Thirteen Ghosts Page #17

Cyrus turns to Kalina -

CYRUS:

Time to finish this...

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82 INT. HOUSE -VARIOUS SHOTS OF GHOSTS 82

reacting with revulsion as they're engulfed by theCHANTING. They slowly begin to vanish one by one.

83 INT. CORRIDOR -WITH ARTHUR AND JEAN 83

Arthur has his hand on the glass. Jean's about to puther hand against his, when the CHANTING sound hits her...

and her hand slowly fades out of sight.

Arthur watches her disappear in front of him... leavingArthur Kriticos completely alone.

A beat passes... then Arthur looks up and sees -

Kathy and Bobby rising out of the center island of theOcularis in the great hall. Tied back to back they are

helpless.

OFF Arthur's reaction, we...

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85 INT. CLOCKWORKS ROOM 85

Cyrus steps over Maggie's body, heads to the door.

CYRUS:

The final configuration's

starting... gather your things,

let's go...

Kalina picks up her knapsack. Then abruptly, she hearsa HISS, turns --Cyrus has stepped through an opendoorway on the neighboring wall, and that DOOR hasjust snapped shut.

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KALINA:

Cyrus?

Cyrus presses a stud. There's another HISS. Kalina

turns pale.

The door separating her from the fallen Maggie has justslid aside. She turns to Cyrus -

KALINA:

Cyrus! Stop screwing around!

Let me outta here!

CYRUS:

Good-bye, my dear... thanks forall your help. Maybe we'll seeeach other again on the otherside.

He smiles, hits another switch.

The walls surrounding Kalina begin closing in on her.

KALINA:

Motherfu -

She kicks the glass! Tries holding it back, no use. It

keeps coming.

Panic starts to set in.

The glass moves in closer. Finally pinning her.

KALINA:

Oh, God... no... please...

Her face is pressed up against the glass, her breastsflattened. Her eyes go wide. She starts to scream and

scream...

We start to hear the SNAPPING of RIBS. Her arms narrower

than her body, claw uselessly at the glass.

KALINA:

Aaahh...

Her head, now turned sideways, is being pressed flatterand flatter... abruptly there's a ghastly dull CLUNK asher SKULL SPLITS and blood and brains splatter out.

The walls continue to close, crushing her body,

flattening, distending it, until there is nothingrecognizable.

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And still the walls keep closing, until the entire innersurface, from wall to wall and floor to ceiling is filledwith a microscopically thin red smear that was onceKalina.

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86 INT. GREAT HALL 86

The CHANTING is ECHOING through the house. The Ocularis

has begun to spin with Kathy and Bobby still seated inthe center. One of the OUTER RINGS is slowly circlingaround them, when it suddenly LIFTS UP, swirling aroundthem like a blade.

BOBBY:

Kathy!

KATHY:

Don't look!

BOBBY:

I don't wanna look!

Then the SECOND OUTER RING FLAPS UP next, and beginsspinning in the opposite direction.

Arthur appears in the doorway to the great hall. The

kids spot him.

BOBBY:

Dad!!

Arthur sees their predicament. Raises his glasses.

Along with them are the ghosts surrounding the kids,

each standing next to their symbols along the outermostring.

KATHY:

Daddy... get us out of here...

ARTHUR:

Just don't move.

Arthur approaches the outer ring, just as a THIRD INNERRING FLAPS UP, spinning in yet another direction,

creating the combination of a meat grinder and a mixer.

The Ocularis is working its way closer to the kids -The

kids slouch down.

BOBBY:

Make it stop, Dad! Make it stop!

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86A INT. MAIN FLOOR CORRIDOR -CONTINUOUS ACTION 86A

Arthur notices Cyrus's ghost standing at the end of thecorridor, a spectator to the deadly game. He's taken

aback by the old man's presence, finally recognizing him.

ARTHUR:

Cyrus...?

(losing it)

Damn you for building this place!

Cyrus doesn't respond.

ARTHUR:

Do something! Help me save the

kids!

The ghost raises his hand, pointing into the Ocularis,

motioning for Arthur to jump in... and that will stopeverything.

A FOURTH INNER RING FLAPS UP, working its way closer tothe center. The kids are freaking out.

Arthur looks from his kids, to the spinning rings, andback to Cyrus again. He wrestles with what he should

do...

Then his eyes land on Jean. She looks so sad, staring ather hysterical kids, helpless.

Arthur's choice is made. He steps up to the Ocularis,

standing in front of the spinning gears. He prepares

himself for what he's about to do.

86B INT. GREAT HALL -CONTINUOUS ACTION 86B

Arthur starts forward into the hall, ready to take hisplace amongst the ghosts.

ARTHUR:

(to kids)

I want you guys to know... I love

you both more than anything.

The kids realize what he's doing.

KATHY:

Dad! Don't!

BOBBY:

Daddy!

It kills Arthur to see them like this. He can't let them

die and make the same mistake he made before.

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He'd never be able to live with himself. This is his

chance to redeem himself for Jean.

ARTHUR:

It's the only way. I'm sorry.

Take care of each other...

Arthur takes a long look around at the macabre scenebefore him. First, to the ghosts that circle the Eye,

each still trapped in his or her own hell. Then Arthur

focuses on the blades that swirl around him, threateningto dice his family, all that he loves. Then Arthur looks

down into the fiery mechanical purgatory that is the Eyeof Hell, its gigantic GEARS GRINDING away, the steelbathed in crimson light, driving the house/machine towardits fantastic culmination.

Finally to the symbols on the outer ring that flash by atArthur's feet.

The whole effect does something to Arthur. Especially the

mesmerizing symbols flying by. We suddenly INTERCUT WITH:

FLASHBACK -PAGES OF ARCANUM

flipping by in the library in FLASHBACK, as Kalina wasexplaining the ghosts.

KALINA:

(in FLASHBACK)

According to this, there should

only be twelve earthbound spirits

trapped inside here.

We -

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ARTHUR'S HAND

doing something a math teacher does naturally --countingoff with his fingers.

The symbols float by in Arthur's gaze in SLOW MOTION.

We -

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KALINA:

Her explanation.

KALINA:

The Withered Lover, the First Born

Son, the Torn Prince. And here...

the Bound Lady, the Great Child

and the Dire Mother... the

Suicide, the Torso, and the Buried

Maiden... then there's the three

death signs, the sign of Hell's

Winter... the Hammer, the Hyena,

and the Juggernaut...

Arthur takes in each of the ghosts, confirming Kalina'sdescription. We -

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ARTHUR'S OTHER HAND

He's still tallying up the number of ghosts he's countingoff in his head. 9-10-11... 12.

Twelve.

ARTHUR:

Twelve.

Arthur flashes back to the library one final time. This

time it's Rafkin doing the talking.

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