FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

CAST

AMELIA A young girl AGED 17

LIAM A young boy AGED 18

FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

SCENE ONE: EXT. GRAVEYARD – NIGHTTIME

SOUND: LOUD THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

SOUND: OWLS TWOOTING

SOUND: GATE CREAKING

SCENE TWO: INT. AMELIA’S BEDROOM – NIGHTTIME

SOUND: WINDOW OPENING

SOUND: WIND AND THUNDER

AMELIA: Hey the storm is really bad.

LIAM: Yeah, no shit Amelia

AMELIA: Ok don’t be rude, just wanted to see if you

were up to go to the graveyard after college?

LIAM: Yea for sure

AMELIA: I just wanna make sure that

The flowers we put out for my dad are still there.

SOUND: THUNDER CRASHING

LIAM: See you tomorrow!

SOUND: WINDOW CLOSING

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS AND LIGHT SWITCHING OFF

SCENE THREE: EXT. THE LOCAL SHOP – DAYTIME

SOUND: SHOP BELL DINGING

AMELIA: Hello?

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS WALKING INTO THE SHOP

SOUND: PLASTIC FROM FLOWERS

AMELIA: Helloooo?

SOUND: SHOP BELL DINGING (LIAM WALKING IN)

LIAM: Just walk out, there’s no one here.

AMELIA: No, I have to pay!

LIAM: Nah, don’t worry they won’t know

AMELIA: (SIGHS) (WALKS OUT THE SHOP WITH LIAM)

SOUND: SHOP BELL DINGING AND FOOTSTEPS

AMELIA: Can’t believe you just made me do that.

LIAM: It’s fine, you’re so innocent! Omg

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS WALKING TO THE GRAVEYARD CONTINUED

AMELIA: Hopefully the other flowers are still there.

LIAM: Yeah, don’t stress.

SOUND: GATE OF GRAVEYARD OPENING

AMELIA: What is that smell?

LIAM: I don’t smell anything.

AMELIA: HAHA you got covid?

LIAM: Yeah cause I would sooooo be hanging out with you

if I did.

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS ON LEAVES

MUSIC: SLOW, MELLOW MUSIC STARTS

SOUND: FLOWERS BEING PUT DOWN

SOUND: CROWS NOISE

SOUND: LIGHTING A CANDLE

MUSIC: CONTINUOUS

AMELIA: Omg, that smell is back and it’s so much stronger

than before.

LIAM: I still can’t smell it

AMELIA: Liam, I swear you need to go get tested

SOUND: LEAVES CRUNCH BEHIND THEM

SOUND: LOW ZOMBIE GROWL

LIAM: Amelia

AMELIA: Liam what the fuck is tha-

SOUND: AMELIA SCREAMING

LIAM: RUN OH MY GOD RUN!

SOUND: THE 2 RUNNING THROUGH THE GRAVEYARD

SOUND: ZOMBIES GROWLING

SOUND: DRAGGING FEET THROUGH THE LEAVES

SOUND: HEAVY BREATHING (PANTING)

SOUND: RUNNING THROUGH THE LEAVES

SOUND: AMELIA AND LIAM CARRY ON RUNNING

SOUND: BOTH CATCHING THEIR BREATHS

LIAM: I don’t know what that is but we’ve definitely out

run it.

AMELIA: No but what was that

LIAM: I couldn’t tell you

AMELIA: It looked like a corpse. Like a living corpse.

Is that crazy?

LIAM: I saw what you saw Amelia, it did. It looked

like a-

AMELIA: Like a zombie Liam, it looked like a

fucking zombie.

LIAM: Shut up, that’s a movie thing. Zombies in

broad daylight? No, actually, zombies in real
life? No, it’s not a thing

AMELIA: Look, what else could that have been?

You wanna describe that thing for me? It
reeked, it looked like it was decomposing

LIAM: I came here to mourn your dad, I’m leaving now

AMELIA: Liam we need to call someone

LIAM: Oh yeah call someone. Call the police, tell them,

oh I think there’s a zombie loose in the
graveyard. Who the hell will take that
 seriously? It’s probably some Halloween prank

AMELIA: A Halloween prank mid-July, yeah because that

makes a load of sense

LIAM: I think it’s a load of bullshit, and I’m leaving.

AMELIA: Liam…

SOUND: LIAM WALKING AWAY, FOOTSTEPS

LIAM: I’ll see you tomorrow

AMELIA: Wait! Look at the gate.

SOUND: LOADS OF ZOMBIES NOISES

SOUND: GATE CLATTERING

LIAM: Shit! There’s so many more

AMELIA: Liam, we’ve gotta do something

LIAM: SERIOUSLY?! Let’s just go home

AMELIA: Come on!!!!

SILENCE

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS RUNNING THROUGH THE LEAVES

SOUND: PANTING/ OUT OF BREATH

LIAM: Let’s just try and find a safe place

AMELIA: Where Liam? WHERE

LIAM: I don’t know, OK

SOUND: ZOMBIE NOISES GETTING LOUDER AND CLOSER

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS RUNNING

SOUND: TRIPPING OVER INTO LEAVES

AMELIA: Shit!!!
LIAM: Ah Amelia, get up! They’re coming

SOUND: LEAVES RUSTLING

SOUND: ZOMBIE NOISES GETTING CLOSER TOWARDS AMELIA

SOUND: ZOMBIES SURROUNDING AMELIA

SOUND: AMELIA SCREAMING

SOUND: LIAM SHOUTING OVER THE TOP

AMELIA: Dad?