WHIPPERSNAPPER
By
Vic Formosa
Characters created by Vic Formosa
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EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY - BIRDS EYE VIEW
Lush green forest stretches out as far as the eye can see.
Trees reaching up to touch the sun.
Streams and waterfalls adorn the rocky landscape to give way
to a narrow lane road - barely wide enough for two cars.
A large shadow flies above the trees, blocking the sun.
EXT. DOWNTOWN CITY STREET - DAY
Police cars swarm across the busy streets. Sirens wail,
lights flash.
Whatever has happened is big.
It seems like the entire force is out all chasing each other
as the cars whip and slice their way through traffic.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY
Birds flock in the trees, squirrels and chipmunks gather
nuts and run about. A MOUNTAIN LION and her CUBS run
through the bush.
All of a sudden, the overwhelming sound of RUMBLING.
Something so heavy that the animals run amok.
HEAVY DUTY RIGS, TRACTORS, and EXCAVATION VEHICLES rip
through the peaceful setting.
Their loud engines signify the destruction of what is all
nature.
A CHAINSAW RIPS through the branches, boring down on a small
DEER trapped in a man-made snare.
CRACKKKK - a LARGE TREE falls in-front of the chain-saw
blade and crushes the deer.
JERRY
S**T!!! What you trying to do?
Kill me?
(beat)
Whoever cut that tree is getting
an a*s kicking.
JERRY, late 30's covered in mud and holding a chain-saw,
tears away the bushes and rushes from the fallen tree over
to a large tractor.
JERRY(CONT'D)
You stupid son of a b***h.
He drops the saw and climbs aboard the monstrous beast,
whipping the door open.
He crawls partially inside and yanks PARKER (26) from the
seat, throwing him to the mud below.
PARKER
Hey, I didn't know.
JERRY
Well, you're gonna learn.
Jerry starts kicking Parker as he lies on the ground,
soaking up the mud.
PARKER
Alright!!! Ok. I'm Sorry.
JERRY
One more time and you're off the
site. Get your a*s back to work
and keep your Goddamn eyes open.
Jerry pulls Parker back to his feet and picks up his chain-
saw, heading to a clear cut location.
He pulls out a walkie- talkie, speaking inside the
microphone.
Parker climbs back into his vehicle and starts to pull away.
JERRY
Guys ....guys ...hey...listen up
fellas. In 15 minutes time we're
gonna be blowing, so move your
trucks back to the set posts. He
waves some machinery in various
directions. I would like to see
the path kept clean of debris,
this time.
The trucks start rolling back, except for a small pickup
truck, which pulls up beside Jerry.
Jerry opens the door and gets in the truck and it pulls
away.
MORGAN
Jerry, since it's Friday, me and
the boys are wondering if we can
head
MORGAN
off a little early today cause we
wanna cash our checks and
well...aww come on, we'll buy you
a drink too.
Jerry picks up a clipboard stacked with letters and flips
through them
JERRY
Morgan...are all the charges set?
MORGAN
That's what Hoss tells me.
JERRY
Then lets make some noise and then
drink to the boys.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY - CONTINUOUS
A safe distance from the clearing, all the trucks and
machinery are stationed at a makeshift camp.
The crews stand facing a large hillside as HOSS, a man who
hasn't missed a meal in 15 years walks around with a remote
control box with switches and glowing lights.
Hoss checks the dials, looks around at the crew and with a
nod from Jerry, flips the switches and presses some
buttons.
KA-BOOM!!!
What was once indigenous rock formation is now small chunks,
the size of a Volkswagen.
A cloud of dust and dirt covers the sky.
The crew high-fives each other as Hoss lets another charge
go.
HOSS
Make some room for Captain Ka-boom
JERRY
You the man Hoss. You the man.
Another slice of the mountain falls as trees and gravel
clear what took countless generations to build.
HOSS
We'll have this done and good to
go in no time.
JERRY
Great, well...the hard part is
over...let's see about heading to
town and stirring up some trouble
there.
Hoss, Jerry and the crew pull off their dirty clothes and
hard-hats as their day is over.
EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE - CONTINUOUS
As the dirt and debris begins to settle, we see a SMALL CAVE
ENTRANCE close to where the fallen rocks and dirt have
landed.
A small furry animal runs towards the cave, pausing for a
brief moment to stay in view, then as it takes a step
inside the cave, it is snatched by something.
The animal lets out a squeal as if danger, then moments
later is thrown out of the cave again and lies dead on the
ground, covered in blood.
EXT. VARIOUS DOWNTOWN CITY STREETS - DAY
Through various alleys and streets, police cars patrol at an
abnormal slow pace.
Abandoned buildings are scoured with uniformed police.
Shopping mall parking lots are patrolled as patrol vehicles
slowly drive through the lot.
The event draws onlookers with curiosity.
EXT. CITY STREET - LATE AFTERNOON
The sun begins to settle, a nice array of reds, blues. The
perfect sunset. It's a quiet street, but something doesn't
fit right.
Out of the shadows, a large figure in a long black overcoat
rushes to the side of a gray 4-door sedan, sitting idling
beside a bank.
The figure jumps in the car and speeds away.
Moments later, from the side of a bank machine, a YOUNGWOMAN
chases after the car, with a wad of bills in hand.
YOUNGWOMAN
Hey!!! Hey!!! Stop!!! Bring back
my car, you a*****e.
The woman gets halfway up the block, but the car has cut a
comer and is out of sight.
MONTAGE
INT. VARIOUS POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICES
Fax machines spit out new posters of a WANTED man and
details about him Hands tears the faxes from the machines.
Fingers post the paper to walls.
Xerox machines make photocopies of the poster. Posters are
handed to various police.
INT. VARIOUS POLICE CARS
Posters are clipped to dashboards.
EXT. SUBURBAN HOUSE - DUSK
Along a street with freshly mowed lawns and carbon copy
houses, TINA, JENNY, CHRISTY and SARAH (18-20), well to do
wanna-be cheerleaders with gym bags and make-up purses by
their sides.
Giddy as only schoolgirls can be, their tight T-shirts glued
to their skin as to show who is in competition for the next
soon to be porn star.
TINA
I can't believe that we're like
finally going to Canon Beach.
JENNY
Well, I can't believe that my
uncle let us use the cabin for 2
weeks.
TINA
Like, that was sooo cool.
CHRISTY
It's your 19th birthday. What a
party it will be.
JENNY
Party?
Tina shoots Christy a look.
CHRISTY
I thought she knew. Sarah looks at
her watch.
CHRISTY(CONT'D)
Like I said to myself when I heard
that...like no wayyyy. That is
just too far out, you know.
BRANDY comes hobbling up the street, carrying what looks to
be like a small retail chain packed in numerous handbags.
She drops her bags and gives each girl an obligatory hug and
peck on the cheek.
TINA
Brandy...what happened girl?
BRANDY
Oh, my god...like I had to paint
my nails and you would not
believe it. I couldn't find my
Lumene Super Gloss and Quick Dry.
JENNY
Oh no ...so what did you do?
Sarah grabs Brandy's hand, examining her nails.
SARAH
You didn't..
All the girls look, with a horrified look on their face.
TINA
You did!
CHRISTY
Is that...Maybelline Wet Shine?
How could you?
Brandy shies away. The girls look so disgusted.
BRANDY
It was an emergency.
The girl's jaws drop ...this has to be the worst sin ever
known to mankind...the wrong type of nail polish.
BRANDY
Do these pants go with my shoes?
TINA
Oh my God, Brandy...those are sooo
hot. The girls all drool over
Brandy's shoes and pants.
SARAH
I can't believe that we've been
waiting for over minutes and they
are finally showing up!
A battered CAMPER pulls onto the cardboard cutout street.
NOISE emanates from the cabin. Instead of this camper being
the standard white, it is painted black and made to be the
ultimate in pimped up traveling campers ...if there ever
was something like that.
SEAN, BRETT, LANCE, TROY and ZACK, (�11118-20) who could be
replaced by any pop boy band in the world are grooving to
the beat on the radio. If cool was ever delivered by a 32
foot camper, then this is what it looked like.
Lance is driving and comes to a screeching halt at the
driveway where the girls mull about impatiently.
The camper doors swing open.
LANCE
Was sup ladies?
Brett sticks his head out the door.
BRETT
Wow, you ho's be looking
fi-i-i-ne. Fresh is what I be
saying.
TROY
Straight up.
Sarah steps closer to the camper.
SARAH
Well you all just gonna stare at
our tits or what? We got baggage
to load.
TROY
Forget that girl.i.I don't need me
a woman who got baggage. You know
what I'm saying?
BRETT
Yeah ...straight up boy. Chicks be
all messin with our head and s**t.
Who the f**k need that?
SEAN
What you got there? Your entire
closet?
BRANDY
Well, you know that I can't go out
in the same outfit. So, I brought
something for every day of the
week.
Troy and Brett do their buddy hand slap and step out of the
camper.
TROY
Not me man. She wants to be my
b***h, she gonna be carrying her
suitcase herself. Girl wants to
be all independent and s**t.
Yeah. My girl...she gonna learn,
my time is valuable.
BRETT
Yeah. Word. N***a.
TROY
Who you calling N***a, you white
as rice Honkey?
Christy drops her bags on Brett's toes.
CHRISTY
Well then, I guess we ain't going?
And if we ain't going, you ain't
getting any booty from me or my
homegirls.
TINA
Like yeah.
BRETT
F**k that...you knows we was just
messing girl. We respectful of
ya'll.
BRANDY
Then stop talking like you'se all
from a gang and s**t, cause I
know you'se all grew up in Spring
Dale, not 2 miles from the
Cineplex, where the only bad a*s
s**t you ever did was read a
nudie mag and skateboard over
picnic benches in the park.
BRETT
S**t girl, you wearing me out
already. You crampin my style.
BRANDY
Shut the f**k up and put our bags
inside. We waited for your ugly
asses almost a half-hour.
Zack skips down the stairs to Jenny and wraps his arms
around her, picking her up and swapping tongues.
ZACK
Hey Je-Je-Je-Jen-Je-Jenny.
JENNY
Hey baby. You all set for 2 weeks
of heaven?
ZACK
I was think-ink-ink-inking that
maybe while we were up- -p-p-p
there that maybe we
cou-cou-could...
INT. CAMPER - DUSK - CONTINUOUS
The girls crawl aboard the camper, which has been customized
to fit the needs of the pimp living lifestyles of privileged
kids.
Plush carpets, mini fridge, home stereo and cd's to match,
television, video games, and furniture that blends with it
all.
Sean hoists the bags inside as the girls squeeze their
Romeo's.
Lance closes the doors and the lights dim.
The camper zips down the road, music is set to something
that everybody mixes with and Zack lights a joint, takes a
deep drag.
ZACK
P-p-p-a*s it a-a-a-round.
The roach makes it's rounds as bongs light up. The music
blends with the mellow mood as the smoke fills up the
cabin.
INT. ROADSIDE BAR - NIGHT
Dingy and gray walls, covered with Molson Beer
advertisements welcome the customer.
This is the answer to the diehard local alcoholics who have
no options aside of traveling another 2 hours for a better
class of beer and maybe some clean tables too.
The construction workers drink the swill that is labeled
with the Molson brand as billiard balls roll about the
tables and darts find their ways into the walls.
In the comer of the noisy establishment, an old wooden
console TV displays the late news. Nobody pays attention to
it.
C.U. ON TELEVISION
Barely audible and greatly distorted, a NEWS REPORTER
delivers the daily news, as routine dialogue dances off his
lips with no emotion, due to years of delivering the same.
NEWS REPORTER
In other news ...police are still
searching for a man, suspected of
brutally killing 5 people outside
a cottage in Clark County. The
suspect allegedly escaped lawful
custody while being transported
to the Olympia Jail after a fight
broke out between prisoners and
prison guards.
