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FADE IN:
EXT. NOCTURNAL FUNERAL HOME - DAY
Graden Immora (19 year old emotionally disturbed College
dropout dealing with depression and reasons to not off
himself every day)sits in seclusion under a tree near the
funeral gathering.
Immora’s from all over have gathered for the funeral of the
late Gregor Immora. (68 year old famous
Murder/Mystery/Horror Novelist who had a very secretive and
mysterious way of life)
Security stretched around the gates of the funeral home, no
one could get in, for the hundreds of fans of Gregor’s
showed up in a mass frenzy.
Graden’s family members seem to be unmoved by his desire to
sit under the warped tree, for it was raining and they
always knew him to be so distant.
The mass cluster of black suits, gowns, dresses, and
umbrellas seemed to have formed a dark dome that stopped all
light from hitting the family, for its the way the Graden
saw his family anyway. Pure evil, and full of greed the
Immora family is.
The words of the priest vibrate throughout the funeral,
accompanied by the dark storm.
PRIEST
And as your family members stand
here before you today dear Gregor,
they wish to give you as easy
passing into the next life.
FAMILY MEMBER
(coughs as if in an inpatient
manner)
GRADEN
(sighs) No one here can even speak
on your behalf grandfather. You
were probably the best person out
of this entire family. Well I think
so. The greatest out of all of us.
Graden notices that some of the family members keep checking
their watches. With each time one checks, Graden’s view of
his family goes down.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2.
Graden takes his view off of the funeral in front of him and
sets his eyes on the many fans and onlookers that stretch
around the gates.
GRADEN
At least I’m not the only one who
knew how great Gregor was.
Graden notices in a cluster of fans near the entrance to the
funeral walkway a man named Dorian (28 year old with a very
gifted mind. Is obsessed with psychology and the way the
human brain works) Gordon who has been a thorn in his
families side for years now.
Dorian sits in the rain without an umbrella just watching
the funeral almost in a lifeless state, not blinking or
moving.
GRADEN
Great, maybe Dorian will put some
excitement in my day. I wonder who
he’ll accuse of killing his wife
today?
DORIAN
(Notices Graden under a tree, away
from the funeral mass, and gives
him a unsettling wave)
Graden’s heart skips a beat and ignores the creepy wave.
GRADEN
That guy is just way to creepy. I
can’t stand him.
The priest starts to get to his closing speech.
Gradens mother Elvira (34 year old lady of prestige in
Blackwater who sits on a fortune with her husband that is
always passed down to the next of kin) gestures over for
Graden to join her under her umbrella.
ELVIRA
Come from under there my dear, we
can’t have you catching a cold. A
day like this just feels like bad
news every second.
GRADEN
With all the things wrong with me
mother, getting a cold should be
the least of my worries.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3.
JACK
Leave the boy be, those who prefer
seclusion can’t be forced out of it
by exterior parties. Let the boy
sit.
PRIEST
Now Immora family. Lay your beloved
Gregor Immora down and may he have
eternal rest!
Graden chuckles at this because his rich, snobby family
would never actually do any physical labor. Gregor’s Marble
and Granite casket, covered with the most expensive flowers
and décor possible, was being let down into the ground by
mechanical cranks and weights. Graden was surprised they
didn’t bring a bulldozer to cover his casket up with one
fowl swoop.
INT. NOCTURNAL FUNERAL HOME - DAY
The Immora family members moved to the inside and seem to be
treating this funeral like it’s a party, walking around with
glasses of wine and talking about everything other then
Gregor. Graden wonders where everyone’s powdered wigs were.
FAMILY MEMBER
Ahhh Graden, how are you my dear
boy?
Graden opens his mouth to answer but gets interrupted before
he could answer.
FAMILY MEMBER
You don’t say? Are you still having
those bad nightmares? Don’t worry
my boy, the best kind of people in
this world are demented.
Graden wonders if he should take what his distant family
member said as a compliment or not.
INT. GREGOR IMMORA MANOR - DAY
The Immora family festers the manor of Gregor Immora for
they are all only minutes away from meeting in the house to
find out what was in Gregor’s will. It almost seems like
that’s what everyone’s been waiting for all day.
Graden watches as his family members walk around the manor,
having almost nothing good to say about Gregor and they
would judge every single thing they saw in a snobby fashion.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4.
DISTANT FAMILY MEMBER
Oh my word, did this man not have a
caretaker. Mine would be fired on
the spot if he left my house like
this. Oh heavens no!
