LAguy
02-15-2006, 01:46 AM
Ok. Ok. So the idea isn't completly fresh! I know! But I am a full time student at a college that doesn't even have a film class. I'm trying to write something that is possible for me to shoot at my campus. Here is the breakdown if you don't want to read the whole thing.
Supposedly, there is an urban legend about a psychic who, at Halloween, makes a prediction about a mass murder on the school campus. I researched this urban legend and came up with my movie story.
Psychic makes prediction, people on campus gossip about it, Halloween night comes and so does the killer, he kills the characters, you find out why the killer decided to make this urban myth come to life, it ends.
Thats pretty much it. So here is the script so far. ENJOY!!
Title: UNANNOUNCED
Draft: 1
FADE – INT. DORM – NIGHT
A college freshman dorm room. We see the screen of a television that has been left on. There is a women dressed as a gypsy sitting behind a crystal ball, a psychic women. She is babbling on about some sort of prediction. However, she seems a little too intense for the regular, late night, average TV psychic. She is ranting on and on.
PSYCHIC
Bloodshed! Oh! The bloodshed! You must listen to me! Something very soon! Something horrible! Oh! Something evil! I see it now! I can see it! Murder! Inhumanity! I see the students! All the students on campus are in danger! People are going to die! On Halloween night! I see students being murdered on Halloween! I see…
The television is shut off.
SUPER THE LEGEND:
UNTITLED
FADE – INT. COSTUME STORE– DAY.
We see a shelf decorated in Halloween products. Costumes, wigs, masks, etc. One of the costumes in particular seems to stand out among the rest of the outfits.
A HAND reaches out from nowhere and pulls out a clown suit. The person studies the suit, admiring it with just the touch of his hand. Next, we move to a clown nose, then some makeup, then a wig, each item forming the costume of the sick and deranged person. The next item is a knife, in which we can see the strange person’s twisted smile in the reflection.
CUT TO:
CLASSROOM – INT. – DAY.
A mixed psychology class of freshman through seniors. RYAN CASPERDINE is buried in his notebook, completely oblivious to the teacher lecturing at the front of the classroom. His page is covered in doodles of Halloween pictures. He is heavily focused on his sketching. Something the teacher says grabs his attention and he looks up from what he is doing.
TEACHER
There was a man from Philadelphia, very normal, had a wife and two children who worked at an airport. One day, he murdered his family and climbed up on the observation tower at the airport and just started shooting people dead. He had killed about 10 people before he was gunned down himself. Now, why he did this…
CUT TO:
INT. CAFETERIA – DAY.
RYAN and his best friend, TREY TILLMAN are seated at a table in the bustling cafeteria.
RYAN
Did you hear anything about a bunch of BC students who are gonna die on Halloween?
TREY
Shut up. I’m trying to eat.
RYAN
Stop, dude! No seriously. Did you ever hear that?
TREY
Oh no! Are you talking about that psychic?
RYAN
What?
TREY
Yeah. I didn’t see it, but there was this psychic on TV last night. She was saying some shit about kids being killed on Halloween.
RYAN
Lame! A psychic!
TREY
I know.
RYAN
You know wha’d be funny. If it was like…true. And no one listened to the stupidass gypsy.
TREY
We all die. (laughs)
RYAN
(laughs)
I don’t know, dude. That’d be pretty freaky though.
TREY
Well, good thing we’re here in A-town, where there’s absolutely NOTHING to do.
(throws a piece of food at Ryan)
RYAN
Oh! Ok! We’ll see when the killer Freddy Krugars you’re face!
CARMEN WELLS, an innocent, strong willed girl who is friends with TREY and RYAN approaches the table and sits down with a tray of food.
CARMEN
(British accent)
‘Ello boys!
RYAN
Hoooo!
TREY
Whoa! Watch that fork and knife there.
CARMEN
I think my stomach is caving in.
RYAN
Well, what are you waiting for then? Eat!
TREY
Don’t bother if we all are gonna die tomorrow.
CARMEN
You guys know about that too? Tamra and Alexis saw that on TV last night.
RYAN
Did they really?
TREY
Well…do you think it’s true?
CARMEN
Yes, Trey, and I think you are going to be the first victim.
