INT. HOUSE - NIGHT.
FADE IN:
ON A PHONE… on the GROUND, a hand reaches for it.
JENNY
Good one. Phone on the
Floor, old school shit.
It was dark, in her living room, REAL DARK, like a setting from a horror movie.
JENNY
You really should direct
horror films…
Just that, THE PHONE RINGS.
JENNY
You don't have the app,
so you can't talk like
GHOST FACE…
She puts the phone to her ear.
JENNY
Can you?
And with that, A reply.
MAN'S VOICE
(from phone)
Yes I can.
She was shocked.
JENNY
Who is this?
MAN'S VOICE
You tell me.
JENNY
I don't have time for games
Asshole.
MAN'S VOICE
I've got time. It's YOU
that DOESN'T
JENNY
What?
MAN'S VOICE
Look out your patio door.
A huge object smashes through the patio doors. Oh Shit.
JENNY
Aaaah!
Turns out, the object was her friend, MARNIE, lifeless and bloody.
JENNY
MARNIE!
Then at the smashed door, A hooded figure with a GHOST FACE MASK and a KNIFE, lunges at her, she dodges. She runs through the kitchen as the killer pursues, she rips open the garage door but the killer buries his knife inside her back, she lets out a SCREAM.
She tumbles down to the garage, crawling to the open garage door, with the killer trailing behind her, slowly walking…
GHOST FACE pulls back Jenny and turns her over to face him, Jenny, looks back at those horrific mask, and a glimpse of shining silver catches her eyes, she saw the killer raising his knife high up in the air, preparing to deliver his final blow, Jenny lets out a SCREAM as the knife plunges off screen…
A maddening scream, then screen cuts to black and show title.
STAB VIII: RETURN TO WOODSBORO
GIRL'S VOICE (O.S.)
BullSHIT!
The camera cuts to show—
INT. LIVING ROOM – HOUSE – NIGHT.
It shows that it was being watched by a COUPLE.
LINDA
What a waste of time.
LINDA PHILIPS, 18, pretty, brainy and a horror film fanatic, usually prefers ORIGINALS than REBOOTS, with her boyfriend, EVAN RICHARDS, 19, high school jock, completely tolerating his girl, were watching the newly-released movie, STAB 8.
EVAN
What's your problem?
LINDA
Well, I shouldn't be even
watching this,
EVAN
Why not?
LINDA
I hate remakes.
EVAN
Remakes are good-
LINDA
But not as good as the
ORIGINAL.
Slight pause.
LINDA
A REMAKE is the remaining
option for cheap-ass writers
who can't think up their own idea,
they fuck up the storyline and
run off with the money.
EVAN
But wait, this isn't a remake,
It's a horror movie, based on
killers, trying to REBOOT the
ORIGINAL.
Evan suddenly hears a noise coming from up in his room.
EVAN
Did you hear that?
LINDA
Haha. Nice try, dumbass.
EVAN
What?
LINDA
Your trying to scare me, right?
EVAN
What the fuck are you talking
about?
LINDA
I mean, look, tonight's the
perfect night to scare the
shit outta your girl,
EVAN
What the hell?
LINDA
It's simple, you pretend that
you heard a noise upstairs, you
leave me here, then prank call
me then scare the piss outta me.
Evan was stunned, WTF?
EVAN
You know what? Forget about the
noise, let's just finish the movie.
LINDA
Okay, I'll just grab some more
popcorn.
Linda stands up, walks to the kitchen and leaves Evan there.
The camera cuts to—
INT. KITCHEN – HOUSE – NIGHT.
Linda was searching for popcorn when...
HER PHONE RINGS.
She digs for it in her pocket, looks into the caller I.D.—
EVAN
Weird. Yet, she still answered it.
LINDA
Hello, Evan.
MAN'S VOICE
(from phone.)
Hello.
Linda was shocked, It wasn't Evan's voice.
LINDA
Yes?
MAN'S VOICE
Who is this?
LINDA
Yeah, real immature, EVAN.
MAN'S VOICE
What?
LINDA
I know it's you, EVAN.
EVAN (O.S.)
Linda?
Evan's voice came from the living room, THEN WHO'S THIS?
LINDA
I'll be right there.
Spooked, she hung up to the man.
She walks back to the living room, looks at Evan, then he notices this.
EVAN
What's wrong?
LINDA
Where's your phone?
EVAN
My phone? My-
Evan searches for his phone on the couch.
EVAN
Where is it?
LINDA
Ya tell me. Look.
She shows him her phone, on the recent calls—
And it read:
Evan
22:45
He was bewildered.