The scene cuts to some choppy camera shots as pictures of
prison vans, a jail, a courthouse and police are tied in to
make the unfolding story interesting.
NEWS REPORTER
Officials have no comment as to
how or why the fight began, but
are asking all residents of Clark
County and neighboring areas to be
on the lookout and to call the
police immediately of anything
suspicious ..
A photo of a heavy set man (DAMIAN) is cast onto the screen.
NEWS REPORTER
Police believe that he is heavily
armed and extremely dangerous and
may be headed towards the
California border in a stolen
gray 4door sedan.
WHACK! PANNGGGG!!!!
The picture tube EXPLODES as a billiard ball slams into the
screen. The crowd jumps in shock as smoke rises from the
shattered picture tube.
JERRY
That was just great guys. How are
we supposed to know who won the
game?
The BARTENDER pulls the plug from the back of the TV
BARTENDER
You just bought yourself a
television set.
JERRY
Aww, come on. It wasn't my fault.
BARTENDER
Well if it weren't for you boys
comin in every night and passin
me your earnings, I would be
mighty pissed at ya, but ya all
been good 01 boys
BARTENDER
and well...I'll be closin up in 20
minutes or so.
JERRY
Parker, you owe me for this.
The bartender begins picking up the bottles from the tables.
PARKER
Yeah...whatever...my next cheque.
RENNY
Nice going Parker.
BARTENDER
So, there gonna be more blastin?
JERRY
Rave to ask Hoss.
Hoss slams his beer on the counter, alcohol has ensured that
he lost his ability to rationalize by speaking as loud as he
could.
HOSS
Blasting is what I do...I got a
truckload of explosives to keep
me happy as long as I need to.
BARTENDER
So when are these resorts supposed
to be finished?
JERRY
Well, as long as I keep getting
paid...who cares?
BARTENDER
Good, maybe I'll finally make some
money when the new folk move here.
Ya know, I've owned this place for
ten years, and if it weren't for
folks like you and the passers
through - well I reckon that I
would have done up and moved to
the city.
HOSS
Aww what ya say Jerry? You good to
drive or should I?
Jerry grabs the keys from the table, dangling them in the
air. Hoss goes to grab them, Jerry yanks them back and
forth as he teases his friend.
BARTENDER
Ya'll be careful tonight. Sheriff
Greystone's starting his shift in
minutes, and he always asks me
about you boys.
RENNY
And ya know what you can tell him?
Renny flips his ring finger in the air.
RENNY
That I don't like his office and
if that sorry sad a*s b***h gives
me another ticket, I'm gonna level
his police station like a house of
cards.
Jerry finishes his beer and motions for the crew to go. As
they swallow the last drops, they pile out.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - NIGHT
The moon is bright. The creepiness of the noises from the
forest and the ominous sounds of silence bring way to the
wretched fear of loneliness and solitude that lies deep in
the woods.
The SCOWL of a COUGAR/MOUNTAIN LION reverberates in the air.
A BUSTLING of tree branches as a figure moves between the
leaves.
An OWL HOOTS and flutters away.
Bone chilling GRUNTING is heard as heavy footsteps pace
restlessly through the underbrush.
EXT. DESERTED CEMETERY - NIGHT
The 4 door sedan pulls into an old and abandoned place of
eternal rest. Weeds have overgrown the plots and the cement
structures are decaying.
By the light of the moon and the lights from the car, the
car bumper forcefully pushes back a huge burial stone and
throws it onto the ground.
MOMENTS LATER
A WOODEN BOX is pulled from the spot and the dirt is brushed
off with a single leather glove.
A hand reaches into the box and pulls out some high-tech
looking machinery. A scanner, a cross bow, various size
guns and some grenades.
INT. CAMPER - NIGHT
Half the passengers are passed out. Lance is slowly nodding
off as he struggles to keep his eyes open.
Jenny is playing a video game of some monster tearing apart
a small community and she is the hero.
Brandy is applying makeup to her self as she looks in the
passenger The camper coasts down the road, slowly shifting
from side to side. The others are just passing a bong
around and munching on pizza.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - CONTINUOUS
The pickup truck barrels down the road. Heavy rock music
pipes from the radio as some workers cling themselves to
the side of the box while Jerry is driving and Hoss plays
air- guitar in the passenger seat.
Hoss cracks open a bottle of liquor, takes a swig and passes
it to Jerry.
Another car follows behind, packed with workers and swerving
back and forth across the road.
INT. CAMPER - NIGHT
Brandy shifts in her seat due to the camper traveling across
the lanes. She leans over and smacks Lance in the face. His
eyes spring open.
LANCE
What? What?
BRANDY
Like stay on the road loser. He
steadies the camper and looks at
her.
LANCE
No big thing. I didn't drive off a
mountain and nobody got killed.
BRANDY
Yet.
Zack steps up to the drivers chair.
ZACK
Wh-whe-wh-whe-where are w-w-w-we?
SARAH
Five miles to nowhere.
ZACK
Where's th-th-th-
LANCE
I don't know...but we're low on
fuel.
TROY
Well stop sometime bro, I got to
water the trees.
SARAH
Not out here. Hey...did you see
any signs of anything?
Troy opens a map and tries to scan the road, but looks lost
as his fingers trace all over the mountain range.
LANCE
Yeah, I saw dead people.
SARAH
Smart a*s.
ZACK
How man-n-nn-y
more-re-re...h-h-how long will it
take?
TROY
Yo, I think there's a gas station
up aways.
LANCE
Great. I need a break.
ZACK
I can-n-n-n dr-dr-dr-.
LANCE
Hopefully better than you can form
sentences.
Troy tries to refold the map, but as all people know ...it's
damn near impossible and he just ends up crumbling it
together.
JENNY
Lance ...you're so cruel.
SARAH
Hey Jenny...are there any more
pizza slices?
Jenny flips up a box, grabbing a slice, passing it to Sarah
as she continues playing her game.
JENNY
Yeah, there's a few left.
LANCE
Pass me one too.
Jenny shakes the game pad violently.
JENNY
S**t...1 just died.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - CONTINUOUS
The pickup truck and the crew of workers in the car are
racing side by side along the twisting and turning mountain
road.
Tight comers and steep grades make this a violently fun, but
treacherous piece of blacktop and loose gravel.
Jerry guns the gas and rockets like a bat from hell leaving
a cloud of dirt and loose gravel as the tires skim across
the dirt. He has disappeared into the night.
The car following behind is lost in the dense bushes.
Headlights light up only endless amounts of treetops and
shrubs.
The man behind the wheel is Parker and he is hell bent on
catching up with Jerry. He guns the gas and takes a swig of
his beer.
PARKER
Come on...come on. Faster you
piece of garbage.
RENNY
Come on. We've almost got him.
MORGAN
Slow down man. The brakes don't
work too good.
The small car twists and turns as the forest gets darker and
darker. Light bounces off the backwoods, but does not offer
any assistance in guidance.
Parker swings the car in a tight curve and it rockets over
the edge.
PARKER
Whoaaaaaa!!!!
Shiiiiiiiittttttt!!!!!
Rumbling down the rocky slopes the car channels it's way
through thick branches, tearing them from the tree trunks
and stripping away mirrors and pieces of metal.
SCHHHHHHRACCCCKKK
The windshield shatters as the roof crumbles like a tin pop
can. It lands in a tree, leaving it's engine where the
backseat should be.
To call this vehicle salvageable would be a desperate
attempt at making claim to re-use any portion of this car,
as it is now a twisted composure of metal and plastic.
The passengers inside the cabin become part of the frame as
their bodies are mangled in the twisted wreck.
Jerry is gone into the darkness, but somewhere below the
tree, something of magnificent force is racing through the
branches.
The car slips through the foliage and ends up further below,
still stuck in the tree. The thick branches barely able to
contain the weight of the car and it's dead passengers.
A door is partially open and the lifeless hand of a hard
working man drops out.
Blood runs down to his fingertips and drops among the
leaves. Renny has a tree branch lodged in his chest and
protrudes out the other side.
His eyes are full of pain as they are on the verge of
popping out his skull.
RENNY
Ohh s**t.
(beat)
Hey guys ...guys ...
Renny makes an attempt at opening the door and climbing out.
RENNY
OUch....ouch...
He gets a leg out the door and reaches for a branch as he
inches towards the tree.
Drip...drip...drip. A small puddle of red is forming on the
ground, thirty feet below.
A COUGAR scowls in the distance ...then suddenly as fast as
lightening, the man is yanked out of the car and dragged
through the forest as trees, branches and plants break away
while the body, void of any breath gets tossed and tom about
the jungle.
EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE GAS STATION - NIGHT
The camper rambles up to the small fuel station. The GAS
ATTENDANT, sitting in a swinging chair on the lawn,
listening to blaring music on the Walk-man, while brutally
destroying a song on guitar as he whacks the strings,
making no audible tune to the radio.
The camper stops in-front of the pumps. Lance steps out and
fidgets with the gas nozzle.
The Gas Attendant puts the guitar down, heads over to the
camper. The passengers file out, mulling about the grounds,
like weary people always do.
GAS ATTENDANT
Hey.
LANCE
WASSUP?
GAS ATTENDANT
Need gas?
LANCE
Howd ya guess?
GAS ATTENDANT
Right...
Lance pops the cover of the tank, slips in the hose and
grips the nozzle.
GAS ATTENDANT
That ain't gonna work.
LANCE
I know how to pump gas.
GAS ATTENDANT
Trust me...it ain't gonna work.
ZACK
Wh-wh-what d-d-d-do you mean?
Gas attendant lights a smoke, takes a deep breath, sets his
guitar down and grabs a bottle of whiskey, takes a huge
swig, swishes it around in his mouth and swallows it.
GAS ATTENDANT
Well...I don't get enough people
out this way...and well..! don't
get enough money ...and well.i.I
can't buy any gas ...and well, I
guess ...I can't sell any gas.
Sarah tears through the scene.
SARAH
F**k!!! How are we supposed to get
to the cabin now?
LANCE
No worries girl. We still have
just under a quarter tank, and I
got some in a container in the
back.
Brett steps closer.
BRETT
I thought you filled up when we
left.
LANCE
I did, but...it's a big a*s
vehicle ...and it burns big a*s
gas.
TROY
Well maybe we should fart in the
tank.
TINA
Oh my God, Troy, like that is
totally not funny.
Christy begs a smoke from the Gas Attendant.
CHRISTY
Hey Tina...didn't you say there
was a small town around here?
GAS ATTENDANT
Yeah...Schreiber. It's up about
another 2 hours.
SEAN
I don't feel like pushing the
camper tonight.
GAS ATTENDANT
No worries. It's just on the other
side of the Black Moon Mountain.
BRETT
So...let's go. We can make it with
what we have.
GAS ATTENDANT
But I don't recommend that you go
there tonight...that's all I'm
sayin.
SEAN
Yeah, why not?
GAS ATTENDANT
Trust me when I say this ...
He shoots them an ominous look.
TROY
Yeah, like some punk a*s white boy
from the sticks is gonna spook me.
GAS ATTENDANT
Listen Homie...G. ..bro ...or
whatever the f**k ya wanna call
yourself. I'm just giving ya a
warning...that's all. The 411 on
what's dope, yo. So ya all be
chillin and down with it - a
heads up so that your bling bling
hoes and Backstreet Boy wanna-be's
can mack out in your fly ride and
skim some whack a*s freaky s**t
tonight. OK Master P?
TROY
Man, I should bust this
m**********r up.
Troy gets in the attendant's face, about to drill his fist
into the man's skull.
A HUGE PITBULL (Jack Daniels) begins to snarl and runs up
behind Troy.
Troy jumps back and falls to the ground as the dog is
yanking the chain.
GAS ATTENDANT
Try it boy...
