SCREAM 5
SCENE 00.
10/9/2022
Woodsboro California
A young woman by the name of Sidney Evans and her boyfriend Roger Williamson snuggle on the couch under a blanket watching the Stab marathon on the horror channel.
"This isn't the Twilight Zone or the Outer limits. This is Channel Zero where horror and gore reign supreme. This has been a long journey watching all twelve of the Stab movies leading up to the premiere trailer of the Stab reboot "SLASH". A fresh start to the franchise that started it all but with double the kills and twice the thrills. I'm your guide and the world just got a little more dangerous. Please enjoy…" Host of Channel Zero.
Roger jumps to his feet as if he's got ants in his pants running towards the base of the staircase very jittery.
"Where on God's earth are you going, Roger?" Sidney protested a little confused.
Roger stops at the base of the steps looking back still jittery. "Too many beers babe gotta take a leak real quick.."
Unbeknownst to Roger a shadowy silhouette runs quickly down the hall upstairs. The killer was in the home. Roger responds to Sidney with his back turned away.
"Are you serious? We've watched all twelve of these got damn torture porn flicks and you have to take a piss, NOW?" Sidney says unable to fathom his rude departure.
"It'll be on Youtube in about an hour babe relax.." Roger says heading upstairs to the bathroom.
Sidney remains on the couch watching the trailer alone as the R Rating warning appears and the logo for SLASH.
Roger enters the bathroom very tipsy and off balanced taking a piss. His eyes remain closed, head tilted back, as he aimlessly urinates into the toilet bowl.
"Redrum. Redrum. Redrum…" a silent voice whispers right next to him! Confused and all around caught off guard, he zips his pants up, slowly turning his head to the black shower curtain next to him.
The voice continues to mutter as Roger attempts to pull back the curtains and look closer. Then out of nowhere a white Ghostface mask appears, scaring him instantly.
A hunter's knife is pulled out and the killer strikes him right in the forehead from behind the shower curtain.
He quickly grabs his forehead and blood begins to cover his face from the attack. Roger silently muttered in pain, crying out for help, "Sidney." Before collapsing onto the floor.
The thud of him falling is masked by the loud trailer boosted by the television and surround sound speaker system in the living room so Sidney is unaware of everything going on.
The killer steps from behind the curtain recording Roger with a small hand held device that captures his voice as he continues to bleed out calling out for help.
The killer in Ghostface costume looks into the bathroom mirror where he sees the ghost of Billy Loomis menacingly staring at him holding his own hunters knife.
"FINISH HIM!" Billy shouts at the killer from the other side of the mirror.
The killer raises his hunters knife and begins to violently stab Roger over and over. The stabbing is so violent and ferocious that blood splatters onto the white mask. A pool of blood covers the bathroom floor.
The killer in the white mask looks back into the mirror at Billy Loomis again. "You did good kid. Now send the message."
"An honorary continuation and new beginning for the Stab franchise based on the Gale Weathers books and real life Woodsboro murders. SLASH the reboot of Stab; will be coming to a theatre near you. And if you're lucky enough you can see it in two to three days on PREMIERE by HBO PLUS. Ghostface has never been this dangerous." Channel Zero voice narrates at the end of the trailer.
The trailer ends as Sidney grabs the remote, turning the sound down a bit. Sidney reaches for her phone as it begins to ring and vibrate under the sheets feeling around the couch for her smartphone.
Sidney Evans answers the phone, "Hello."
"Were you impressed with the trailer for the new Stab reboot?" The infamous voice of the Killer calmly speaking to Sidney.
"Who is this?" She asks a little worried.
"A friend- new acquaintance." The Killer responds.
Sidney stands up slightly disturbed by the call, "You know these prank calls are a criminal offense in Woodsboro. I'm hanging up." Sidney says slightly frightened.
"Aht Aht Aht- I wouldn't do that if I were you. You know how this goes, you just watched all twelve films. By the way, how's Roger?" The Killer mocks followed by a sinister laugh.
"You're sick." Sidney says, hanging the phone up.
She runs to the base of the stairs calling up for him, "Roger? Roger? Roger, are you ok? Please answer me! Please Roger say something!" She cries out clearly freaked out.
The phone begins to ring again as she answers it, "What do you want?" She says hiding behind the couch.
The Killer begins to speak, "With a name like Sidney I bet you're quite the fighter. Let's play a little game."
"Just stop already. I'm calling the cops. What did you do to my boyfriend?" Sidney cries out further.
"The same thing I did to your fucking boyfriend I'll do to you bitch. Now do you wanna play a game or feel a ten inch hunting knife pierce the bone in your fucking head?" The Killer aggressively warns her.
"Fuck you I'm out of here." Sidney says dropping her phone running towards the front door quickly unlocking it only to face her horrors on the other side. A second Ghostface in a chrome black mask appears right before her on the other side of the door swinging his blade, slashing her across the stomach.
