I Wrote An Entire Season - Interest Reading
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Kencrogers300 — 9 years ago(September 27, 2016 03:33 PM)
AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Heritage
By
Ken C. Rogers
Some characters created by Brad Falchuk & Ryan Murphy
Ken Rogers
Email: ************
Phone: 616-666-****
Note: This is the entire 14 episode Season Heritage
Each Episode is titled by a Number, but they do not necessarily go in any order. Each Episode holds a singular puzzle piece for the finally.
13
TITLES UP: Present Day
FADE IN:
EXT. ROADSIDE DAY
A DADDY LONG LEG carefully walks across a dirt road when CRUNCH a duffle bag lands on top of it.
We PULL UP to a skinny white male in his 20s, AARON WARD. Aaron laughs as his camera takes pictures of something amusing. Aaron looks like updated version of Shaggy from SCOOBY DOO. Aaron puts his camera away and yanks up his backpack & bags while swinging his thumb into the muggy air.
CUT TO:
EXT. PAVED ROAD/DIRT ROAD INTERSECTION DAY
Aaron exits and we see what made him laugh. The sign reads WELCOME TO RED LAKE FALLS, and below that it should read HELLO THERE, but the O & the T have been removed. Painted in red is the word IS. Now the sign reads HELL IS HERE.
Aaron pulls his cell phone out of his pocket and holds it up. Cell phone reads NO SERVICE.
AARON
Go figure.
Aaron puts the phone away wipes the sweat from his forehead. The sun blistering through the large trees lining the heat paved road. There is an eerie silence in the air, Aaron looks around, no birds, no sounds of any animals, nothing. There is no stop light and the only road sign is broken and it reads BROKE BASS ROAD. This sign also has the same graffiti artwork.
This sign has the letter B removed from Bass. Now the sign reads BROKE ASS ROAD. An old 50s style Ford truck comes toward Aaron breaking the silence. Aaron waves down the truck.
As the truck pulls over we see an old Haggard Native American man is driving.
OLD MAN EGAN
(Friendly)
Where ya heading?
AARON
Town.
OLD MAN EGAN
Sure? (PAUSE) Sure youre sure. Get in back.
As Aaron gets in the back the Old Man shakes his head disappointedly.
OLD MAN EGAN
(Quietly)
They always want to go to town.
Aaron sits down and pats on the window. Old Man Egan pulls in the direction of town. Aaron notices a lot of trash in the back of truck. He sees a bunch of trash bags and boxes; one of the boxes is half open.
On the outside of the box reads BITTEROOT. Inside are a bunch of old 8mm reels of film. Looking around at the other boxes and bags Aaron begins seeing a pattern names with the dates scratched off. Aaron reads to himselfGODDESS BUNNY, KRINKLES, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, and then a box where the date is intact, THE WYOMING INCIDENT 1987. Some of the titles Aaron recognizes some he does not. Then he comes across something familiar, it reads, DAPHNES DESTRUCTION.
Aaron sits back abruptly, but not enough to alert Old Man Egan. He carefully removes his camera and takes pictures of the boxes.
CUT TO:
EXT. MAIN STREET RED LAKE FALLS DAY
The OLD MAN pulls into a parking spot in front of the Peacock Diner. Aaron pats the window to say thank you and glad to be out of that truck. The people outside who saw Aaron all pause with curiosity. The Old Man pulls back out and drives away.
A pregnant woman in her thirties comes out of the hardware store and walks toward Aaron. Her clothes are tattered and torn and there is a large hole in her shirt stomach area. Aaron makes eye contact with her briefly and noticed she has one green eye and one Mirror eye. Aaron is startled by his reflection in that eye. He had no face in the reflection.
PREGNANT WOMAN (AGNES)
Baby kicking.
Aaron looks down and a deformed looking BABY hand moves across her belly in a cutting motion.
AGNES
(Giggles)
Kind of tickles.
She gets into a truck being driven by a woman in her 50s. Agnes hands her bag to a Dwarf sitting in a childs car seat next to the driver.
Aaron watches them pull away as Agnes waves like a prom queen and blows him a kiss. As he watches a group of four kids on the same side of the street enter the Dime Store.
Aaron looks up and down the street at the connected buildings. Some of the stores are a Grocery, Barber, Hardware, Movie Theater, and Pharmacy. A group of teenagers come out of the movie theater laughing. Two boys, identical twins standing next to each other stare directly at Aaron but are not laughing. The group of teenagers disperses revealing the boys share a body and middle leg. The site of the Siamese twins startles Aaron at first, but then he becomes fascinated. The twins put on sunglasses, turn down an alley and disappear.
The theater sign says now showing Peeping Tom & Eyes without a Face. He briefly catches two women in their thirties enter a beauty parlor.
