INT. REESE'S STUDIO APARTMENT - NIGHT
Similar to Team Scream's Apartment, except everything (doors, staircase) is on the opposite side. The decor reflects its owner. The walls are white, but not bare. Movie posters and modern art paintings cling all around, proudly displaying their colors. The furniture is very modern, colorful and cozy. Mostly tidy, with the exception of a jacket dangling on the back of a chair, magazines in a pile on the floor and a wash bin in the kitchen full of dishes.
A heavy shockwave of sound - fuzzy static - shatters through the acoustics of the living room.
Angel and Demonica sit on a long yellow couch in front of the T.V., the light from it cascading upon them. Angel is bent forward, resting her chin in her hand. She looks tired. Demonica is slouching, with her arms crossed and resting her boots on the coffee table before her. She wears a mask of anxiousness.
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The static on the television. The sound is louder than it was before.
The camera pulls back slowly as the volume returns to what it was before. Reese pops up as the camera has pulled back into a fuller screen. He's fiddling with some cords.
He holds the cords up higher.
He moves the antennas up and apart from one another. Then, he smacks the side of it a few times, whacking it good. He stops and bends over it to see the screen, still snowing.
Reese comes around the front of the screen and adjusts the tracking on the VCR.
Angel rubs her tired eyes and Demonica cranes her neck to look at the VCR over Reese's gulliver.
Demonica rolls her head back so that the top on it rests on the wall.
She straightens out now.
CU:
The tip of Reese's finger hit a button and holds it down.
The volume goes way up. Everyone instantly grabs on to their ears and cringe in pain.
CU:
The tip of Reese's finger furiously hitting the same button and holding it down.
Reese looks back at them. Angel's alert now, Demonica's still holding one ear.
He hits another button, this time with success. The picture changes to another channel, "26". He presses it again and it turns to another channel, "25". Having found the "BACK" button, he holds it down, until it reaches the channel "3".
He picks up an unmarked, black videocassette tape from the edge of the coffee table and puts in the VCR. He presses a button (hopefully "PLAY") and rushes over to his spot in the middle of the couch.
CU:
The TV screen with a calm black visage, then bursts into angry static. It clears soon as a countdown begins.
5
4
3
2
1
A blank screen reads:
An old-timey song starts up as the font sweeps across the screen over an image of a two-story house in Anywheresville, Suburbia.
INT. THE MORGANLANDER HOUSEHOLD - DAY
A woman stands over the stove in the kitchen, stirring a pot, whilst humming a chipper tune. She has long, dark blonde hair in to loose ponytails hanging down past her shoulders and an apron covers most of her. On her long nose rests a pair of green cat-eye glasses. This woman is MARGOT MORGANLANDER. She takes the pot off the eye and walks over to a set kitchen table. She begins spooning the contents into the bowls as she calls out.
A man enters through a swinging door. This is BOB MORGANLANDER. He looks older compared to his wife. Little gray patches here and there in his nicely trimmed beard and slicked back hair, horn-rimmed reading glasses on hide his brown eyes. He wears a suit and tie, with his suit jacket draped over his arm. He walks over to the head of the table and takes a seat.
He unfolds a newspaper and begins to read a section as Margot comes over with a coffee pot.
She fills his mug.
She giggles a little and then bends down to kiss him on the top of the head.
The camera whips around to Demonica standing in the doorway.
She walks over to her place at the table. Margot walks over to stand behind Bob.
She hugs Bob around the shoulders.
Margot and Bob laugh. Margot straightens out and puts a fist to her hip.
Angel enters the room in a rushed manner and makes a bee-line for her seat. She starts stuffing her face with chow. Margot walks over and puts her hand on her shoulder.
She gulps down her juice, turns the cup over and puts it inside the bowl, along with the spoon. She jumps up and hands it off to her mother and kisses her on the cheek.
She leans over to Bob and gives him a peck on the cheek.
She runs out the door.
Demonica grabs her book bag off the floor and snatches up Angel’s as well.
She runs after her as their parents smile and shake their heads.
EXT. J.T. MARLIN HIGH SCHOOL - DAY
Average sized building, appears to be two floors. The lawn is healthy and well-kempt. Some people are walking towards it, others are just standing around talking.
A signpost reads:
INT. J. T. MARLIN HIGH SCHOOL - HALLWAY - DAY
Typical public high school. Numerous teenagers crowd it with their bodies as well as their noise. Many of them stand there at thin, open lockers talking, others scurry off in an effort not to late for second bell. Littered papers and the like flood the floor. There’s a painting of a man at the end of the hall, probably the founder, that’s been marked up and grayed from the years of wear and tear. Angel is at the end of the hall, the last locker. She’s putting up her things, excitedly. Demonica is leaning on the locker next to her, smoking.
Angel closes her locker, puts her book bag on her shoulder and turns to her sister.
Angel shakes her head.
She pulls out a neon-green flyer and hands it to Demonica; she reads the heading aloud.
INT. CLASSROOM - DAY
Angel sits at her desk, listening to a teacher’s lecture, with half-lidded eye lids.
Static from the intercom pierces the ears of occupants. A female voice, firm and proper, begins to speak.