Sidney attempts to shut the door as Ghostface pushes his way inside chasing after her through the living room. The clumsy killer tripping over a table that she effortlessly leaps over.
She runs towards the door again as a third Ghostface with a red mask and deviled horns arrives slamming the front door shut locking her inside. The killer pulled out his own hunters knife and joined the chase.
"SHIT!" Sidney says, running upstairs with no choice. The chrome black and red devil Ghostface killers are in pursuit after her.
Upstairs she looks around for a hiding place ducking off between both the washer and dryer covering herself in laundry. Both Ghostface arrive at the top of the steps looking around.
She peeks through the covers ever so gently, just enough for her to dimly look under her guise. She sees both cloaked shadowy figures walking by and she quickly redacts.
The two killers enter her room and she quickly rises from her hiding point. She sees the two in her room quitely walking over, each step she takes is light as a feather.
The Red Deviled mask Ghostface kicks opens the closet door and pushes away the clothes looking for Sidney in the closet. The Black Chrome killer flips over the mattress to her bed thinking that she was hiding under the bed. The two killers turn back to find her at the door, "Got you Fuckheads!"
Sidney manages to immediately lock the room door and slams it shut, trapping them in her room. The killers begin to viciously strike the door with both their blades chewing away at the wooden door little by little.
Sidney heads down the stairs but she stops for a moment hearing a familiar voice. She pauses recognizing the voice, the voice being of her boyfriend Roger, he painfully moans out from the bathroom, "Sidney. Help me."
"Roger?" Sidney goes with her gut and walks into the dimly lit bathroom. She kicks open the door turning the lights on to a bloody massacre!
She screams in terror looking at Roger's body covered in blood with a stab wound to the forehead, his guts and intestine stretched all across the toilet, sink, and bathtub.
His blood on the floor, the wall and written out on the mirror in blood, "What's your favorite scary movie?"
The white masked Ghostface appears from behind the curtain using the device held near his mouth that plays out Rogers' own voice, replaying what he said earlier, "It'll be on Youtube in an hour babe relax.."
Sidney stands in shock and feels a haunting and dizzying feeling. A feeling of doom as her legs turn to jelly. She realizes she had a chance to escape but fell for the killer's trap.
She can only mutter under her breathe "FUCK" as the two other Killers in the red and chrome black mask appear from behind freed from her room.
They take her from behind and begin to stab the girl many times over. The three Killers stand over her body, as she reaches out, extending her hand out for help.
The red deviled masked killer stabs her in the palm of her hands with the knife while the black mask killer slits her throat finishing her off.
The white mask killer looks into the mirror in the bathroom again at Billy Loomis applauding him on the other side.
SCREAM 5
Author's Notes
This scene was one of the first scenes I wrote two years back. When I wrote this opening I gained a new level of confidence with writing the entirety of the story because I felt that I could write suspenseful and very violent moments and chase sequences. Which was a chip off my shoulder.
This scene was a love letter to the first film's openings. It takes place in a house and involves a couple. The girlfriend gets a nasty call and chase sequence from the killers. I couldn't tell you guys how many times I tasked myself to rewatch every opening kill sequence in the Scream franchise to capture that lightning in a bottle. This was a really fun writing piece.
The Channel Zero stuff was a nod to The Twilight Zone in particular with the moody music and the voice narration speaking directly to the audience.
The "Stab-A-Thon" stuff was mostly inspired by the tradition to just celebrate horror films by just watching every last one of them back to back. I remember watching as a teen all of the Friday the 13th films back to back just because it was Friday the 13th (the actual day).
SLASH reboot came around because I figured the Stab franchise would run itself into the ground eventually like most franchises do. Sidney stopped being a character after the third Stab film, the films included time travel and lacking plot beats by Stab 7 and in this opening it is revealed that there are a total of twelve films meaning five more were made between Scream 4 and Scream 5. And now we have a back to basics reboot in the form of Slash.
When I first began writing for the potential Ghostface I remember having this burning passion to push the unsaid one to two Ghostface per film rule and actually have three active killers in the film. And with having multiple killers I just found it interesting to have killers with variations of masks hence the Red Deviled Horn killer mask and the Black Chrome killer mask.
And the leader of the trio being the traditional White mask using the voice mimic device from Scream 3. I never understood the backlash of the device (although I do get its impracticality). The White mask killer also has a connection to Billy Loomis seeing as a ghost that kind of gives them all direction. Even though he isn't alive its like Billy Loomis is orchestrating a new generation of killings. Which I think is a fun way to look at the visions and the relationship between Billy and White Mask killer.
All in all I really enjoyed writing this and hope that anyone that does come across this story finds some type of enjoyment too. Of course I am more than open to any type of criticism and opinions on my story. Comments and Reviews are greatly appreciated. I'm a huge Scream fan and I love the fandom and community wholeheartedly.
