This is a short horror/thriller movie script I wrote a while back that I will be filming into a movie soon.

Let me know what you think. I welcome all feedback. Thank you and enjoy.

Mister E.

The formatting is going to be different since it's copy and pasted onto here.

FADE IN:

INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - DAY

TEDDY LANDERS, a 25 year old guy with sleep bags under his
eyes, walks back and forth in the small office in a panic and
talking quickly.

An office adorned with diplomas and certificates on the
walls. Pictures of families, plants and posters also lighten
up the room.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (28), sits in her chair behind her desk
littered with manila folders, a computer and a coffee cup.

She stares at Teddy as he lectures on in his crazy paranoia
way while pacing back and forth. Patricia pays close
attention at him and writes some notes on her notepad.

Some of the notes she jots down:

HYSTERICAL
PACES BACK AND FORTH IN A FRENZY
NEEDS MEDICATION PRONTO (with a circle around "PRONTO")

TEDDY LANDERS
I know this sounds crazy, doctor.
I know you hear these types of
stories everyday from other people
like me. But you have to
understand that what has happened
to me might just come true.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
Why do you say that, Mr. Landers?

TEDDY LANDERS
Because it felt real!

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
All dreams feel real to everyone,
but once they wake up from their
"dream realm," they'll come to
learn that it was. . .just a dream.

TEDDY LANDERS
I've obviously had dreams that
felt real, doctor Moyers and I
knew that they were just dreams.
A lot of people have them, I'm
sure you've had these dreams too.
(more)

2.

TEDDY LANDERS (cont'd)
But these latest dreams I've been
having, it's something much
different. It really does feel
real.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
Tell me about your dream, Mr.
Landers.

Teddy walks over to the office window, bends open three
blades from the closed blinds and stares out into the street
with a worried look on his face. He looks almost pale in
complexion and the bags under his eyes look deeper.

TEDDY LANDERS
I'm too scared, Doctor Moyers. It
makes me cringe just thinking
about it.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
What is so scary about your
dreams?

TEDDY LANDERS
It's one continuous dream,
(trying to remember)
a-a. . .

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
A reoccurring dream?

TEDDY LANDERS
Yeah, that's it. I've had many
dreams before, very scary dreams.
But this one, this one single
dream scares the shit outta me.
I've been too scared to fall
asleep. I've been keeping myself
up by taking as much caffeine and
uppers as I can take. Anything to
keep me from sleeping.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
That's very dangerous, Mr. Landers.

3.

TEDDY LANDERS
Anything's better than fallen
asleep. But I'm seeing strange
things that aren't really there.
I think I've hit part of the phase
where the hallucinations begin.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
(worried)
Can you tell me how long you've
been keeping yourself awake?

TEDDY LANDERS
Going on three days now.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
Mr. Landers, if you do not get a
full sleep you may die.

TEDDY LANDERS
If I go to sleep I will die! You
don't understand what's happening
to me. No one does, no one ever
will. They think I'm fucking
crazy!

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
Alright. Why don't you lay down on
the couch and-

TEDDY LANDERS
I don't want to lay down, I don't
want to rest, I don't want to
sleep! How difficult is that for
you to understand?

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
Fine, Mr. Landers-

TEDDY LANDERS
And STOP calling me, "Mr.
Landers!" Teddy, call me "Teddy!"
I hate it when you call me "Mr.
Landers." It sounds so formal.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
That's because it is formal. Can
you please explain your dream to
me?

4.

TEDDY LANDERS
I will, but I don't want to sit
down.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
You don't have to sit down, Teddy
if you don't want to.

INT. TEDDY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
The dream always begins in my
bedroom. I have a difficult time
sleeping.

Teddy sleeps restlessly in his bed. His bed sheets lie
tangled next to his feet.

The lighting in the bedroom is dark. The only available light
is from the MOON that shines through the bedroom window.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I then sit up quickly, breathing
hard.

Teddy wakes up in a sudden panic, breathing heavily. He sits
up quickly.

He looks around the dark setting of his room squinting at
some of the dark objects like in the closet and the hangars
casting an eerie shadow on the wall.

The LURKING FIGURE hiding behind the curtain is another dark
object Teddy stares at carefully. But it's nothing.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I look around the room and you
know how your eyes start playing
tricks on you with shadows? I
start getting that, but I come to
learn it's nothing more than my
imagination. And that's when I
notice this strange fog with light
creeping behind my bedroom door.

A CRAWLING FOG sneaks below the bedroom door. A bright light
PULSATES behind the door.

