ACT 5, SCENE 1 INT. REV’S HOME – NIGHT FOLLOW SHOT: REV walks through the front door in more pedestrian garb. He is SMILING and putting his stuff down. REV: I’m home. There was a line outside the office. They wouldn’t let me leave. I had to sneak out before Sister Netta’s group…
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Act 4, SCENE 1 INT: RISE CHURCH – HALLWAY: AFTERNOON There is a line outside REV MAC’S DOOR. People are standing or sitting on benches patiently waiting to see him. Some are praying furiously and others are crying. On the closed door is REV MAC’S nameplate and his listed office hours. We hear OS SOBBING…
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ACT 3, SCENE 1 INT: RISE: AME CHURCH – BASEMENT/SOUP KITCHEN – DAY Focus on MAYOR APOSTOLOU has his face buried in his hands. He grunts in pain. A worker walks into the kitchen area and hands OMAR BUTLER a bottle of water. OMAR shoos the worker away so he and the MAYOR are alone…
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We need to talk about THEM (2021). You’ve probably seen promos during your standard stroll through streaming television, or maybe heard friends and family applause or pan the infant anthology series. First the premise: THEM (Amazon Prime) tells the story of one 1950s Black Family’s migration West to Compton, California to escape Jim Crow South,…
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Astro City (Black Horror Web Series) Ep 2. Act 1 & Act 2
TEASER ACT 1, SCENE 1 INT: RISE: AME CHURCH – DAY There is a funeral at RISE, and the service is packed. Peace lilies adorn the church, and a coffin sits before an altar. SISTER NETTA is standing in front of the congregation with a choir behind her. SISTER is singing a beautiful hymn passionately….
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Astro City: Black Horror Web Series Ep 1, Final Act
ACT 5, SCENE 1 INT: OFFICE – LATE NIGHT OMAR walks through the door of the MAYOR’S OFFICE. Plush seats and carpeted floor. The MAYOR is in a large leather-back swiveling chair with his back towards the door. OMAR: Pulling an all-nighter? MAYOR swings around. He has a half-finished bottle of whiskey in…
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Astro City: Ep1 Act 4 (Black Horror Web Series)
Subject matter and language no suitable for all readers. ACT 4, SCENE 1 EXT: CANIFF PARK – LATE NIGHT In the background, the HEIGHTS glisten. Caniff Park is a large woodland trail for runners and bikers like Boston Commons or Central Park. AC METRO BUS hisses and roars OS. SHAUNICE and LEIGH, both dressed to…
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Astro City: Ep1 Act 3 (Black Horror Web Series)
ACT 3, SCENE 1 EXT: DOWNTOWN UNDERGROUND SUBWAY STOP – LATENIGHT OMAR (O.S.) (slowly coming into shot) Yeah, I’m heading back home right now. Why? Oh! You want to see me? OMAR jogs down to steps to the subway with his messenger bag swinging at his hips, pays his toll and walks out…
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Black Horror Web series: Astro City (Ep 1 A2)
ACT 2, SCENE 1, EXT: NETTA HOME – DAY TIME – PRESENT DAY The TWO-FAMILY HOME is not bright-blue. The paint is dull and the siding of the home appears warped. Even the OWL ROOF ORNAMENT is tilted off kilter. Coming from off the street and up the steps of NETTAS’ HOME is SHAUNICE WOOD,…
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BLACK HORROR STORY: Astro City Series
Astro City Pilot/ ‘Welcome to the AC’ Written by M. J. Cross TEASER Act 1, SCENE 1 INT: HOME Blood shot brown EYES dart wildly from left and right. The EYES keep moving behind a long wooden MASK with an elongated chin and puckered mouth. It appears tribal, but has an alien quality to…
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