Brandy FREAKS out and clings to Sean.
The Gas Attendant holds the chain back as the dog lunges
towards them.
GAS ATTENDANT
Jack Daniels don't take kind to
rich city folk. Now I reckon
ya'all got two choices ...move
the hell out of my property
before Jack here eats an early
breakfast and drive on up the
road or meet your maker.
The Gas Attendant reaches for a nearby shotgun.
GAS ATTENDANT
I ain't shot my Betsy today and
it's high time I do so.
Sarah pulls Troy away.
SARAH
Come on guys ...let's go. The gang
turns to the camper.
TROY
Can you believe that foo?
Disrespecting me like that?
(turning
around)
TROY
You lucky ya got that dog with ya
is all I be sayin, ya backlot
inbred racist hillbilly, missin
tooth, freaky, goofy, greasy
haired Andy Griffith lookin,
whiskey drinkin, shotgun-totin,
low I.Q., Cabbage Patch Kids,
punk a*s country hick.
The Gas Attendant c***s the shotgun and fires into the air.
Brett pulls the nozzle from the tank, caps the tank and
they file in.
INT. CAMPER - NIGHT
Zack starts up the camper and pulls out of the station.
JENNY
Can we like leave already?
CHRISTY
Like hurry the f**k up?
SEAN
That dude seriously need to chill.
TROY
That m**********r need an
education past grade five and my
fist is gonna Mike Tyson his
skinny a*s.
CHAD
Easy Troy.
TROY
What the f**k man? What I do to
him? Nuthin...he's some backwater
chump trying to piss me off
CHAD
Yo dude...forget him. We came here
to have a good time right?
LANCE
Yeah...and nothing is gonna wreck
our night.
TINA
What an idiot...trying to scare
us, like we ain't seen horror
movies about kids in the woods.
TROY
B***h better shut his mouth is all
I be sayin.
CHRISTY
Like yeah...and like what's with
his clothes? They are so not
in...
JENNY
Yeah...it's like oh my god...like
not even Sears or Wal-mart. If I
ever see any of you wearing
something like that, I'll disown
you.
BRETT
Yo...check this out. I got us
hooked up.
LANCE
Ya been holding out on us all this
time? What's the f**k the matter
with you?
Brett opens a small metal container, pulls out a small bag
of WHITE POWDER and spreads it on a flat surface.
TINA
Brett, that is like totally what I
wanted..
BRETT
I done better than that Holmes. I
got us some lysergic acid
diethylamide too.
Brett peels open a small wrapped aluminum foil package and
begins clipping small pieces off
TINA
Is that...
Christy yanks a piece and shoves it in her mouth.
CHRISTY
It's LSD. Acid Tina.
TINA
Alright. It's gonna be one hell of
a wild time.
They all take a hit as Sarah cuts up some lines and rolls a
bill, snorting up the value of a stereo system
SARAH
Hey Christy ...try some.
Christy bends over the flake and hoovers up the equivalent
of a Gucci purse.
TINA
Christy...don't be a pig.
The party has started and is now becoming full swing as
white is traded through hands.
INT. / EXT. JERRY'S TRUCK - NIGHT
Jerry bullets through the road, charged by the blaring
music. Hoss cracks a can of beer, passing it to Jerry, who
for one moment takes his eyes off the road.
Through the windshield, the headlights bounce across the
landscape.
A large GRIZZLY BEAR stands in the middle of the road. Jerry
looks up just in time to make a somewhat calculated decision
and slam on the brakes.
The truck skids on the road and plows itself into the side
of the mountain.
Hoss sails through the windshield, tearing his limbs as he
lands headfirst into heavy rock.
The passengers in the back, well they are now part of the
rock formation too.
To actually describe their situation would take a team of
scientists and a creative department with a thesaurus.
Jerry smacks his head against the dashboard. Still
conscious, he struggles to push out the door.
The bear comes closer. A monster in it's own right. It
sniffs Jerry, who is undoubtedly pissing his pants to
maximum degree.
The bear lets out a fierce GROWL. It's the baron of this
mountain-side and it knows it. The bear walks around the
truck, sniffing at the carcasses that lie in various stages
of death.
You can almost feel it's claws. There is nothing that can
scare this beast. The bear comes within inches of Jerry,
who is a mess to indescribable proportions.
It stands up and it's paws stretched out, showing it's true
size...something so undoubtedly huge, only scary as s**t
could describe it.
Just as the bear is about to claw down on Jerry, a SCOWL so
fiercely loud echoes in the vastness. Something so blood
curdling, even the king-size trophy knows that it is no
match for whatever is out there. The bear sets off into the
woods.
The SOUND of broken bush, crushed branches. Words only begin
to describe this feeling.
Jerry looks up to see the bear run away. A moment passes and
all is silent.
Jerry pushes his way out of the mangles sheet metal and
slumps down onto the ground.
He crawls to his knees and takes a deep breath, turning
around only to have total fear in his eyes.
Fast as a lick, his head is lobbed off. It rolls across the
road and down an embankment.
A shadow rushes into the woods and moments later, all is
peaceful and serene.
Jerry's body is gone.
The scene is garishly grisly to say best. The only thing
that hasn't been destroyed is a small crate of EXPLOSIVES
in the back of the pick-up. Aside of that, this is a
nightmare to all proportions.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS
The camper thunders over the fragmented blacktop. It's a
bumpy ride and it's just getting worse.
INT. CAMPER - NIGHT
TINA
Awww...wow...the colors are so
wild.
SARAH
Yeah, it's like I'm this giant
ball of light and I'm just
dancing in the
SARAH
air and then there's like this
totally awesome spaceship.
BRANDY
Squares are bad...but circles are
good, they eat squares.
Their eyes are glazed over.
Lance is trying to explain the theory of Scooby-Doo
cartoons.
LANCE
So there is this dog...and
Shaggy...and the dog Scooby-Doo
knows that some nasty s**t is out
there from the go. Right?
BRETT
So then why do they always go to
different places if they know
that ghosts and goblins and
monsters are hanging around?
TROY
Is like whacked, you know. Like if
these 5 a******s always was messin
with monsters and stuff, why do
they still try to solve these
stupid mysteries.
JENNY
...and you know it's always the
grounds keeper.
ZACK
But I - I - I would f**k Daph -
Daph - Daphne.
SEAN
That chick Velma is like nasty man
... she's some ugly a*s dog. She
ain't ever gonna get laid and
Freddie ... he must be gay; cause
if I was always hangin round with
two white chicks who are always
jumping me and I ain't giving
them my dick...then ya know that
he's giving it to Shaggy. They
all are gay ... cause there's no
way that the girls aren't
pregnant yet.
SARAH
Hey, you morons, like quit talking
about them like that. It's not
nice to make fun of gay people...
TINA
Yeah...cause Sarah is like a
raving closet lezbo and it's not
like really cool to be making fun
of somebody we know and love who
likes to play with the home team.
Right Sarah?
Tina lifts up Sarah's t-shirt, licks Sarah's breasts.
TINA
It's ok girl...I also like chicks
too.
Suddenly the lights in the cabin die. The berth turns
silent. Troy flips on a few switches and has no luck.
TROY
The battery must be dead.
JENNY
Oh really. So are we.
ZACK
Zoinks.
SEAN
Does anybody have a flashlight?
Brandy tosses Sean a purse.
BRANDY
There's one in here.
Sean opens it and pulls out a dresser full of makeup and
sprays, spilling them on the floor.
TROY
Damn girl...did you rob the
make-up department at the W***e
Store?
JENNY
Hey...what ya doing with my purse?
Sean pulls out something long - about the size of a
flashlight.
SEAN
Found one.
(examining it)
Where's the on switch? There's a
small buzzing sound.
LANCE
Oh my god! Jenny...it isn't...
Jenny grabs the thing out of Sean's fingers.
BRANDY
You little s**t...Jenny, you're
such a w***e. Jenny slaps Brandy
across the face with a D***O.
BRETT
Catfight...awesome!
TROY
Maybe we can see some lezbo
action.
JENNY
You should be so lucky.
TINA
So did you ever hear that one time
about 5 years ago there was like a
whole bunch of people who were
like really brutally killed out
in the woods?
LANCE
Oh, Tina...you know you're no good
at story telling.
BRETT
Yeah, besides we ain't gonna
believe you.
EXT. CAMPER - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS
POPP!!! A front tire blows.
INT. CAMPER - NIGHT
Zack tires to maintain the steering as it yanks it's heavy
frame side to side.
This is unexpected and a novice driver can only try anything
that is possible.
Zack slams on the brakes. The camper spins around
180degrees, facing the way they were coming from The crew
is rattled about the interior cage. However due to their
state of consciousness, there is no big deal and instead of
the team being upset, it's merely a laughing matter to
explode this story into a joke at the next party.
ZACK
S-s-s-son of a b-b-bi-i-.
SEAN
M**********r! !
Sean, is baked... purple horseshoes; red balloons; blue
moons; orange and white stars; yellow and orange pots of
gold; pink, yellow, and blue rainbows.
This is Electric Lady Land, and everybody but Zack is taking
a trip with Jimi Hendrix and Purple Haze.
The crowd begins to laugh. Not only do visions of sugar
plums dance in their heads, but also the best time in their
life. All stoned in a world where nothing matters, but maybe
the Tin Man who can sing and dance.
Zack turns off the ignition.
SEAN
Zack. ..what happened?
ZACK
We blew a t-t-t-
The gang begins laughing uncontrollably.
Sarah lights up ja oint and drags, doing the honorable thing
and passing it around. This is cool. Hanging with friends,
getting high.
ZACK
We have to ch-ch-ch-change the
t-t-t- wheel.
SEAN
F**k that noise. What time is it?
Zack looks at his watch.
ZACK
It's almo-o-o-o-st one. Tina takes
a drag and steps up.
TINA
I have to go pee.
TROY
Yeah...me too.
Somehow this is hilarious and everybody breaks out into
giggles. Tina grabs a box of Kleenex and disappears out the
door.
SARAH
I'm coming too. Hold on.
Again...comedy at it's finest as the berth is exploded in
uncontrollable laughter.
LANCE
Wow man...I'm totally fucked up.
Oh, this is a riot. No comedian stands a chance to that bit
of creative dialogue.
They stand up. Heads spinning as they try to maintain
themselves. Purple flying monkeys must have invaded the
camper, because they are now just in a world that is made
up of cartoon characters.
EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
Tina rushes out of the camper, almost tripping as she exits.
It's dark...it's very dark.
The SOUND of crickets, owls, wind. The scary sounds of
nature.
Sarah steps up behind her. Tina SHRIEKS.
TINA
B***h, like... Oh my God, you
almost killed me.
Sarah just guffaws. Tina walks away.
SARAH
It's like totally dark out here.
TINA
Yeahhh.
Tina disappears into the bushes. Sarah stares in amazement
at the stars.
Spinning in a circle, with her arms outstretched.
Spinning...spinning...this is heaven and she is an angel.
Her eyes beam in astonishment. Her face has seen the most
amazing things ...or maybe it's just awesome drugs.
Troy steps out.
TROY
Hey baby...where you girls been?
SARAH
Troy, do you ever wonder what
lives on the other planets?
TROY
Sarah? You ok?
SARAH
Yeah...I just like wonder
sometimes if we are the only ones
or if there are like aliens or
monsters or something.
TROY
You gettin all Scooby - Doo on me
now?
Troy steps closer and stares at the sky with her. She grabs
his hand as he grasps her tight. Their eyes meet and their
lips follow.
What leads from that...well a short walk in the woods will
only tell.
INT. CAMPER - NIGHT
Zack turns on the visor lights and looks at the map. The
lights are dimming and then go out. There is an overuse of
power draining the battery.
SEAN
Aww s**t man. That's fucked.
Jenny lights a lighter and swings it around in the dark. A
trail or red and orange casts a sinister glow to
everything.
