Script: A Nightmare On Blakes Lane

INT: NIGHTIME – VICTORIAN HOUSE

There is a wide shot, displaying the large Victorian house.
The lights are on inside. The camera angle switches, and Emma
Taylor is seen in her kitchen in her pajamas from the window,
making herself a tea before she heads up to bed. She turns off
the kitchen light, resulting in darkness upon the screen. It
is silent and the distant barking of a neighboring dog is
heard along with quiet whistles from the birds in the trees.
The camera angle switches to the bottom of the staircase, the
bottom floor is dark, but the landing lights are on. Emma then
walks up the stairs, with her coffee in hand, heading into her
room.
The camera angle switches back to the first shot from outside,
and Emma is seen pulling her blinds down, then closing the
slats.
From the same shot from the bottom of the staircase, Emma is
then seen going into the bathroom. The angle changes as Emma
begins to brush her teeth, there is a close up of the paste
leaving the tube onto her toothbrush. After she has brushed,
she turns on the tap and drinks from it before spitting out
the water from her mouth. The camera follows the movement of
her head going down and then up when she takes a drink. As she
raises her head and looks at herself in the mirror a child’s
handprint is seen in the back window printed into the
condensation windows. Emma takes no notice of this, turns the
light off in the bathroom then landing before going into her
room and closing the door. The light from inside her room then
switches off leaving complete darkness upon the screen.
INT: MORNING – VICTORIAN HOUSE
The alarm sounds, waking her up in the morning. A smooth
gliding shot shows Emma getting up in the morning. She walks
over to her blinds.
From outside, we see Emma opening her blinds letting the
morning light brighten her room.
From below the stairs, the camera shows her walking into the
bathroom, getting ready for her day ahead. Cutting into the
bathroom, she begins to brush her teeth repeating what she did
last night. As she spits the water out her mouth, she then
looks up at herself. There is a muddy footprint, on the floor.
A worried and confused look starts to resonate on her face, as
she wipes away the handprint from the mirror.
She walks back into her room, grabbing her mobile from her
bedside table. She sits on the side of her bed, and begins to
dial her boyfriend’s number.
EMMA:
Hi Tod, did you let yourself in last night?
BOYFRIEND:
Yeh, I had to grab my jacket.
EMMA:
Oh, it was just that I saw that you left your muddy prints
everywhere.
BOYFRIEND:
Oh, sorry love I didn’t realise my feet were muddy.
EMMA:
Oh well it’s still a relief. I thought that someone could have
broken in.
In the future, please let me know before, you frightened me.

This is filmed from behind Emma, as she sits on the side of

the bed. The camera angle switches half way through to above
her shoulder, however still behind her.
She walks back into the bathroom, grabbing a sponge from under
the sink, and begins to clean up the muddy footprint on the
floor. The camera angle is low close to the floor, as she
bends over to clean up the mess. Once she is finished, she
washes the mud out the sponge into the sink, leaving a trail
of muddy water, there is a close up shot of the water washing
down the drain. She then turns off the tap, and the muddy
water swirls down the drain.
The camera angle cuts to a side on view as she walks through
the landing before going downstairs. As she walks past, down
the corridor a devil some shadow of a boy is seen reflecting
off the mirror at the end of the hall. However, she takes no
notice of this.
A piercing bang sounds as the boy appears, then suspenseful
music begins to play
As she walks downstairs, the angle cuts to the top of the
landing, tracking her movement as she moves downstairs.
A Childs Laughter plays
As she begins to walk down the stairs the ghostly figure runs
past behind her, giggling in a playful but creepy manor. She
instantly turns around, confused as to what that noise was.
She turns around and begins to walk back up the stairs to
check what is there.
There is a moments silence in music, before it carries on as
she peers around each corner
As she turns and looks around the corner and along the
corridor, nothing is seen. With a confused and worried look on
her face she turns around, pausing to take in what just
happened. In a panic she rushes down stairs, afraid.
As she rushes down the stairs, the boys hand begins to wrap
round the edge of the wall behind her. But again, she takes no
notice as she is already panicking from what she just
experienced.
The music begins to get louder and louder
Smashing cords sound throughout the house as she leaps
downstairs afraid for her life.
The boy wakes up from his awful nightmare, screaming from his
mum.
Fades Out