Wicked WoodsA Screenplay by Mason Stephens This is the full screenplay of Wicked Woods. It's cheesy, I know. But ENJOY! ‘WICKED WOODS’-SCREENPLAY BY MASON STEPHENS FADE
IN: EXT. SCHOOL The school building sits silently. No kids roaming around. A caption at the bottom of screen reads; *City, Arkansas 1960.The words fade out. The school bell rings. Kids pile out of the front door. Two girls walk to a tall tree that sits on a hill next to the edge of the woods. CANDICE HAWK, short in height, fit, brown hair, brown eyes, wears a pink flowery dress with a white shawl. TAYLOR GUNNER is dressed in a light blue dress.
She’s thin, brown skin, black hair, brown eyes. CANDICE leans up against the tree. TAYLOR sits down on the tire that hangs by a rope tied to a high branch, TAYLOR The dance is tomorrow night. CANDICE TAYLOR CANDICE what tomorrow is. TAYLOR CANDICE It’s the anniversary of the witch’s burning. TAYLOR CANDICE the witch that lives in the shack in the woods. TAYLOR shrugs. CANDICE pulls some lipstick from her pocket and begins applying it. CANDICE she was a witch. The next day, the tree they burnt her on was healed and she was gone. TAYLOR’S expression is shocked, scared. CANDICE think she still lives in that shack. TAYLOR of bull. CANDICE snaps the lid back on the lipstick and bends down in front of TAYLOR. CANDICE TAYLOR nods. CANDICE turns around and begins walking up the hill towards the woods. CANDICE
(YELLING) TAYLOR leaps up and runs after CANDICE. CUT
TO: EXT. TRAIL IN WOODS CANDICE and TAYLOR are walking the dirt trail that’s surrounded by trees, vines, and bushes. They’re walking side-by-side. TAYLOR the woods? CANDICE house. My sister’s there visiting her son. TAYLOR CANDICE TAYLOR CANDICE There’s a ‘crack’ sound in the woods to the girls’ right. They stop and look through the woods. An old shack sits not too far from them. TAYLOR
(WHISPERING) I-Is that, th-the witch’s house? CANDICE
(WHISPERING) CANDICE moves off of the trail and into the trees. She looks back at TAYLOR. CANDICE
(WHISPERING) CANDICE moves her hand back and forth
signaling TAYLOR to follow. TAYLOR is bouncing up and
down nervously. TAYLOR CANDICE CANDICE and TAYLOR bend down close to the
ground and walk toward the old, ragged shack. They
reach the front door. They are still bent down,
exchanging glances while looking up at the window on the
door. TAYLOR
(WHISPERING) I’m blaming you when I die. CANDICE
(WHISPERING) CANDICE stands up, smiling. She raises her
fist and knocks on the door. She looks down at TAYLOR.
TAYLOR just looks up at her. CANDICE stands there
for a moment. Nobody comes to the door. TAYLOR stands up
and looks at CANDICE, hatefully. TAYLOR puts her hands
on her hips. TAYLOR CANDICE TAYLOR CANDICE CANDICE turns to the door and slowly places her hand on the rusty doorknob with no lock hole in it. She twists it. TAYLOR CANDICE Shh... CANDICE pushes the door open. INT. WITCH’S SHACK-DARK The shack is dark, the floors are dirt. CANDICE enters, TAYLOR CANDICE Is there a light switch? TAYLOR strains her eyes on the wall. She
touches the wall. She quickly jerks it back. TAYLOR
black plastic. She tears the plastic off. The sunlight shines in, revealing black, hairy
spiders that cover the wall. A table sits in front of
the far wall. Jars are covering it. Brown liquid,
red liquid, gooey, nasty things are in them.
