Now it gets really frightening

With less than two week remaining in the semester, it begins to look bleak. After three weeks, we finally read through the screenplay, and the consensus was that not many enjoyed the delayed point of attack. I still don't feel as though I am completely sold on this. Other zombie films (including the apex of NOTLD) tend to shove the zombies right down the throat of the audience, and the other problem was the gore factor. Maybe I'm too old school for the gore. Contemporary audiences have grown accustomed to an excess of gore to substitute for actual fear. This is painful for me to witness. I am just not a fan of films such as the _Saw_ franchise. There are not enough subtle horror films out there. Who knows, I might give into the calls of the class, but I might just stick up for a dying art of horror construction.

When the dead finally come back...

After turning in my first draft of Act I, this was my favorite part:

SAM turns and leaves the morgue.

DR. JOHNSON laughs to himself and takes his seat behind the desk. He turns on his desk lamp, causing a spotlight effect on the desk. He picks up the papers and the desk and begins to sort them out.

A noise of rustling sheets can be heard in the background. DR. JOHNSON looks up from the desk toward the doors to see if another gurney is going to be brought in. The camera pans to the door, sits there for a couple of seconds and goes back to DR. JOHNSON. He looks back down on the desk when the sound comes again.

The camera takes a long shot of DR. JOHNSON at the desk with a corpse in the foreground. The rustling noise is heard again. DR. JOHNSON stands up this time to take a look around. The corpse in the foreground of the shot begins to move.

DR. JOHNSON picks up his clipboard and looks around the morgue. He takes a breath and goes over to one of the bodies, lifts the sheets and begins writing on his clipboard.

A hand falls onto his shoulder. He turns around scared and ready to swing.

NURSE #3

(Jumping back a bit)

S…sorry, Dr. Johnson.

DR. JOHNSON

Whew…you can’t sneak up on an old man like that. I could keel over at any minute.

NURSE #3

I didn’t mean to scare you. Where do you want me to put that one.

DR. JOHNSON looks at yet another gurney.

DR. JOHNSON

You can just leave it there, I will wheel it where I need it.

NURSE #3

Okay, Doc. (Jokingly) It is kind of creepy down here.

DR. JOHNSON

You get used to it. Be careful up there.

NURSE #3 leaves the morgue.

DR. JOHNSON goes back to checking on the bodies. He walks toward the back of the room. He walks up to a gurney to find that there is no body there with the sheets.

DR. JOHNSON

What the fu…

A charred corpse latches onto DR. JOHNSON and takes a bite out of his neck. DR. JOHNSON screams in agony as blood begins pouring out his neck. The zombie begins to tear pieces of flesh off and chewing with bits of skin falling out of his mouth. DR. JOHNSON gargles and falls. The zombie follows the body down the ground and begins feasting.