LO1 Script

“THE RITUAL”

SCENE 1

Scene description/opening

FADE IN:

The scene starts with an extreme close up of the TV reflecting onto Harry's eye as the movie they're watching ends the movie ends the credits roll and Teej turns the lights on

BEN

well that was awful

HARRY

nah, I thought it was decent

BEN

Can we watch spider-man 2 now?

TEEJ

(Amin sighing and looking bored)

were not watching Spider-man 2 again, you say this every time

BEN

What’s up?

AMIN

we’ve watched 3 films tonight can we do something different I’m kind of getting board.

HARRY

yeah so am I to be honest

TEEJ

Well what do you want to do then

HARRY

I don’t know, I’m just getting a drink

(harry goes downstairs, he comes back up with 5 candles and the other things needed for the ritual)

AMIN

Nah bro are you dumb

HARRY

What, I thought you were bored?

BEN

Fine, how do you set it out 

TEEJ

Were you not watching the film

BEN

Shut up tee jay

AMIN

5 one each for us and 1 for the demon

TEEJ

Why candles though?

HARRY

When we light The candles, it basically attaches us to the spirit world and the candle represents our souls

AMIN

what the fuck are you talking about

TEEJ

Stop waffling

 BEN

I’m just gonna shut the blinds

(ben shuts the blinds, leaving a small crack left)

FADE OUT TO TITLE CARD:

END OF SCENE 1

scene 2

Scene description/opening they begin the ritual, they sit in a circle with the lights off and everyone lights their own candle that represents themselves, character 1 lights the final candle which represents the entity they are calling, they hold hands in a circle and invite the being

(everyone sits in a circle. and Lights their candle)

TEEJ

who’s gonna light the spirit candle then

HARRY

I will, we’ve still got to invite It,

BEN

does everyone remember what to say

HARRY

yeah

TEEJ

yep

AMIN

same

BEN

let’s start then, 3,2,1

ALL CHARACTERS

to a spirit that might hear this we invite you to join us.

AMIN 

now what

HARRY

bro shut up we got to wait a bit

TEEJ

yeah this definitely failed

AMIN

yeah obviously, its from a movie dipshit 

BEN

I’m going downstairs

ACTION- as the door opens a shadow runs past quickly                 

AMIN

oi, did anyone else see a shadow behind ben

BEN

shut up Amin you’re not scaring me

AMIN

I’m not even joking

BEN

ye course your not

TEEJ

where you going

BEN 

I’m just going toilet

(as ben is walking downstairs he hears a noise coming from another room downstairs, he goes to check and sees its just harry's brother)

SAM

What

BEN

Nothing

(as the camera is facing ben we can see something moving around behind him in the darkness, he is walking towards the kitchen and a hand reaches over his shoulder, he turns around but there’s nothing there, he walks further into the kitchen and sees the creature in the mirror the creature jumps forwards but the camera cuts back to the others and one of the candles is out)

End of scene 2

Scene 3

15 minutes passes and there is a time lapse of them talking 

TEEJ

Where’s ben gone it’s been 15 minutes

HARRY

I’m gonna go see where he is

(Harry goes downstairs looking for ben, he finds his and Sam’s dead body, he turns around to run to the others but the creature is right in his face he screams and a blood slat goes onto the wall. Upstairs the others jump up and after hearing harry scream. They slowly walk down the stairs and hear a strange bone crunching noise and the sound of harry being eaten. They shine a torch downstairs and see the creature chewing on harry's severed hand, it suddenly looks up straight at them)

 TEEJ

What the hell is that!

Amin doesn't move just staring terrified, tee jay grabs him and they run upstairs and the creature follows them, they hold the door shut and the creature is on the other side

AMIN

(shouting as they struggle against the wall)

What happened, how is this even possible!

TEEJ

I don’t know, we did it right, but even if we didn’t I didn’t believe it was real

He turns his back to the door to push it and sees the blind slightly open, the creature stops pushing on the door, all dialogue until they go downstairs they need to be struggling against the door as they say It

AMIN

Its stopped shall we look or keep holding it.

(tee jay doesn’t respond)

AMIN

Jack, oi Teej, what now

TEEJ

Didn’t the thing say the room had to be pitch black.

AMIN

Yeah, besides the candles, why what’s wrong

TEEJ

The blind is open a bit; light was coming through. That’s why the ritual went wrong.

(A shadow appears in front of the blind and it looks like the creature)

TEEJ

Erm… Amin, AMIN! What’s that

(Amin shines a torch on it and sees it’s the creature)

AMIN

 it’s in here!

They open and door and run downstairs, tee jay runs through a door but it brings him back into the main room and the creature kills him, the third candle goes out and Amin runs outside into the garden, he sees the creature in the window staring at him, Amin looks down the side the side of the house to see a gate (he looks at it as his way to escape) he looks back up but the creature is gone, he looks around and sees it in another window, it then moves from window to window faster and tense music builds up, it stops and stares at Amin for a few seconds then vanishes he sees the creature in the windows reflection stood behind him. He turns around slowly and he’s face to face with the creature, about 8 inches apart. It cuts to a close up shot of the candles and the remaining 2 both go out together.

The End


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