TAYLOR TAYLOR looks to CANDICE. CANDICE No... open the door. TAYLOR pulls on the door hard. TAYLOR CANDICE TAYLOR backs away. CANDICE raises her leg and kicks the door down. TAYLOR and CANDICE run out of it. EXT. WOODS-30 YARDS AWAY FROM SHACK CANDICE and TAYLOR run through the woods. A head comes, slightly, in front of camera, more than likely, the witch. CUT
TO: INT. PLAY ROOM brown hair, blue eyes, wearing overalls.
She’s looking at a painting that sits in her lap.
She’s sitting on her knees in the floor in front of a chest full of toys. Someone knocks at the
door behind her. She stands up and opens it.
CANDICE CANDICE CYNTHIA CANDICE CUT
TO: EXT. GRAVEL ROAD graveled road. TAYLOR turns into a driveway. TAYLOR CANDICE waves. CANDICE Bye! CANDICE and CYNTHIA continue walking. CYNTHIA Ken Lenzie told me about the witch in the woods. CANDICE looks at CYNTHIA. CANDICE witch isn’t real. CYNTHIA CANDICE stops and moves in front of CYNTHIA. CANDICE bends down and holds on to CYNTHIA’S right hand with her right hand. CANDICE Ken Lenzie or anybody else. They’re wrong. CANDICE stands up.
INT. CANDICE’S BEDROOM book in her lap. Eyes hooked to it. She’s wearing glasses and a white tank top. The phone rings beside her. She picks up a bookmark that lies to her side and places it in the crease of the book. She shuts the book and throws it in the floor. She leans over and picks the phone up. She presses ‘talk’ and puts it to her ear, while sitting back up. CANDICE INT. TAYLOR’S BEDROOM Indian style. She has a book sitting in her lap. It’s open, half-way completed reading. TAYLOR INT. CANDICE’S BEDROOM CANDICE INT. TAYLOR’S BEDROOM TAYLOR INT. CANDICE’S BEDROOM On CANDICE CANDICE It’s the worst book I’ve ever read. INT.TAYLOR’S BEDROOM TAYLOR It’s silent for a moment. TAYLOR Do you think someone will ask me to prom? INT. CANDICE’S BEDROOM CANDICE Don’t worry about it. I’m sure someone will. INT. TAYLOR’S BEDROOM On TAYLOR. CANDICE weren’t going? TAYLOR INT. CANDICE’S BEDROOM CANDICE
(SMILING) with me to the witch’s shack? INT. TAYLOR’S BEDROOM On TAYLOR. TAYLOR rolls her eyes. TAYLOR
(SMILING) INT. CANDICE’S BEDROOM and leans over and hangs the phone up. CUT
TO: EXT. DIRT ROAD CANDICE is walking down the dirt road. She’s wearing a dress, her hair down and the tips curled up. She’s holding books to her chest as she walks. Some kids pass by her, rough- housing. CUT
TO: front of the classroom with a clipboard and a pencil in her hands. She glances from it up to the class. She looks around it. MISS
MILLS Candice Hawk? CANDICE is in the back of the room in the corner. CANDICE raises her hand. CANDICE MISS MILLS writes a check mark on the paper attached to the clipboard. MISS
MILLS MISS MILLS scans the room. MISS
MILLS CANDICE looks up from her book and scans the room. MISS
MILLS at? CUT
TO: out of the building. EXT. TREE WITH TIRE SWING sets her books down in the dirt, and she sits down on the tire swing. CYNTHIA walks up to her. CANDICE CYNTHIA CANDICE I think she’s sick. CYNTHIA nods. CYNTHIA shack? CANDICE
(SHOCKED) about it. It’s not true. CYNTHIA CANDICE rolls her eyes and crosses her arms in front of her chest. CANDICE CUT
TO: EXT. WOODS, DIRT PATH with books in her arms, pressed up against her chest. CYNTHIA is walking next to her with her hands in her overall’s pockets. CANDICE trees is the witch’s shack. CANDICE CANDICE looks behind her to where CYNTHIA should be. She’s gone. CANDICE backs up into a tree. Blood drips on CANDICE’S head. CANDICE looks up. A woman in a bloody white dress is hanging high in the tree. CANDICE screams and runs back toward the trail. She trips over a branch. CYNTHIA bends down next to her. CYNTHIA taps on CANDICE’S shoulder. CANDICE quickly looks up at CYNTHIA. CANDICE just smiles. CUT
