Horror Film Script Draft α

Dialogue: ☒
“Humour”: ☒
Basic premise:
A group of three characters come across a dead body of one of
their comrades. They are both terrified and confused on how their
friend is dead, but then the protagonist figures out a way to
time travel (undecided how) to try and save them. However, the
protag finds out that he's the reason their friend is dead,
killing them by accident when trying to save them from the
antagonist. And then it's implied that the rest of the film is
revolved around the protagonist avoiding both the murderer and a
potential paradox if he runs into his past self. We could include
a small amount of comedy just to have some fun with the film.
CAST:
PROTAG – Billy Clarke
VICTIM – Asem Farah
HELPER A – Abdulrahman Soussi
HELPER B – Saoud Al Kuwari
MURDERER – Saoud Al Kuwari (Masked)
NOTE: These aren’t the official names, we’ll think about it later
:)
SUB-GENRES:
Mystery/Sci-Fi/Slasher/Comedy Horror
[flashy title card with a chapter name in the corner]
Setting: [(EXT.) night, an establishing shot of an apartment
complex of sorts with a slight zoom. (INT.) Cut
to Protag, Helper A and Helper B relaxing in a
living room of sorts (we could utilize the Club
House in Billy’s compound for this), watching
TV and/or on their phone (It is a first draft
after all, we can decide later) in a wide shot.
Helper B purposefully looks towards an empty
 seat and the camera quickly pans to notice the
empty seat as well.]
HELPER B: [medium shot, turns away from where he was looking to
the opposite direction] [exaggerated] “HMMMMMmmmm. Where did
Asem/[Victim name] go again? I zoned out a bit.”
HELPER A: [medium shot, looking towards Helper B and establishing
the 180 rule in the scene] “He uh…He literally just told us he’ll
go to the bathroom. It’s been a minute, Saoud/[Helper B name].”
HELPER B: “Damn, that’s craaaazy…” [impish smirk] “Imagine if me
asking where he was foreshadowed something?”
HELPER A: [eyebrow raised, gestures a small point] “…What are you
implying?”
HELPER B: [interrupting] “Guuuh?”
PROTAG: [medium shot, facing towards the camera] “Ah, I’ll check
on him real quick, hold on.” [stands up and leaves the shot]
HELPER B: [cuts to previous wide shot and shows protag leaving
the room] “Do you have to man? I’m [loudly] “PRETTY CONFIDANT
HE’S OKAY,” [normal tone] “so I don’t see why you should check on
him, but you do you, I guess.”
PROTAG: [from a distance and offscreen] “Just in case ya know.”
HELPER A: [confused, panning toward Helper B] “…Wait why did you
highlight yourself saying that you’re confidant he’s oka-“
HELPER B: [interrupting again] “I’m sorry Abdu/[Helper A name], I
can’t hear you whaaat huuuh?”
HELPER A: “…Suspicious activit-.”
[cutting and sound bridging to Protag sliding to the side towards
a bathroom door in a wide shot.]
PROTAG: “Eehee hee!” [stops sliding, loudly knocks] “Hey! You’ve
been there for a while! You alright in there?” [cuts to a high
angle on the side of the door, both the door and Protag in frame,
silence for two beats, knocks even louder and in an avant-garde
rhythm] “I SAID ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?” [silence for another two
beats, Protag gains an agitated expression and gnashing his
teeth, knocking unbelievably fast] “FOR GODS SAKE ARE YOU DEAF OR
SOMETHI-!?” [pushes open the door accidentally and falls through
with an audible “Wah!”, the fall is off-screen, so the Protag
avoids injury during acting.]
[cuts to a shot on ground, viewing Protag on the floor and slowly
looking up, his agitated expression quickly transforming into an
expression of exaggerated dread]
HELPER B: [a dutch shot of Helper B appearing around the corner
with an annoyed expression] “Oh my GOD could you be any louder!?”
HELPER A: [comically slides head around the corner] “Is
everything okay?”
PROTAG: [springing backwards, weakly pointing at a door and
stuttering relentlessly, panning his head towards Helper A and
Helper B quickly and back towards the door, the shot is over
Helper B’s shoulder, and Helper A shortly appears next to him,
also over the shoulder with Protag in the middle] “Mu-ma-ma-ma-
muuu-the-the-mu-muaaa-mu-“
HELPER A: [approaches Protag with hands in pockets] “Looks like
he lost the ability to speak English too- [notices the bathroom,
trembles a bit and takes hands out of pockets] HOLY…”
[cuts to Protag’s dreaded expression with Helper A behind him
with a slightly less concerned expression, the camera shot being
the door so both Protag and Helper A look into the camera/look
near the direction of the camera]
HELPER B: [appears on frame] “What? What happen-“ [shocked
expression] “Oh what the…”
[cuts to the body of Victim in the bathroom, massive knife wound
in his chest with blood splattered everywhere, similar pose to
Sayaka from DR1 (yes, we’re doing the Dangan reference), optional
to have propped guts spilt near it]
[Flashy title card reappears in a contrasting color with a still
frame of the Victim’s body faded in the background, chapter title
shifts to a different side of the screen. Returns back to the
shot of the Victim’s body, then cuts to the previous camera shot
in the doorway]
PROTAG: [breathing heavily and panicking on the floor] “Oh my
god, oh my god oh my god! H-How could this happen!?
