The Forsaken Forest: Script Available

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               The entire film is filmed from the perspective of hundreds
               of surveillance cameras. At some points we will have two,
               three and even four images up on screen simultaneously.
               It's like Big Brother gone crazy...

               We will find out why in due course.

               EXT. FOREST - NIGHT

               Two teenagers - SALLY and JOHN are running through the
               woods. The expression on their faces suggest they are
               TERRIFIED.

               They are being CHASED by something.

               They are both exhausted.

               Their clothes are torn and their faces are SCRATCHED from
               the branches of the undergrowth.

               The only source of illumination they have is a ZIPPO
               LIGHTER that John clutches in his hand and holds up in
               front of his face illuminating the forest and their faces
               in an EERIE GLOW.

               DARK SHAPES moves around them in the shadow of the forest,
               moving with speed and stealth. They are SURROUNDING the two
               teens.

               SALLY turns and SCREAMS out into the forest.

                                   SALLY
                         Who are you? What do you want?

               Her voice is ragged and raw. She has obviously screamed a
               lot today already.

               She gets no answer on a GIGGLING SOUND. The laughter comes
               from a girl / woman. It is teasing and almost SEDUCTIVE.

               The giggling sound comes from the LEFT and the two
               teenagers spin around and then more giggling comes from the
               RIGHT. Then in front and then BEHIND - Whatever it is that
               is in the forest with them there is more than ONE.

                                   SALLY
                         Get away from us!

               More giggling.

                                   SALLY
                         Leave us alone!

               John grabs her and drags her onwards.

                                   JOHN
                         Come on, we've got to keep
                         moving.

               They plunge further into the forest blindly and then...

               EXT. FOREST - HILL

               They trip and fall down a steep hill. John goes first and
               Sally falls with him and they crash down to the bottom of
               the hill.

               BOTTOM OF HILL

               Silence.

               And then...

               JOHN starts to SCREAM.

                                   JOHN
                         My leg. Oh God my leg!

               Sally scrambles over to him.

               She places a hand on his leg just as John flicks on the
               lighter again and as Sally pulls her hand away from his leg
               we can see that it is covered in BLOOD.

                                   SALLY
                             (hysterical)
                         Oh God.

               John moves the lighter over his leg and we see that it is
               all TWISTED and broken. It is lying in a position that is
               unnatural and impossible.

               There is a dark spreading patch on his trousers as they
               soak up the blood.

                                   JOHN
                         Oh God it hurts.

               SALLY starts to CRY.

               John grabs hold of her arm.

                                   JOHN
                         Take my weight.

               They try and stand but John just SCREAMS louder as his leg
               is jarred.

               They collapse back down to the ground.

                                   JOHN
                             (panting)
                         It's no good.

               His leg is totally MASHED.

               And then suddenly they hear that GIGGLING sound again and
               they spins around, peering blindly into the darkness.

               Sally whimpers.

               John grabs her.

                                   JOHN
                         Go.

                                   SALLY
                         I'm not leaving you.

               More GIGGLING and LAUGHTER - the voice is; beautiful,
               serene, angelic, seductive - a voice that is almost the
               wind.

               Close.

               Something moves in the darkness in front of them.

                                   JOHN
                         Go!

               She looks at him with a look of pure TERROR.

               Something moves JUST BEHIND THEM...

               John spins around.

                                   JOHN
                             (calling out)
                         Who are you?

               No answer.

               Just more of that damn laughter - both creepy and
               seductive.

               John holds the lighter up in front of his face and slowly
               (almost not wanting to) he strikes the flint.

               And standing there, barley glimpsed on the edge of the
               darkness is the MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL we have EVER SEEN in
               our lives.

               This woman is so beautiful it PHYSICALLY HURTS us in our
               stomachs. She is perfection. She is an angel on earth.

               She is as NAKED as the day she was born.

               John gasps in AWE at this beautiful creature before him.

               Sally slowly backs away.

               The NAKED WOMAN crouches down by John.

               She smiles at him.

               John is lost in her HYPNOTIC EYES.

               The woman raises a hand and softly runs it through John's
               hair and down his face.

               John doesn't move as much a millimeter. The pain in his leg
               is forgotten.

               The woman leans forward and KISSES John softly on his lips.

               John gasps again.

               The woman leans in again and kisses him, a little firmer
               now and John responds this time, kissing her back.

