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"War of The Zombies" Written By: Alex Burchfield Copyright 2001 (c) Alex Burchfield Inspired by many different video games including killing zombies such as: Resident Evil, Area 51, House of the Dead, ext. also inspired by the movies "Night of the living Dead", "Dawn of The Dead", & "Day of The Dead". Fade in- A large facility with many large tanks. Suddenly we here a loud alarm. Cut to: inside of the facility. Red lights flash as we still here the alarm. People run with strange containment suits on. We move closer to a door. It has a "biohazard" sign on it. Cut to: a room with two people with lab coats on at a large computer like machine. Lab guy 1- We need to get this harnessed! Lab guy 2- We don't have much time! Lab guy 1- I know that! But how! Lab guy 2- Well, we need to evacuate the town! Town on the siren! Lab guy 1- Ok. He goes over to a small keyboard and punches in a few things then we here a loud siren. Suddenly we here a loud explosion. Cut to: the remains of one of the tanks out side. It has exploded. Cut to: back in the lab room. Lab guy 2- Oh sh*t!!!!!! First it's just a small leak now it's a complete fallout! Soon this is goanna be an epidemic! If these people don't evacuate soon they are goanna end up… The undead. Cut to: an overhead shot of one of the neighborhoods in the town. There are people scattered every ware trying to get out of town. The streets are packed. Cut to: the lab room. Lab guy 2- Release the antidote. Lab guy 1- We don't have enough!!! Lab guy2- Damn! What the hell is wrong with those guys! They were supposed to handle the stuff with care!!!! And all they do is blow the cover of this place!!! Were under attack! We here another explosion. Lab guy 2- Sh*t!!! there's another tank!!! Lab guy 1- Who was taking this stuff?!?!? Lab guy 2- The army. It was a biological weapon! And those damn idiots made a leak in the tank! Lab guy 1- What do we do? Lab guy 2- As far as I'm concerned…. Die. Flash title card: "War of the Zombies". Cut to: the neighborhood. It is rundown. It looks as if it's abandoned. The buildings are dirty. The following sentence is spurred: "two months later." Cut to: a small car driving down one of the roads. Cut to: inside of it, a family is in it. Two boys are in the back seat and the mom & dad is in the front. Kid 1- Hey, this place sucks! Frank- No wonder I got the house so cheap! Mom- Were not goanna be living here are we, Frank? Kid 2- Yeah I don't want to live here! Frank- Just wait 'til you see the house. The car drives up to an old house. Just as run down as the town! They get out of the car. Kid 1- This place isn't much better! They walk in the house (Camera follows). Kid 2- What's that smell? Kid 1- Yeah I smelled it when we got out of the car! Frank- I thinks it's mildew. Suddenly, a zombie pops out of a closet and grabs the mom. They all scream and run out. The zombie still has the mom. He begins to eat her. Cut to: inside the car they are driving away from the house. Kid 2- Hey, where's mom?!?!?!? Frank- Oh no she's still at the house! Suddenly he hits a zombie with the car and it explodes on impact. They all scream. They get back at the house then the dad pulls a gun out of the glove department. Frank- You kids stay here. He leaves (camera follows). He is now next to the closet the zombie popped out of. He cautiously opens the closet door. Then the mom falls out. She is bleeding all over, she is missing pieces out of her neck and has bite marks all over. He screams. Then the zombie runs out of the closet. The dad empties the barrel into the zombie's head and on the last shot his head explodes. He runs to the car and drives at 150 mph out of the city. Cut to: Frank in an office with a guy named Goldman. Frank- Mr. Goldman, this thing killed my wife! We need to do something about this, this, thing in that city! What the hell happened for those things to be there?!!?! Goldman- Mr. Frank, I devolved a poison for a biological weapon. It was kept at a small facility in that town. We had an accident when we were moving it to a remote base. A leak sprung and the city was contaminated. There was nothing we could do. We tried to evacuate the city but some people just didn't care. They stayed in the town. Only a very small fraction of the population was evacuated. Everyone else was in the town and they became… the undead. In other words, they're all zombies. Frank- What!??!!?! Well, at least try to get rid of them! Goldman- We did! They overcame our men and the men became zombies. Frank- Well how many men did you send in? Goldman- About 10. Frank- What!?!? That's all? This town must be crawling with them! You need to send in an entire army!!!! Goldman- We can't afford it! Besides, if we did they wont come! Frank- Why? Goldman- They're too damn scared! Frank- Well, I'll get some people to come! If I do that, will you fund us with weapons and armor? Goldman- (Sighs) Ok. But if you fail were going to do what we planned to do before. Frank- What's that? Goldman- Were goanna bomb it. Frank- Then just do that! Goldman- That city is too valuable! Our country is over flowing! We need that city! If you and your men can take out all of the