TREY
Nooooo! Why?
RYAN
Cause you’re so annoying.
TREY
(Offended)
Thanks dude. This one’s for you.
(Sips his drink)
CARMEN
So what are you guys doing for tomorrow?
RYAN
We’re gonna go to the Sally house and get the shit scared out of us!
CARMEN
Losers. You aren’t going to the dance?
TREY
No way. It’s probably gonna be so lame.
CARMEN
(offended)
Hey! Just because you guys are afraid of dancing in front of people and maybe actually enjoying a school sponsored event!
TREY
Like that’s the reason.
CARMEN
Then what is it?
TREY
I don’t wanna talk about this.
RYAN
I just don’t want to sit in a room all night on Halloween when I could be going on a scary adventure.
(laughs)
TREY
Yeah. You just enjoy you’re dance!
CARMEN
Fine. I will. But I’d rather be safe inside a big room with a bunch of other people when there is a killer outside picking off fools like you one by one.
TREY
What killer?
CUT TO:
OVERPASS ON HIGHWAY – DAY.
At the end of the bridge, there is a green sign indicating a few towns and their distances. A tattered wheel to a rusty old pickup pulls into view and stops. We see a grubby hand latch onto a steering wheel and twist it tightly. Lying on the seat next to the driver is the same collection of clown supplies that was seen earlier. We see a heavy worker’s boot slightly press onto the gas pedal. The truck continues forward and steers down the road where the sign indicates, ATCHISON, 20 MILES
FADE:
CARMEN’S DORM ROOM – DAY.
CARMEN and her roommate, STEPHANIE MORRIS, a girl with a good sense of humor and fashion are in their room organizing their costumes for the Halloween dance. CARMEN is up on her bunk bed and STEPHANIE is sitting cross-legged on the floor.
STEPHANIE
I definitely think I’m cursed this Halloween.
CARMEN
What are you talking about?
STEPHANIE
I am cursed.
CARMEN
Stephanie? Are you feeling ok?
STEPHANIE
No! Because…Ok. I stayed up all night last night studying for theory and doing my hymn. This morning, I showed it to Doctor K and she took one look at it and said my form was all wrong! So there goes an entire night’s work! Then, after that, I find out I have a test in Spanish on the Monday after Halloween weekend! And now I just discovered that I forgot to buy horns for my devil costume! So now I have to drive up…
CARMEN
Stephanie! You are freaking out. Just breath…
STEPHANIE
Ya know what Carmen…now I have an insensitive roommate. I need special attention here! I need to be loved!
CARMEN
You need special attention alright…from doctors in white coats.
STEPHANIE
Look, I need to run back to the store.
The door to their room opens to reveal BRITTANY WALLACE, a fun, hyper girl who is dressed head to toe in her costume.
BRITTANY
What is all this noise I hear?
CARMEN
Wow Brittany!
STEPHANIE
See! Even Brittany is ready before I am! Now I’ve seen it all!
BRITTANY
What is that crack supposed to mean, Ms. I can't go to the party unless my hair has a can of hairspray in it?
STEPHANIE
Look! I need to go to Walmart. Can you give me a ride?
BRITTANY
I can’t. My battery is dead.
CARMEN
So go jump it, moron!
BRITTANY
I don’t know how and I don’t have the cables.
CARMEN
Brittany, I’m sure someone on campus has jumper cables. How long has it been dead?
BRITTANY
I’m sure they do too. Besides, after I tried on my costume I was going to go on a run.
STEPHANIE
Fine! I’ll just call one of the guys! (grabs phone and dials a number) I’m so glad I can rely on my good friend to take me 10 blocks to the store.
CARMEN
Are you calling Ryan?
STEPHANIE
Uh huh.
CARMEN
I’m coming with. I need to get some tampons.
BRITTANY
Oh that’ll be an adventure if you’re going with Ryan.
INT. RYAN AND TREY’S DORM ROOM – DAY.
TREY is in the room alone. He grabs the ringing phone off the hook.
TREY
Hello?
STEPHANIE
Ryan?
TREY
It’s Trey.
STEPHANIE
Hey! What are you guys doing?
