Aviv's Scripts Page #18

Mystery Men

FADE IN: EXT. ERIE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINALLY INSANE - DAY CAMERA MOVES THROUGH a tangled jungle of razor wire, finally COMING INTO VIEW of a foreboding, fortress-like old institution, surrounded by towers and gun turrets. Screaming and horrible laughter is heard from within... CLOSE ON ...

– by Bob Burden

Little Monsters

FADE IN: on an old alarm clock, TICKING, the bells gone, the little hand missing, the big hand indicating twenty-after-something. It is bound with black electrical tape, time-bomb fashion, to a plastic water-filled spray bottle. The alarm RINGS; the bell hammer tugging the piece of kite stri...

– by Terry Rossio

The Haunting

FADE IN: EXT. HOUSING PROJECT, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS - DAY ON a housing project in the industrial outskirts of Boston. The BANGING seems to flutter away, leading us along, searching... to a tiny balcony, one of dozens, ten stories up. And there, the source of t...

– by David Self

Airplane II: The Sequel

FADE IN: EXT. JUNGLE - DAY A machete slashes INTO FRAME. An American in battered fedora and leather jacket, accompanied by two gunbearers, hacks his way through dense bush. We see him from the back only. He hacks an opening, bats fly out AT CAMERA and the bushes part, revealing huge overgrow...

– by Ken Finkleman

An American Werewolf in London

FADE IN: MAN'S FOOTPRINT on the moon. EXT. MOON Camera begins to pull back slowly, straight up - the song "Moon Shadow" by Cat Stevens begins. Once we are high enough to see the entire moon, ...

– by John Landis

The Nightmare Before Christmas

FADE IN: PROLOGUE CLOSE ON: AN OLD-FASHIONED CALENDAR, the kind that used to hang in offices in the forties. Each day is a tear-off page. The dates are printed in bold black lettering. The pages of days of the year zip off -- at a rate faster than ...

– by Caroline Thompson

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

FADE IN : 1 EXT SPACE (S) 1 An ever expanding infinity of light and color as CAMERA TRAVELS THROUGH deep space, MOVING DIRECTLY for one pinpoint of light: a STAR GROWING RAPIDLY as we SWEEP TOWARD IT, a...

– by Harold Livingston

The Sweet Hereafter

FADE IN INT. SUMMER COTTAGE -- DAY A young family together in bed. It is a bright summer morning. Father, mother, and a three year old girl are still asleep. They are naked. A light breeze drifts into the room. The scene is serene and softly suspended. Head credits appear over this idylli...

– by Atom Egoyan

The Transformers

FADE IN EXT. SPACE A small planet glows in the light of its sun. Suddenly, we hear a loud rumble, and see a thick, electronic mist behind the planet... Then, the electronic mist begins to engulf the planet, and we hear the horrible sounds of destruction. Almost like somebody, or something, i...

– by Ron Friedman

The X-Files

FADE IN: EXT. SNOWSCAPE A BLINDING WHITE SCREEN, under which we hear an ominous low end Dolby THX Big Screen rumble. We're not in 19" television land anymore, Toto. As the rumble builds, TWO BLACK FIGURES appear on what now has resolved into a distant horizon...

– by Chris Carter

Very Bad Things

FADE IN: TITLE SEQUENCE THE DEAD OF NIGHT Pitch black. Dead quiet. Dim faint light appears in the distance, approaching, growing larger. As the light nears, we recognize car headlights. Closer and closer until the car...

– by Peter Berg

Untraceable

FADE IN: INT. SUBURBAN BASEMENT -- RAINY NIGHT. . VIDEO CAMERA POV: held at hip level, jerking with each step, we move in dim light past boxes of junk...a dormant furnace . ...a rusty bicycle...shelves of Christmas decorations...and bundles of Ethernet cable, running beside flashing st...