Aaron turns to walk into the Diner and catches one last site. At the end of the street a Catholic church stands. The priest standing at the bottom of the steps waves to Aaron. The image reminded him of the church from Little house on the Prairie. Aaron even thought the priest looked like Reverend Alden. Old Man Egan stoppe -
PatientWolf — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 09:10 AM)
that was great ken!!! definitely feels a little cliche at moments but it was creepy for sure and i thoroughly enjoyed the read. I also write scripts!! i have a few different ideas for AHS seasons and I want to make them into reality so this felt pretty inspirational keep working on it!! And yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be for AHS, it could be an individual thing as well.
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Kencrogers300 — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 05:18 PM)
Thank you here is next part. "7"
BLACK SCREEN
As the screen comes up from BLACK we hear Peggy Screaming and a faint SMACKING SOUND. This is the sound of Alexander coldcocking Aaron with his gun.
ALEXANDER (V.O.)
Well isnt this a pickle.
INT. ALEXANDER SEWING ROOM DAY
WE pull back from the window looking out onto Alexanders front yard. There are multiple screams and yells, nothing discernable. We PULL back from window and hear a sewing machine and a naked pale figure sewing something together. The figure (CUPID) is humming a distorted version of Its a Fine Day. WE PULL BACK farther to see the entire backside of the figure that is naked. Pulsing through its skin are bulging blood red veins connected together like a spiders web.
There are various items scattered throughout the room from different sized Owl statues to boxes overflowing with papers. Through all the clutter we do see cameras hanging from the ceilings. Various styles of posters hang around the room from Margaret Keanes Happy Mask, Unhappy Boy (1963) to a movie poster for Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). The most disturbing poster is the one hanging over the sewing machine. The poster is a depiction of adults sacrificing their children to the demon god Moloch. Next to that stapled poorly to the wall is the Serenity Prayer & calendar that says Miltons Paradise Lost.
As WE COME in to a side view of the figure we can see the hands are dirty and covered in scabs and the finger nails have been removed. Moving up the arm there are hundreds of track marks. Still humming the creature picks a scab off its arm and lowers it down to an open box near his chair.
We follow the blood dripped scab down and just as the fingers would disappear into the box, something jumps and grabs the scab out of the fingers quickly. The box moves around furiously. Something inside is very hungry. As we come closer to the box, we hear small sounds of movement. CUPID slowly lowers his hand down again this time holding a red rabbits foot. He moves the rabbit foot around in a circular motion. Then out of the box come two long legs covered in course hair, like tiny needles. Then two more legs reach out for the foot. The four legs wrap around and clutch the rabbits foot and Cupids fingers. Finally the rest of the legs come out from the walls of the box. Cupid grunts and laughs like a child, we still do not see Cupids face.
But the spider, now out and crawling up Cupids arm with the rabbits foot dangling from its tiny machete sharp fangs has the length of a daddy long leg, yet the hair of a tarantula. Inside the box we get a full view of cat sized spiders living area, which is covered by a type of spinning web, the kind of web created only by a Scytodes, the spitting spider. Cupid grunts and strokes the spider like a cat as the spider purchases on his shoulder like a bird.
Suddenly we hear someone storming down a hallway towards the sewing room. The large spider leaps onto the sewing desk as Cupid scrambles for a burlap sack on the floor. Cupid is frightened.
BIG MOMMA (O.S.)
(Angry)
Cupid! Cupid! You better have your hat on.
Cupid quickly gets the burlap sack on his head we get a glimpse of the bottom portion of Cupids face. Like the rest of his body is pale like an albino, but, his lips and tongue have been removed. This is why he spits on everything and cannot talk. All we can see are rotted teeth, some like Alexanders chiseled downto eat meat.
BIG MOMMA (O.S.)
You better not be messin with those spiders again.
Cupid gently puts the spider in the box and takes back the rabbits foot. As he closes the box he pets her one more time. Closing up the box it reads MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY S. LINK EXPEDITION NEW ARACHNID SPECIES. The rest of the label is torn.
A very large woman, BIG MOMMA comes stomping into the room. Between her weight and clubbed foot always give her away. Big Momma is a domineering woman who loves wigs and classic movies. You can tell her mood by the wig she is wearing. And today she is wearing her Joan Crawford Bouffant Wig. Big Momma is not happy as she looks out a window facing an enclosed yard. She screams out the window at someone we do not see and pulls the drapes.
BIG MOMMA
Cornucopia gets off that roundabout and leaves those boys alone!
Then Big Momma stops and turns dragging her club foot against the floor past the Spider box toward Cupid huddled in the corner shaking. There is one whole for an eye and Cupid cannot take his eye off that club foot. Big Momma was dragging her foot like a baseball player up to bat.
BIG MOMMA
(Deep and Low)
And you, you putrid little toad. You let her out didnt you?
As we close in on Cupids eye shaking and tears coming out. He mutters and grunts like scared child holding onto the rabbits foot for dear life.
BIG MOMMA
You kids will be the death of me.
Cupid lifts his hands to protect his face and the rabbits foot hangs dangling from a finger. Big Momma swings her leg and CRASH.