TO: EXT. SCHOOL BUILDING-BRIGHT DAY INT. CLASSROOM the head of the classroom with the clipboard in her hand and a pen in the other. She checks something off of the paper attached to the clipboard. She looks up and scans the class, then looks to TAYLOR. MISS
MILLS Taylor? TAYLOR MILLS Do you have any idea where Candice is? TAYLOR MISS MILLS frowns. CUT
TO: on the tire swing. She stands up and picks her books off of the ground. TAYLOR looks into the woods. Hesitantly, she begins
walking toward the woods that she fears so much. CUT
TO: on the TV. Her mother walks in with a bowl of something, with a spoon sticking out of it. CANDICE leans up and adjusts her pillow to sit up on the back of the bed. Her mother hands her the soup. CANDICE Her mother leaves the room. CANDICE focuses her eyes back on the TV and scoops up some soup into her spoon and blows it. Her mother comes back in the room. She stands in the doorway. CANDICE’S
MOTHER CANDICE Her mother leaves the room. CUT
TO: EXT. TIRE SWING BEHIND SCHOOL tire swing. TAYLOR CANDICE I have an idea though. TAYLOR What now? CANDICE takes her backpack off of her back and sits it on her legs. She unzips it and pulls out a camcorder. TAYLOR with that? CANDICE TAYLOR smiles and slaps her hand over her mouth. TAYLOR CANDICE TAYLOR moves her hand and frowns. TAYLOR of it. CANDICE stands up and picks her backpack up. She throws her backpack over her shoulder and faces TAYLOR CANDICE myself. CANDICE begins walking away. CANDICE(MUMBLING) anyway. CUT
TO: CANDICE is looking up a big tree. She has her backpack on her back. She reaches up to a limb and begins to climb up it. She reaches a limb on the middle of the tree. She sits down on the branch and unzips her backpack. A crow lands on the branch beside her. She stops what she’s doing and looks at it. A group of crows attack her. She Screams and slaps at them. One tugs at her ear, ripping a piece off. She falls off the branch and screams as she falls. She hits the ground. The crows all stay seated in the tree’s branches. CANDICE lies there unconscious. A woman creeps up slowly to the tree. She’s wearing a hood, we can’t see her face. She’s dressed in a long dull-looking skirt, old pair of slip-ons and a shawl with the hood on her head. She looks down at the unconscious CANDICE, then up at the tree. We reveal her ugly, burnt face. The witch bends down next to CANDICE and lifts her head off of the leafy ground. CUT
TO: INT. TAYLOR’S BEDROOM Her mother, WANDA, walks in the room and sits down at the foot of TAYLOR’S bed. WANDA Still no answer from CANDICE? TAYLOR hangs the phone up on the bedside table. TAYLOR WANDA frowns and pats TAYLOR’S legs. WANDA We have church in the morning. TAYLOR rolls her eyes. WANDA stands up and leaves the room. CUT
TO: EXT. CHURCH-BRIGHT DAY
TAYLOR is sitting in a pew next to WANDA. She’s looking down at her open bible that sits in her lap. She slowly looks up at the window. The witch is standing outside, staring at TAYLOR. TAYLOR stands up and adjusts her dress. INT. CHURCH BATHROOM TAYLOR opens the stall door and enters the stall. She shuts the door behind her and sits down on the toilet. She props her chin up on her arms and closes her eyes. A tear drops down her cheek. We hear the bathroom door open. TAYLOR looks under the door. Nobody’s there. She sits back on the toilet. She begins shaking a little. She looks through the crack between the stall door and the wall. An old woman swoops in and looks back at TAYLOR. Her eye is *scary colored*. TAYLOR shuts her eyes tightly and puts her hands over her face. TAYLOR sits there for a moment. She slowly removes her hand from her face. Mascara is running down her face. She looks through the crack again. The witch is gone. TAYLOR TAYLOR moves closer to the crack. She stands up and dusts he dress off. She unlatches the stall and opens the door. A little girl is standing there. A woman, more likely her
