Freddy’s dead – Final Nightmare
JACOB I mean we’re dreaming. You and me. Together.
He opens the bedroom door. And there’s a FOREST OUTSIDE. Karen is a little scared at first, totally blown away by what’s happening. But then she stands up and smiles.
JACOB (cont’d) Want to go for a walk?
Karen steps up next to him and they walk through the doorway into daylight.
EXT. FOREST – DAY
Shafts of sunlight filter through as leaves flutter down from the towering trees and Jacob and Karen step out of the bedroom door.
KAREN I don’t believe it.
JACOB It’s true. We’re really doing it.
KAREN But what if I’m just dreaming of you
telling me that?
JACOB We’ll compare notes when we wake up. Then you’ll know.
Karen looks around. Then she giggles. She likes this a lot. Karen suddenly runs away into the trees like an excited little girl. Jacob frowns.
JACOB (cont’d) Karen. Wait.
He heads off after her.
AMONGST THE TREES
Jacob runs. Karen jumps out from behind a tree and laughs.
JACOB (cont’d) You have to be careful.
KAREN Did you bring us here on purpose? Can you go anywhere you want?
JACOB Sometimes. It’s not as easy as linking up, though.
KAREN Wow, I never knew…
She starts wandering off again. Jacob follows her.
KAREN (cont’d) You know what I like to do in my dreams?
She ducks behind a tree. And comes out suddenly dressed as a sharp BUSINESSWOMAN. Jacob is slightly taken aback.
KAREN (cont’d) I like to be other people!
Jacob grins as she steps behind another tree – and a FIREMAN walks out in her place. Jacob is really taken aback this time.
KAREN (cont’d) (as fireman) I can be anybody I want.
JACOB Show off.
Karen slips past another trunk and comes out as a tall VOLUPTUOUS REDHEAD.
KAREN (AS REDHEAD) When things get bad it helps to be someone else. I use it to protect myself.
The redhead walks seductively towards Jacob. He raises his eyebrows as she slinks right up next to him – her ample cleavage inches away from his nose.
KAREN (cont’d) (as redhead) What do you think?
JACOB I think I like you the way you always are.
He smiles.
DIFFERENT ANGLE
And now Karen is herself again. They’re still very close.
JACOB (cont’d) Much better.
They look like they’re about to kiss… but Karen suddenly sees something that grabs her attention.
KAREN Look!
Jacob turns as Karen runs over to ANOTHER DOOR. It’s not the one to the bedroom. It just hangs there in space between two trees.
KAREN (cont’d) I wonder where it goes?
She reaches for the knob and opens it.
JACOB Karen, no!
But she’s already stepped through. Jacob runs up to the doorway and it SLAMS in his face. Jacob tries to open the door. It doesn’t budge. He keeps twisting the knob to no effect.
JACOB (cont’d) Karen!
Jacob starts to pound on the door as we:
CUT TO:
INT. KAREN’S HOME – KITCHEN
Sixties style decore, appliances that look about twenty-five years old — not the Foster Home kitchen at all. Karen is standing in the middle of the room, completely disoriented. She walks across to a counter top where she finds a framed picture.
It’s a picture of HER, Karen, age thirteen. Karen sets the picture down and quickly walks back to the door she came in.
INT. KAREN’S HOME – LOWER HALLWAY
Karen steps out of her old kitchen expecting, hoping to be back in the forest again. Nope. She blinks. Then she starts to walk down the corridor.
More pictures on the wall this time. One of a WOMAN and another of a MAN (Karen’s MOM and DAD).
Karen’s sure of it now. She’s home. The center of her worst nightmares. She creeps along to the main stairs. And that’s when the NOISES begin. A thumping from upstairs. A CRASH, like something hit the floor above. More thumping, repeatedly and then human MOANING, the sound of pain.
Somebody is getting beaten.
KAREN Oh no…
Something is twisting deep inside the girl. Her face goes shallow as she slowly shuffles around to the foot of the stairs…and starts to climb them.
ON THE STAIRS
Karen goes up, step by painful step, as the sounds of the BEATING increase in their intensity. Every hit seems to touch Karen as she flinches. She’s afraid to go on – but can’t seem to stop.
INT. KAREN’S HOME – UPSTAIRS HALLWAY
Karen slowly heads for a door at the end, nervously reaches out for the knob.
INT. KAREN’S PARENT’S BEDROOM
Karen opens the door. What she thought she was going to see was bad enough – but this is worse:
Freddy Krueger is in the middle of the room. In front of him is a giant human-sized version of an inflatable punching
doll, the kind little kids hit that keep bouncing back. But the doll doesn’t have the image of a clown on it.
It’s a flattened wrapped-around version of KAREN’S MOTHER, a pitiful beat-up look on her plastic face.
Freddy SMACKS the doll – it falls to the floor – and just bounces back up. And now the face on it has a NEW BRUISE.
THWACK! He hits it again, CACKLING with glee. Swoop, bounce. More bruises develop. Krueger looks at Karen.
FREDDY Welcome to Romper Room!
BAP! BOOOOING! The face on the punching doll changes again, it’s even sadder now. And it’s looking at Karen.
KAREN Why are you doing this?
FREDDY Don’t you remember?
ZING! Krueger whips up his finger knives. SWOOP! he RIPS them through the plastic doll. SISSSSSssss. The doll starts to deflate. SKREEEEeeeee. The escaping air sounding like a human SCREAM. Freddy turns to Karen.
And a HAND reaches out from behind her and pulls her out of the room.
INT. KAREN’S HOME – UPSTAIRS HALLWAY
Jacob pulls Karen away from the door and slams it shut. He grabs her hand.
JACOB Come on!
They turn to run down the hallway, and it’s CHANGED. There are now NO DOORS and NO STAIRWAY. The only way out is the bedroom door they just closed. They stop and Jacob turns to Karen.
JACOB (cont’d) Wake up!
KAREN What?
JACOB You heard me. I said wake up!
KAREN How? This is my old house. How did I get here?
He begins to shake her. She is confused and disoriented. A CRASH is heard at the bedroom door. FREDDY’S COMING.
And Jacob HITS Karen. Nothing major. It’s a good slap, nonetheless. She stares at him unbelievingly. He WHACKS her again.
KAREN (cont’d) Why are you doing this to me?
JACOB This is a dream! You have to get out of here. I’m not hurting you, only he can really do that! Wake up now!
SLAP! Karen’s getting angry. She doesn’t know what she’s supposed to do. KA-BLAM! Freddy blasts through the door in a shower of splinters. He sees them and grins.
FREDDY Gettin’ kinky, huh?
Jacob turns to Karen, raises his hand. KA-BLAM! Something blasts through the wall across from them. It’s POWER COP.
CRASH! The other wall explodes. BLADE appears in the rubble.
BOOM! A piece of wall falls down at the end of the corridor. SOUND COP steps through.