– by Allison Burnett

There's Something About Mary

FADE IN: EXT. CUMBERLAND, RHODE ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL - MORNING It's the early 1980's and everyone is arriving at school. We push through the parking lot crowd to a nervous, lanky kid, TED PELOQUIN. MAN'S VOICE (V.O.) When I was sixteen years old I fell in ...

– by Ed Decter

Sweet Smell of Success

FADE IN: EXT. INT. GLOBE NEWSPAPER BUILDING - DUSK - N.Y. A row of newspaper delivery trucks is lined up against the long loading bay, waiting for the edition. In the foreground a large clock establishes the time as 8:10 PM. A rumbling noise warns the men to take their positions; a few seconds...

– by Ernest Lehman

Spare Me

FADE IN 1 BLACK 1 The screen is black. Thunder rumbles. THEO (VO) When you hear thunder... A black bowling ball pulls away from the lens. The ball is in the hands of THEO SKINNER, an intense, handsome 28 year old man with sideburns dressed in worn bowling attire. THEO (VO) ...God is b...

– by Christopher Grimm

Something Borrowed

FADE IN: CLOSE ON A WOMAN’S FACE, BEAUTIFUL AND STRONG. SHE’S CRYING. INT. KAT’S BEDROOM - NEW YORK CITY - DAY The woman is KAT ELLIS, 30. Tears stream down her face as she sits cross-legged amid the detritus of a packing frenzy. There is an unfortunate green bridesmaid’s dress hanging on the...

– by Jennie Snyder Urman

Smokin' Aces

FADE UP ON: TITLE CARD A narration accompanies this passage: "The events depicted herein were believed have taken place in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. All manner of record as they might pertain to these events have been...

– by Joe Carnahan

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

1 EXT. HIGHWAY -- DAY GRAHAM DALTON, twenty-nine, drives his '69 Cutlass while smoking a cigarette. One could describe his appearance as punk/arty, but neither would do him justice. He is a man of obvious intelligence, a...

– by Steven Soderbergh

The Replacements

FADE IN: 1 EXT. MARINA - DAY The water around the moored boats looks dirty and cold. ROLL CREDITS as we PICK UP a sad excuse for a boat sitting in an end slip -- a seagull-shit-covered, thirty- foot cabin cruiser that hasn't cruised in a long, longtime. An unpainted plywood addition has been n...

– by Vince McKewin

Memphis Belle

FADE IN: EXT. FIELD - DAY A football game is in progress. Six guys on each side, all in their late teens and early twenties, wearing khaki pants, work shirts, T-shirts. OVER, we hear the voice of BRUCE DERRINGER. The first player we see is VIRGE HOOGESTEGER. BRUCE (V.O.) Virge Hoogest...

– by Monte Merrick

Trainspotting

EXT. STREET - DAY Legs run along the pavement. They are Mark Renton's. Just ahead of him is Spud. They are both belting along. As they travel, various objects (pens, tapes, CDs, toiletries, ties, sunglasses, etc.) either fall or are ...

– by John Hodge

Strangers on a Train

FADE IN: EXT. UNION STATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. DAY LONG SHOT THE CAPITOL DOME IN THE B.G. AND THE AUTOMOBILE ENTRANCE TO THE STATION IN THE F.G. LOW CAMERA Activity of cars and taxis arriving and discharging passengers with luggage, busy redcaps, etcetera. We FOCUS on a taxi pulling up...

– by Raymond Chandler

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

FADE IN: Very happy, Disneyesque MUSIC swirls in. PAN DOWN from a pretty blue sky, to a small quaint town nestled in the hills. A wooden sign tells us this is South Park. EXT. SOUTH PARK AVENUE - DAY Birds fly into the air, TOWNSPEOPLE smile to ...

– by Trey Parker

Some Like It Hot

FADE IN: CITY AT NIGHT A hearse of Late Twenties vintage is proceeding at a dignified pace along a half-deserted wintry street. Inside the hearse, there are four somber men in black -- and a coffin, of course, with a ...

– by Billy Wilder