Nightmare

Noah Roscoe
TITLE?
ICA 2009
Synopsis: Nightmare Film

FADE IN:
Driving fast through the middle of a street late at night (first person - in car), a boy is on his way home. He is going to fast down “Mile Lane” In Ipswich Mass. In an instant, a small docile animal (rabbit or something) jolts across the street in front of him; tries to stop but hits the animal because he is going to fast. He stops his car with a jolt a few feet up from the crash. He gets out leaving his door open. He walks to the dead animal carcass covered with blood. He looks at it with very little caring for the body; He looks around to make sure no one is around. He picks it up with his hands and holds it for a minute. He then takes it off the road into the woods and puts it in the snow. He looks at it for another second then walks off. He gets into his car and goes the right speed for the rest of the way home. When he gets home he takes his shoes off and locks the door. He goes into his room, and walks into his bathroom. He looks at himself in his mirror. He looks tired and beat. He rubs his eyes after washing his hands. He turns on the shower, puts toothpaste on his toothbrush and puts that in his mouth so he can take his cloths off. He then gets into the shower and proceeds to brush his teeth under the showers running water. He gets out and dry’s off. He goes into his room, turns his light off and lies down in his bed. He looks up at the ceiling, not thinking about the animal he killed from going to fast. The camera does a time-lapse of him falling asleep. Possible animation here
The camera then fades into a seemingly normal awakening of this boy. (He gets up, yawns, and looks at a calendar above his bed. The day is Jan. 16. Then he looks out his window to see snow on the fence outside his house. He looks at it for a minute, and then walks into his bathroom to brush his teeth at the sink. After this, he takes a piss and walks downstairs into a kitchen. He makes himself two pieces of toast and spreads jam on them. He sits at the table and looks out his window again. He sees the snow and proceeds to bite into his toast. He chews it for a minute then looks disgusted as he spits out the mush in his mouth that seems too red to be jam, and has a salty taste that is noticeable by his facial expression. He looks at his toast which has blood all over it where the jam would have been. He looks scared and runs to the sink to wash his mouth out with the faucet. After this, he goes back to the toast which now just has jam then to the fridge to look at the jam jar which to his surprise is just filled with jam not blood. He feels discomforted by this and does not know why it happened. He has a indescribable dramatic reaction to this.
He goes up to his room to calm down and grabs a sketchbook. He sits in his chair and puts the drawing book on His leg. He starts to draw for a while; he looks out his window again and sees a bird fly by. He looks back down to his drawing, and is shocked to see that he has no pants and a tattoo gun in his hand and he has been making a tattoo of the drawing on his leg where the sketchbook was. He hears the buzzing noise of the tattoo gun and throws it to the floor. He runs to the bathroom to wash off all the blood and ink on his leg but when he gets in there he’s wearing pants. He is confused and pulls them off to look at his leg which has nothing on it. He goes back into the other room and looks at his sketchbook. There is a drawing of the tattoo on the sketchbook. He rubs his face and looks pale. He sits back down for a minute to take a breath, he is kind of scared. He looks at the clock and its time for work.
He takes a pill from a prescription bottle next to him and pops it with a drink of water from his sink. He then puts on his cloths for work (suit, tie) He walks outside after locking his door and goes to his car.
He gets in and shivers because it’s so cold. He puts the keys in the ignition but his car wont start. He has a bad feeling about this. He gets out and opens his hood. In his engine is a dead animal or a road kill. He becomes scared again and rubs his eyes, when he opens them again there is no animal in his engine. He gets back in his car and turns his radio on. He waits for a few minutes and tries to turn his car on. It works. While his car warms up, he proceeds to leave his driveway. He drives down Mile Lane where the night before he had killed the animal. He looks out his window for a second. He then glances at his passenger seat and yells because he sees a bloody pile of flesh and meat sitting on the seat or possibly a man in a bunny suit with his guts hanging out. He looses control of his car out of horror and drives into a snow pile getting stuck. He immediately scampers out of his car into the road and gets sick. He gets up after a few seconds and looks back into his car to see nothing in the seat. He is confused and scared, but gets his car unstuck with a shovel in the trunk. He gets back in and drives to work. He feels strange but again, shrugs it off. When he gets to work he stands at a register, he helps customers, until a customer comes in wearing a shirt with the animal he killed on it. He realizes this, and remembers the night before. He does not say anything out of the ordinary to the customer, rings them in, takes their money and closes the register. When the next customer comes in, he takes their money and proceeds to put it in the register, but when he opens it, it’s filled with blood and flesh. He screams and the customer looks shocked. He tells his boss to look in the register but it’s just filled with money. He draws a sweat and looks sick. His boss sends him home because of is sickly appearance. He tells him to take the rest of the day off.
