ACT 3, SCENE 1 INT: AMED/LINDA HOME – NIGHT LINDA BUTLER comes running into the front door of the house. LINDA: Amed. Amed, where are you? The house is dark. LINDA turns on the light, but everything appears normal. In the distance, there are voices. She follows them into the LIVING ROOM, where…
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TEASER BLACK SCREEN. HEAVY PANTING AND SNIFFLING. DIAL TONE and 3 LOUD BEEPS. DISPATCHER (O.S.): 911, what’s your emergency? A CHILD starts to cry. His voice is trembling. In the BACKGROUND, hysterical screaming and a crying baby. DISPATCHER (O.S.): Hello? 911, what’s your emergency? BOY (O.S.): Send help please….
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ACT 3, SCENE 1 INT: ASTRO CITY’S GANG UNIT HQ – INTERROGATION RM- AFTERNOON LOCO sits with his hands uncuffed and folded neatly across a table. His head is tilt over the back of the chair and staring up at the halogen lights. From HIS POV, in the brightness is The Goatman. Door opens, enters…
Read moreAstro City (Black Horror Web Series): Ep 2 Final Act
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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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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