EVAN
That's not me.
LINDA
Well then who the fuck
is this?
EVAN
Call it back.
LINDA
Is this some sort of a
joke?
Linda calls it back, then hears the phone ringing—
OUTSIDE, IN HIS CAR.
EVAN
What is that doing ouside?
Linda started to look spooked.
EVAN
I'm gonna get it, you stay
here.
LINDA
Okay.
Evan takes a flashlight, arms himself a bat and steps outside.
Linda is now spooked, she tries to calm her nerves, grabs her headphones and listens to loud rock.
Then it cuts to—
EXT. FRONT YARD – HOUSE – NIGHT
Evan walks to his car, slowly treading, tiptoeing until he reaches the handle, he rips the car doors open and to his surprise, a GHOST FACE was IN there, waiting for him, he lets out a gasp but the KILLER instantly stabs him in the stomach.
His face was filled with shock, as he walks back to his house, but with him after him, it's pretty much the knife for Evan.
He bangs the door...
It cuts to—
INT. LIVING ROOM – HOUSE – CONINUOUS
... but Linda can't hear him, her ears are buried in those damn headphones.
EXT. FRONT YARD – HOUSE – CONTINUOUS
Evan cries out to his girlfriend.
EVAN
(weakly.)
Linda!
But it's no use.
he looks behind and sees the killer walking to him, observing him like a curious child.
The camera focuses on the knife.
EVAN (O.S.)
Nooooo!
The KNIFE falls out of view.
Cut to—
INT. LIVING ROOM – HOUSE – NIGHT
Linda was bouncing her head to the song when HER PHONE VIBRATES.
She digs for it in her pocket and the caller I.D. read "EVAN" again.
She sighs.
LINDA
What?
VOICE
(from phone.)
Hello.
LINDA
I don't have time for
Games.
VOICE
You're already playing it.
LINDA
What?
VOICE
Check this out.
Linda passes by the porch doors when the LIGHTS FLOOD THE YARD.
She looks outside and sees, EVAN, still alive, tied on the porch floor. Squirming and bloody.
LINDA
Evan!
VOICE
(from phone.)
Ah, Music to my ears.
Linda begun to open the door.
VOICE
Try opening that door and
I'll show you his guts!
Linda was shocked, like never before. What now?
LINDA
What do you want?
VOICE
Let's play Trivia.
LINDA
Please, no.
VOICE
Do it or he DIES!
LINDA
Please, anything else!
VOICE
His chances of survival
Are running out.
With that statement, she decided to agree.
LINDA
What trivia?
VOICE
HORROR movies.
Linda whimpers.
VOICE
Let's begin,
Slight pause. Then the lights in the porch were put out.
VOICE
Name the stuntman who played
Jason in the remake.
LINDA
Um, Derek Mears?
VOICE
YES!
He continued.
VOICE
Halloween I and II reboot?
LINDA
Tyler Mane!
VOICE
Nightmare on Elm Street 2010?
LINDA
Jacky Earle Haley!
VOICE
Name the killer in Friday
the 13th—
LINDA
MRS. VOORHEES!
VOICE
You didn't let me finish, I said
Name the killer in Friday the
13th part 5.
LINDA
What?
VOICE
Wrong answer! The killer wasn't
Mrs. Voorhees or Jason either!
It was ROY BURNS the coroner.
Linda's jaw fell to the floor.
LINDA
You tricked me.
VOICE
Lucky for you there's
a part 2 of my game...
ROLEPAYING.
LINDA
Please leave us alone.
VOICE
Lights, Camera, ACTION!
Evan's body was thrown into the house, making Linda jump.
She looks at her boyfriend, still alive, but looking back at her with pitiful eyes.
EVAN
(muffled.)
RUN!
Linda tried to untie Evan but it was too late, a FLASH OF SILVER, the killer slices Evan's stomach open.
LINDA
Aaah!
Linda looks in horror as her boyfriends eyes roll upward.
The killer looked at her, and in a split second he swings his knife at Linda but she dodges, runs to the kitchen only to meet the killer on the opposite side... the KILLER grabs hold of Linda, she lets out a SCREAM, he then sinks his KNIFE into her chest, stifling her scream.
Linda falls to the floor, and starts to crawl to the door, the killer grabs her ankle and pulls her back.
LINDA
(no audio.)
NOOOO!
GHOST FACE looks at Linda and flips her over...
He raised his KNIFE—
LINDA
Please.
He brings down the knife with deliberate force offscreen—
It cuts to black and show main title.
SCREAM
The S turns into a bloody-red 5
5CREAM