BRANDY
Jenny...Jenny...Princess Jenny
...you're like freaking me out.
It's a funny situation and all hell breaks loose.
BRANDY
It's totally not funny guys. It's
scary.
BRETT
Oooh so scary. Oooh I'm scared.
SEAN
Hum...lighten up Brandy.
Laughter ensues. The lighter zips around the interior making
wild streaks.
BRETT
Get it? Huh? Lighten up?
Oh...hilarious.
Zack rips the lighter from Jenny's hands.
CHRISTY
You all be trippin mad. This is
cool s**t.
Brandy stands up in a rush. Everybody backs away, stunned.
BRETT
What the f**k?
BRANDY
Did you hear that?
LANCE
What?
The cabin becomes quiet. Everybody is listening for
something.
BRANDY
That. Did you hear that? Everybody
eyes Brandy.
SEAN
Girl, you freaking me out.
CHRISTY
She must have bionic hearing or
something.
JENNY
I heard a pin drop in New York
City. Laughter ensues.
Zack digs around the camper.
ZACK
Do we have an-n-n-ny
ca-ca-candles?
Brett creeps up behind Brandy and lays his hands across her
waist, yanking down her pants.
BRETT
BOO!!!
Brandy freaks.
She quickly pulls them up. The rest just break out in
laughter.
BRANDY
Brett. I could kill you. You are
such a moron.
BRETT
Nice panties Brandy. You
know...black is my favorite
color.
The light of the flame goes out. Zack flicks the lighter to
no success.
BRETT
Wow, this is so wicked. Take a
look at the sparks.
ZACK
Does anybody else have a lighter?
They pat themselves down and scuffle across the camper.
BRANDY
Troy has one.
Brett sticks his head out of the door.
BRETT
Troy. Hey Troy. Get your ugly a*s
back here. We're lighting up
another stick. Come on bud, we
need your torch.
His words fall onto empty ears.
BRETT
We lost Troy ...and where the f**k
is ...
JENNY
Tina and Sarah?
BRANDY
Well Sarah and Troy ...you don't
even have to ask.
Tina? Maybe she's in the bushes, watching them
EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
Tina is deep in the dark. Her hands outstretched as she
stumbles around the trees, trying to control her footing
over tree stumps, logs and uneven dirt.
Mist appears with every breath exhaled. Her eyes are wide,
almost lifeless as her pupils dart from side to side.
TINA
Hey...can any of you hear me?
She spins around. Her world is in a daze. Colors flash
before her eyes. It's another world and it's closing in on
her.
Sounds are imploding her head. A RUSTLE of leaves.
She spins around and falls into a shallow hole. She grabs a
branch and pulls herself up.
SCRATCHING and SCRAPING.
She turns to see a MOUNTAIN LION.
She stares blankly at it for a moment. The eyes of the
animal pierce at her. Sharp teeth protrude from it's mouth.
She stands frozen. The mountain lion steps closer. Tina runs
like hell.
Swish, swash...branches rush by her as she swiftly maneuvers
her way through the ever encompassing forest.
It's evidently clear she knows the quickest path to nowhere
and that's exactly where she's headed.
Over logs, under branches ...if there is a path to be made,
Tina is burrowing it. The lion is merely only steps behind
her.
She runs as fast as she could and now she's running into
another timezone. She looks behind her. The mountain lion
is snatched up by it's tail and flung about.
A slice to the rib-cage and the mountain lion lets out a
deadly growl. No matter what speed and agility it has. The
lions last meal has just gotten away.
It's official. Tina is seconds to being the next dinner for
something that is viciously stripping the carcass of the
lion to shreds.
She does what any teenager should do in a situation like
this. She screams and draws attention to herself.
EYES as raging as a volcano bear down on her. She steps
backwards towards a waterfall.
It's a hundred foot drop into the treacherous raging waters
and the rocky cliff below.
She peers over her shoulder. Her feet mere inches from the
ledge. Trembling with fear and her mind totally fucked up,
she takes a step back, grabbing onto a branch.
LONG CLAWS strike against her face, narrowly missing her
model-like features.
She slips and drops down the mountain.
Her body dangles over the waterfall by hanging tightly onto
the thin branches.
Her hands slowly slipping from the 115pounds of flesh she
bares.
She breathes heavy. Any amount of shrieking is not helping
her either. She lodges her foot into a crevice in the rocks
and holds tight. The branch breaks in two.
The scary eyes back away and disappear into the dark. Tina
grabs for the edge of the cliff and slowly pulls herself
up.
Teetering on the edge of the cliff, she tumbles backwards
and disappears into the mist below.
A LOUD CRY fills the forest and the lion is dragged through
the leaves and out of sight.
INT./ EXT. CAMPER - NIGHT
The gang files out. Apparently as brilliant as they are,
nobody brings any sweaters.
JENNY
It's cold out here.
SEAN
No s**t. It's f****n freezing.
LANCE
Do you think we should look for
them?
SEAN
Are you kidding? You know what
happens in the movies when people
leave the crowd.
CHRISTY
Uhm Sean ...that's in the movies
and well...they're our friends
and well...we ain't got anything
else to do.
Brandy rushes inside and pulls out the box of pizza. She
slams the doors of the camper closed.
BRANDY
I'm gonna eat.
Sean grabs a slice from the box too.
SEAN
Did you guys ever hear about the
monster in the lake?
The gang look at him There is a rustle of leaves behind them
Everybody looks around. Nobody sees anything. Then there is
another rustle of leaves. Everybody remains quiet.
Brandy looks mortified.
Moments later a RABBIT comes hopping in-front of their path.
JENNY
See Brandy...that's all there is
out here ...rabbits.
BRETT
She's scared of a fuzzy wittle
bunny wabbit. Aww Bwandy. Is the
Easter bunny wabbit gonna hurt
you?
4.Whip Persnapper Brandy picks up the rabbit and pets it,
then it hops out of her arms and into the bushes again.
BRANDY
F**k you Brett.
Now more leaves and branches begin to rustle. This time it's
heavier and it isn't no bunny rabbit.
Everybody begins to get closer to each other with each
rustle ofleaves. Their eyes dart around the darkness. In
the distance, a WOLF HOWLS.
BRANDY
That ain't no Easter Bunny
a*****e.
The thing in the forest is closer. And it is silently
closing in on them all.
Brett tries with all his effort to open the door. But it is
sealed shut.
BRETT
I'm not staying out here. You are
all nuts. I'm going back inside
where it's safe.
A BABY DEER rushes across the road, briefly stops and looks
their way. Everybody laughs. The deer sprints into the
bushes.
BRANDY
Aww Brett...is Bambi gonna bite
your head off? Poor wittle deer.
So scary. So fwightening. Poor
poor wittle Brett. Maybe cookie
monster is corning to tewowize
the big bad fowest too.
Brett lets out a snicker. But now, there is major movement
in the bushes, and Sarah comes running out screaming.
JENNY
What's the matter?
Out ofbreath and panting, Sarah drops into Zack's arms.
She's soaked and covered in mud.
SARAH
Troy. It's Troy. He's ....he's
....he's Everybody is all anxious
now.
JENNY
What happened? What happened to
Troy? She pauses for a moment.
BRANDY
What happened girl? You're all
soaked. Are you hurt?
Sarah shakes her head negatively. Everybody waits for an
answer. She stares at them, wondering why.
SARAH
Nothing. He pushed me into a
swamp.
Troy steps out of the bushes.
TROY
I did not. You fell in. I didn't
push you. I tried to stop you.
SARAH
Whatever. Just get away.
Troy reaches out to her with open arms.
TROY
Aw come on girl. You can't treat
me like this. Sarah pushes him
away.
SARAH
Forget it. Don't touch me. Just
don't...
Everybody looks around.
TROY
Where's Tina?
JENNY
We thought she was with you.
SARAH
With us? Why?
CHRISTY
Oh f**k, I'm tripping bad. I got
to go inside. She turns to the
door.
SARAH
Yeah, me too. It's cold out here.
BRETT
We can't. Brandy locked the door.
BRANDY
Oh, yeah...blame me. I'm the cause
of everything.
Troy goes around the side and opens the drivers side door.
TROY
To think you'se, folks don't stand
a chance in the real world.
BRETT
Troy ...you got a lighter?
TROY
N***a, why you always depending on
me to save your skinny punk a*s?
Boy can't even open a door and
now he wants a torch?
BRETT
Well, I was just gonna light a
blunt.
TROY
Why didn't ya say?
Troy flips Brett his lighter. Brett lights a joint and
absorbs the flavor of the best weed that a teen can get.
TROY
So...where is Tina?
Troy pulls the spliff out of Brett's hands.
ZACK
We thought sh-sh-sh- T-T-Tina was
with you.
BRETT
P-p-p-porky P-p-p-pig. you are
cracking me up.
TROY
No, Tina? She be wishin she was
with me. Chick so nasty, this
brother don't want to touch her
with my neighbors dick.
BRETT
S**t...that's cause she don't want
a small toothpick dick like yours.
Lance walks out with a candle.
LANCE
Give me your torch.
Lance lights the candle, a huge flame the size of a chefs
knife sprays from the lighter.
BRETT
M**********r you gonna bum the
trees down with that.
LANCE
Stop trippin.
Then there is a LOUD CRACK in the woods. Everybody hears it.
TROY
What the f**k was that?
BRETT
N***a, how the f**k should I know?
This time there is more cracking and a strange yowl that
echoes in the forest.
TROY
Now that is some freaky s**t
man...that ain't right.
LANCE
We have to find Tina.
Troy rushes inside the camper. Hold on.
Troy comes running out with a GLOCK nine millimeter handgun
gripped tightly in his hands.
BRETT
M**********r...what you doing with
a piece?
TROY
N***a, I read Riding Hood. Ain't
no way that I'm going to the
forest to face a big bad wolf
without my Glock..
LANCE
You're one crazy n***a.
TROY
Yeah, we'll see about that when
I'm busting a cap in your a*s.
LANCE
You're too stoned to be shooting
that thing.
Jenny pops her head out of the camper.
SARAH
I'm going with Troy.
BRANDY
I think we should all stay here.
Jenny hops out the camper.
JENNY
No way I'm staying here.
ZACK
Yeah, J-J-J-Jen. I'mg-g-g-oing
with y-y-you.
BRETT
I think we should split up.
CHRISTY
No way. I saw Scooby-Doo. They
split up and all s**t broke
loose. When they stuck together
nothing happened.
Besides there's only one gun and nine of us.
Everybody gathers round the outside.
TROY
Yeah, see who is crazy now.
Everybody depends on me.
It's time to fight...time for the black man to rise into
power and be noted for providing and safeguarding all you
white privileged boys and girls.
They step deeper into the woods, calling out Tina's name.
EXT. FOREST - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS
Troy leads the group into the darkness. His gun arm is
stretched out, and he ducks between the trees like a sniper
in a bad television show. Lance is holding the candle. All
of a sudden there is a FLUTTER of wings above them Troy
fires a shot in the air. An OWL floats across the sky.
SARAH
Tina? Tina can you hear us?
JENNY
Tina! Tina where are you?
BRANDY
Tina...if you can hear us, say
something.
An animal races through the brush. Troy fires another shot.
BRETT
What was it?
BRANDY
I think it was Bambi.
The animal rushes around and makes more noise. Troy blasts
more shots into the dark.
SEAN
Troy, you're not hitting anything
and you're wasting all the ammo.
BRETT
Let's turn around. She's probably
near the camper. I bet she's near
the road waiting for us.
They look at each other then turn around again, heading
back. As Troy was first, now he is last and a few paces
behind everybody else.
SEAN
Man, I can't handle this. Not
tonight. I'm too stoned and too
cold and I wish that I was
driving.
ZACK
There's not-t-t-t-hing wrong
wi-t-t- th the way I drive.