mother, grabs her arm and jerks her away from TAYLOR. TAYLOR watches them exit the bathroom. ` CUT TO: INT. TAYLOR’S BEDROOM TAYLOR swings open her closet and pulls out a pair of blue jeans and a t-shirt. INT. KITCHEN WANDA is standing by the sink with a bottle of Jim Bean in her hand. She begins to chug it. INT. TAYLOR’S BEDROOM to her bedroom door and closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. She grabs the door knob and pulls open the door. Her mother is standing there. WANDA’S eyes are dark underneath. She looks terrible. She’s pale and sickly looking. TAYLOR touches WANDA’S arm. TAYLOR WANDA coughs and blood spews out onto the floor and on TAYLOR’S shirt. WANDA collapses to the floor. TAYLOR quickly bends down next to her. A tear drops down TAYLOR’S cheek. TAYLOR TAYLOR looks up at the window on the other side of the room. The witch is standing outside the window, looking at TAYLOR and her dead mother. TAYLOR stands up and walks over her mother. She walks as if she’s
walking to the door, which is past the window. TAYLOR then marches out of the door.
cabinet that stands against the wall. She
opens it up and pulls a pistol that is hanging is
sitting on the shelf. She admires it in her hand,
then takes off back down the stairs. EXT. FRONT PORCH Taylor slowly opens the front door. Her gun
is raised and ready to fire. She has a lit cigarette in
her mouth. She looks around the yard. It’s empty.
TAYLOR’S eyes are filled with rage. TAYLOR removes the
cigarette from her mouth with her free hand and drops it on the
ground, stepping on it with her foot. CUT
TO: TAYLOR is creeping down the trail that leads farther into the woods. She stops by a tree and hides behind it. She looks off into the forest. The witch’s shack sits empty. TAYLOR begins walking toward the shack. INT. CANDACE’S BEDROOM CYNTHIA’S sitting on CANDACE’S bed, holding a picture in her lap. In the picture, is TAYLOR, CANDACE, WANDA, and CANDACE’S mother in the school building. In the window behind the smiling, happy girls is the witch, looking in on them. Her eyes are horrifying and she’s as ugly as ever. CYNTHIA’S smile breaks into an expressionless look.
a small hill and into the woods. EXT. WITCH’S SHACK the room. A crow’s evil call sounds behind TAYLOR. TAYLOR jumps and turns around to a large tree, filled with black crows, perching on every branch. TAYLOR closes her eyes. We move to show the right of her face. A giant, ugly, deformed man, CLOVIS, stands
on the other side of her. He raises a gun at
TAYLOR’S head. EXT. POV FROM TREE The crows are perched on the branches. A
gunshot is heard from the distance. CUT
TO: CANDACE is lying on the table, her eyes wide
open. She looks like she’s gone mad. Her head is being held in place. A drop of water is
dripping on her forehead. Her mouth is sewn shut. The
water drips in the same place every time. She tries to scream. She strains to open her mouth. She calms down some. CANDACE opens her mouth and
the stitches rip. A little blood flows down her
chin and across her face. Some falls into her
mouth. CANDACE
(SCREAMING) CANDACE lies there and screams and sobs.
