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CHERRY FALLSSCREENPLAY BY KEN SELDENFIRST DRAFTFEBRUARY 14, 1998FADE IN:EXT. TOWN - NIGHTThe hanging sign says Entering Cherry Falls, OhioWe see Cherry Falls - A small town in rural Northeastern Ohio. This isNorman Rockwell land, red barns on dirt roads, a square in the center oftown. But thin
kids
on the staircase notice him. He almost trips on one. They start whispering
to each other, freaked out that a teacher is there. More and more kids
start looking up The party has definitely been disturbed.
INT. MASTER BEDROOM
Jody hears the disturbance. She stops Kenny and listens.
INT. BEDROOM
Leonard checks another bedroom. He flips the lights on. No Jody, no Kenny.
He leaves. More and more kids notice him.
INT. MASTER BEDROOM
Jody and Kenny know he's close. Leonard appears in the doorway.
KENNY
(whispering)
It's him.
Leonard accidentally steps on a boy's hand as he enters the room. The boy,
JIMMY, is pissed off. He looks up and realizes who it is.
LEONARD
Pay no attention to me.
JIMMY
What are you doing here?
BOY ACROSS THE ROOM
He's looking to get laid.
JIMMY'S GIRLFRIEND
Mr. Marliston?
She grabs her clothes, embarrassed. Jimmy gets up. He's very drunk. Kenny
and Jody peek out from under their sheet.
JIMMY
You fucked me up!
LEONARD
What?
JIMMY
You gave me a 'D'.
LEONARD
I'm sure you should have failed.
JIMMY
I was grounded for two fucking
months because of you!
Jody knows her friend is in danger.
JODY
Jimmy leave him alone! He's
imbalanced.
Leonard sees Jody. He starts toward her but Jimmy stupidly jumps in his
way.
LEONARD
Please get out of my way
or I'll have to hurt you.
JIMMY
I knew you were a pervert.
Always wearing those fucking doofy
glasses, and driving a station wagon.
JODY
He's dangerous Jimmy!
JIMMY
So am I! I'm gonna rip your cock off
Marliston!
LEONARD
Touch?
Leonard winds back, slashes at Jimmy, lopping off his dick. Blood flies
up, splatters across Jimmy's face. Jimmy screams. Leonard slashes open his
neck. Blood splatters everywhere, on kid's backs, faces, butts.
His girlfriend screams as Jimmy falls to the ground, dying.
Leonard begins to panic. So do the kids. Leonard sees Jody across the room
and starts toward her as the other kids in the room rise to their feet and
stampede the fuck out of dodge like a herd of frightened elephants.
INT. DIFFERENT BEDROOM
Kids in other rooms hear the commotion and break their embraces.
BOY(O.C.)
Run! Mr. Marliston's here!
And he's horny!
Panic sweeps through the whole party. Everyone wants out.
INT. BEDROOM
Leonard can't get to Jody because too many kids are trying to get out the
bedroom door, pushing toward it, sweeping him up in their flow. It has
turned quickly into chaos with a teenage logjam at the door.
Leonard keeps his eyes pinned on Jody across the room, through the bodies.
He can't make headway so he raises the razor to slash way to her. Jody
sees him raise the razor.
JODY
No!
Leonard starts slashing his way toward Jody. He slashes a girl across the
stomach, a boy across the face, a girl across the breasts. It's a
bloodbath, everyone's screaming.
KIDS' bodies fall to the ground, tripping people, creating even more
chaos.
Leonard loses his balance and is pushed to the ground as kids stampede
over him.
INT. MASTER BEDROOM
Jody and Kenny try to make it to the door.
Leonard tries to get up but he can't. He starts crawling toward Jody,
slashing the legs of a couple of kids who are in his way, sending them to
the ground. One kid does a back flip through a glass coffee table,
exploding it, sending a shard of glass out his throat. Blood sprays across
the ceiling like a lawn sprinkler.