zombies we can restore the city and get people to come back! Frank- Ok. Dissolve to: Frank outside of an army recruiting building. A guy named James comes out and the dad (Frank) grabs him. Frank- Hey, are you goanna get in the army? James- No, they rejected me. Frank- Well, I'll let you be a part of my army. James- What? Frank- This is a big job. Have you herd of Hitachi City? James- Yeah, that zombie town! Frank- Well, I'm putting together a team to go kill all the zombies. James- I don't know… going up against a bunch of zombies, it sounds kind of fatal. Frank- Yeah, well, it's beyond fatal. But if you come I'll give $200 is you survive the battle. James- Well… ok. I'm James. Frank- Great! Come this way. Dissolve to: Frank in front of many men… very many men! The following sentence is spurred: "Weeks later." It goes away. Frank- You have all done something very patriotic. You are going on a very dangerous mission. I'm positive many of you are going to… well… die. A worried look falls upon the men's faces. Frank- Just remember your saving the lives of more people who think they got a "bargon" on a house but they're going to a house of the Dead. Man 1- Well, what if we- Frank- My wife died in that town and your going to avenge her death by killing those things!!!!!!!! Man 1- Ok. They split up and go into different trucks. The trucks drive off screen. Cut to: the town. The trucks stop in the middle of the street, the men poor out of them. Armed with guns and ready for battle. Frank gets out. Frank- I hope they can do it. He walks off. Cut to: inside a House. A group of five men are searching it. they here some noise in the kitchen. They slowly walk to the kitchen. There is a zombie. The men startle him, so he runs at them but he gets no further than 6/2 feet closer to them as they all shoot at him. He falls dead(er). Cut to: Frank & James. They are leading eight other people. James- How come you asked me to help you lead this group? Frank- I saw you at training! You were the best one there! Along with these other guys! You and these other people are the best guys in this army! you think I'll let just any squad accompany me? James- I guess not. Frank- Well sense I'm leading this army, I need the best people to battle with me! Man 1- Here, here!! Other guys agree with him. Frank- Shut up! James- Do you have any kids? Frank- Yeah. Two. James- Did they… Frank- No just my wife. James- How many of us do you suppose will survive? Frank- …… I don't know…… Suddenly a large armored car drives up. Then Goldman steps out. Goldman- Well. Frank- Well what? Goldman- How is the hunt? Frank- Good I guess… umm, Goldman. Is there any of the virus left in this city? Goldman- There shouldn't be. Frank- What are you doing here anyway? Goldman- Well… just checking on how things are here. Frank- Well things are fine, Daddy! Goldman- Would you shut up!!! Remember your just here to get rid of these bastards! Frank- Ok! Goldman gets into his armored car and drives off. James- Who's he? Frank- The brains of this operation. He created the virus that made all of these zombies. He's also the guy who funded us! James- Oh. As they walk, they approach a bunch of zombies. Frank notices. Frank- Okay, men! Let 'er rip! The men begin to shoot at the zombies as they all one by one fall down. Soon, they're safe. Frank- Good job men! Frank notices that the sun is going down. Frank- Ok men… we need to find some shelter. Man (off screen)- Sir! The camera follow the man's voice to see him next to a sign that leads to a housing development. The battered sign reads: "Piton's Point: Housing Development". Man- There should be some nice places here! Frank- Good idea man! Lets go! They all begin to walk into the housing development. Cut to: the housing development. The men are in a bunched up group walking through the street killing zombies as they go. Frank & James are talking again. Frank- Well, now we just need to find a place. James- We need a large place so when we think we have rid the place of zombies, we should still keep a good look out. Frank- Oh, of course. James- (noticing something off screen) look sir!!! The camera follows his eyes to see a very large house (mansion) coming up on the horizon. We here the comments of other soldiers who like the house. James- What do you say we stay there for the night? There's a good chance there's a ton of zombies there… we'll be getting rid of a lot of them! Frank- God job James… LETS GO!!! Cut to: inside a run-down convenient store. A group of soldiers are searching it. they kill zombies as they run past isles and other parts of the store. Man 1- Wow! Man, I'd choose this over the damn army any day!! Man 2- Yeah! This is so fun! I mean I feel no remorse for these goons when I kill them!!! Man 3- That's the best part! Man 2 walks behind the counter and open up the regstor, suddenly a rat springs up from the drawer and latches onto his neck. After a few minutes of struggling, he manages to get the rat off. Then falls dead. The other two men both shoot at the rat as it tries to scurry out of the store. Cut to: inside the mansion. We are following a group of five men. With their M-16's, they're searching the seemingly endless hallway for mind-eating zombies. Suddenly a zombie pops out of a door on the left. Man- I got this one! The man shoots two clean bullets into the zombie's head. He falls to the floor. They continue to search. Cut to: a black screen, the following is spurred: "Three Hours Later."