INT - MODEST HOME - NIGH‘
source 2A dark and spooky night.
The place is decorated for Halloween - jack ‘o lanterns,
-" orange and black streamers, human heads on sticks...
CINDY, our heroine, 17 and pretty in a Neve Campbell, Jennifer Love Hewitt way, ah fuck it - just picture any
“Party of Five" type - talks on the cordless. phone while
watching "Halloween" on T.V. CINDY.
' (into phone) «++O.K., SO pick me up in ten.
CLICK.
IN THE KITCHEN .
She opens the pantry, rummaging for a snack. We. FEATURE
several frightening food products: Count Chocula and Frankenberry cereal, and devil's food © cake.
She grabs a tin-skillet of “Jiffy Pop Popcorn," and puts -
-it on the Lit stove.
The phone RINGS. . re CINDY © Hello? SCARY VOICE
(from phone) Hello Cindy. —
‘SCARY VOICE | It's not Quentin... —
DING DONG! The doorbell CHIMES.
| She walks to the front door and opens it to reveal four CHILDREN in Halloween costumes.
Distracted, She reaches for the bowl of candy, but instead grabs the other items on the table ~- bottles of iiquor, - marijuana joints, and hypodermic needles.
She dumps the narcotics and booze in their candy bags.
CINDY — (to children) —— Have a safe Halloween.
She closes the door on the surprised toddlers. CINDY (into phone) Who is this?
a SCARY VOICE You have a sexy voice. It's too bad your boyfriend left you all alone on Halloween. : .
Through the window we FEATURE the Children, now gleefully swigging the booze, smoking the » joint, and shoowrng the
smack.
(hangs up) Loser.
IN THE KITCHEN
The tin-skillet expands with the POPPING « corn, ‘finally oe OPEN. ; .
slice.
- POP! PING! PANG! Kernels SHOOT through the kitchen, SMASHING Plates and SHATTERING glasses.
The phone RINGS again.
Cindy eyes the phone, getting ; a little freaked. RING. RING. :
Cindy CLICKS OFF as she looks down in horror at her tight © blue sweater. Whoever's on the line can see her!
SCARY MUSIC UP
We. FOLLOW Cindy as she rushes through the house, shutting the curtains and blinds. With every step, the tension — mounts...
CRASH!
‘A MAN jumps through the window - it's FREDDY KRUEGER!
“Abhhit!
Freddy raises his razor~élawed hand, then stops in mid-
_ CINDY No, it‘s Maple.
He exits.
CINDY
‘Right at Oak, left at Sycamore.
The phone RINGS again. She eyes it with ‘trepidation. |
RING. RING.
RING - She picks up.
RING. RING.
A beat.
Cindy?
; - CINDY Hello?
from...Homicidal Maniac...will you
accept the charges?
- She SMASHES the phone to pieces. A beat.
Her cellular phone RINGS. She answers.
“SCARY VOICE (from phone)
SCARY VOICE
Not until you answer some questions.
Miss one and you die.
Why are you doing. this to me?
SCARY VOICE
I'm asking the questions.
She nervously bites her fingernails, then SPITS them cut.
.. CINDY That one where the girl gets _ harassed on the phone... (she passes a “Scream" movie poster). ; ++.you know, the one with the chubby, alcoholic gsFt who was in E.T.? ,
A beat.
“SCARY VOICE - Next question.
She now nervously bites. her: toenails, SPITTING éhem out.
SCARY VOICE , ir m thinking of a number between 1 and 100. What is it?
She sinks to her knees in : terror, ‘trembling. CINDY - |
: (getting choked up) Uh...76? .
A long beat. ©
Behind her we see her neglected popcorn is now ON ‘FIRE, ane:
_BILLOWING smoke. -
SHRIEK! SHRIEK! The ‘smoke dakector souNDs, adding to Cindy' s confusion and. terror. oa
Tears well in her eyes, and. a giant snot _bubble GURGLES out of her nostril. She: is terrified. : ;
. SCARY VOICE Up or down?, r
‘CINDY Up?
SCARY VOICE | Sorry Cindy, you Tose. The answer ' was down. - CINDY My boyfriend's. gonna be here any second. He'll kick your ass.
_ SCARY VOICE You mean him?
The lights goon in the backyard, revealing a bloodied and
dead TEENAGE BOY, strapped to a chaira la "Scream.":
The Scary Voice CACKLES. Cindy squints at the boy through the otaeens glass GOOF
like twice. The Scary Voice stops CACKLING. oo SCARY VOICE _ Oh. The backyard Lights turn. off.
She SCREAMS and drops the > Phone in horror. ' She races to “ne back. door. .
From outside we see a SHADOWY FIGURE also running ‘to the. | back Goor.
_AT THE BACK DOOR
she gets ‘there one — ahead of the ‘shadowy figure and LOCKS the door, then CHAINS it, then puts "The Club" over the doorknob. _
7 Cindy backs away from the door in terror. The cigure
disappears. The suspense mourits...
DING DONG!) The doorbell. Cindy is frozen in fear - who is it? |
She punches 9-1-1 on her cordless, then. puts the aecesver to her ear. ;
DING DONG! oe SCARY VOICE Answer it. — CINDY No... SCARY VOICE
It could be your friends. It's been ~ ten minutes.. a
She moves to the front door “slowly, then grabs a “baseball bat out of _the hall closet.
| SCARY VOICE. Then open the door.
she raises the bat, then closes her eyes. and | flings the aoGm open. : :
with eyes still closed, she flails | away with the bat.
_ CINDY TAKE THAT YOU PSYCHO!!
BANG! THUD! CRUNCH! She connects with several swings.
She opens her eyes to find three LITTLE TRICK OR TREATERS,
now lying bloody and beaten on. the front porch.
_ CINDY Oops... a
_ She apologetically tosses the Children candy, which only
lands uselessly next to their broken arms.
The children GROAN in pain as she closes the door.
INSIDE _
Cindy locks the door. As she turns, we see the KILLER -
. right behind her. ~
‘The Killer has a black cloak and white mask on, ala. -“Scream," except his mask is Casper the Friendly Ghost.
He raises a wicked looking knife and creeps up behind her.
. KILLER Hello Cindy.
Cindy freezes in her tracks - it's the same scary voice from the phone.
She turns to see the Killer and SCREAMS!
The Killer lunges at her and stabs twice at her chest. POP! POP! Her breasts POP Like balloons, then deflate.
the Killer raises the knife again | - Cindy SHRIEKS IN.
TERROR. | . Suddenly, Cindy's 200 1b. ‘st. Bernard, _CuI0, comes
_ scampering up from behind.
Before the Killer can ‘strike, cujo jumps up and knocks him to the ground. t. . .
. CINDY Good boy, Cujo!
‘Cujo. proceeds to pin the Killer down. and vigorously HUMP
HIS LEG.
She uses the distraction to dash out the front door.
‘OUTSIDE
Cindy races down the steps, ‘stepping on the BEATEN
‘CHILDREN, who YELP in pain.
Cindy runs into the street, just as her FRIENDS pull up in a red, ‘57 Cadillac convertible.
Her friends are SKEET, JAKE, BUFFY, and QUENTIN. Cindy jumps in the passenger. side. |
Skeet puts it in gear and PEELS OUT down the road.
As they drive off, we see the Cadi’ s "personalized license plate - CHRISTINE.