DISTANT FAMILY MEMBER 2
Oh yes, I agree. But honestly this
is that one time of year I’m nice
to everyone in our family so that
for their funerals they have
something to leave me with.
Graden gets a strong sense of frustration from that
conversation he overhears and their laughter at the end only
makes it worse.
Graden removes himself from everyone’s presence and goes to
find a place where he can be alone.
Graden starts to have visions when he ventures upstairs. He
periodically has episodic psychological attacks and now
couldn’t be a more worse to time to get one being near his
entire family.
Graden starts to hold his head as the attack gets stronger
and the pain makes him shake. Just then he looks down the
hall and swears he sees a tall man in a big black trench
coat, with a cane and a top hat, standing in the crack of an
open door.
Startled, Graden stops in his tracks, has another attack and
when he looked up the man was gone.
GRADEN
One day, I’ll get used to seeing
you all the time whoever you are!
This isn’t something new to Graden, he’s been seeing that
mysterious man for years now. He always seems to show up
briefly then disappear.
Graden ventures through the door the man was standing in.
What he found was the study of Gregors.
It was Gregors personal library and office where he wrote
his famous novels. Graden’s heart goes in his throat. He
becomes overjoyed for the first time in a while with this
find.
GRADEN
Gregor, you were ahead of your
time. I don’t know why you were the
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5.
GRADEN (cont’d)only good person in our family. Now
everyone’s hear to just take what
you’re leaving behind.
Graden moves throughout the many bookshelves and tables
covered with books and even stacks of papers filed together
with string, sticking out of every place they can fit.
Graden finds himself lost in this good feeling and goes to
look through what Gregor left behind.
GRADEN
"The Gates Close At Midnight" by
Gregor Immora. Wait a minute.....I
don’t remember this one being
published.
Graden realizes after shuffling through some of them that
the papers filed together with string are all of his
unpublished works. This confuses Graden because he doesn’t
understand why Gregor would leave so many unpublished.
ELVIRA
Graden, we’re about to read the
will. Come and join us dear.
Graden backs out of the room slowly and plans to come back
into the study. As soon as he leaves the doorway he runs
downstairs, and doesn’t even notice that the man in black
returned and was sitting in Gregors chair at his desk.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
INT. GREGOR IMMORA MANOR - MASTER STUDY - DAY
Graden moves down a corridor where at the end of it he can
hear the master study gleaming with life from the sounds and
BANTER of all his family members.
Graden stands in the doorway and finds himself in the master
study where he’s never seen all of his family members so
excited. The sharp ECHOES from their enjoyment and
entertainment are almost painful to him.
GRADEN
This is almost like watching
congress before they decide to
press a button to go to war with
some helpless nation.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6.
ELVIRA
Graden my dear it’s almost time,
come sit here!
Graden turns to his mother with his arms crossed as a family
member SMACKS right into his back from the corridor behind
him, knocking his balance off.
GRADEN
Don’t be so easy to hear what you
get for free, you ass. (Graden
gestures his tongue out at the
family member, who has his back
turned of course.)
LAWYER
Alright everyone, settle down. We
have business to attend to.
Gregor’s lawyer (62 year old man of a very creepy demeanor.
Is wearing expensive clothing and has white gloves on that
shock the viewrs more than his pressed white hair.) enters
the study and the BANTER is broken for him as if he was a
god.
All eyes were on him from the door as he moves himself
through the crowded room to the center where a massive desk
is. The CLICKING and CLACKING of his footsteps were the
loudest thing in the room before he got there.
FAMILY MEMBERS
(whispers from all corners)
I’ve never been so excited. Ohh
look, I wonder what’s in the brief
case. Hurry up already.
PLOP the sound of the lawyer’s brief case as he sets it on
the desk.
LAWYER
Honestly everyone, with all the
hate mail this man gets I thought
we’d be having this meeting for a
Will a lot sooner. (chuckles from
around the room)
GRADEN
(in his head)
Yea just laugh it up everyone.
Elvira gestures to have Graden come sit next to her and Jack
but Graden ignores her request with the raise of an eyebrow,
leaning on the doorway frame.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7.
Sounds of the Lawyer SHUFFLING through the stack of legal
documents he took out.
RELATIVE
Shhhhh.....settle down
RELATIVE 2
I don’t want to miss a beat.
Swift, low, and ominous WHISPERS echo through Gradens head
as he turns to find the source. Shocked to find that it
appears no one else can hear them, as everyone’s glued to
the lawyer who’s begun reading the WILL.
The whispers continue as Graden’s head start to feel heavy.