               Sally watches as her boyfriend is seduced in front of her
               eyes.

               John drops the lighter that he has clasped in his hand and
               it continues to burn on the ground, illuminating him in a
               ghostly flicker.

               SUDDENLY beside him TWO other women - both EQUALLY
               BEAUTIFUL and hypnotically seductive as the previous woman,
               creep out of the darkness and approach him.

               They are both NAKED as well.

               They begin to join in - kissing John and then kissing
               themselves and then John again, running their hands through
               his hair, kissing her on the side of her face and down her
               neck.

               They start to rip his clothes from her body.

               They start to make LOVE to John.

               Sally watches all of this half glimpsed from the flickering
               light of the zippo lighter.

               SUDDENLY:

               One of the women LOOKS UP at SALLY.

               She stares directly at her and...

               Her face changes for a fraction of a second.

               C/U her face - it changes from an angel to A MONSTROUS
               CREATURE, saliva dripping from her razor sharp fangs.

               Sally gets to her feet, the spell broken and RUNS.

               EXT. FOREST - SALLY

               Running as fast as she can - more desperate than ever
               before.

               SOUND: A monstrous blood curdling shriek.

               SOUND: John SCREAMING.

               Sally carries on running, tears streaming down her face.

               EXT. FOREST - SUNRISE

               It is dawn and we watch as the sun comes up over the
               forest.

               BACK TO SALLY:

               Still clambering blindly through the woods.

               Her face is covered with mud with tracks of flesh showing
               where she has been crying.

               Her clothes, shredded and ripped are covered in mud, dried
               blood, fresh blood and sweat.

               She is almost delirious with fear and exhaustion, muttering
               to herself as he staggers onwards and then she STOPS in her
               TRACKS...

               A ROAD IN THE FOREST

               Like a mirage in front of her eyes.

               She can't believe it. She is saved.

               She doesn't notice the dark shapes moving around in the
               forest - She is NOT ALONE!

               She gets to the road, barley able to hide her euphoria.

               She stands there for a second. Nothing. Not even the vague
               distant sound of traffic.

                                   SALLY
                             (muttering under his
                              breath)
                         Come on, come on.

               Probably hasn't been a car along here for a week.

               SOUND: laughter

               She spins around and stares into the forest with a whimper
               of terror.

               Standing half glimpsed in the shadows of the trees is one
               of the naked women (after what we saw last night we shall
               now refer to them as SIRENS - they are obviously NOT
               HUMAN!).

               Sally stares at the Siren, caught like a rabbit in the
               headlights of an oncoming car. She is TERRIFIED and yet
               TOTALLY ENCHANTED BY THEIR BEAUTY.

                                   SALLY
                         No, please leave me alone.

               She back away slowly.

               She turns to run...

               And BEHIND her on the other side of the road are the other
               TWO Sirens.

               Sally starts to cry.

               No way out.

               SOUND: The screeching of breaks.

               Sally turns just in time to see a VW CAMPER VAN careering
               towards her and then...

               It SLAMS straight into her.

                                                       FADE TO BLACK.

                                                             FADE IN:

               EXT. FOREST - VAN

               The van has smashed into a tree and smoke is rising from
               it's engine.

               The Sirens are nowhere to be seen.

               FROM THE VAN:

               Five teenagers scramble out badly shaken.

               EMILIO, JUDD, ANDREW, MOLLY, ALLY.

                                   ALLY
                             (hysterical)
                         What the hell happened?

               All of them look over towards Emilio who had been driving.

               Judd rubs his tired face wearily.

                                   JUDD
                         Man that was some wake up call.

               He walks around the van and takes a look at the tree that
               it is wrapped around.

                                   JUDD
                         Hey next time you could try using
                         the breaks if you want to stop.
                         It's a lot more effective.

               The others walk around and join Judd looking at the damage.

               ANDREW whistles under his breath.

                                   ANDREW
                         Man, that's some ding.

               He turns around to Emilio who is walking out to the middle
               of the road.

                                   ANDREW
                         Hey what happened back there
                         Emilio?

               But Emilio isn't listening to him. He's staring at
               something in the middle of the road.

                                   ANDREW
                         You fall asleep at the wheel?

               Judd silences him by putting a restraining hand on his arm.

               He looks at Emilio standing there standing at something.

                                   JUDD
                         What have you got there Emilio?