TREY
Nothin. Ryan’s in the bathroom and I’m just on the computer.
STEPHANIE
Well, do you guys want to go to Walmart?
TREY
Ummm. Sure. You have to wait ‘till he gets back though.
STEPHANIE
Well no duh! We’ll come meet you in the lobby.
TREY
Whose we?
STEPHANIE
Me and Carmen. We’ll be down there.
TREY
Alright, bye.
TREY hangs up the phone and grabs a sweater. RYAN enters the room.
TREY
You want to go to Walmart?
RYAN
For what?
TREY
Stephanie and Carmen need a ride there and we need to get some more drinks anyway. Please, dude?
RYAN
I guess. Let’s go.
RYAN puts on his coat and grabs his keys. Both exit the room and close the door.
PAN TO:
TREY’S COMPUTER SCREEN. AOL instant messenger is up on the screen. The person Trey had been talking to sends him a message.
INSTANT MESSAGE
Did you hear that crazy shit about a massacre at school?
CUT TO:
ATCHISON RESIDENTIAL STREET – DAY.
RYAN’S SUV pulls out into the street and drives down a long hilly road of old houses and towering trees.
CARMEN
I think me, Steph and Britt are going trick-or-treating for a couple hours before the dance.
RYAN
What time does it start?
CARMEN
Eight. They open the doors at 7:30 though.
RYAN
Oh no! Like anyone would show up early to a dance!
(Trey laughs)
STEPHANIE
Well, what are you guys gonna do?
CARMEN
They’re being big babies and aren’t even going to the dance.
TREY
We’re going to the Sally house and it’s gonna be fricken scary!
STEPHANIE
I would never go there on Halloween. Especially this Halloween with that serial killer who is going to murder people.
RYAN
(laughs)
Oh shut…
STEPHANIE
No. I totally believe that stuff. That psychic lady freaked me out. I’m like, gonna carry a gun with me everywhere I go tomorrow.
CARMEN
(laughs)
You probably would.
TREY
(to Ryan)
Take the alley. There’s probably gonna be a train.
RYAN
I am, dude.
RYAN turns off the street into a skinny, long alley decorated in long weeds and vines. A TRUCK is sitting in the middle of the alley about a hundred feet away. The same, rusted truck that was on the overpass earlier. Ryan stops the car and puts it in park.
RYAN
Great idea, Trey!
TREY
Oh no. What the hell are they doing?
INT. RUSTY TRUCK – DAY.
THE MAN at the wheel is preoccupied with something he is holding in his lap. He doesn’t notice that another truck has pulled into the alley in front of him. We see a journal in his lap. He is writing vigorously in it.
INT. RYAN’S SUV.
RYAN
Should I just…ram into them?
CARMEN
(sarcastically)
Go ahead.
STEPHANIE
Just go back out.
TREY
No. Just honk your horn.
(Leans over and honks horn)
RYAN
Trey! Stop!
INT. RUSTY TRUCK.
THE MAN angrily looks up at the sound of the horn and starts to breathe heavy, exasperated breaths.
INT. RYAN’S SUV.
Everyone is staring out the windshield waiting for the truck to do something.
CARMEN
What the hell?
RYAN
What is he doing?
TREY
He’s pissing me off is what he’s doing!
(honks horn again)
STEPHANIE
Trey! Stop!
THE MAN furiously sticks the keys in the ignition and turns on the truck. He switches the gear into drive, lurches forward toward the SUV, and stops after a couple yards.
RYAN
Woah! What does he think he’s doing?
CARMEN
You guys. I think we should go back.
TREY
What is his problem?
Again, THE MAN hits the gas and advances a couple more yards before slamming back down on the brakes. His tires slide on the gravel. The man is huffing and puffing irately.
RYAN
Ok. This guy is nuts!
TREY
What’s he gonna do? Hit us?
STEPHANIE
Can we please just go back the other way?
CARMEN
She’s right you guys.
TREY
What’s he gonna do?
STEPHANIE
I don’t know Trey, but I didn’t come to mess with some psycho in an old truck! I just want to get to the store!
CARMEN
Ryan, back up and go the other way.
RYAN
Maybe there is something wrong with his truck?