Just then Graden sees that mysterious cloaked man standing
infront of the window that sits behind the desk and the
Lawyer.
Not even scared this time, Graden feels heavy as the
whispers continue and the Cloaked man blocks the light from
the room.
GRADEN
(In his head)
There are far scarier things out
there than you my friend.
Graden becomes dizzy as the whispers grow and echo with
great VIBRATIONS that seemed to shake the room. The
relatives in the room all jump up in unison and start a
commotion.
Many family members seemed to have disagreed on things the
lawyer read and they all started yelling, fighting and
pointing fingers. Graden can’t hear any of this, for the
whispers still overbear. Graden falls to the ground and
passes out.
INT. GREGOR IMMORA MANOR - MASTER STUDY - NIGHT
Graden awakes to an empty study where the relatives all used
to be.
GRADEN
Hello.....anyone here? Shit, it’s
night time.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE
(In an almost ghostly tone of
a whisper)
Your Turn
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8.
GRADEN
(shocked)
....what the hell
Graden turns his head to find the source only to hear a door
from down the hall out of his field of vision CREEK open.
Graden picks himself up and leans in the doorway to find the
source of the noise. He walks down the hall and hears it
again.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE
The study....!
Graden books it down the hall, up the stairs and shoves
Gregor’s personal study door so hard that it BANGS against
the wall behind it.
GRADEN
Empty........enough...who are you?
Show yourself.
An unearthy WIND curls and manifests in the study and draws
Gradens attention over to stacks of manuscripts on a shelf!
Graden walks over and grabs the one on top called "Our
Little Secret!"
GRADEN
Our Little Secret. Ahh, another
story you never published. Is this
what you wanted me to see.
Graden sits down in the study and a montage of him reading
through and flipping pages occurs.
GRADEN
That’s strange, every part of this
story is a bit odd to me. The
setting sounds like....Blackwater.
Graden reads more to find that the murderer in the story
(the narrator) kills a women and buries her body in the
walls of a run-down factory. A factory that matches the
description of a factory in town.
Graden becomes suspicious and has an even greater sense of
curiousness.
Graden looks up from his seat for the first time in awhile
and is startled by the CRACK of thunder outside.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9.
GRADEN
How long have a been here by myself
Graden gets up from his seat and peers out the window to
find Dorian across the street looking up at the window and
him.
GRADEN
I’m just going to stop looking
outside or around when it rains.
He’s not someone I like seeing.
Skocked, Graden backs away from the window slowly and sees
the mysterious cloaked man again, gets startled and knocks
over a lantern making the room go pitch black.
BANG, another bolt of thunder shakes the room.
GRADEN
(terrified)
Ahhhhh......
Graden falls backwards onto his back.
DISTANT VOICE
Graden.......are you still here?
Graden doesn’t recognize the voice. At first he thinks it
the spirits that are around him.
DISTANT VOICE
Graden....or someone. I know
someone’s in here. I heard someone.
You’re probably not supposed to be
here just as much as I am.
The voice is upstairs now and down the hall getting closer.
Graden recognizes it.
GRADEN
Hey Troy, I’m in here!
In the next moment standing in the doorway, lighting up the
room with his cellphone, TROY (19 year old college friend of
Gradens with an IQ that will make you jealous) appears.
GRADEN
It seems like you always find me on
my ass huh Troy!
TROY
Yea but this time I’m sure no one
punched and or slapped you in the
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 10.
TROY (cont’d)face for getting to frisky. But on
a serious note why are you still
here? I’ve been waiting for the
funeral to end all day to find you
but you’re still here all by
yourself.
GRADEN
I don’t really know. But I feel
like every second I’m in this house
I’m not alone.
TROY
What the hell does that mean?
GRADEN
Forget I said it.
TROY
You know, even though you’ll reject
it, I care about your well being.
Even though your head scares me.
GRADEN
Troy if you only knew. Don’t ever
take my head for a spin. You may
not come back as the popular lover
boy you are now.
Graden picks himself up and positions his body on the window
to find that Dorian is gone and the power in the entire
house went out.
TROY
Are you expecting a ride?
GRADEN
Maybe from the devil one day when I
least expect it. But I want you to
come somewhere with me. I need to
see something.
TROY
Usually anyone would be scared of
being somewhere alone with you. II
sometimes wonder if I’m crazy for
not thinking so.
GRADEN
There’s no such thing as normal!
11.
EXT. DARK STREETS - NIGHT
Graden and Troy vacate the manor and Graden takes the lead.
TROY
Okay now you’re being weird, why do
you keep looking around as I’m
clearly trying to talk to you.