BRETT
Come on girls...enough with the
bitching. Lance leads the way.
The candle-light begins to dim.
SARAH
S**t. We're gonna get lost here
too. The light goes out.
BRANDY
Who has the lighter?
LANCE
I do.
JENNY
Give it here. I have something in
my purse that I can use.
She bends down and picks up a thick branch, opens her purse
and pulls out HAIR-SPRAY. She sprays the branch, dousing it
with all she has left. Lance lights the torch, the branch
engulfs in fire.
LANCE
Truly Awesome. I am a God..J make
fire.
A RUSH of branches break above them. Everybody turns to
look. Troy is being lifted up towards the sky.
TROY
Help!!!!!!!!!!!! He struggles in
the dark.
TROY
Help me....
His voice trails into the blackness and the gun falls from
the sky, landing in-
front of the gang. It lands with a thud and discharges 3
shots which find there way through Sean and Brett.
Sean and Brett drop to the ground. Sean is bleeding from the
chest. Brett is clutching his way through the trees.
BRANDY
Oh my God...what was that?
Sarah rushes to pick Sean up. Sean begins choking.
JENNY
I'll help you.
Jenny lifts Sean up from the other side. Brandy picks up the
gun and fires madly into the night sky.
JENNY
Let's set him on this rock.
Sean lies across a boulder. Brett continues to grab onto
things and then with a missed step, slips into a cavern.
All that is heard is Brett's voice slowly drowning in the
distance.
BRETT
Shitttttttttt.
Brandy lights the burning log over the edge to see Brett at
the bottom of a foot drop. His face kissing the ground for
all it's worth as a log impales his chest.
BRANDY
F**k!!! I knew this wasn't a good
idea.
JENNY
Is he dead?
BRANDY
I don't know!
Jenny reaches over the edge.
JENNY
Brett ...Brett ...Brett.
No answer comes and none will. Brett is part of the
landscape.
SARAH
Get the gun. Who has the gun?
BRANDY
I do.
LANCE
Then let's get out of here. Give
me the gun.
BRANDY
Why?
LANCE
Because I know how to use it.
BRANDY
Yeah, who says?
ZACK
can't s-s-s-s-see an-n-n-n-thing.
It's t-t-t-too dar-k-k-k-k.
CHRISTY
I can't deal with this. Shut, shut
the f**k up ...all of you.
She pulls the gun from Lance's hands.
CHRISTY
My dad was a cop. He showed me how
to use it.
As they turn back to Sean, he is now barely breathing.
SEAN
I'm hit in the chest. I think..
Lance and Zack lift him up and struggle to carry him by his
legs and feet. His head bobbing up and down towards the
dirt.
SEAN
Easy you morons ...I'm still
alive.
Sarah lights another branch and gives it to Jenny. Two
torches guiding through the terrain.
Sarah points to a small cave.
SARAH
Come on. Let's go there.
Christy tugs Sarah back as be makes a run for the entrance.
CHRISTY
That could be a bear or a wolf
den.
BRANDY
So what are we gonna do? Leave him
here? CRUNCH-CRUNCH.
The sound of wood and twigs snapping. Whatever is behind
them is big, strong and very close.
Christy snaps the safety from the gun. She takes her
position behind a log as the noise gets louder.
Zack, Sarah, Brandy, Sean, Jenny, Lance climb into the cave.
Christy pulls the gun to line up the sights. There is no way
she can miss now.
She has dead aim and she is steadfast to take this beast
down. A BEAR rushes towards them.
Christy pulls the trigger. There is a SMACKING of BARE
METAL. The gun is empty.
Christy tries again. No luck. The bear is in need of
adventure and maybe a new pair of shoes too. Christy tries
to run. It grabs her and holds her down.
A claw to her chest and her new shirt has suddenly become
out of fashion. Blood sprays across her clothes as her new
friend is finding ways to move in on this luscious little
young thing.
The bear heads towards the cave.
Sarah waves the flame towards the bear. Brandy tries pulling
Sarah back inside.
BRANDY
Don't. You're gonna piss him off.
SARAH
I think he's already pissed off.
Besides ...he hasn't seen me mad
yet.
Sarah jumps out of the cave. She swings the flame wildly at
the bear who jumps from side to side, avoiding the fire.
This continues for what seems to be an eternity. The bear
backs away as she comes nearer and then runs into the dense
forest.
SARAH
That's right you scared piece of
s**t. Run.
Sarah bends down to tend to Jenny, who is beyond medical
repair, at least out here.
She does her best at holding it in, then lets out as much
vomit as she can muster.
The rest of the gang are trying to keep themselves from
heaving. After stepping away from Jenny, she turns to face
her friends.
BRANDY
You were..wow. Wow. Let's get out
of here.
Sarah wipes her mouth and then steps towards the cave. She
takes a deep breath and then...
WHOOSH...
the only thing left that is a reminder ofher is the falling
log and a shoe that sails from the darkness.
INT. CAVE- NIGHT
Panic is evident and spreads among the members in the cave.
BRANDY
What is that?
Lance creeps his head out.
LANCE
I don't know...but we have to get
out of here.
JENNY
I don't want to leave. I'm scared.
LANCE
Me too. But now is not the time to
show weakness.
JENNY
F**k you Lance. I just saw my best
friends disappear and get killed.
F**k you. I am not leaving.
Lance reaches over and picks up the burning log.
LANCE
Well I'm going and if you want to
come, then you can come.
BRANDY
Don't you care? Don't you give a
s**t about us?
LANCE
Yes. I do, but I am not going to
stay here and freeze to death
while I can try to make the way
back to our camper, which is on a
road...where somebody can come by
and see us.
Lance sets another log on fire and tosses it in the cave.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - NIGHT
A grey 4 DOOR SEDAN barrels up the roadway. There is no
speed limit for this driver.
Through the twisting and turning hairpin turns, DAMIAN (35)
the husky person who was briefly shown in the news report
charges up the mountain side. This man means business,
whatever that may be.
INT. DAMIAN'S CAR - NIGHT
A look of weariness stretches across his face. A high-tech
handgun with a xenon laser sight mounted on the breach lies
next to him on the seat. Empty burger wrappers and cups
decorate the interior.
Damian opens a box containing bullets that resemble small
nuclear missiles.
Each one has the power of a small army.
He checks the gun chamber, popping the clip and drops
another set of bullets in the clip.
He flips on the car lights and grabs a map, glancing at it.
In the backseat, we see all sorts of weaponry. It looks like
some cartoon style gadgets, but can easily take out a troop
of whatever is up for the challenge.
EXT. 24 HOUR ROADSIDE DINER- NIGHT
A handful of transport trucks bum diesel while the drivers
seat themselves inside the diner.
Another quiet night for SHERIFF GREYSTONE.(42) If the
pressures of drinking coffee and eating sandwiches is not
hard enough, he also has to sit inside his patrol car and
watch the emptiness and the excitement of the occasional
truck driver who challenges the rough and rocky terrain at
such an hour.
Sheriff GREYSTONE pulls away from the diner, fresh cup of
double-double in his hand.
Out of the darkness, BRIGHT headlights pierce their way
through the blackness and no way in hell are they stopping.
The grey sedan flies by. Sheriff GREYSTONE throws his coffee
out the window after burning himself.
He switches on his siren and prepares for battle and maybe a
promotion.
Red and blue fills the void. The shrill sound of the wailing
siren. In a city, this may seem like everyday life...but out
here, it's a nice change of pace.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS
There are two cars, rocketing down a road where nobody
should be going faster than their grandma can drive.
Damian makes no attempt at stopping.
Pedal to the metal and the driving skills of a racing video
game addict. No turn is too sharp, no move is too hard.
Another winding turn at pulse racing speed. The cars
overdrive their headlights.
Damian slams on the breaks. The car skids and spins and with
tires tearing apart the road, his car slams into the camper.
BOOOOMMMM!!! Shattered glass sprays everywhere.
The car spins around and comes to a resting stop inches from
the ledge of the mountain.
Even the best insurance coverage will deny this claim
Sheriff Greystone arrives moments later, maintaining as
much control over the car as he can.
A skid to the right, a skid to the left. Loose gravel ensure
that this car also has the same claims for the insurance
agents. Nobody is spared tonight. Red and blue dance off
the reflected fragments of glass.
All is silent now. There is no movement from any car.
EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
Lance, Jenny and Brandy turn their heads to each other.
BRANDY
Did you hear that? That sounded
like a patrol car.
LANCE
It sounded like a car accident.
JENNY
It was.
Lance rushes through the trees.
LANCE
I'm gonna find where that came
from.
BRANDY
Don't leave us here Lance. Lance
... Lance turns back.
LANCE
Don't worry ...1'11 be .....
Lance is picked up in the air. His head facing the ground as
his arms dangle about wildly swinging the burning log at his
captor.
Up-up up he goes ...until WHACK, his face hits a tree branch
and slices it to shreds.
All that's left of his presence is the falling burning log,
which lands with a thud as it hits the ground.
Brandy goes to pick it up, but now there are TWO FLYING
CREATURES. Something that looks like a HUGE VULTURE, but
MUCH more frightening.
These are PREHISTORIC DRAGONS, Pterodactyls. With a wingspan
of feet wide.
Zack grabs a long branch and swings it wildly.
ZACK
DIE M**********R! ALL OF YOU!
The two monsters begin to attack each other. Fighting for
which one deserves the first meal.
Zack grabs Brandy by her arm and yanks her out of the
battlefield.
ZACK
We're going...now.
BRANDY
What about Sean?
They look back. Another winged creature is pecking at the
remains of Sean.
They look to each other and know that there is no need to
ask about him again.
Jenny grabs the burning log and violently swings towards the
drooling, Cretaceous period demons.
JENNY
This way to the road.
She starts tearing through the brush. The ear piercing
shrieks dominate the airwaves.
Over logs, under bushes, through branches. Whatever chance
of having these clothes for another day, well even the
poorest of the poor will find these of no value.
Every leaf is now a weapon as they bullet through the
timberland. Shaving cuts look like carefully placed nicks
and bruises when compared to all the branches that go
whipping across their bodies.
Brandy trips over a log. Zack runs back to pick her up.
Moonlight glimmers between the bushes.
Shadows loom between the trees.
They come upon an open area. A rocky slope to a body of
water. Zack pulls Jenny back a fraction before she is about
to meet the fast way to the bottom
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - NIGHT
Damian shakes himself awake. His looks like he's a human
disco ball as broken glass covers him He tries for the
door, but it is mashed like a tin can.
He grabs his gun from the floor and a box of cartridges,
putting the shells in his overcoat.
CACCCCKKKKK!! !
CACCCCKKKKK!! !
The high pitched shrill of evil squeaks through the air. He
looks up ...nothing.
The flickering light of the police car dances off the
twisted metal.
CACCCCKKKK!! !
Another shrill, but nothing in site.
Damian begins to scout the area. Gun in hand and laser scope
marking out territory.
WHOOSH!!! A winged predator above. Damian points to the sky,
but it is gone.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE Freeze right where you are.
Damian moves to turn around. A gunshot blasts through the
night.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
I said FREEZE!!!
Damian stays still. Facing away from Sheriff Greystone, his
gun zeroed in on Damian.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
You take one more move and I'll
blast a hole in you the size of
Texas.
Damian remains motionless as Sheriff Greystone keeps his gun
trained on his target.
DAMIAN
You don't understand.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
I told you to shut the f**k up!
DAMIAN
Actually, you told me to freeze.
Sheriff Greystone slowly steps closer and as he nears
Damian, grabs his nights tick.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE Put the weapon down...slowly. Damian
doesn't move.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Try anything brave and you'll find
out where Dallas will be.
Damian slowly releases his gun.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Now, kick it away ...that's
right...away.
(beat)
Now...on your knees.
