, blocking her sight. Gale hits the wipers

as BLOOD SMEARS across the glass, it drips down from above.

Gale SCREAMS as a HAND reaches in through the open window...

she looks up to see...

RANDY, staring at her madly.

RANDY:

What's going on?

A sheer moment of fear as Gale hits the gas plummeting the

car forward, into a ditch. She hits the BRAKES. Randy is

thrown forward, away from the van.

Gale reverses, backs up, hits the brakes again... just as

Kenny's face comes sliding down the outside of the

windshield... eyes wide, face distorted, blood everywhere.

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