HELPER A: [nonchalant expression, turns to Helper B] “Meh, I
never liked him anyway to be honest.”
HELPER B: [turns towards Helper A with the same expression]
“Yeah, same.”
PROTAG: [snap head towards both the Helpers and yell] “HOW COULD
YOU JUST SAY THAT!?” [turns back towards the camera, holds head
and stares at the ground with tears in his eyes] “Jesus man…”
HELPER A: [points towards something in the doorway] “Hey, what’s
that blue glittering thingy? Looks quirky.”
[Helper B and Protag glance at the direction Helper A pointed,
camera cuts to show the glistening blue object with Helper A’s
pointing in frame.]
HELPER B: [cuts back to previous shot] “Hey, great question,
Billy/[Protag name], go and pick it up.”
PROTAG: [turn around with a frantic essence] “Wh-Why the hell do
I have to do it!?”
[Protag sighs and hesitantly crawls towards the blue object in
question, once he touches it, a flashy blue transition with a
piercing sound plays. The Protag gasps, and then he notices
Helper A and Helper B have disappeared and so has the corpse, he
gets on his feet and looks around confused. Victim approaches him
and places his hand on his shoulder making Protag yelp and snap
behind him.]
VICTIM: [visibly confused] “Hey uhh, how did you get here before
me? Anyway, get out of my way, I need to use the bathroom like I
said.”
PROTAG: [confused expression turns into a desperate one]
“ASEM/[Victim name]! I NEED TO TELL YOU SOMETHING RIGHT NO-!”
[interrupting Protag, Murderer steps out behind a closet of sorts
with a knife, using body language to imply that he didn’t expect
Victim and Protag to be there and expected just Victim.]
PROTAG: [pushes Victim slightly to the side and steps forward,
comically pointing and yelling.] “YOU!” [swipes pointing hand to
the side] “GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ASEM/[Victim name]!”
MURDERER: [attempts to back off, gets his hand slapped by Protag,
making him drop the knife, Protag picks up the knife]
PROTAG: [points knife] “DON’T MOVE A MUSCLE!”
VICTIM: [walks behind Murderer slowly, ‘coincidentally’
positioning himself behind Murderer] “Yeaaaaaaaah I’m just gonna
goooooooo…”
 MURDERER: [turns around, expresses a “what!?” with his body
language.]
PROTAG: [readies knife] “DAMMIT, I SAID DON’T-“ [thrusts knife]
“-MOVE!”
[for a split frame you can see Murderer dodging to the side, a
stab sound is played and the screen flashes red and fades into
black, then fades into Protag with the knife wedged into Victim.
Protag yelps, let’s go of the knife and his hands tremble
dramatically with disturbed panting. Victim falls backwards into
the bathroom and slumps with a small blue fragment falling out of
his pocket. Protag covers his mouth and steps back with Murderer
over his shoulder from behind.]
PROTAG: [pale and completely defeated, looking at the ground] “I…
I did this…? It was…My fault…?”
MURDERER: [awkwardly scratches his head and looks around the
room.]
PROTAG: [transforms face into a gnashing snarl like an animal
with rabies, clutches fists and bends forward slightly with an
audible “Hrrrrrg…”, snaps towards Murderer and points violently]
“THIS IS YOUR FAULT! YOU MADE ME DO THIS DESPITE THE FACT I WAS
THE ONE WHO THRUSTED THE KNIFE TO BEGIN WITH WHICH IS KIND OF MY
BAD,” [looks down and catches his breath] “BUT IT WAS YOU!”
MURDERER: [backs off and wiping sweat off of brow.]
[suddenly both Protag and Murderer pay attention to the sound
coming from the stairs and pan towards it]
PROTAG(PAST): [coming from upstairs] “Just in case ya know.”
PROTAG: [close-up] “That’s…Me?” [notices that Murderer
disappeared, camera cuts to Murderer’s leg escaping through an
emergency exit door] [under his breath] “Ugh, I’m not done with
you!” [runs out emergency exit to follow and closes the bathroom
door slowly]
[camera waits on the emergency door and bathroom door in frame
for four beats]
PROTAG(PAST): [slides to the side towards the bathroom door]
“Eehee hee!”
[Final title card plays, with a to be continued card on the
bottom left with a jingle]