TREY
Yeah right! He’s just being an asshole! Rev the engine.
CARMEN
Come on you guys! Can we please just go! He isn’t going to move.
RYAN looks at Trey who is giving him a challenging look. Ryan smiles and pumps the gas a couple times.
STEPHANIE
You guys are such idiots!
After a couple seconds, the rusty truck suddenly peels out and accelerates toward the
SUV, showing no signs of intent to stop.
RYAN
Umm. He’s going pretty fast.
CARMEN
Back up, Ryan!
STEPHANIE
Yeah! Go!
TREY
(starting to panic)
He’s not slowing down dude!
RYAN
Oh shit!
RYAN throws the car into reverse and peels out. The rusty truck is barreling closer and closer with restless speed.
TREY
Shit dude! Go! Go! Go!
CARMEN
Jeez Ryan!
STEPHANIE
Hurry! Get out the way!
Ryan yanks the wheel sideways throwing the car into a turn through a couple of trashcans back out into the street. The old truck comes inches from hitting his SUV and turns out in front of them, heading the opposite direction. The four teenagers sit in the car in disbelief watching the old truck drive away.
RYAN
Jesus! What was that all about?
STEPHANIE
(yelling back at the truck)
What the hell was his problem?
TREY
(trying not to laugh)
Holy shit dude! He almost hit us.
CARMEN
That was so scary! I though he was for sure going to hit us, Ryan, I’m not kidding.
RYAN
That was some serious shit.
(starts to turn around and drive)
RYAN and TREY start laughing.
STEPHANIE
You guys are just as insane as that guy was!
RYAN
Oh my God.
STEPHANIE
Can we go now before you get us killed again?
RYAN
How was that in any way my fault?
TREY
I know!
CARMEN
Was that guy drunk? I mean, seriously?
THE SUV drives off down the street.
CUT TO:
EXT. RESIDENCE HALL. – DAY.
BRITTANY comes out from the dorm dressed in sweatpants and a hooded sweater. She pulls her ipod out of her pocket and puts on her earphones. She walks out to the street and begins jogging toward Abbeyland, a large forest along the side of a cliff. Behind her, THE OLD TRUCK pulls out from the parking lot and slowly follows her. She jogs past a road. The Truck pulls off down the road.
Supposedly, there is an urban legend about a psychic who, at Halloween, makes a prediction about a mass murder on the school campus. I researched this urban legend and came up with my movie story.
Psychic makes prediction, people on campus gossip about it, Halloween night comes and so does the killer, he kills the characters, you find out why the killer decided to make this urban myth come to life, it ends.
Thats pretty much it. So here is the script so far. ENJOY!!
Title: UNANNOUNCED
Draft: 1
FADE – INT. DORM – NIGHT
A college freshman dorm room. We see the screen of a television that has been left on. There is a women dressed as a gypsy sitting behind a crystal ball, a psychic women. She is babbling on about some sort of prediction. However, she seems a little too intense for the regular, late night, average TV psychic. She is ranting on and on.
PSYCHIC
Bloodshed! Oh! The bloodshed! You must listen to me! Something very soon! Something horrible! Oh! Something evil! I see it now! I can see it! Murder! Inhumanity! I see the students! All the students on campus are in danger! People are going to die! On Halloween night! I see students being murdered on Halloween! I see…
The television is shut off.
SUPER THE LEGEND:
UNTITLED
FADE – INT. COSTUME STORE– DAY.
We see a shelf decorated in Halloween products. Costumes, wigs, masks, etc. One of the costumes in particular seems to stand out among the rest of the outfits.
A HAND reaches out from nowhere and pulls out a clown suit. The person studies the suit, admiring it with just the touch of his hand. Next, we move to a clown nose, then some makeup, then a wig, each item forming the costume of the sick and deranged person. The next item is a knife, in which we can see the strange person’s twisted smile in the reflection.
CUT TO:
CLASSROOM – INT. – DAY.
A mixed psychology class of freshman through seniors. RYAN CASPERDINE is buried in his notebook, completely oblivious to the teacher lecturing at the front of the classroom. His page is covered in doodles of Halloween pictures. He is heavily focused on his sketching. Something the teacher says grabs his attention and he looks up from what he is doing.
