Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Page #23

JOHN SAXON/LT. THOMPSON

Nancy, you gotta get hold of yourself

before you make both yourself and that

kid nuts.

Heather weaves slightly, not knowing what kind of sick joke

this is but determined to wrestle it back into a reality she

can deal with.

HEATHER:

John...

(Saxon stops, looks at her

pained and confused)

Would you call Robert?

He stares at her.

JOHN SAXON/LT. THOMPSON

Robert?

HEATHER:

Robert Englund. You know. The actor who

plays Freddy?

Saxon/Lt. Thompson grows instantly guarded.

JOHN SAXON/LT. THOMPSON

Freddy who?

HEATHER:

You know who. Freddy Krueger.

Saxon/Lt. Thompson colors, then, struggling to keep his voice

controlled.

JOHN SAXON/LT. THOMPSON

Freddy's dead, Nancy. Now don't lose it

like your mother.

Heather steps back, stung. Saxon/Lt. Thompson instantly

regrets having said that. Comes back and hugs Heather

fiercely.

JOHN SAXON/LT. THOMPSON

I love you, sweetheart. Don't ever

forget that.

He turns and gets in the car.

HEATHER:

I love you too, Daddy...

Tears spring to her eyes and for some reason she gives a deep

shudder, as we...

INT. DYLAN'S ROOM - NIGHT

DYLAN'S BED, as something starts to rise from under its

blankets. Something big and powerful. Rising to a full

man's height and still coming. And then the claws are poking

through, breaking out. And we SEE FREDDY, a hulking, dark

silhouette of pure evil.

EXT. OUTSIDE ELM STREET HOUSE - NIGHT

CLOSE ON SAXON/LT. THOMPSON AND HEATHER/HEATHER, Saxon

leaning out of the car.

JOHN SAXON/LT. THOMPSON

Now get yourself some rest, Nancy...

please?

He starts the engine and siren. Then the dome lights. He

roars away. Heather stares after him in shock a moment, then

realizes that everything is different. This isn't her front

yard at all. Even her wardrobe has changed. She's now

wearing the same pajamas she wore in our opening boiler room

nightmare. She feels the cold chill up her spine. Turns

around and looks at her house.

THE HOUSE ON ELM STREET

stares back at her. Its windows barred. Its front door

swinging open in the wind.

Then she hears her child's SCREAM.

HEATHER:

Dylan!

She races inside and the iron reinforced door slams shut

behind her!

INT. HEATHER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Interestingly, it's still Heather's house inside. She shakes

herself to make sure she's not dreaming...

HEATHER:

Dylan?

No answer. She crosses to the kitchen and picks up the

largest kitchen knife she can find. Then she becomes aware

of the television set. She reacts in shock.

HER POV OF TV SCREEN

Nancy and Lt. Thompson (Heather and John Saxon) mid-dialogue

from the final moments of NIGHTMARE I, and what they say on-

screen matches exactly what they've just said in the previous

scene.

NANCY (TV)

Fred Krueger did it, Daddy.

LT. THOMPSON (TV)

Yeah, sure...

The transformation is complete.

INT. HEATHER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Then she notices something on the floor. She stops and picks

it up.

HEATHER:

(seeing what it is)

Dylan's sleeping pills...

She looks again. There's another. And farther on, another.

A trail, leading towards Dylan's room.

INT. DYLAN'S ROOM - NIGHT

Heather enters. Knife ready, turning on the light and

picking up another capsule. Then she notices two things: the

disemboweled remains of Rex flung on the floor near the foot

of the bed, and then still another pill, on the blanket near

the pillows.

She picks this pill up. Then, on impulse, lifts the blanket

and looks under. Two more pills, on in the middle, one far

down towards the bottom. She pulls the blanket all the way

back. Nothing but bed, then floor.

Then Heather realizes...

HEATHER:

He's given me the only way I can join

him.

She closes her eyes and takes the pills. All of them.

Swallows. Turns back to the bed, lifts the cover again.

IN HER POV UNDER THE COVERS

There's another pill there now, so far down she has to get

under the blanket to reach it. She tucks the knife in her

belt and crawls under.

UNDER THE BLANKETS

Heather picks up the capsule, starts to squiggle back out,

then, again on impulse, lifts the blanket at the very bottom

of the bed.

INT. TRICK BED/CHUTE

And this time, instead of the edge of the mattress and floor

beyond, only more sheet is revealed. Going on another five

or six feet. And sloping downwards. And down there, near

the place where sheet and blanket come together, is another

pill. Heather starts down for it.

WITH HER DOWN THERE

now completely within the softly glowing tent of blanket,

pitched downward awkwardly, she picks up the pill and takes

it and the other. And just...has to lift the blanket and

check if there's one more.

What is revealed is a steep slope of sheet dropping away

sharply into what could be infinity, it goes so far. Heather

draws back, intimidated. Yawns and starts to crawl back out.

Then hears the VOICE from down there.

DYLAN:

(distant)

Mommmeeee!

And then the unmistakable LAUGHTER OF FREDDY. Heather closes

her eyes and dives forward without hesitation.

MOVING WITH HER:

a wild, half OVER-HER-SHOULDER, HALF POV SHOT plunging down a

well of bedding into darkness and then

RUDDY LIGHT:

wet stone walls shooting by at great speed, then

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