Most of the kids laugh at his immature outburst. The teacher looks at the boy with the threat of reprimand and shushes the giggling gaggle of sheep. The voice continues.
The rustling of paper is heard.
Angel brightens.
Some kids “aww”, others exclaim hissing yes’s.
The teacher shushes again.
Mrs. Buttercup claps as the class erupts in a chorus of disapproval.
INT. J.T. MARLIN HIGH - GIRL’S LAVATORY - DAY
Shabby. They’re several stalls that have broken doors that do not close or open. A few don’t even have doors. One girl is at the hand dryer, drying her hair. Another girl sits on the sill of a large window smoking a cigarette. There are three sinks with mirrors. Two girls stand at one, talking and applying make-up. The middle one is vacant, but the third is occupied by Angel. She's staring in the mirror, sans glasses. Suddenly, she PLUNGES her face into the waiting water in the sink and back out again. She uses some brown paper towel to dab her face dry. She undoes the scrunchi holding her hair in place and runs her fingers through it. She exhales and closes her eyes.
INT. J.T. MARLIN HIGH AUDITORIUM – DAY
A young woman dressed as Janet in a bra and half slip on stage, her screechy vocals belting out "Creature of the Night", dancing her heart out.
She stops in a pose and looks straight ahead, breathing heavily.
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A panel that consist of three judges. The first judge is female and she's smiling and clapping. The guy in the middle is writing something on a piece of paper. The third guy stares at her with his arms crossed. This is MR. BLACK, the drama teacher.
She starts to back out to exit stage left. You get the feeling she does this every year.
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A young man standing in center stage flailing his limbs to a falsetto version of Sweet Transvestite.
He starts to fall apart.
He strikes a dramatic pose and the female judge stands to clap excitedly.
You get the feeling he does this every year.
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A girl standing in center stage with her eyes closed. She's harmonizing with her finger in the air to show that she's feeling it. The female judge is looking at her with adoration, while Mr. Black rolls his eyes and lets his head fall back.
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Behind the curtain other hopefuls read over their scripts. Some sit, some stand, some pace, some rehearse together. Some even do scales. Angel sits in a chair, resting her chin in her hand, staring intently at the script. Her foot is tapping at an excessive rate. A hand comes down on her shoulder. She jumps at the touch. She looks up and it's Demonica, who takes the seat next to her.
Angel's smile fades.
Angel gives an incredulous look.
A close-up of a hallway clock. It strikes 2:30. A bell rings.
INT. J.T. MARLIN AUDITORIUM – DAY
The stage is set for the debate: two podiums, a table, and a chair for the moderator. On the table sits a pitcher and cups, papers, a gavel and block and a timer. Two girls stand behind the podiums. The one on the left is a bubbly blonde dressed in the pinnacle of dress. The obvious choice to win. The one on the right is the typical nerd-girl: glasses, crisp dress shirt, ratty ponytail, etc. She has a box of Kleenex on her podium. Currently, the blonde's talking.
Most of the crowd laughs, the teachers moderating the crowd try to tame them. The moderator at the head table bangs her gavel.
The audience quiets down.
She composes.
Audience Oohs.
Audience Oohs.
The timer dings.
MODERATOR
Now, we will hear from Matilda November.
Weak applause from the crowd. Some slow clapping from the peanut gallery.
The crowd BOOS.
The moderators in the audience try to tame them. Once it dies down a little, Matilda continues.
An assistant behind the curtain wheels out a huge sketch board.
The audience boos again.
INT. MORGANLANDER HOME - ANGEL'S ROOM – NIGHT
She's laying on her bed looking out at the rain on her window pane. Music BLASTS through her room.
Demonica comes to stand in the doorway. She calls out to her, but is drowned out by the music. Demonica goes over and turns the volume down.
She goes over to sit on the bed.
Angel keeps her eyes on a raindrop on the window as it smashes into another and forms a bigger drop, then smashes into another...
Angel curls up into the fetal position.
Lightning crashes.
Demonica sighs and gets up to leave. She turns the stereo back up and closes the door behind her.
INT. J.T. MARLIN LEFT CORRIDOR – DAY
Students are crowded around the bulletin board. Amongst them are Lucy, Ricky, Harmonizing Girl and of course Angel and Demonica. LUCY gets there first.
She runs off.
Ricky approaches.
He walks away singing.
Angel and Demonica approach at the same time, bumping into each other. They give each other kind of a stare down and then turns their attention to the sheet of paper.
Split Screen:
The tip of Demonica's finger as it traces down the page; Angel's eyes leading down the page
They reach "Magenta" at the same time. It reads...
...
...
...
Sandrine Marx
Sandrine Marx?
A girl appears, her hair in pig tails and a goofy grin on her face. She reads the paper and smiles harder.
EXT. HISCOCK STREET – DAY
Angel and Demonica walk down the street, both looking at the ground ahead of them. They sigh at the same time.
Angel stops.
She holds out her hand. Angel looks at it for a minute.
She takes her hand and they skip down the street together.
End Credits:
Credits Roll over various scenes of the play as "Hot Patootie" plays. At the end, the cast takes a bow. When they rise to stand, two masked figures dressed in black ASSAULT them with silly string.
Fade to static.