5.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I get up from bed and head over to
the door. But, I'm not scared; I'm
actually curious to know what's
behind the door.

Teddy walks over to the bedroom door and slowly reaches for
the doorknob.

The eerie light peeks through the keyhole, creating a very
crazy misshaping keyhole light from it.

Teddy slowly turns the doorknob and opens the door.

The door's hinges creates a long and nasty CREAKING sound.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I swing open the door and see
nothing. The light and fog had
started making its way down the
hall. So I follow it.

INT. TEDDY'S HALLWAY/STAIRS

Teddy walks out of the room and follows the strange fog light
through the hallway and down the stairs.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
This thing is going fast, so I try
to catch up to it. I follow it
down the stairs.

INT. LIVING ROOM/KITCHEN

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
The thing makes its way to the
kitchen and I could hear something
coming out of it. I don't really
know how to describe the sound,
but it sounded like broken glass
scraping against each other or
like gears grinding.

The fog light makes its way from the living room to the
kitchen.

6.

Electrical appliances near the strange fog light flicker ON
and OFF, appliances such as the television, radio and lights.

Teddy follows the fog light not paying attention to the
strange electrical malfunctions.

The fog light ends at the foot of the basement door.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
Then it ends in the kitchen near
the basement door. It just waits
there until I approach it.

Teddy follows as the fog light is sucked in from the bottom
of the basement door.

Teddy opens the door slowly. Darkness fills the surrounding
area.

Teddy reaches for the light switch and flips it ON but the
light only shines a dim orange hue.

INT. BASEMENT/TUNNEL

Teddy makes his way down the stairs carefully. The steps even
make loud CREAKING sounds.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
I finally make it to the basement,
but somehow it seems strange. It
doesn't look like my basement. I
mean, I know it's my basement but
it doesn't feel that way. The
basement is really a hallway. I
want to say a tunnel but I can't
make that distinction, maybe a
combination of both since there's
a little stream of water running
on the ground and the thin pipes
that outstretch on the ceiling.

Teddy walks down a long stretch of hallway/tunnel. Water
DRIPPING echoes in the distance in the hallway/tunnel. Slimy-
looking pipes align the outer walls, they glisten a green
color.

Manholes lie on opposite sides of the walls covered up with
iron bars.

7.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
There's a light source, like the
fluorescent lights, but I can't
see them anywhere and I can see
what looks like windows covered
with bars like in a prison.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
Is there any particular smell in
this hallway?

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
At first I thought I smelled fresh
popped popcorn and cotton candy
for some reason. But as I keep
walking down this hallway it was
really more like a nasty pungent
odor. You know, like rotting tree
leaves or more like a sewer.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
It could be your brain trying to
distinguish what type of smell
should be associated with the
hallway or tunnel.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(thinking to himself)
Yeah. . .

Teddy continues walking down this strange stretch of
hallway/tunnel that suddenly becomes a heavily wooded area.

EXT. WOODS - DAY

Teddy steps onto a wooded area where the sun now shines.
Teddy turns around to see where he came from, but the tunnel
no longer exists, just more trees.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
This is where it gets creepy. I
keep walking down the
hallway/tunnel-looking thing that
seems to go on forever and just
like that-
(Teddy SNAPS his
fingers)
I'm outside surrounded by trees.

8.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
Dreams will do that. It's sort of
a way to transition from point A
to point B without the hassle of
wasting a long trip boring your
brain.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
I can see a stream of water to my
left. I can smell it and hear it
running, too.

Teddy keeps walking through the dense woods avoiding branches
by ducking under them or swatting them away.

He kicks at junk and trash that litter the ground away from
his trail.

Teddy passes by an old and rusted late 1950s Amana
refrigerator leaning against a wide spruce tree. He ignores
it and keeps walking.

Some of the rust on the refrigerator looks more like dried
blood.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
This is the weirdest part of the
dream. As I continue walking down
this path, which looks like it's
been there since forever, I stop
dead in my tracks. I see someone
on the far end of the woods near
one of those pumping stations that
stick up from the ground, kinda
like the ones where the Mario
Bros. jump into.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
I know exactly what you are
describing. What a vivid dream you
had.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
Still having, doctor. I'm pretty
far away, so I can't make out its
features. . .but I know what I'm
staring at.

9.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
And what may that be?

Teddy, frozen in fear, squints at the person standing next to
the manhole that jars up from the ground about waist high on
an average adult.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(LAUGHING a little)
It's a clown.