Damian slowly begins to kneel. Sheriff Greystone whacks his
night-stick against Damian's legs, giving him an easier
way.
DAMIAN
S**t!
SHERIFF GREYSTONE Shut your mouth boy!
Sheriff Greystone whacks him again with the nightstick.
DAMIAN
Ugh...
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
That's what you get when you
disrespect the law in my
district.
DAMIAN
You have to listen to me. There
are flying dinosaurs.
Sheriff Greystone laughs with an irritated chuckle. Now he's
heard everything.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Do I look stupid; a*****e? Do you
think I became Sheriff because I
was stupid?
DAMIAN
Protarchaeopteryx.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
What the what?
Damian begins to turn over. Sheriff fires a shot into the
ground, kicking up dirt inches from Damian's ear.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
You tone deaf son? I said...stay
the hell where I put you and
don't you make a Goddamn move.
Sheriff Greystone buries his knee in Damian's back.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Now, I can still hear the story
about the flying dinosaurs from
here ...but you stay the f**k
down, before I put you down, and
this time I won't miss.
Damian eases off as Sheriff Greystone backs away, gun
pointed at his back.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Now, I'm gonna back away nice and
slow...and you...you're gonna
stay just the way you are.
Kissing the dirt like it's your
new girlfriend.
DAMIAN
I am telling you the truth.
(beat)
There are flying dinosaurs.
Protarchaeopteryx Sheriff starts
laughing.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
I guess Santa Claus and the Easter
Bunny exist too.
DAMIAN
I'm serious. I'm a paleontologist.
Sheriff Greystone begins to undo his handcuffs.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Goodness sakes son. If I wanted to
hear fairy tales I would have
visited my grand-kids ...if I had
any.
DAMIAN
Yeah...well you might never have
that opportunity.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Oh, I highly doubt that. I think
it's you who would miss that
chance. As you are looking at a
good fifteen years.
Damian slowly inches his way forward towards his weapons.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
I ran the plates and the car was
stolen. Not only that but, your
description in my office today
leads me to believe that you are
a dangerous offender.
Damian snaps his gun from the ground, rolls and springs up
to his feet.
DAMIAN
You have no idea how dangerous.
Sheriff Greystone sets to fire his gun, but Damian kicks it
out of his hand and it lands several feet away.
DAMIAN
Now...it's my turn.
Damian swiftly aims his laser point blank between Sheriff
Greystone's eyes.
DAMIAN
There are things in this world
that you don't understand and I
don't have time to teach you.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
I'm listening.
DAMIAN
Good. Then shut your mouth and
open your eyes and listen to
everything I tell you...or you
will find out where Houston goes.
Got it? Sheriff Greystone nods his
head.
Damian backs away.
DAMIAN
There are flying lizards ...and
they are in this area.
Damian slowly goes to pick up the Sheriffs gun.
DAMIAN
They were discovered in beds of
limestone' near the Bavarian town
of Pappenheim in 1861.
At least one record was made...then. Sheriff Greystone nods
his head.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Yeah..I understand now.
Damian picks up the gun, locks the safety and puts it in his
waist.
DAMIAN
Then...whomever was fortunate
enough to get a closer look also
got too close.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
I see.
DAMIAN
Are you with me so far?
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Yes...sure, flying monsters in
Germany. So mister
scientist...why are you trying to
kill them? Why aren't you trying
to save them and put them in a
box and bring them to the mall
and show all the little kiddies?
Maybe save the Loch Ness Monster
too?
Damian steps close to Sheriff Greystone and pulls his night-
stick away.
DAMIAN
You don't believe me at all...do
you?
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Uhm...no.
DAMIAN
Some migrated here. Blasting the
mountains brought them back out.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE Oh....kay.
DAMIAN
And they hid ...over time in the
mountains, where population was
DAMIAN
scarce. They survived on wild
animals to feed on.
Damian makes his way slowly to the grey sedan and pulls out
some gear, while keeping his weapon trained on Sheriff
Greys tone.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
But why didn't we see them before?
DAMIAN
You're a cop. You should know what
happens when you seek out the scum
They run, they hide but now they
have come out again...they want a
new menu.
Damian pulls the crossbow out from the back and hands it to
Sheriff Greystone.
DAMIAN
You know how to use one of these?
Sheriff Greystone nods his head.
DAMIAN
Then make sure I don't find you
aiming it at me.
Damian turns his back for a moment...waiting to see what
would happen. Sheriff Greystone takes aim at the back of
Damian's head.
DAMIAN
I figured that much.
Damian spins around and bashes Sheriff Greystone in the face
with his fist.
Sheriff Greystone tumbles backwards. Damian catches him.
DAMIAN
Now...I'm going to give you a
second chance.
EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
Zack, Jenny and Brandy are at their worst decision in their
life. Do they jump into the water below or try to outrun
the flying raptors?
JENNY
What are we gonna do?
BRANDY
Pray...pray...really f****n hard.
ZACK
I'm gonna jump. I think we should
jump. Jenny stares at Zack in
amazement.
JENNY
I don't believe it.
BRANDY
What? What? What?
Brandy looks about, not knowing what to expect. Jenny
pauses.
JENNY
He lost his stutter.
There is silence now. A deadly silence which can be either a
good thing or a bad thing, but whatever it is ...even the
SOUND OF A BIRD FEATHER FALLING TO EARTH IS STILL TOO
F*****G
loud.
It's just the movement of their eyes asking the
question...are they gone? They stand motionless, an eternal
moment in time.
Then Brandy does a truly awful thing. She exhales.
ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.
Trees fall to the ground. Dozens of horrific winged serpents
soar across the sky. Screeching so insanely high.
Brandy goes to jump off the cliff to the raging waters
below. She takes a running leap and is now part of space.
ZOOOM...winged devils scavenge her body, tearing it limb
from limb.A gruesome site if there ever was one.
Out of nowhere comes a GUNSHOT.
The demons retreat into mid-air, flying in circles. Beams of
light dance throughout the trees.
BLAMMM!!!
Another shot is heard and a winged monster dives toward
earth.
This time a BURNING FLAME is rocketing through the clouds.
It takes down a demon-
spawn and ends up smashing into a tree nearby Zack and
Jenny.
A desperate cry emanates from it's dying vocal cords.
JENNY
I'm leaving !
No second thought is required.
As they pass the monster, it strikes it's claws out.
ZACK
I knew I should have stayed home.
JENNY
I can't take this any more...my
f*****g head is going to explode.
I'm starting to see s**t.
The acid trip is very intense now and well this ain't making
things any better.
Jenny gives a frightful scream unheard by human ears.
Another dragon creature swishes right beside her. It's eyes
looking to make her the next meal.
BOOOMMM.
Sheriff Greystone blasts a high-powered bullet right between
the eyes of the beast.
Not a second later, it's head explodes. And you thought you
had problems.
Rapid gunfire reverberates in the lushness. Machine-gun
style. Zack and Jenny race through the trees. Her head is
still in another dimension...but maybe she fits in
perfectly.
Something grabs here arm and drags her into the brush.
ZACK
JENNY!!!
There is no words to explain her terror. In-fact terror is
still too soft of a word.
She slides down an embankment, gripping at shrubbery as it
tears away. A flying thing swings by and picks herup by
it's claws.
JENNY
ZACK!!!
Maybe watching the neighbors kids on a Saturday night isn't
so bad any longer...compared to the alternative.
She is now part of the clouds.
Her screams fill the forest. It's the only thing you can
hear for miles around.
EXT. SKY - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS.
Jenny has a world class view of the mountains and streams.
Unfortunately, it may be her las t.
She wriggles and wriggles until finally, the claws of the
thing release her.
Her belt breaks away from it's grip and now she is sailing
downwards towards earth ...just like a sky-jumper...but she
has worse problems. She doesn't have a parachute.
ZZZHHAAAAMMM
She clips onto a piece of leathery
flesh, tearing it partially off an
attacking thing.
Maybe it's fortune or bad luck, but whatever it is, she has
first hand opportunity to know what it's like hanging
around the neck of one of these things.
It swoops around and skimming above the trees.
And if things couldn't get worse...she is in high demand.
Fay Wray had it easy with just an enormous ape monster who
loved her...this chick has 2, but they are looking for
dinner now.
Her involuntary airline of choice swings close to the lake.
She lets go and . .
JUmps ill.
EXT. LAKE - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS
A drop of30 feet is fun, but 100feet is even less fun
...especially when the ravaging waters can sweep you into
another part of next week.
She lands with a splash as high as a house.
And sinks below the waves.
Moments later she appears again...her lifeless body being
carried away by the strong current.
EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
Damian holds his high powered gun in hand. Red beam of light
dancing across the skyline as vicious attackers bear down
from various angles.
KABOOM...a shot rings out. The birds of Hades scatter.
Zack runs towards Damian.
ZACK
Who the f**k are you?
DAMIAN
Your new boss.
ZACK
What the hell are those?
DAMIAN
Unhappy customers.
Zack looks around in massive confusion. Damian tosses him a
piece of weaponry.
DAMIAN
You ever play Space Invaders?
ZACK
Yeah...but I wasn't good at it.
DAMIAN
Well now you'll be better.
Zack grabs the weapon and pulls on various features, the
barrel aiming towards Damian.
Damian swings the piece of destruction away from him
ZACK
What do I do with it?
DAMIAN
You don't point it at me.
Zack fires a random shot in the air. A fireball bursts out
of the nozzle and buries it's way into the heart and guts
of purgatory.
The creature swings about madly and heads straight towards
Zack. Damian pulls him out of the way as it drops right
were he was standing.
DAMIAN
You can't be that bad at Space
Invaders. The birds of disaster
flyaway.
Now that a moment of peace has finally come, it's time for a
deep breath.
Sheriff Greystone is under dire urge to say
something...anything...it's like if he can't say it, he may
as well blow up.
His eyes dart around insure of what to do or say.
DAMIAN
What?
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Listen there ahhh stranger. About
that little thing ...earlier.
(beat)
Well that was just a
misunderstanding.
DAMIAN
Yeah. It usually is.
They make their way through the dense brush. Sheriff
Greystone leading the way with his flashlight.
DAMIAN
What time it is?
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Why do you care at a time like
this?
DAMIAN
I lost my watch somewhere.
Sheriff Greystone looks at his watch.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Almost 4am Damian stops in his
tracks.
DAMIAN
That doesn't leave us much time.
ZACK
For what?
DAMIAN
For killing the competition. They
hide in the mountains in daytime.
ZACK
Yeah, well I'm out of the alien
killing business. I wanna get
home and I wanna get home right
now!
Damian stops him in his path.
DAMIAN
No can do kid.
ZACK
And why the f**k not? Can you
imagine what I've been through
tonight? I've seen my buddies
ripped to shreds.
My best friends become some god awful beasts f****n meal.
(BEAT)
There is no way that I wanna stick
to this. I can't take no more. I
wanna get the f**k out of here
and I wanna get the f**k home.
Zack rushes out of the bushes, facing the road.
Damian follows after him, Sheriff Greystone holds him back.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - NIGHT
Zack races over to the smashed up camper. Pulls at the door
and collapses. He begins to cry. Sheriff Greystone heads
over and picks him up, leading him to a place to sit.
He goes to his smashed up police car and pulls out the
sandwich, offering it to Zack.
Damian steps closer.
DAMIAN
You can't leave. You're part of
it.
ZACK
Go to hell.
DAMIAN
I've been there ...on more than
one occasion.
ZACK
Fuckyou.
Sheriff Greystone steps in.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Leave the kid alone? He's been
through a terrifying ordeal.
DAMIAN
Yeah, I know. I know what it's
like. I faced it many times.
Zack looks up.
DAMIAN
I've seen it the first time when I
was in Europe, back when my
parents were vacationing in the
Alps. They went there for a work
related vacation..they were
biologists doing a study for the
University. Some vacation that
was.
