SCREAM

[phone ringing]
[ringing stop]
[cell phone keypad clicking]
[Messages with amber]
Tara: Moms out of town again. YOU should come over HERE. Free
dinner. Many binge watch options
Amber: have to do better
Tara: unlocked liquor cabinet
Amber: SOLD!
[phone ringing]
Tara: fucking landline won’t stop ringing.
Amber: is Wes still bugging you?
[continues ringing]
Tara: hello?
Charlie : hello. Is Cristina there.
Tara: No, she’s not available. May i take a message.
Charlie: Uh. Yeah, well, um… yeah, sorry. I’m a friend of hers from
group- - Oh, shit.
Tara: from her shit?
Charlie : Um. Look, just tell her I’m from group. I’m Charlie. She’s got
my number.
Tara: Oh, she goes to your group.
Charlie: look, I shouldn’t have, uh… just tell her that Charlie called.
Tara: And I Will do exactly that, Charlie, once you tell me what kind of
group, we’re talking about—is it AA? NA?
Charlie: that’s—you know, I cant—
Charlie: well, you sound exactly like she describes you.
Tara: Uh. She talks about me in group?
Charlie: Look, I don’t think I can really talk about that.
Tara: what does she say about me?
Charlie: well, she loves you very much.
Tara: Oh. What does she love about me?
Charlie: Oh, okay. Well, she loves that you’re creative. You love art and
tv and movies.
Tara: okay, well, lots of people love movies
Charlie: yeah, but she says you love scary movies and that you guys
have that in common. She’s proud of making a fan out of you.
Tara: She is?
Charlie: favorite scary movie?
Tara: Uh. The Babadook. It’s an amazing meditation on motherhood and
grief.
Charlie: [laughs] isn’t that a little fancy pants?
Tara: well, its elevated horror
Charlie: Uh-huh. What does that mean, “elevated horror”?
Tara: you know, it’s scary but with complex emotional and thematic
underpinnings, it’s not just some schlocky, cheeseball nonsense with
wall-to-wall jump scares.
Charlie: Hmm. That sounds kind of boring to me. Have your ever seen
stab?
Tara: Once, I think. At a sleepover when I was, like, 12.
Charlie: ¨[chuckles] you live in Woodsboro, and you don’t know stab?
Your mother loves that movie. She talks about it all the time in group.
How well do you remember the original?
Tara: I don’t know--I mean, it was super 90s
[Charlie chuckles]
Tara: it was really over-lit, and everyone had weird hair
Charlie: Uh-huh. Do you remember the beginning?
Tara: not really. It stared with a kill scene, right? They always stared
with a kill scene.
Charlie: yeah, that’s right. That’s right it’s a girl at home, alone, she
answers a wrong number and stars talking with the killer who makes her
play a game. Would you like to play game… Tara?
[eerie music playing]
[phone thuds]
[breathes heavily]
¨[Automated voice] systems armed
[ cell phone keypad clicking]
[messages with amber]
Tara: dude I think this is my mom’s new BF
Amber: seriously???
Tara: it was some psycho. I’m locking the doors.
[crickets chirping]
[dog barking]
[phone beeps]
[eerie music concludes]
Amber: WTF??? You, okay?
Tara: I’m fine, I…
[phone ringing]
[gasps, breathes heavily]
[insidious music playing]
Amber: you should answer it
Tara: how did you know my landline was ringing?
Tara: Amber?
Amber: this isn’t Amber
Amber: ANSWER THE PHONE BITCH
[phone beeps]
Amber: ANSWERD THE PHONE OR AMBER DIES
[answer the phone]
Tara: this isn’t fucking funny, amber.
Charlie: I told you, this isn’t Amber.
[phone chimes]
Charlie¸: ambers looking particularly fetching tonight. She really
shouldn’t leave her phone lying around anyone to clean.
Tara: what do you want?
Charlie. I told you; I want to play a game. Stab movie trivia, three
rounds. You call the cops, she dies. You get a question wrong; she dies.
Her parents aren’t home. I can be in that room in 15 seconds.
[Tara whimpers]
Charlie: you want warmup questions?
Tara: I told you I don’t know these movies! Ask me about something I
do know. Ask me about it follows, ask me about the Hereditary, ask me
about the witch.
Charlie: in the first stab movie, what Woodsboro native was introduced
as the franchises main character?
Tara: its Sidney Prescott [¨sniffles] its Sidney Prescott and she lived on
Elm.
Charlie: correct. You see, you’re gonna do great at this. Okay, questions
one—
Tara: no, no, no, no. I got that one right it should count.
Charlie: anyone could have gotten that one right. Sidney’s in every
movie but the last one. Questions one. who wrote the original book that
the stab movies are based on?
Tara: um [sniffles] um…the…the chick from tv!
Charlie: “the chick from TV” is not gonna cut it, Tara.
Tara: oh! Gale weathers! It is gale weathers, you motherfucker!
Charlie: correct. Amber might live to see the sunrise. Questions two.
Who played the dumb bitch in the beginning of stab 1 who answers the
phone and gets carved up by the killer?
Tara: fuck you
Charlie: is that answer you’re going with?
[sobs]
Charlie: a non-answer counts a wrong answer, Tara. Times running out-
ticktock, ticktock, ticktock, ticktock.
[cries]
Tara. Heather graham!
Charlie: correct! You pulled that one out now for the final questions-who
was the killer in stab 1 –[sobbing]
Tara: oh, I know this one, you fuck its Billy Loomis its Billy Loomis,
and he was Sidney’s boyfriend, and he was played by Luke Wilson, and
I got you, asshotel! [ laughs] I got it! I got it right!
Charlie: oh, I’m sorry, Tara, but that’s just not correct.
Tara: what? No, no, no, no, it is, it is, that is right
Charlie: the correct answer is Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. There are
two killers in the original stab. I’m afraid someone’s got to die now.
Tara: no, no, no. Amber, I’m coming.
[metal clangs]
[intense music playing]
Tara: fuck, fuck, fuck [screams]
[slices] [groans] [grunts][strains][groans] [grunting, panting] [sobbing]
[automated voice] all systems armed.
[beeping][banging on door] [whimpers]
Tara: the police are on their way, asshole! [banging continues]
[sobs]
[automated voice] automated voice [sobs]
[automated voice] all systems armed.
automated voice
Tara: oh, my god. No
[automated voice] all systems armed.
All systems disarmed. All systems armed [lock clicks, unclicks]
All systems disarmed.
[sobbing]- [automated voice] all systems armed.
[phone ringing]
[screams] [sobbing] [continues ringing] [breathes shakily]
Tara: hello
Ghostface: bonus questions, Tara
Tara: please stop.
Ghostface: do you think I made it inside your house before you could
rearm. [suspenseful music playing] [screams, grunts] [slices] [Ghostface
grunts] [screams] [cries] [ groans] [bone cracks] [screams] [screaming]
[sobbing]
Tara: help! [sobs] [siren wailing] [screams] no, no, no! no!