TEACHER
There was a man from Philadelphia, very normal, had a wife and two children who worked at an airport. One day, he murdered his family and climbed up on the observation tower at the airport and just started shooting people dead. He had killed about 10 people before he was gunned down himself. Now, why he did this…
CUT TO:
INT. CAFETERIA – DAY.
RYAN and his best friend, TREY TILLMAN are seated at a table in the bustling cafeteria.
RYAN
Did you hear anything about a bunch of BC students who are gonna die on Halloween?
TREY
Shut up. I’m trying to eat.
RYAN
Stop, dude! No seriously. Did you ever hear that?
TREY
Oh no! Are you talking about that psychic?
RYAN
What?
TREY
Yeah. I didn’t see it, but there was this psychic on TV last night. She was saying some shit about kids being killed on Halloween.
RYAN
Lame! A psychic!
TREY
I know.
RYAN
You know wha’d be funny. If it was like…true. And no one listened to the stupidass gypsy.
TREY
We all die. (laughs)
RYAN
(laughs)
I don’t know, dude. That’d be pretty freaky though.
TREY
Well, good thing we’re here in A-town, where there’s absolutely NOTHING to do.
(throws a piece of food at Ryan)
RYAN
Oh! Ok! We’ll see when the killer Freddy Krugars you’re face!
CARMEN WELLS, an innocent, strong willed girl who is friends with TREY and RYAN approaches the table and sits down with a tray of food.
CARMEN
(British accent)
‘Ello boys!
RYAN
Hoooo!
TREY
Whoa! Watch that fork and knife there.
CARMEN
I think my stomach is caving in.
RYAN
Well, what are you waiting for then? Eat!
TREY
Don’t bother if we all are gonna die tomorrow.
CARMEN
You guys know about that too? Tamra and Alexis saw that on TV last night.
RYAN
Did they really?
TREY
Well…do you think it’s true?
CARMEN
Yes, Trey, and I think you are going to be the first victim.
TREY
Nooooo! Why?
RYAN
Cause you’re so annoying.
TREY
(Offended)
Thanks dude. This one’s for you.
(Sips his drink)
CARMEN
So what are you guys doing for tomorrow?
RYAN
We’re gonna go to the Sally house and get the shit scared out of us!
CARMEN
Losers. You aren’t going to the dance?
TREY
No way. It’s probably gonna be so lame.
CARMEN
(offended)
Hey! Just because you guys are afraid of dancing in front of people and maybe actually enjoying a school sponsored event!
TREY
Like that’s the reason.
CARMEN
Then what is it?
TREY
I don’t wanna talk about this.
RYAN
I just don’t want to sit in a room all night on Halloween when I could be going on a scary adventure.
(laughs)
TREY
Yeah. You just enjoy you’re dance!
CARMEN
Fine. I will. But I’d rather be safe inside a big room with a bunch of other people when there is a killer outside picking off fools like you one by one.
TREY
What killer?
CUT TO:
OVERPASS ON HIGHWAY – DAY.
At the end of the bridge, there is a green sign indicating a few towns and their distances. A tattered wheel to a rusty old pickup pulls into view and stops. We see a grubby hand latch onto a steering wheel and twist it tightly. Lying on the seat next to the driver is the same collection of clown supplies that was seen earlier. We see a heavy worker’s boot slightly press onto the gas pedal. The truck continues forward and steers down the road where the sign indicates, ATCHISON, 20 MILES
FADE:
CARMEN’S DORM ROOM – DAY.
CARMEN and her roommate, STEPHANIE MORRIS, a girl with a good sense of humor and fashion are in their room organizing their costumes for the Halloween dance. CARMEN is up on her bunk bed and STEPHANIE is sitting cross-legged on the floor.
STEPHANIE
I definitely think I’m cursed this Halloween.
CARMEN
What are you talking about?
STEPHANIE
I am cursed.
CARMEN
Stephanie? Are you feeling ok?