A CLOWN, dressed in a baggy silver suit, a floppy yellow bow-
tie that dangles near his chin, three orange pompoms that act
like a zipper from top to bottom on his front and big red
floppy shoes.

On each hand he wears over-sized white clown gloves and his
face is painted a white color with a bloody red smile slopped
onto his mouth. Then there is the red wig that wraps around
his cranium in an uncombed fashion.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
There was a clown just standing
there holding a bunch of different
colored balloons. And the clown
waved at me, like he was expecting
me or something. The clown was
smiling and happy to see me.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
What did you do?

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
I didn't know what to do, I was
scared stiff. I thought that maybe
the clown was smiling at me
because I was scared. That my fear
made the clown happy. So, I slowly
stepped back hoping that the clown
didn't actually notice I was
standing there.

Teddy moves one foot back followed by the other.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I don't think the clown liked that
too much.

10.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
Why do you say that?

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
The clown stopped smiling.

The clown stops smiling and shows an evil grin. The large red
smile hides the clown's actual lips, but the anger is obvious.

The clown raises its arm and points menacingly at Teddy. Its
eyes, a sick GLOWING silver that shimmers in the light, like
an animals' eyes would, stares back at him.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
There was also something very
wrong with what I saw.

While backing away slowly from the clown, Teddy notices the
clown casts no shadow on the ground.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
The sun was out and shining
bright. I could see shadows all
over the place including mine, but
the clown didn't have a shadow.
Yes, I could see the clown's
features but it didn't have its
own shadow.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
It was a dream. Dreams sometimes
do not make any sense.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(not sure)
Yeah. . .

The clown soon walks over to a trembling backwards-walking
Teddy.

Teddy panics and turns around to start running from where he
came from.

11.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I notice the clown walking after
me; not running, but walking
pretty fast. He was pissed off! So
I turn around and run my ass outta
there.

Teddy RUNS his ass down the wooded area in a panic.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I had no idea where I was running
to but something reminded me to
stick to the path and follow it;
that it would lead me right out.
I turned around a few times and I
could see the clown just a few
yards away and catching up. I
don't even have to tell you that
I was scared shitless. I was
afraid of tripping on some branch
or rock. I was trying not to think
of that because then I would trip,
you know?

INT. BASEMENT/TUNNEL

Teddy magically reverts back to the hallway/tunnel and
continues running, all the while turning his head to see
behind him.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
I end up back in the tunnel and I
can see my basement stairs off in
the distance, but it's too far.
So, I start gunning it, but my
momentum seems paused. Every step
I take forward, I can see no
change in distance. It looks like
a freeze frame. You know what I
mean?

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
Mmm-hmm.

Teddy struggles to run down the tunnel actually passing by
the manholes covered with bars on the sides of the walls, but
his distance to the basement stairs doesn't change.

12.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
I turn around to see if the clown
had caught up, but I don't see him
anywhere. And when I turn back,
I've already reached the bottom of
the basement door.

Teddy ends up magically back at the basement stairs after he
turns his head forward. He almost slams into it, but brakes
before he does.

Teddy looks up the stairs and sees that the basement door is
still open and can see his kitchen.

The sun has already come out shining into his kitchen, but
darkness surrounds the sides of the basement walls around the
stairs.

Teddy quickly walks up the stairs not looking back.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
I can see the basement door open
leading back into the kitchen. So,
I start to gun it up the steps.
I'm too afraid to turn around=-
(interrupts himself)
Look at that? The hairs on my arms
just stood up.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS (V.O.)
What else happens?

INT. KITCHEN - DAY

Teddy makes his way back into the kitchen and hides behind
the basement door.

The morning light from the sun brightens up the kitchen. The
room is very spacious.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
So, I finally make it to the top
of the stairs, safe and sound
behind the door. But something
inside me tells me to turn around--
Damn, there's that feeling again.

13.

Teddy makes a CRINGING sound, a cold chill swims up his
spine.

Teddy slowly turns around, safe behind the basement door and
notices the clown barely stepping into the end of the tunnel.

He can see only the DARK FIGURE of a clown walking forward.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
(continuing)
So, I turn around and see that the
clown is coming for me but he's
far, too far away in the tunnel to
catch up to me. I shut the door
quickly.

Teddy SLAMS the door quickly and backs away from it. He
breathes heavily and rushes to get himself a drink of water.

INT. TEDDY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Teddy is back in bed, sleeping.

The MOON still shines brightly in the night sky through his
window.

Teddy wakes up from bed, drenched with sweat.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
Right before I get a drink of
water, I wake up.

INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - DAY

Teddy leans against a wall with his arms crossed against his
chest.

Doctor Moyers sits comfortably in her chair still holding
onto her yellow notepad.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
I can see why you're in a panic.

She writes something else in her notepad.

DELUSIONAL
PRESCRIBE SOME SLEEPING PILLS TO CALM HIS NERVES

14.

TEDDY LANDERS
I keep having this same dream, but
each one is different. Every time
I have it, I know what is going to
happen and where I'm going to end
up, but I can't stop myself from
continuing the dream. The dream
that I just told you, that was my
first dream. I've had three more
dreams and each time I end up in
the woods, the clown's closer. The
last dream I had, the clown was
running after me before I even
reached the end of the path. When
I retreated and ended up back up
the stairs, like my other previous
dreams, the clown's much closer.
In the third dream, the clown was
at the base of the stairs.

INT. BASEMENT STAIRS - NIGHT

Teddy hides behind the basement door up the steps. He
nervously looks behind the door and notices the clown
stepping into the light.

The clown, hidden in total darkness, steps into the light.
His shiny silver eyes glisten sharply up at a scared Teddy,

The clown reaches with his left hand up against the stair
wall. The clown's hand is now a mutated rotted over-sized
hand.

The hand carves its devoured fingernails into the wall and
scratches it back to him.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
This is what really, really scared
me. What really made me stay
awake. The clown turned to me and
he said. . .

THE CLOWN
Next time you dream this, Teddy.
You're mmmiiiinne!

The clown's voice DEEPENS in the last sentence.

15.

TEDDY LANDERS (V.O.)
And then it laughed methodically.
Like it enjoyed it.

The clown slowly hides back into the darkness, laughing
menacingly, methodically and hysterically.

INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - DAY

TEDDY LANDERS
That's why I'm afraid to sleep. I
can't do it.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
You know you're eventually going
to have to sleep. You can't beat
this. How long before the Sandman
gets you? Not that long.

TEDDY LANDERS
(almost in tears)
I can't go to sleep, I just can't!

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
What do you think will happen to
you if you do?

TEDDY LANDERS
I don't know. Possibly. . .die.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
Do you really think the clown will
kill you? Maybe the clown wants
to, I don't know, clown around.

Teddy SNICKERS at her comment.

TEDDY LANDERS
Yeah, right. Whatever clowns do,
right? I guess you had to be there.

Doctor Moyers notices Teddy's tattoo. A CLOWN tattoo.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
Are you afraid of clowns, Teddy?

16.

TEDDY LANDERS
(thinks a little)
. . .No.
(thinks a little more)
. . .Nope, can't say that I do.
But, judging by these frequent
dreams, only that clown. Only that
clown.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
You don't think that having that
tattoo of a clown on your arm has
anything to do with it, do you?

Teddy looks at his tattoo.

TEDDY LANDERS
This has nothing to do with it.
I've had this TAT for years now.
It's something else. So, what do
you recommend me do?

Doctor Moyers writes some more notes down on a separate
notepad, a smaller notepad.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
I'm going to prescribe some
medicine that will help you calm
your nerves. You have the choice
to do whatever you want to with
them. I'm not stuffing this down
your throat. If you decide to go
to a pharmacy and get the pills,
that's up to you. But you have to
face the fact that you're
eventually going to have to fall
asleep.

TEDDY LANDERS
I know that. Thanks, Doc.

Teddy takes the prescription information from Doctor Moyers.

DR. PATRICIA MOYERS
You're welcome. I'll see you soon?

Teddy walks to the door and stops to turn to her.

17.

TEDDY LANDERS
Maybe, maybe not.

Teddy turns back to the door and exits out.

TEDDY LANDERS
(continuing; sighs
the word)
Shit!

He opens the door and walks out of it.

EXT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - DAY

Teddy steps onto the sidewalk CITY CENTER and shuts the door.

DERRY PSYCHIATRIC COUNSELING is imprinted on the door.

Teddy turns to the sound of some oldies music, THE STROLL by
The Diamonds, blaring out from a 1950s red PLYMOUTH FURY.

The car slowly strolls down the road.

Off in the distance, the plastic statue of PAUL BUNYAN stands
out from the crowd, a statue of about 20 feet tall. The weird
statue holds his axe to one shoulder and stares blindly into
the blue sky, grinning.

Teddy walks off, down the sidewalk of City Center and out of
sight as he fades or blends into the crowd.

A bright RED BALLOON floats up from a sewer grate on the side
of the sidewalk and disappears from view.
FADE OUT.

THE END