Through the sea of legs, Leonard sees Jody's leg, the 'VIR' still freshly
carved. He slashes his way towards Jody.
EXT. HOUSE
Half naked kids come streaming out of the house, it's a bizarre sight.
Some of them stop and scream, noticing the deputy (his body has been hung
upside down from a telephone pole, and disemboweled). The house is almost
bursting as kids climb out the windows and appear from the back.
INT. STAIRWELL
Too many kids are trying to get out at one. The staircase and all the
hallways start totally backed up but all the kids keep pushing forward.
Something's got to give.
INT. BEDROOM
Leonard keeps crawling toward Jody, getting closer and closer. He
scrunches over Jimmy's severed penis, staining his khakis with gore.
LEONARD
Come on! These are eighty dollar
INDEPENDENT khakis! Limited Edition!
God damn it!
INT. STAIRWELL
The pushing continues. There's nowhere to go. A boy gets pushed over the
balcony, falling to the ground below.
INT. BEDROOM
Leonard is just a few feet from Jody's leg.
Jody and Kenny push closer to the door.
Leonard reaches for Jody's leg. He can't quite grab it.
Kenny and Jody reach the door. They're almost out. Leonard lungs and grabs
Jody's leg.
Jody screams out in pain, falls into the crowd.
JODY
Kenny!
Kenny tries to grab for her but he can't reach her. The force of the mob
pushes him out the door, through the vortex.
INT. UPSTAIRS
Kids jam the staircase. There's too many trying to get down at once.
Everyone's
still pushing. The kids on the staircase can't keep their position and
start falling forward, pushing harder.
INT. BEDROOM
Leonard keeps hold of Jody's leg and pulls her toward him.
EXT. BALCONEY
Kenny tries to get back to Jody but there's no way he can make headway
back into that room.
KENNY
Jody?!
The staircase is now jammed with people, starts to buckle.
The banister breaks. Kids start falling off the balcony and staircase,
onto kids below, CRACKING SKULLS, breaking bones.
INT. DOWNSTAIRS
Lamps smash to the ground. Tables are trampled. Basically, the entire
inside of the house is destroyed in the stampede which puts something out
of fucking JUMANJI to shame.
INT. BEDROOM
Leonard gets hold of Jody's waist and pulls her towards him, razor ready.
INT. UPSTAIRS CORRIDOR
Everyone gives one final push out. Kenny is swept on to the staircase. It
can't take the pressure and finally cracks.
Kids tumble on top of each other falling to the floor below as the
staircase splinters. Hurt kids are everywhere as more and more get pushed
over the edge. It's a disaster. Broken boned teenagers litter the floor
like it were a battlefield.
Kenny manages to grab hold of the second floor as kids fall past him.
The whole house begins to buckle.
INT. BEDROOM
The room empties as the kids push out. Leonard pulls Jody up next to him
and puts the razor to her neck. He draws the first spot of blood.
JODY
Please! You wouldn't kill your
sister, would you?
LEONARD
You think you're my sister?
INT. STAIRCASE
Kenny manages to pull himself back up to the second floor.
INT. BEDROOM
Jody turns to look at LEONARD as Kenny appears in the doorway.
JODY
We have the same color eyes.
He looks into her eyes.
LEONARD
You're right. We do.
Leonard stares at Jody for a moment, relaxing his grip, giving Kenny just
the break he needs to dive for Leonard's arm, surprising him, knocking him
over. They struggle for the razor but Leonard overpowers him and grabs it,
cutting his own hand. He turns and slices Kenny down the side, cutting him
deep.
Kenny fights off the pain and leaps on Leonard's back, grabbing his arm
around the neck.
Leonard stands up and twirls around, trying to knock Kenny off his back,
smashing him into walls.
Kenny screams in pain, but doesn't let go, pulling at Leonard's face and
throat.
Leonard spins faster.
JODY struggles to her feet, holding her neck, still losing a little blood.