… as it leaves, we fade in on a room in the mansion, Frank & James are talking. Frank- Good work James, we cleared the whole house! James- But what's to stop them to coming back in? Frank- I activated the electric fence. James- I didn't see any fence?… In fact, all I saw was a bunch of metal poles around the house. Frank- Those ARE the electric fence! It's just one small beam of light. But it'll keep 'em away! James- Oh……………………… hey, I just thought of something… what about that lake out in the middle of the city? What about those fish? Frank- …… My god you're right. James- What will we do? Frank- …… I don't know! Frank pulls a Sprint PCS phone out of one of his many pockets and dials a number. We here ringing and the camera moves to the right pushing James off screen. We here someone answer the phone and now there is a split screen of both Goldman & Frank on the phone. Frank- Ummm… I think there's a problem… Goldman- WHAT??? Frank- Yeah… the lake! What about all of the fish???… what if the virus made some sort of mutation and made the fish merge with humans making some weird creature from the black lagoon thing??? Goldman- Frank!… it's just a damn biological whepon!!!… not some sort of radiation!!! Frank- Oh yeah… sorry! Goldman- But you are right… the fish will have a problem… my guys will take care of it. Frank- We are your guys!!!!! Goldman- I mean a few guys that help me in the lab! Frank- What?… what lab? Goldman- Nevermind!… Frank- … well, there is a cabin thing in the middle of the lake and chances are, there are a couple of guys in there… how are we supposed to get there with out zombie fish jumping out of the water and attacking us!… Goldman- We'll figure something out. Bye. Frank- Bye. Goldman hangs up his phone and the split screen leaves. The camera moves back over to the left so we see James again. James- Any plan? Frank- …… I don't know. cut to: an empty hallway, we are moving quickly through it. We can here men talking in a room. The camera stops at a door and adjusts so that we see the door in one perfect view. Cut to: inside the room. Five men are talking. Man 1- I think this whole thing is dumb!!! Were risking our lives for a measly two hundred bucks!!! Man 2- Well, at least it's some money! Man 3- If we survive! Man 4- Maybe we could just ditch the city for a while and come back at the end!!! Then we'll get our cut of the money! Man 5- That's a good idea!!!! Man 1- Lets do it! Man 4- In the morning! In the mean time lets get some sleep. Man 4 turns off a light, its dark but we can still see very well. The men all lay down. The camera pans over to a large hole in the corner of the wall. We then here screeching, but a low noise… then we here scratching… suddenly tons, literally tons, of weird rats with rows of huge sharp teeth. Like a shark! They begin to fill up the room. They cover the men who lay on the floor, and biting at them and covering the guys on the bed, tearing them all apart. The men scream with pain… with blood all over the room and the men with half of their flesh ripped off, the rats leave the room as if leaving a sinking ship. The screen fades out. Cut to: Hallway, the next day. The soldiers look scared. Frank & James walk up. Frank notices their faces. Frank- What's wrong with you people??? Soldier 1- My……… Team……… Dead……… Soldier 2- Yeah!!! I saw it! All these rats! Weird looking ones!!!…… They just tore into the flesh of my teammates!! Frank- What??? Soldier 3- I got bit! Other soldiers in the crown agree as they have been bit too. Frank- Oh shit. Cut to: a room. Frank is on the phone with Goldman (split screen). Frank- What do I do??? Goldman- They were bit by the rats??? Frank- YEAH!!! Goldman- Well…… their all contaminated with the virus, cause the rats are carrying it! So are all of the zombies! All you can do is kill them before the turn into zombies. Frank- What??? Goldman- Just do it. Cut to: an empty room. All of the bitten men are lined up against the wall. Frank holds an M-16 up at the men… they don't know what's coming. The camera moves over so we only see Frank. Frank begins to shoot. We here screams but they soon die out. Cut to: outside. Frank and his men are walking shooting zombies as they go. Frank and James begin to talk. James- We really had to kill them??? Frank- Well, yes. James- Why? Frank- They would have eventually turned into zombies and we would have killed them anyway!!!!! James- ……… I understand. I hope I survive this, so I can go back home to my wife. Frank- Your wife?… Your wife?… Your wife?… YOUR WIFE?!?!?! The word echo in his head as they approach a BUNCH of zombies. Finally, we see Frank start to shoot at them. It seems Frank is the only one shooting. He has a strange look on his face. He continuously shoots at them, then at the ones on the sidewalk. He walks away from the group and continues to shoot at every zombie in sight. He is going nuts. Frank (crazy)- MY WIFE!