Damian pulls out a tattered and tom photo from his jacket
ofhis parents, hands it to Zack.
CD. ON PHOTO
It's a happy family picture with
mom and dad and a 14year old
Damian posed in-front of a snow
crested mountain.
DAMIAN
Police and rescue found me 4 days
later, wandering the mountain
range. Hungry, very confused and
stuck in a foreign country where
I had no idea of the language.
(beat)
Those things devoured my parents,
and well I guess it made my
childhood experience a little
unpleasant.
He pulls the photo back, sticking it in his jacket.
DAMIAN
Some birthday that was. I told
them we should have gone to
Florida.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Why don't you give the kid a
break?
DAMIAN
He survived this long ...he's got
the guts to go longer.
ZACK
And what makes you think I want
to? Damian hands him his rifle.
DAMIAN
The same thing that makes me think
that you know how to use this.
Zack takes it in his hands, the power of such a weapon in
his control changes his entire concept of things.
He wipes his eyes, then flips a switch on the gun, a
flickering red light at the top of the barrel assures that
the weapon is loaded and ready for use.
DAMIAN
They took away your friends.
You're gonna take away their
entire f*****g race.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
How's that for street justice?
ZACK
So...what are they?
Damian searches for an easy answer.
DAMIAN
I call em Whippersnappers.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE What the f**k does that mean?
ZACK
Whippersnappers?
DAMIAN
Pterodactylus. Are-breed of the
Pterodactyl flying dinosaur.
DAMIAN
They killed my parents, my
coworkers and...my wife.
Zack is wildly trying to understand this.
ZACK
What are we gonna do? Damian lets
out a sinister smile.
DAMIAN
Give them a small town welcome.
MONTAGE
Damian unloads all the gear from
the car. Guns are pieced
together.
Zack straps on some gear. Sheriff Greys tone c***s a
shotgun. Shells are placed in guns.
Grenades are clipped on belts. Lasers are spotted for
accuracy.
Damian polishes a large knife and slips it into a sheath.
Lastly, Damian tosses them some hamburgers, which they
consume as they tinker with fmal adjustments.
EXT. MOUTAIN ROAD - DAWN
The stars in the sky slowly give way to a breaking light.
But it is still dark enough to be considered dark..and in
these mountains ...it's still ten times as bad.
They walk down the road, armed to the teeth. Flashlights
providing a shadowing effect.
Damian holds a scanner, almost like a fish-finder.
DAMIAN
This way.
He leads them into the forest again.
EXT. FOREST - DAWN
No change from the rest of the forest. It's thick, it's cold
and tonight...it's hell.
ZACK
What is that?
Damian scans the area as a series of digital graphs display
on the screen.
DAMIAN
It's a geo-thermal polarity
scanner.
ZACK
What does that thing do?
DAMIAN
Give you bad news.
EXT. SWINGING BRIDGE - DAWN
Through the maze of trees, they come upon a long bridge and
very carefully step on. 2 inches of timber separate them
from the ground and raging water far below.
A gust of wind blows the bridge from side to side. It's a
long, long shaky walk to the other side.
The bay sparkles 300 meters below them They grip to the
handrail tightly as they inch their way across.
EXT. CLIFF - LATER
They head towards a large area of rock, stop and look up.
Damian begins to grip the rock and lodges his foot an open
spot.
DAMIAN
Careful with your footing. This is
sharp, so watch yourself.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
We're gonna climb this?
Damian nods.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
I can't. I can't do it. I'm scared
of heights. I won't.
Damian nods.
DAMIAN
That's fine. Me and what's his
name will go up.
(beat)
What's your name kid?
ZACK
Zack Daniels
DAMIAN
Damian. Nick Damian.
They begin to climb the large rocks. Sheriff Greystone looks
around. He's stuck by himself and he's scared as s**t.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
Hey, you know..J don't want you
both to go without me, just in
case you might need somebody to
hold your gun.
Sheriff Greystone makes his way up the rocks.
On a regular camping trip, this would seem hard enough, but
now carrying artillery for extinction of a civilization,
it's much more challenging. Moments pass and the sun is
rising faster.
There are still stars in the sky, but now we know that in a
matter of time, the night time is over.
More rocks and more of a challenge awaits them but there is
hope...or despair, depending on your point of view.
A cave opening bares the evidence to the winged monster's
lair.
INT. CAVE - DAWN - CONTINUOUS
Dead carcasses from various animals lie scattered at the
entrance, greeting any brave visitor and Jehovah Witness
magazine distributors.
DAMIAN
We're here.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE Oh, great...
They look around carefully. Damian flips a switch on his
light. A bright MILLION CANDLE FLASHLIGHT lights their way.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE (CONT'D)
That looks like a bear...
ZACK
Why didn't you use that light
before?
DAMIAN
Draws too much power from the
battery ...and in here, it's
much, much worse than out there.
Nobody needs to actually ask why. A questionable look does
it for them
DAMIAN
We're invading their home. We're
the burglars ...and their alarm
system is their entire f****n
bloodline.
Damian nods a ARE YOUR READY TO KICK A*S look.
EXT. WATERS EDGE - DAWN
Jenny wearily makes her way through the rough water to the
edge of the riverbank. Soaked to the bone, her body looks
like Mike Tyson used her for a punching bag.
She skittishly crawls to her feet and makes her way up the
rocks. Looking around frightfully, twitching from
delusions, she does the best she can as she treads through
the woods.
INT. CAVE - DAWN
Damian, Zack and Sheriff tread cautiously through the maze
of hollowed out stone.
Water runs down the limestone rock forming long streams.
Slime covers the walls.
They splash through the ankle deep murky water. Zack sniffs
the air, almost heaves.
ZACK
What's that awful stench?
DAMIAN
Guano.
ZACK
Mexican food?
Sheriff Greystone steps into a crevice.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
(screaming)
It's got me....the dinosaur's got
my leg.
He pulls his gun and fires several shots into the turbid
pool ofwater. The shots awaken hundreds of bats. It's a
f****n catastrophe as bats fly about everywhere.
From the left...bats - from the right...bats. They duck and
swing violently at the winged rodents.
After the bats eventual disperse, Damian pulls Sheriff
Greystone from the crack.
DAMIAN
Don't you ever...ever...ever...
The trails of limestone become narrow and winding in many
paths.
DAMIAN
Which way?
SHERIFF GREYSTONE How should I know?
They slowly creep into a large section of the cave, taking
tiny footsteps.
Damian peers over a formed peak of limestone, then quickly
shuts of the high- powered light.
A large winged beast jumps right in-front of him.
Damian pulls a gun, but the raptor snatches it from his
hands. Sheriff Greystone pumps the shotgun and blasts a
bowling ball size hole through the wing.
Now the zone is swarming with nasty hellish looking beasts.
Everybody opens fire. This is Vietnam times 30.
Gunfire spews out from every barrel. Every turn brings a new
terror.
Shell casings sail out of the guns littering the floor.
Pieces of limestone blow apart.
A reptile crawls behind Sheriff Greystone. It's HUGE and
hungry. He turns to shoot. The monster snaps off his
shotgun and swallows it. Sheriff Greystone reaches for a
grenade and pulls the pin.
A chunk of limestone blows apart in-front of his face and
tears open his face.
DAMIAN
Look out.
Damian fires throngs of rounds in every direction.
TING. TING. TING. Casings land all over the ground. Blood
splatters everywhere.
SHERIFF GREYSTONE
S**t...here comes another one!
Damian pulls a knife as Zack unloads more rounds into the
beasts and into the million year old stone valley.
Stone blows everywhere.
SHRIEKS fill the cavern.
Zack pulls another clip, loads it into his gun as quick as
he can. He pulls the clip and takes aim The gun misfires.
He tries again.
The gun misfires again. He tosses that aside and grabs a new
piece of weaponry.
Two monsters scope in on Zack as he tries to work his new
tool. Damian pulls his knife and whips it towards a
monster. It lands in one eye.
The beast cries in pain and flaps it's wings wildly while
clawing at anything it can.
Sheriff Greystone pulls another piece, lets off a few more
rounds before one flies above him and with a swift
maneuver, snaps off his arm. Damian and Zack run for cover
as Sheriff Greystone unleashes ammo with his last few
breaths.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAWN
Jenny comes upon the pick-up truck, sees the monstrosity.
She walks around in a haze, frightened as only one can be.
She sees the bottle of alcohol and jerks it out, taking a
huge swig as it bubbles out her mouth and down her shirt.
Sorting through the dead bodies she finds a CELLULAR PHONE.
She flips it on and begins punching random numbers in a
panic.
JENNY
Please...somebody pickup.
Please...anybody. Please...is
anybody there? Can anybody hear
me? Somebody...
No signal is available. She tries again and again. No luck.
JENNY(CONT'D)
S**t! S**T! S**T!! S**T!!!
Walking around the truck see eyes a crate with the words
"DYNAMITE" in big bold letters.
GUNFIRE ECHOES across the forest.
She makes her way to the back of the truck and taking a
piece of steel, cracks open the box of explosives.
More gunfire ..short rapid bursts.
Grabbing a handful of sticks, she quickly heads off. Her
head spins towards the direction of the gunfire.
EXT. WOODS - DAWN
She runs through the trees towards the swinging bridge.
EXT. SWINGING BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS
The sun is up.
Jenny stops at the bridge and peeks down. It's a scary view,
but she has seen worse.
She runs across the bridge as fast as she can. Her motion
sends the bridge swaying back and forth.
Her foot steps onto rotten slab of wood and it breaks away.
The wood sails to earth as her leg busts through and she
slams backwards on the walkway.
A stick of dynamite falls from her hands and sails towards
the rocks below.
BOOOOOOM!!!!
The stick sends up a cloud of stone, sticks, water and dust.
The sound echoes through the land.
She struggles to make her way up again as another stick
slips out of her hands.
It rolls across the wood walkway and she stretches to grab
it. Her fingers are just inches away ...reaching - barely
touching.
She brushes the stick of dynamite with her finger. It rolls
back and forth with the movement of the bridge.
Just as she is about to grab it, It falls over the edge. It
sails silently in the air...then BOOOMMMM.
The eruption sends up more dirt and stone, but now it has
loosened the mounts for the bridge.
Birds scatter from the trees and cover the sky. The wire of
the bridge posts begins to unravel.
ZIIINGGG.
Wire snaps.
Wood breaks. Another piece of history is disappearing right
below her feet.
She crawls up and runs ...the soles of her shoes almost on
melting from fear.
Every inch of bridge behind her is vanishing.
There is no looking back.
Wire whips about as wood floats to the bottom of the picture
postcard panorama.
She clears the bridge with a fraction of a second to spare.
The bridge is gone and she is buried in the bushes as the
last stretch of wire unwinds and tears a branch only inches
from her.
She crawls to her feet, tears off her T-shirt, picks up the
dynamite and wraps them in the shirt.
INT. CAVE - CONTINUOUS
Bullets and grenades tear apart monsters and indigenous
monumental rock formation.
Zack and Damian blast away as fast as they can. Nothing
seems to be stopping these things. They run into another
area of the cave. There is relentless gunfire.
Damian yanks a grenade and pulls the pin. He makes his best
pitch into a cavern as more demon spawn fly towards him.
DAMIAN
Cover me.
Zack fires wildly. As one gun unloads after another. A
flying beast swings low and grabs the grenade in it's
mouth. Moments later it explodes into a mess of guts and
blood. Pieces of Jurassic varmint cover the cave walls and
both of them
EXT. CAVE ENTRANCE - DAWN - CONTINUOUS
Jenny is climbing the rocks, heading to the entrance. Her T-
shirt, hanging from her belt loops of her jeans as she
reaches stone after stone.
She reaches the entrance and hoists herself over the edge,
taking the T-shirt off her belt loop and placing it on a
branch.
