Script Draft 4

‘BABY TROUBLES’ (WORKING TITLE)

DRAFT 4

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VFX. CAMERA PANS TOWARDS HOUSE.

EXT. FOREST, HOUSE ON A HILL - NIGHT

Camera pans over treeline to a rickety, two storey cabin perched on a shallow hill. The moon is high and a old car sits outside. The camera moves forward, towards upper window and passes through.

VFX/SFX. PAN THROUGH WINDOW, NIGHTTIME SOUNDS SHIFT TO LOW JAZZ MUSIC

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Aerial shot of coffee table, a folder is placed on it that says ‘BABYSITTERS AT SCARILY CHEAP PRICES!’ in tacky writing. Passes on the bloodthirsty werewolf with high body count, the creepy religious vampire and the mad scientist that show him/her with various body parts, laughing madly. Stops on picture of zombie.

Profile shows CREAK, stands nervously while not looking at camera in ridiculous HAWAIIAN SHIRT. He has never eaten children and only wants a BIG, JUICY BRAIN as payment. Someone taps on the page and the sound of a phone being picked up.

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INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT

Opens to darkened hallway with cheap vibe, cracked photo frames and furniture that has been hastily repaired instead of replaced. On Mother as she opens the door. Creak stands outside. Creak reaches out slowly to shake her hand, however mother is in too much of a rush to notice. She simply pushes past him and out the door. Creak is left standing in HALL, still with his hand out. DOOR SLAMS SHUT behind him.

A BANG is heard upstairs, then shuffling across the floorboards before it stops. Creak startles at sudden noise, looks frantically about for source. He begins to PANIC and follows the sound, lumbered towards the stairs as fast as his legs can.

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SILHOUETTE of Creak fumbling up the stairs, falling once or twice.

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INT. TODDLER'S ROOM - NIGHT

Creak peeks into room, finds the crib empty. Creak begins to panic, looking frantically around the room for the baby. Finds the baby over among his toys, playing happily. Creak approaches with hunched back and waves awkwardly at child. Child simply stares at him as he gestures to the crib and motions a sleep hand gesture. The child blows bubbles at him and throws toy brick at him, knocking his eyes out.

By the time Creak puts eyes back in, baby is gone again and Creak freaks out. He finds the baby trying to climb up to the window, but quckly snatches him up. The baby begins to cry and and through a tanturm, knocking off Creak’s head as he flails his arms.

Head bounces off ground to other side of room. Creak is not happy, but hears the baby giggle at him and see the child is calmed down. His body picks him up and he talks to the child, convincing him to sleep. As Creak goes to put the child in the crib, the camera shows Creak’s face as a rip and tear sound is heard.

The scene fades in on the child hugging Creak’s severed arm and pans out to show Creak sitting in a chair beside him reading a newspaper.