STEPHANIE
No! Because…Ok. I stayed up all night last night studying for theory and doing my hymn. This morning, I showed it to Doctor K and she took one look at it and said my form was all wrong! So there goes an entire night’s work! Then, after that, I find out I have a test in Spanish on the Monday after Halloween weekend! And now I just discovered that I forgot to buy horns for my devil costume! So now I have to drive up…
CARMEN
Stephanie! You are freaking out. Just breath…
STEPHANIE
Ya know what Carmen…now I have an insensitive roommate. I need special attention here! I need to be loved!
CARMEN
You need special attention alright…from doctors in white coats.
STEPHANIE
Look, I need to run back to the store.
The door to their room opens to reveal BRITTANY WALLACE, a fun, hyper girl who is dressed head to toe in her costume.
BRITTANY
What is all this noise I hear?
CARMEN
Wow Brittany!
STEPHANIE
See! Even Brittany is ready before I am! Now I’ve seen it all!
BRITTANY
What is that crack supposed to mean, Ms. I can't go to the party unless my hair has a can of hairspray in it?
STEPHANIE
Look! I need to go to Walmart. Can you give me a ride?
BRITTANY
I can’t. My battery is dead.
CARMEN
So go jump it, moron!
BRITTANY
I don’t know how and I don’t have the cables.
CARMEN
Brittany, I’m sure someone on campus has jumper cables. How long has it been dead?
BRITTANY
I’m sure they do too. Besides, after I tried on my costume I was going to go on a run.
STEPHANIE
Fine! I’ll just call one of the guys! (grabs phone and dials a number) I’m so glad I can rely on my good friend to take me 10 blocks to the store.
CARMEN
Are you calling Ryan?
STEPHANIE
Uh huh.
CARMEN
I’m coming with. I need to get some tampons.
BRITTANY
Oh that’ll be an adventure if you’re going with Ryan.
INT. RYAN AND TREY’S DORM ROOM – DAY.
TREY is in the room alone. He grabs the ringing phone off the hook.
TREY
Hello?
STEPHANIE
Ryan?
TREY
It’s Trey.
STEPHANIE
Hey! What are you guys doing?
TREY
Nothin. Ryan’s in the bathroom and I’m just on the computer.
STEPHANIE
Well, do you guys want to go to Walmart?
TREY
Ummm. Sure. You have to wait ‘till he gets back though.
STEPHANIE
Well no duh! We’ll come meet you in the lobby.
TREY
Whose we?
STEPHANIE
Me and Carmen. We’ll be down there.
TREY
Alright, bye.
TREY hangs up the phone and grabs a sweater. RYAN enters the room.
TREY
You want to go to Walmart?
RYAN
For what?
TREY
Stephanie and Carmen need a ride there and we need to get some more drinks anyway. Please, dude?
RYAN
I guess. Let’s go.
RYAN puts on his coat and grabs his keys. Both exit the room and close the door.
PAN TO:
TREY’S COMPUTER SCREEN. AOL instant messenger is up on the screen. The person Trey had been talking to sends him a message.
INSTANT MESSAGE
Did you hear that crazy shit about a massacre at school?
CUT TO:
ATCHISON RESIDENTIAL STREET – DAY.
RYAN’S SUV pulls out into the street and drives down a long hilly road of old houses and towering trees.
CARMEN
I think me, Steph and Britt are going trick-or-treating for a couple hours before the dance.
RYAN
What time does it start?
CARMEN
Eight. They open the doors at 7:30 though.
RYAN
Oh no! Like anyone would show up early to a dance!
(Trey laughs)
STEPHANIE
Well, what are you guys gonna do?
CARMEN
They’re being big babies and aren’t even going to the dance.
TREY
We’re going to the Sally house and it’s gonna be fricken scary!
STEPHANIE
I would never go there on Halloween. Especially this Halloween with that serial killer who is going to murder people.
RYAN
(laughs)
Oh shut…
STEPHANIE
No. I totally believe that stuff. That psychic lady freaked me out. I’m like, gonna carry a gun with me everywhere I go tomorrow.
CARMEN
(laughs)
You probably would.
TREY
(to Ryan)
Take the alley. There’s probably gonna be a train.
RYAN
I am, dude.
RYAN turns off the street into a skinny, long alley decorated in long weeds and vines. A TRUCK is sitting in the middle of the alley about a hundred feet away. The same, rusted truck that was on the overpass earlier. Ryan stops the car and puts it in park.