SCREEN -
Kencrogers300 — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 05:20 PM)
Here is continue and ending of Episode '7'
Impulse rolls over as Harper turns and shuts the door. As Harper gets under the covers we see Ash is not sleeping and his eyes open just before Harper extinguishes the light.
LATER:
INT CHURCH NIGHT
Ash quietly enters the candle lit church from the back. The Priest sits knelt with two nuns on each side. They are praying, but Ash cannot make out what they are saying.
The two nuns get up and walk toward a door behind the Altar area. Just before Sister Francine walks through she turns and looks directly at Ash the whites of her eyes gaze right through him. The Priest turns to and motions to Ash. Ash approaches the Priest and Sister Francine disappears.
Ash kneels down and does the sign of the cross.
ASH
Is this really happening?
PRIEST
Yes.
ASH
I love her so much.
PRIEST
Of course you do. Jesus was loved to.
The Priest stands and offers his hand to Ash.
PRIEST
Come walk with me.
The two walk slowly side by side around the Church. The Priest motions to certain windows as they pass.
PRIEST
Remember we are at battle every day Ash. There are monsters all around us.
ASH
The sign coming in was sprayed again Hell is here.
PRIEST
Egan, superstitious old man. And he is right hell is here. We are literally standing on the belly of the beast.
ASH
And we are in a church. How ironic is that? Father what if she is not the one? What if they are all wrong?
PRIEST
Then God help us all.
CUT TO:
INT. CHURCH BASMENT MORNING
CLOSE UP on Ash, closed eyes. He is dreaming. His gaze roves beneath his lids.
Willow's lips come into shot kissing first his eyes and then traveling down his face to his mouth.
WILLOW
Ash wake up.
Ashs eye flicker open.
WILLOW
Good morning.
Now Ash's eyes are fully open. He sits up and looks towards the open door to the Church above. Willow kisses him, distracting him.
ASH
(Nervous)
Morning. You hungry?
Willow keeps kissing Ash.
IMPULSE
I am starving!
HARPER
Me too!
IMPULSE
Get up Ash, I could eat the ass out of hippowhere is Oprah when you need her?
Ash says nothing and Harper slap Impulse.
HARPER
I like Oprah. Be nice.
CUT TO:
INT CHURCH MORNING
The church looks more welcoming in the daylight. The only person besides the kids is an old woman dressed in white, with a black headscarf wrapped around. As the kids walk past her she looks up at Ash. She is very old, with dark circles around her eyes and her lips black and shiny. She smiles, her mouth large with rotted teeth. Her entire mouth is black as tar.
OLD WOMAN
(Raspy chant)
Gold coated the pilgrims icons in the name
ASH
Lets go. Its crazy lady from Dark Web video.
The Old woman continues to chant but does not get up or leave. We can see the Priest at the front of the church as the kids exit. The Priest says nothing, just the old woman ranting on and on.
CUT TO:
EXT. FRONT OF CHURCH MORNING
Ash pushes Willow out the door and they all stop looking out at the Main Street. The quiet street looks oddly familiar to when Aaron arrived.
We can see Old Man Egan pulling up and parking with Aaron in the back. Ash, Willow, Harper and Impulse walk towards the Peacock Diner. They step up onto the sidewalk and are stopped by a couple of young kids who run out in front of them into the street.
WILLOW
Be careful.
One of the kids turns around and glares at Willow. Harper screams which distracts everyone.
HARPER
A Dime Store! Oh my gosh they have one of these in Coopersville, MI.
IMPULSE
Whats a Dime Store?
Harper grabs Impulse and pulls him into the store before she can answer.
HARPER
This is so great!!!
Willow smiles and turns around to Ash.
WILLOW
We have time so lets check it out.
Willow kisses Ash and enters the store. Ash turns around and looks at the Priest. The Priest waves with a weird grin.
CUT TO:
INT. DIME STORE DAY
Frolic style music plays over the speakers in the run down store. A woman smoking behind the counter is watching a program on her 50s style Magnavox television.
A small bustle of ladies stands near their husbands by the Soda fountain. Everyone stops talking when the group comes in.
IMPULSE
So everything a dime?
The woman behind the counter with her dark rimmed glasses shakes her head no.
HARPER
Where is your beer?
STORE OWNER
No liquor here.
The people in the store seem to drift away from the young kids. Ash doesnt make eye contact with anyone and stands near the front of the store.
Looking out the front windows Ash can see two women who do not fit in with the environment. The two women enter the beauty parlor across the street. Who are they?
Harper and Impulse are in the back of the store and Willow is looking at postcards on the end of the main counter. She picks up one it is Picassos The Crying Woman. Willow hands the postcard to the woman watching the program.
STORE OWNER
Thatll be ten cents.
There is a CRASHING SOUND coming from the back of the store. Willow takes her post card and calls to Ash.
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TeraisaWrites — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 05:02 PM)
I'm unable to read this yet but I will. It's great to see positive and constructive comments because you don't see that often (seems like the anonymity of the internet brings out the worst in people at times like this just because they can be rude even the guy who didn't like it READ IT, you're rockin' it all the way around-good job!).