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!! James- Are you ok Frank? They are walking up to the facility (the one that released the toxin). It is not run down like the rest of the town. In fact, it looks better than it did two months earlier. James- We're goanna go up to that place up there…… ok? Frank (crazy)- MY WIFE!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!!! MY WIFE!!!!!! James is now the leader (with everyone realizing that Frank has now lost touch with reality), and leads the men to the facility (camera follows. As they walk away, we can still here Frank screaming: "MY WIFE!!!!!!" Cut to: The fence protecting the facility. There is only a measly chain & lock. All it took to was a couple shots from James's gun to destroy it. they run in shooting zombies as they go. Cut to: the facility door. James tries to open it but it's locked. James puts a flashbang on the outer side of the door. The men back off. The door opens as the explosion unlocked it. As the smoke clears, we see…… Goldman (now who didn't see that coming from a mile away?). James- GOLDMAN?!?!?!? Goldman- Yes. James- GOLDMAN?!?!?!?!? Cut to: Goldman's office. James & Goldman are talking. James- What the hell have you been doing??? Goldman- Tests. James- Tests? Goldman- Yes… I wanted to see, how many zombies an army can kill in a small city…… you haven't even killed half! Plus I wanted to see how zombies did with guns. Goldman gestures to a closed circuit television. It shows soldiers who are now zombies walking with guns aimlessly. Goldman- Obviously, guns are useless to them… by the way, you and your team are the only survivors! James- Why did you let all of us go in here, when you know all of us were just goanna die??? Goldman- Well, I intended to let a few of you survive for a few minutes. James- What? Goldman- I have developed a new toxin! I wanted to test it on you guys! You all had to sign a waiver saying that if you don't come back alive, I'm not responsible! So I figured I used this to my advantage! And sense I don't want to test this on any of MY men, I'll test it on your men! James- Why? Goldman- I JUST TOLD YOU!!! James- Oh yeah… Goldman- I think I'll let you take the test first. A couple of buff men walk in and take James by the arms, he struggles to get loose but it doesn't work. Cut to: a hallway, the two men are carrying James. Finally he manages to get loose and turns his gun on them. The two men rip off their faces to reveal a disgusting, bloody, mangled face. With their faces ripped off, the rest of their skin and cloths rip off revealing two very large freakish monsters. James- Ok… Screw this! James runs as fast as he can off screen. Cut to: a storage room, James busts in. the room has a bunch of guns and other stuff. James grabs a couple of large bombs conveniently placed in that room and runs out. Cut to: the hallway, we see the two monsters. James runs full speed towards them with a bomb in each hand, as he gets to them, he shoves the bombs into the monster's chests, and continues to run. The monsters suddenly explode all over the hallway. James- If this one is old… I don't want to see the non tested one! James runs off screen. Cut to: another part of the building. James is speaking into his radio. James- They got new weird zombies!!! They're huge!!! What should I do? Guy on radio- I don't know! you're in charge!…… just blow the place up or something! James- …… that's not a bad idea!… Guy on radio- What!?!?! James runs off screen. Cut to: outside a room. It is guarded by two guys. Guy 1- I cant believe we got promoted to guard! Guy 2- See! I told you this job would be great! James runs on screen and punches out the other two guys and runs in. Cut to: inside the room. James is searching. James- Come on this room was guarded by to fools! There has to be some explosives! James finds a button on a wall and presses it. the button opens a door in the wall. James walks in (camera follows). There is nothing but a small red button. A sign above it says: "Self Destruct, press in case of outbreak." James- Hmmm, how convenient. We see Goldman walk up behind him. Goldman- Are you sure you want to press that button? James turns around. James- Why not? You'll be dead. James picks up his radio. James (into radio)- James to Tom, repeat, James to Tom. Tom (from radio)- Yeah? James- Get out of this facility, find a car and get the hell out of this city and make sure this town gets leveled! Goldman- You're really goanna kill us all??? James- As long as your dead! Tom (from radio)- I'm out! James- Good! Right after this word is said, James slams his fist onto the button. Cut to: outside the facility. The place explodes into flames and into pieces. Metal and other parts of it fly into the air with flames. We move to the side to see Frank still shooting at every zombies (or anything else) in sight, and sill shouting: "MY WIFE!!!!!!" finally, he runs out of ammo. Zombies begin to crowd around him, he tries to beat them away with his gun but the zombies just pull him out of sight as he still shrieks: "MY WIFE!!!!!"… The screen fades out as we here one last: "MY WIFE!!!" echo in the background. Roll end credits under no music. The End
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