She pulls a ZIPPO lighter from her pocket and brightens up
the interior.
Picking up a dry log, she makes a torch and guides her way
through.
INT. CAVE - CONTINUOUS
Walking through the water, she comes across Sheriff
Greystone...or what is left of him.
She picks up his shotgun, and carefully leads hers elf into
the depths of the earth.
INT. CAVE - GRAND ENTRANCE
A nest consisting of eggs lies in the corner. She pumps the
shotgun and blows the eggs to pieces.
She looks around, sees more nests in the ledges of rock,
clicks the shotgun and plays target practice with the rest
of the shots.
As the nests blow apart, ONE EGG falls into the mud and
water below, sinking its elf into the mud.
INT. CAVE - NEAR THE LAIR
Zack and Damian hear the gunshots. They look to each other.
But they still have more freaks with wings to attend to.
Zack unloads his last clip, then pulls his laser gun.
He takes aim at whatever he can, but every shot is just
levelling the stalactites into tiny fragments of stone.
PERSNAPPER
He looks up. a stalactite drops
towards him.
Damian pushes him out of the way as it crashes down and
lodges itself into Damian's chest.
Damian drops to the floor as they continue to fall from the
cave ceiling. All around him, the cave crystals are tearing
his body to pieces. A winged monster stops in-front ofhim as
he lies close to death. It begins to nip at his body.
DAMIAN
Zack...kill the head one.
The scope posts it's red beam into the back of the winged
demon's head. Zack shoots the dinosaur attacking Damian and
it's head blows off it's neck.
Jenny comes running into the lair. She tries to shoot at the
monsters swirling around the cave.
The shotgun is empty. She look around. Damian yanks his last
grenade from his vest, rolls it across the cave floor
towards Jenny.
DAMIAN
Hey...
Jenny turns her head to see Damian's guts tom out of his
stomach. She heaves her last meal.
The grenade bounces down the cave.
She makes a jump for it. It bounces into a narrow crest. She
follows.
ZACK
Jenny!!! You're alive!
Jenny looks to him. A winged demon zips past her face.
Zack takes aim and blasts more rock to pieces as he misses
the bird of Satan.
JENNY
I'm glad you think that.
Zack pulls the trigger again, the shot tears the wing off
from it's body. The one winged beast flutters about as it
claws at Jenny.
She grabs a stalactite and whips it towards the beast,
missing. The dinosaur's wing brushes her to the ground.
She looks down, the grenade only inches away, trapped in a
narrow crevice.
The monster bears down on her again. She kicks at it as it
continues to attack.
Zack takes another shot as another beast comes up behind
him. He quickly turns and takes off the head of the one
behind him. Jenny grabs the monster's head and slams it
into the cave wall as it's claws grab her body.
Zack takes one last shot...it takes the demon-bird out of
commission. The devil- bird lands on Jenny and throws her
to the ground. She struggles to get the thing off her.
Zack runs over and pulls her out.
She gives him a big hug and an ever bigger kiss.
Their lips lock and it seems like peace has finally come to
be.
They head back, trudging through the dying flesh.
Cries of beasts taking their last breath echo in the cave.
While all is peaceful and their tension has eased...a
FLUTTER of wings. They freeze.
Zack turns around. Nothing. They begin to move again.
Another flutter of wings, this time closer.
Zack fires into the darkness and shadows. Jenny clings to
the side of the cave wall.
SILENCE
Then comes the heavy breathing sound of your worst nightmare
...2 inches from your ears.
They both turn and look.
This is the Devil itself. A wingspan of over 20 feet and
eyes that pierce through to your soul.
They stand there frozen, jaws dropped like bowling balls are
stitched into their jaws.
Nobody can say anything.
The beast opens it's mouth, showing a row of long pointy
teeth as saliva drips from it's mouth.
It slowly exchanges looks between Zack and Jenny, deciding
on it's breakfast.
It snaps towards Zack. He steps back and drops the Xenon
laser gun.
Every step he takes, the demon follows.
Jenny picks up the laser and fidgets with the trigger. She
can't get the thing to shoot.
SNAPPP
Zack becomes part of a healthy
breakfast as the beak of this
demon grabs his chest and sails
into the air.
Jenny tries and tries again. The winged thing just floats
around, as it violently shakes Zack, smashing him into the
walls of the cave.
ZACK
Shoot!! !
JENNY
I can't.
ZACK
SHOOT!!! Jenny shoot the f*****g
monster!
Jenny manages to work the gun. The scope glows bright red
and a beam marks up the darkness.
She aims, taking shots but the whippersnapper is maneuvering
much faster than she can.
Chunks of rock tear from the cave.
The winged thing drops Zack and he lands into a deep cavern,
impaled on a large piercing rock.
JENNY
Come and get me, you m**********r.
The thing now is after her.
She aims the gun at the grenade and pulls the trigger. Hell
explodes.
A burst of flames engulfs the cavern. The flying dinosaur
sails to the bottom of the cave.
Jenny runs towards the entrance, with the gun strapped
around her. She jumps as quick as she could as chunks of
rock fall down around her, hitting her.
EXT. CAVE ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS
The sun is up ...finally and hopefully it will never go back
down.
She jumps to the branch 0 f a tree, catching it's leaves as
her bo dy falls between the branches.
Her skin is ripped and her clothes are virtually
non-existent now. She lands with a huge splash into the
river.
AWWWWWWKKKK
F**K NO. It's still alive!!!
The Pterodactyl stands on the edge of the cave, it's wings
outspread and it is pissed.
Jenny makes her way to shore, steadies herself and takes aim
Her arms and fingers bleeding like a fountain.
She steadies her trigger finger.
JENNY
It's my party and I'll die if!
want to.
She sets her aim, pulls the trigger and a blast shoots from
the nozzle of the weapon.
KA-BOOOOOOOOM!!!!! !
She hits the dynamite wrapped in her T-shirt.
The mountain side begins to level off and sends fragments of
it into outer space.
The beast is DEAD.
The mountain is crumbling over her as it fills the sky with
debris. It falls to the ground as she dives into the lake.
Stone, dirt, wood splashing all around her.
Moments later Jenny washes ashore. She lies beat on the
riverbank.
JENNY
Next year, I'm going to Disney
Land.
EXT. FOREST - DAY
The dinosaur egg which survived lands in a pond, covered in
muddy water, it floats to the edge and nestles its elf in
the mud.
FADEOUT.
Whippersnapper 2 - Tourist Season
By
Vic Formosa
FADE IN:
EXT. RIVERBANK - DAWN
JENNY (19) a potential contestant for "Who Wants To Be A
Bubble-headed Bleach Blond" wearily wakes from lying on the
edge of a riverbank.
She opens her eyes and looks around in a haze. Her clothes
are pieces of shreds, her body is bloody and scraped.
She is soaked through and wearing only a bra and torn jeans
and shoes. But she has a gun...not an ordinary handgun, but
a really big high-tech scary looking thing with a Xenon
laser scope and it looks like a piece of scientific
artillery..
She crawls to her feet, looks around at the lush thick
forest that encompasses her.
She is lost. It all seems so surreal and really f*****g
weird. Her eyes dart around the perimeter of the forest and
the look of worry stretches itself across her face.
Where the f**k is she and what is she doing with this gun?
She holds the gun in her hands and fidgets with the triggers
and dials, pulling the firing mechanism and releasing the
trigger.
ZAPPPP!!! A blast of gunfire spews out from the barrel and
finds it's way into a tree.
In a panic, she swings her arm in another direction and more
gunfire follows.
She lets out a fearful SCREAM.
JENNY
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Panic and mental fear sets in.
She tries to speak, but can't manage to get a word out.
Alone, in an unfamiliar setting. Something is not right.
After gaining proper footing, she maneuvers her way through
the rocky landscape and towards the trees, leading into a
dense and dark forest.
EXT. FOREST - DAWN
Trees as thick as porridge. There is virtually no sunlight
coming through the large foliage, and with every step and
every turn, it seems to be an intense frightening
experience.
Burrowing her way through the bushes, her body spinning in
circles out of fear and breathing heavy in a panic, she
comes upon a fallen tree.
She sets down, gathers herself and takes a deep breath, her
heavy breathing coming to a normal pace.
She lies back and closes her eyes for a moment.
An eerie RATTLE chills the air.
A second later when she opens her eyes, a TIMBER RATTLESNAKE
is coiled up and at her feet, it's tongue flipping in and
out of it's mouth.
The snake is looking for a dinner date, but Jenny isn't.
She jumps up, the snake makes a strike, missing her by a
fraction of an inch.
She runs and runs and runs as fast as she can, over logs,
through bushes, into a bank of mud where she falls and is
caked in brown.
Across the mud bank is A DINOSAUR EGG. It's shell is
partially cracked.
She gets up, mumbles something incoherent and wipes off as
much mud as she can from her body.
Trudging back through the trees, she makes her way until she
comes across a small pile of tree leaves.
The leaves MOVE as she nears them. OH NO!
8 rattle snakes slither, their tails all flicking back and
forth and the scary sound accompanying them.
She is surrounded on all sides as they eye her.
She stands motionless for a moment, then takes the gun,
flips the switch and lets loose - uncontrolled and blasting
at everything around her.
Gunfire pelts out and within seconds, the snakes are soon to
be cowboy boots.
JENNY
Bite me.
She is now on the alert. Every step is carefully applied
with precision and tact. Her eyes are focused while the
barrel remains ready for action.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAWN
The sun is up and it gives a welcoming to anybody who has
been through a huge ordeal as she has.
She wearily makes her way down the lonely road, gun poised.
EXT. TOWN OF KINGSVILLE - BIRDS EYE VIEW - DAY
A small town, nestled in the mountains. This town is the
picture postcard.
It's a resort town and all the tourists here come for the
fishing and Mary-Anne's home cooked meals.
EXT. TOWN OF KINGSVILLE - DAY
Down the winding road, Jenny lumbers. She has walked a good
40 miles and a good meal can't hurt.
Nearing the clearing, she discards the gun in some bushes,
heads towards Mary-Anne's Country Diner.
INT. MARY-ANNE'S COUNTRY DINER - DAY
Mmmm. The best blueberry cheesecake and cherry pie a person
can get.
This is what brings in the tourists, and there is no more
description needed.
Customers fill the seats. The waitress busy as orders fill
the counter by the kitchen.
Jenny walks in, looks around and heads to the washroom.
INT. WASHROOM - CONTINUOUS
She locks the door, runs the tap and wipes the grime off her
face, patching herself as good as she can.
INT. MARY-ANNE'S COUNTRY DINER - CONTINUOUS
Jenny takes a seat, surfs the menu, then peers up. The look
from 30 people gazing at her.
The restaurant is quiet as everybody is focused on the girl
who looks like a train wreck in a bra.
KATRINA (26) red flowing hair and the face of a Goddess
approaches the table.
KATRINA
Oh, sweetie. My poor thing. What
happened to you?
JENNY
I-I-I don't know.
Katrina pours a glass of water.
KATRINA
What do you mean...you don't know?
Are you ok?
Jenny shrugs her shoulders.
KATRINA (CONT'D)
Are you hurt?
Jenny takes a deep breath.
JENNY
No. Why?
KATRINA
You look like you ran into my
ex-boyfriend.
JENNY
No, I'm fine I guess...where am I?
Katrina turns to the customers.
KATRINA
Alright, enough of the ogling.
Your food is in-front of you.
The customers slowly turn back to their food and continue
their conversations.
Katrina sits.
JENNY
Where am I?
KATRINA
What do you mean? Like in here? In
this restaurant?
JENNY
No. Where am I? Where are we?
Katrina senses something is seriously wrong.
KATRINA
Town of Kingsville. Are you sure
you're ok?
JENNY
Yes....no.....uhm...yeah. I mean
no. I don't know.
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