CLOVIS barges
in the door. CANDACE shuts up. He’s dragging TAYLOR by her left foot. He drops her foot and looks at CANDACE. CANDACE
(SOBBING, WHISPERING) CLOVIS looks at her for a moment, in a
sincere way. The witch walks through the door. He turns to
her and bows his head a little. The witch smiles
at him. She moves close to CLOVIS and touches
his arm with her wrinkly hand. WITCH girl. I’m sure he’s starving. CLOVIS nods. He bends down and grabs TAYLOR’S
leg and drags her out of the shack. The WITCH walks over to another table that is covered
in jars of disgusting body parts and liquids. The WITCH picks up a box and carries it to the bed that CANDACE lies on. She sits it on CANDACE’S stomach. She reaches in the box and pulls out a long knife. A symbol is
engraved on the handle. She puts the blade to
CANDACE’S forearm. CANDACE The WITCH cuts CANDACE’S arm. THE WITCH puts the knife back in the box and pulls out a vial from her pocket. She opens it up and puts it to CANDACE’S cut. The blood run into the vial. CUT
TO: EXT. OPEN AREA IN WOODS the woods. CLOVIS is walking through it. He stops and observes something in front of him that’s close to the ground. CLOVIS little creature. It’s CLIVE. CLIVE is
extremely skinny and helpless. CLOVIS pulls a jar from his pocket. It has something that is bloody in it. It looks similar to a human brain. CLOVIS opens up the cage and sets the jar in their slowly. CLIVE quickly latches onto CLOVIS with his teeth. CLOVIS screams. CLIVE off of his hand. CLOVIS stands up and shakes his hand. He puts his wound to his mouth.
CLIVE woods. CLOVIS watches him run off into the
forest. CUT
TO: EXT. TREE a leaf in her hand. She’s crunching it up. Something screams not too far away. She jumps a little. She looks around. CLIVE comes out from behind the tree. CYNTHIA screams and
stands up. She begins running through the woods. She looks back to see if CLIVE’S following and falls down a hill. EXT. HILL She rolls fast down the hill and hits a tree, hard. EXT. TOP OF HILL CYNTHIA. CLIVE crawls down the hill. When he reaches CNYTHIA, he looks at her confusingly.
He smiles. CLOVIS at the top of the hill. CLOVIS is pointing
his gun at CLIVE. CLIVE shakes his head. CLOVIS
laughs and pulls the trigger. CLIVE is now lying on top
of CYNTHIA. of his stomach. CLIVE leans up slowly. He
coughs up blood. Behind him, CYNTHIA is bleeding from
her chest. CUT
TO: The witch is standing next to a large pot
full of brown liquid. She untwists the vial full of
CANDACE’S blood and dumps it into the pot. She drops
the vial beside her feet and picks up a large spoon.
She begins stirring. CLOVIS barges in the room. The
WITCH turns around to him and smiles. CLOVIS The WITCH’S smile fades. WITCH CLOVIS points to his stomach with his index finger. CLOVIS The witch drops the spoon in the pot. She turns completely around to CLOVIS. She reaches in her pocket and slings Whatever she got at CLOVIS. CLOVIS now has a knife in his heart. He looks down at the knife panicky. He pulls it out and watches the blood pour out of his chest. CLOVIS falls down dead. CANDACE’S hand is nailed into the table. She slowly pulls her left hand up. After she pulls gets her hand loose, she pulls the other one loose. She removes the tape slowly from her face. She leans up and pulls her feet loose from the nails. She steps off of the table and limps to the back of the room. She grabs a hatchet hanging by a nail on the wall. She turns around and the WITCH is standing there, face-to-face with CANDACE. CANDACE screams and pushes the WITCH back about a foot. down on the witch’s head. CANDACE looks at the WITCH for a moment without doing anything else. CANDACE pulls the hatchet out of the WITCH’S head and drops it on the floor. The WITCH has a deep slash on her forehead. Blood is running down her face. The WITCH falls to the floor. CANDACE breathes heavily. CANDACE’s eyes shut and she passes out. She falls to the ground, right next to the WITCH. The WITCH to become lighter, until she bursts into blood all over the floor and on CANDACE. CUT
TO: bloody and it’s raining, some. She’s very bloody. She keeps walking the road. BEGIN END-CREDITS (PART) walking. She passes a large tree. CANDACE out pops CYNTHIA. She’s horrifying looking. She pulls out a gun and points it at CANDACE. THE
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