LO1 - Draft Script

Hide and Seek

By

               

James Hartshorn and Joe Taylor

1. INT.House, bedroom. day.

CHILD in cupboard playing hide and seek with MAN, the camera is in the cupboard and there is a creepy undertone to the scene.

 

CHILD

(Breathing heavily)

 

MAN

I can hear you. (Creepy voice)

Hear Footsteps MAN walks right up to cupboard, and is very close to the camera. Tension builds up as we are waiting for something to happen (3-4 seconds).

MAN

(Looks into cupboard) I know you’re there.

 

CHILD

(Trembles and breaths heavily)

MAN

(Bursts cupboard open) Found you!

(Title graphic Name of film)

 

 (cuts)

2. Int. child's bedroom. night

 

CHILD in bed crying for her Dad, she is crying and making a big deal about him not being there. It appears she has just awoken from a nightmare.

CHILD

DAD! (Sobbing) DAD! (Screams) where are you dad?! (Continues sobbing into pillow)

 

MAN

Don’t worry I’m here, calm down.

 

CHILD

(Goes silent)

 

MAN

(Walks up to CHILD and is looking over her) Just go to sleep it’s alright.

(cuts)

3. INT. Kitchen. Evening

MAN in kitchen, chopping a vegetable (harsh sound effect) Camera zooms out and shows he is only cutting a vegetable.

(cuts)

4. INT. Childs bedroom. Evening

Pans over wall full of creepy drawings, then down to CHILD at desk. You can’t see what she is drawing.

MAN

                 (Calls from downstairs)

                  Dinners ready!

CHILD

Coming! (Knocks paper off desk while getting up to leave)

Camera pans down towards the drawing and we see that the drawing is of the CHILD and her dad holding hands, though the drawing is creepy.

(cuts)

5. Int. street alleyway. day time

CHILD is talking to a STRANGER on the street. MAN is holding hand of CHILD.

STRANGER

You look familiar (pause) aren’t you that CHILD…

 

MAN AND CHILD WALK AWAY

MAN

(Cuts off STRANGER and grabs CHILD

 And quickly hurries off)

Don’t talk to STRANGERs there’s some bad people in this world you never know who you are going to meet.

MAN and CHILD are now around the corner

 

MAN

Wait here, I’ll be back in a second.

CHILD

(Nods)

The camera pans back round the alleyway as soon as the MAN enters it he pulls out a knife. The MAN is shown at the other side of the alley stabbing the STRANGER then the STRANGER who falls to the floor. The MAN walks back to the CHILD.

MAN

Let’s go.

   (cuts)

6. int. Childs bedroom. night.

The second scene of the CHILD screaming is repeated.

       

       MAN

Don’t worry I’m here, calm down.

CHILD

(Goes silent)

MAN

(Walks up to CHILD and is looking over her) Just go to sleep it’s alright.
 

Camera pans down and shows the MAN smothering the CHILD with a pillow suffocating her. It is revealed that the CHILD hadn’t had a nightmare and that she was being killed. CHILD struggles and then lays still.

 

Camera pans down through bedroom floor into the kitchen. There is a newspaper on the kitchen side, the main headline stating “MAN kidnaps CHILD, kills her and himself.”

                           

 (GUNSHOT AND BODY THUD SFX)

FILM CREDITS