GRADEN
Don’t overreact to this but I’m
half expecting us to be followed.
TROY
.....I’m going to pretend you
didn’t say that.
GRADEN
Right on time!
Further down the street Dorian can be seen leaning on a lamp
post. The boys move closer and closer in his direction.
DORIAN
Well boys. Isn’t it a little late
for you to be taking a stroll about
town?
TROY
It’s the perfect time for perverts
like you. How many men are so
concerned with what little boys are
doing at night anyway.
Dorian steps in front of Graden and Troy and positions
himself on Graden mostly.
DORIAN
You boys think you’re so fresh, so
clever, so smart. And you.....your
family will get what’s coming to
them. I’ll always be watching.
MAN ON THE STREET
Hey, do we have a problem man?
Dorian looks down the street to see a man staring at him.
DORIAN
Just trouble maker nephews of mine.
Sometimes I lose my temper.
Dorian turns back to find that both the boys had snuck away.
12.
INT. RUN DOWN FACTORY - NIGHT
Graden and Troy enter the old Blackwater sand and glass
factory that Graden lead them too.
TROY
Okay anytime you want to let me
know what we are doing here that
would be great.
Graden ignores Troy and gets lost in the sights of the
factory. All the old machinery, piles of sand, and shards
and slabs of glass everywhere catch his eyes.
Light from holes in the roof pierce down like a sword and
Graden stands directly underneath one light.
GRADEN
(In his head)
Now what exactly did I read again.
Damn I can’t remember. There has to
be some clue to where exactly it
is!
TROY
Hey you I know you hear me. You’re
up to something. What’s going on in
that head of yours.
GRADEN
Where.....
TROY
Where what? We’re looking for
something?
Troy looks at Graden as Graden’s eyes light up as if he’s
staring at something, but there’s nothing there as far as
Troy can see.
Graden is staring directly at the mysteriously cloaked man
who keeps appearing. This time he has a CANE in his hand and
uses it to TAP on the wall he stands before.
TROY
Hey did you hear me?
GRADEN
What....
TROY
I said what do you see?
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 13.
GRADEN
You wouldn’t believe me if I told
you.
Graden didn’t even hear Troy for the RINGING in his head
started up again followed by the soft voices.
Graden walks over to the wall where the man stood and places
his hand it and closes his eyes.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE
(Very ghostly)
Your turn!
Graden opens his eyes and cracks a smile that disturbs Troy
for Graden is known to not smile. With his hand still on the
wall he turns to Troy.
GRADEN
We’ve got to knock down this wall.
TROY
WHAT! How the hell are we going to
do that?
GRADEN
TROY!
Graden sees a man with raged clothing running towards Troy.
Troy staggers to turn around and pushes Graden out of the
way.
The homeless man and Troy’s bodies collide and the momentum
sends them both CRASHING through the wall.
Graden gets up to find the homeless man on top of Troy
chocking him to death.
The voices all start up in Graden’s head again and this time
they are so loud that it SHAKES his body.
Next to Graden appears the cloaked man who leans into
Graden.
CLOAKED MAN
(Demonic bellow)
Your turn Graden!
Graden’s hand gets taken by the cloaked man who places a
knife in his hand. He knows exactly what to do. He thinks
about it all the time. He’s actually more exited to do it
than to help his friend.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 14.
GRADEN
My turn!
Graden steps inside the wall and slices the homeless mans
neck open. Troy was already passed out when it happened as
Graden pushes the homeless man over as he bled to death.
Something comes over Graden. Watching the man die and bleed
in front of him hits him like a train. He loves it. His
breathing becomes so heavy and he loves everything about it.
Graden looks next to where the homeless mans body fell and
sees an old decaying corpse of a female.
GRADEN
It all makes sense now. How else
could Gregor know about the body.
Those stories must be about murders
he knows of....or maybe he
committed them.
Graden turns back to see the cloaked man gone. So he turns
to Troy and drags him out of the hole in the wall.
Graden looks at the corpse again. She had to be here for
well near a decade or a bit more. But Graden is still
confused and still has more answers.
GRADEN
I need to see the other stories.
Gregor, who were you? What secret
life did you live?
Graden looks around for what he could use to repair the
wall.
Graden finds, without looking to far, a bag of instant
cement.
Graden starts to repair the wall brink by brick, as he
dwells on the voices he heard earlier and what he just did.
He feels good, the best he’s felt in a while actually.
GRADEN
Maybe it’s time I write my own
stories!
FADE OUT.