RYAN
Great idea, Trey!
TREY
Oh no. What the hell are they doing?
INT. RUSTY TRUCK – DAY.
THE MAN at the wheel is preoccupied with something he is holding in his lap. He doesn’t notice that another truck has pulled into the alley in front of him. We see a journal in his lap. He is writing vigorously in it.
INT. RYAN’S SUV.
RYAN
Should I just…ram into them?
CARMEN
(sarcastically)
Go ahead.
STEPHANIE
Just go back out.
TREY
No. Just honk your horn.
(Leans over and honks horn)
RYAN
Trey! Stop!
INT. RUSTY TRUCK.
THE MAN angrily looks up at the sound of the horn and starts to breathe heavy, exasperated breaths.
INT. RYAN’S SUV.
Everyone is staring out the windshield waiting for the truck to do something.
CARMEN
What the hell?
RYAN
What is he doing?
TREY
He’s pissing me off is what he’s doing!
(honks horn again)
STEPHANIE
Trey! Stop!
THE MAN furiously sticks the keys in the ignition and turns on the truck. He switches the gear into drive, lurches forward toward the SUV, and stops after a couple yards.
RYAN
Woah! What does he think he’s doing?
CARMEN
You guys. I think we should go back.
TREY
What is his problem?
Again, THE MAN hits the gas and advances a couple more yards before slamming back down on the brakes. His tires slide on the gravel. The man is huffing and puffing irately.
RYAN
Ok. This guy is nuts!
TREY
What’s he gonna do? Hit us?
STEPHANIE
Can we please just go back the other way?
CARMEN
She’s right you guys.
TREY
What’s he gonna do?
STEPHANIE
I don’t know Trey, but I didn’t come to mess with some psycho in an old truck! I just want to get to the store!
CARMEN
Ryan, back up and go the other way.
RYAN
Maybe there is something wrong with his truck?
TREY
Yeah right! He’s just being an asshole! Rev the engine.
CARMEN
Come on you guys! Can we please just go! He isn’t going to move.
RYAN looks at Trey who is giving him a challenging look. Ryan smiles and pumps the gas a couple times.
STEPHANIE
You guys are such idiots!
After a couple seconds, the rusty truck suddenly peels out and accelerates toward the
SUV, showing no signs of intent to stop.
RYAN
Umm. He’s going pretty fast.
CARMEN
Back up, Ryan!
STEPHANIE
Yeah! Go!
TREY
(starting to panic)
He’s not slowing down dude!
RYAN
Oh shit!
RYAN throws the car into reverse and peels out. The rusty truck is barreling closer and closer with restless speed.
TREY
Shit dude! Go! Go! Go!
CARMEN
Jeez Ryan!
STEPHANIE
Hurry! Get out the way!
Ryan yanks the wheel sideways throwing the car into a turn through a couple of trashcans back out into the street. The old truck comes inches from hitting his SUV and turns out in front of them, heading the opposite direction. The four teenagers sit in the car in disbelief watching the old truck drive away.
RYAN
Jesus! What was that all about?
STEPHANIE
(yelling back at the truck)
What the hell was his problem?
TREY
(trying not to laugh)
Holy shit dude! He almost hit us.
CARMEN
That was so scary! I though he was for sure going to hit us, Ryan, I’m not kidding.
RYAN
That was some serious shit.
(starts to turn around and drive)
RYAN and TREY start laughing.
STEPHANIE
You guys are just as insane as that guy was!
RYAN
Oh my God.
STEPHANIE
Can we go now before you get us killed again?
RYAN
How was that in any way my fault?
TREY
I know!
CARMEN
Was that guy drunk? I mean, seriously?
THE SUV drives off down the street.
CUT TO:
EXT. RESIDENCE HALL. – DAY.
BRITTANY comes out from the dorm dressed in sweatpants and a hooded sweater. She pulls her ipod out of her pocket and puts on her earphones. She walks out to the street and begins jogging toward Abbeyland, a large forest along the side of a cliff. Behind her, THE OLD TRUCK pulls out from the parking lot and slowly follows her. She jogs past a road. The Truck pulls off down the road.