               He steps forward and the others follow behind. They head
               round the bus and stand behind Emilio.

               Ally SCREAMS!

               Lying in the middle of the road is SALLY.

               C/U SALLY - She lies on the ground staring up at the sky.
               She is still alive but blood and trickling out of her mouth
               and a pool of blood is spreading around her body.

               She is badly injured.

                                   MOLLY
                             (under her breath)
                         Oh my God.

               She rushes over to Sally and crouches down beside her.

                                   MOLLY
                         She's still alive. Someone get me
                         the first aid kit from the van.

               She looks up at the others who are all standing there
               staring at her in horror.

                                   MOLLY
                         Now!

               Judd gets moving and fetches the first aid kit and crouches
               down beside her and Molly opens it up.

                                   JUDD
                         Is she going to be alright?

                                   MOLLY
                         I don't know.

               She starts to clean her up a little.

                                   MOLLY
                             (to John)
                         Hey can you hear me?

               Sally stares up at her with blank eyes.

                                   JOHN
                         Fla blu hmm fl ti gllabu.

               Blood trickles out of her mouth.

                                   JUDD
                         She's out of it.

                                   MOLLY
                         If we don't get her to a hospital
                         soon she's going to die.

               Judd nods and turns to the others.

                                   JUDD
                         We need to get the van on the
                         road again.

               He walks over and gets into the drivers side and tries
               turning over the engine.

               Nothing happens except for a hideously nasty grating sound.

               Andrew WINCES and walks over to Judd, leaning in the
               window.

                                   ANDREW
                         Jesus man, it sounds like my
                         Grandma first thing in the
                         morning.

                                   JUDD
                         Isn't she dead?

                                   ANDREW
                         Exactly man, exactly.

               Judd tries it one last time. This van is fucked.

               Andrew looks down at his feet. Something - probably oil is
               POURING OUT from under the engine and towards his feet.

                                   ANDREW
                         Oh man that don't look good.

               Judd leans out and takes a look at what Andrew is staring
               at.

                                   JUDD
                         You're Grandma used to do that as
                         well?

                                   ANDREW
                         Doesn't everyone's?

               Judd gets out of the van and turns to Molly.

                                   JUDD
                         The van's not going anywhere.

               Andrew takes out his phone. Maybe they can call for help.
               The RECEPTION BAR shows nothing.

                                   ANDREW
                         I'm not getting anything on my
                         phone.

               The others get their phones out.

                                   JUDD
                         Same here.

               A general murmur of agreement from the others.

                                   ALLY
                             (panicked)
                         So now what? I mean we're in the
                         middle of nowhere here. How are
                         we going to get out of here?

               Silence. No one really knows what to do.

                                   MOLLY
                         Hey take a look at this.

               The others turn to her as she takes something off Sally's t
               shirt.

                                   JUDD
                         What is it?

               He walks over to her.

                                   MOLLY
                         It looks like some kind of tiny
                         microphone.

               They stare at it for a moment before Andrew takes it off
               them.

                                   ANDREW
                         It's not a microphone it a
                         camera.

                                   JUDD
                         What the hell is she doing with a
                         microscopic camera on her?

                                   ANDREW
                         What the hell was she doing out
                         here in the first place man, I
                         mean we're in the middle of
                         fucking nowhere here.

               Judd nods - suddenly that seems a very major thing. What
               the hell was she doing out here?

               He stares around him at the endless woods that encircle
               them.

               He turns to Molly.

                                   JUDD
                         The scratches on her face and
                         arms and the tears of her
                         clothes. Did that happen when we
                         hit her?

               Molly shakes her head.

                                   MOLLY
                         Tree branches, undergrowth, that
                         kind of thing most likely.

               Judd nods and then turns back to the woods.

                                   ANDREW
                             (following his gaze into
                              the woods)
                         You think she was running from
                         something?

               Judd shrugs.

                                   JUDD
                         Did you see the amount of missing
                         persons posters in the toilet of
                         that diner we passed last night?

               Andrew nods.

               Judd turns to Emilio.

                                   JUDD
                         What happened?

               Emilio is still looking blankly at Sally. Judd grabs him by
               the shoulders and SHAKES him gently.

                                   JUDD
                         Emilio I need you to tell me what
                         happened.

               Emilio looks up at him for the first time. His whole body
               is SHAKING. He is almost crying.