At this point it is dusk and raining, He drives through town to avoid the road he killed the animal on, there are two sides of the street, when he looks to one side he sees two men beating another man to a pulp. He is shocked. He pulls over to try to help, but when he gets out it is too late. A man lays on the ground dead. To his other side he sees people walking with umbrellas to not get wet, but they are upside own so as to catch water rather than keep them dry. He runs over to them to tell them what’s on the other side of the road. They all simultaneously flip their umbrellas over as soon as his foot hits the curb. When they flip them over, it’s not water that pours our but blood. He stops in his tracks as these blood covered people walk with regular umbrellas down the street as normally as before. He looks at the bloody people walk as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened. He runs to his car. He gets in and drives off fast and scared. (There is room for improvement in this scene big time.)
On his way home he gets flustered, he looks scared, is sweating, and looks unhealthy. When he gets home he goes inside. He sits in a chair near his kitchen and thinks about the things that have happened. He rubs his forehead. Through facial expressions you can tell he is thinking about all the surreal things that have happened to him that day. He thinks long and hard in the chair. He goes up to his room and into his bathroom. He thinks a shower and a good night’s sleep may calm him down. He walks to his room. He takes his cloths off and takes his toothbrush from the sink and puts toothpaste on it. He gets in the shower. He brushes his teeth, and washes off. He gets proceeds to grab a towel to dry off; he looks in the mirror to see a red figure where he would stand over the mirror from the heat and water. He rubs away the dew on the mirror to see his face, covered in blood as if the shower had been spewing blood onto him rather than water. He screams and runs out of the bathroom and falls to the floor covered with blood still he begins to weep slightly as he looks at his red hands and arms. He closes his eyes tightly and opens them. When he opens his eyes he is wet and cold. He is covered with water. He goes back into the bathroom to dry off. After this he goes to his bed to lie down. He closes his eyes and tries to sleep. But as soon as he closes his eyes he wakes up. He looks at the ceiling. He looks at the calendar above his bed, January 16 again. He realizes that everything that happened was a nightmare. Then looks out the window to see snow on the fence outside his house He holds a sigh of relief and sits up in his bed. He looks to the chair in his room and his heart drops. In the chair is a black figure with a robotic looking face. The two look at each other for a second. The figure stands, the boy is far to petrified to say or do anything. He stares at the figure as it stands and slowly creeps towards his bed. When it gets to the foot the boy is so scared, he looks at the black S&M man, creature, and then, in an instant, the figure leaps towards him to cover his body in a missionary position type of position. He screams, but it is muffled by the figures black leathery skin covering his mouth.
FADE OUT

Notes:
Dream sequence is really a nightmare.

Each bloody occurrence represents the animal’s death in the beginning in a more grotesque form

The people fighting scene represents the killing innocent killing of the animal

Tattooing is the pain of the animal, into himself because of recognition of pain

The points made can be interpreted in different ways

Needs creative work on most parts of scenes. Talk to Brendan and Lenora

Interpret all the scenes and write it down for yourself - Noah

bathroom (the room and bathroom are connected “Noah’s Room”) p1

viewer sees strange obscure things throughout the dream sequence in the background that no one in the film notices.

Possible Animation for falling asleep

Arnofsky requiem quick second theme

Store – Conley’s?

In scene with umbrellas – talk to Brendan, the people wear suits and ties like a uniform.? He passes the site of the killing?

Shoot snow scenes first because of loss of snow.

Talk to Adam abot last half p. 6 8

Talk to B. this weekend about umbrella scene p.6