A Silent Film
a screenplay by Mike Alexopoulos and Keith Hilaire

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FADE IN:

1  INT. HIGH SCHOOL - SCHOOL’S OUT - HALLWAY

A shy and quiet girl walks down a narrow hallway. You can see blue colored lockers up against the walls.  The girl’s name is Lori, 17. She holds a stack of books close to her chest, her breasts bearly sticking out. She looks flat chested from our view. Her golden hair hangs off of her head and sets on her shoulders. The camera pans with her as she walks.

The hall is bearly empty. There are a few students standing at their lockers talking to one another. 

LORI
Hi.

Lori is not noticed by them. It’s as if she is invisible or  like she is not there. She stares down at her books with a very sad expression. Suddenly...

SHE NOTICES A FLYER...

With the word...

MISSING

Written at the top of the paper in BIG BOLD lettering. On the left side we can see a picure of the missing student and on the right, it has the students information. The student in the picture looks like Lori, but the picture is in black and white. You can hardly tell.

Her face is pale and sad. Lori shrugs and walks away.

FADE OUT:

2  INT. HIGH SCHOOL - EMPTY CLASSROOM

Lori sits at a desk flipping through pages of her TEXTBOOK. The classroom is empty. No teacher or students. There are posters up on the walls. On the wall that the door is connected to, there is a big poster of the...

PERIODIC TABLE

Lori begins to write something on a peice of lined paper that sits in front of her, but suddenly...

THE PHONE RINGS.

It causes Lori to jump out of her seat. She looks around to see if a teacher would walk in, so that he or she can answer the phone.

NO ONE SHOWS.

The phone continues to ring. Lori gets up and answers it.

LORI
Hello?

MAN
I know what happened. You can’t hide the truth for long.

LORI
Who are you?

MAN
The question is who are you?

LORI
I don’t know what you are talking about.

Lori hangs up and walks away from the phone. That phone call upset her somehow. She walks back to her desk. Her left eye begins to tear. The tear drops onto her paper. She notices and wipes her cheek, but it’s not wet. It was as if it wasn’t her that actally teared. She was puzzled.

The phone...

RINGS.

Lori turns to the phone. The phone continues to ring. Lori has been struck wih fear. The phone continues to ring. Lori gets up off of the seat and slowly walks towards the phone as it continues to ring. She answers it.

LORI
Hello?

MAN
You can’t hide it forever. You know the truth. Don’t deny it. It’s our destined nature.

LORI
Just leave me alone.

Lori hangs up. She heads back to her desk untill...

A KNOCK

Someone knocked on the the door. Lori turns around.

LORI
Who is there?

No one answers. There is silence.

LORI
Hello?

Lori walks to the door. She opens it,

NO ONE

Is there. She steps outside and looks around. No one in sight. She steps back in. She walks to the desk and the door slams. She turns around. No one is inside. She turns back to her books and begins to flip the pages. The door is knocked on again.

LORI
What the...?

She walks to the door and opens it. She steps out and looks around. She sees someone run down the hallway.

INT. HIGH SCHOOL - HALLWAY

LORI
Wait.

Lori chases after him. She reaches the end of the hallway. The person has disapeared.

LORI
Darn.

She heads back to class. She walks in and shuts the door. 

INT. HIGH SCHOOL - CLASSROOM

As she walks to her desk, she hears a whisper.

WHISPER
Lori....

Lori looks around. No one is in the class. The whisper comes back.

WHISPER
It’s you. You’re the one.

LORI
Where are you?

WHISPER
I am eveywhere.

LORI
Why can’t you leave me alone?

The Whisper does not answer.

LORI
Are you still here?

WHISPER
You need to know.

Lori covers her ears.

LORI
Your not real. I am hearing things. You’re not real. You’re not real.

Lori uncovers her ears. The  Whisper  has disapeared. Lori looks aound.

NOTHING

She heads back to her desk. 

SUBJECTIVE POV

As  she walks, a POV walks up from behind her and...

GRABS HER AND BEGINS TO STRANGLE HER.

Lori struggles, as she tries to free herself. Finally she breaks free from his stranglehold and throws him on the floor. The Shape lays there. He doesn’t move. His stomach stands still. He has  stopped breathing. Lori walks over to the Shape. She kneels down and sets two fingers on his neck. She checks for his pulse. Their isn’t one. She steps back. She is scared. She has a killed a man. She steps away from the body and runs out the door.

FADE OUT:

FADE IN:

INT. HIGH SCHOOL - GIRL’S BATHROOM

Lori runs into the girls bathroom. She walks up to the sink and stares at her reflection in the mirror. Tears drip into the sink. Lori looks down into the sink.

FLASHBACK:

FLYER

We see Lori looking at the flyer.

CLOSE UP ON PICTURE

We see a blown up version of the pictue. This time it’s more clear. The girl in the picture is Lori. As the picture is shown on the screen we hear the Whisper’s voice over the picture.

WHISPER
It’s you. You’re the one.

HARD CUT TO BLACK:

END TITLES ROLL

MUSIC PLAYS

THE END