Kenny's grips start to slip as Leonard reaches back, to slice him across
the face and neck.
LEONARD, backs up towards the window, slips over a dildo. He screams,
loses his grip on Kenny, goes crashing out the second story window.
EXT. HOUSE
Leonard crashes to the ground below, landing on his back on the front
steps.
INT. BEDROOM
Jody looks out after him. He looks up to her. Their eyes meet.
EXT. HOUSE
KIDS start circling Leonard.
Leonard gets to his knees, still holding the razor. They start taunting
him.
BOY 1
It's the freak!
The kids inch closer to Leonard.
GIRL 1
He's still got the blade!
One kid kicks him. Leonard slashes at the kid, but misses. Another boy
kicks the knife out of his hands. A third picks it up.
BOY 3
Come on! It's fuck him up time!
One boy kicks Leonard in the face. Another kicks him in the ribs, another
in the balls. Leonard tries to fight back for a second but slowly they all
descend on him, taking turns kicking and beating the ever living shit out
of him. It's a feeding frenzy. He disappears under the angry mob of
teenagers.
INT. BEDROOM
Jody helps Kenny to his feet.
KENNY
Come on. Lets get out of here.
EXT. FRONT YARD
Police cars screech to a stop out front. The kids are all disappearing off
down the street.
JODY AND KENNY emerge out the front door, look down at LEONARD, barely
alive, lying at bloody mess at the base of the steps.
LEONARD
J-Jody. P-please help me.
Please.
Leonard spits up blood. Jody squeals. Kenny covers her eyes.
CLOSE on the BALCONY overhead. The railing breaks off and the balcony
comes crashing down, falling on Leonard, killing him. Jody embraces Kenny
tightly.
KENNY
It's all over now.
dissolve to:
EXT. AVON LAKE CEMETERY
Cemetery- Brent's coffin is in a grave. People are leaving the funeral.
Jody is with her Mom. They are the last ones there. They watch as the
workers start to throw dirt on the coffin.
Jody takes her mom's hand in her own. They're close again.
Dissolve to:
INT. JODY'S BEDROOM - A MONTH LATER
It's night. Jody is asleep.
EXT. BEDROOM
Someone is in the shadows outside, climbing up to her bedroom window.
INT. BEDROOM
Intruder's POV - Through the window, Jody is sound asleep in her bed,
vulnerable.
The window opens. Someone steps in and moves quietly over to the edge of
the bed. She wakes, startled. She looks up. IT'S KENNY.
KENNY
(smiling)
I'm all out of patience.
He climbs in her bed and takes her. She lets him. She's into it.
A pair of eyes peer through the slates of Jody's closet door. Someone is
hidden in her closet.
KILLER'S POV - Jody and Kenny are now in the middle of making love for the
first time. It's getting hot.
JODY
Oh God, this is the way it
should be.
The closet door opens. The real LISA SHERMAN is there. Maybe she wasn't
dead after all!
She starts toward Jody, raising a huge butcher knife over her head.
Jody sees her and screams.
The knife comes down toward the center of Kenny's back.
His face contorts as the knife enters his body. Jody screams as he coughs
up blood all over her breasts.
He looks helplessly at Jody, dying as the knife comes down again.
But now it's her father who's doing the stabbing!
INT. JODY'S BEDROOM
Jody wakes up from her dream, startled and shaken. She looks next to
herself in bed. Kenny is lying there asleep, smiling, probably dreaming of
her. The window is open. He must have climbed in.
There is a little red spot on the sheet next to her.
She cuddles up next to him as the sun starts to rise outside.
Dissolve to:
EXT. CHERRY FALLS
The entrance to the town. The hanging sign reads 'Entering Cherry Falls,
Ohio'.
The beautiful town is now peaceful again. The crickets are chirping, the
robins begin cooing. Suddenly a window comes up and the hanging sign
begins to sway back and forth, almost on its own.
CUT TO BLACK
THE END
