| House on Haunted Hill (1999) | |
Transcribed by: lilycat | |
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Outside an amusement park, day. Banner advertising "Terror Incognita", a grand opening. A CAMERAMAN is walking backwards, filming a REPORTER and Stephen PRICE as his cell phone rings. PRICE: (to phone) Price. Evelyn, how nice. Yeah, well that is so totally fucking fascinating, but I've gotta get back to you. They're trying to shoot me here (hangs up). Cut to EVELYN Price in bath. She rolls her eyes. Cut back to amusement park. REPORTER: What is it Mr Price? Business or pleasure? PRICE: Neither. My wife. REPORTER: We were talking about your roller coaster that is, quote, unlike anything that has ever come before it. PRICE: Absolutely. No cheap thrills. A genuine journey to the brink of madness. REPORTER: Sorry, but it just looks like a generic roller coaster to me. What's the gimmick? PRICE: Ever seen one that starts at the top? (camera pans up to the top of the ride) Twenty stories worth of top. Cut to interior of elevator. PRICE presses button 2. The elevator ascends. REPORTER: Sources have told this reporter that the real reason your parks opening has been delayed, was the near fatal accident on one of the rides here. PRICE: I wouldn't be opening this place tomorrow if every single thing, down to the beheaded Beanie Babies, hadn't tested 100% safe. There is the sound of metal creaking and groaning above the cab. CAMERAMAN: What the hell was that? PRICE: Growing pains. New steel's gotta bend and stretch a little before finally settling in. Don't worry. In the 15 year history of Price Amusements we've yet to lose a single customer. (off CAMERAMANs suspicious look) I've designed and built six of these places, take my word for it. Everything's fine. The elevator cab starts to shake then stops. PRICE presses the alarm button on the panel, nothing happens. He hits the panel a few times more and looks worried. The CAMERAMAN and REPORTER are a little scared. PRICE: Well, god forbid if something unexpected should happen, there's always the safety cable. The elevator car shakes some more. The CAMERAMAN clutches his camera to his chest. CAMERAMAN: That does what? PRICE: Keeps the cab from just… He looks up as we see the safety cable snap through a grill in the roof. Debris can be seen through the roof grill, and the CAMERAMAN and REPORTER look terrified. The camera and the REPORTER's microphone fall to the floor of the cab, where we can see the ground rushing towards them through a grill in the floor. REPORTER: Do something! PRICE: Like what? This isn't supposed to be happening. The CAMERAMAN starts jumping up and down, watching the floor and trying to time his jumps. CAMERAMAN: Oh Jesus. Oh god. We're all gonna die! They look in horror through the grill at the ground coming nearer. It is replaced by a corporate logo and a voice announces they have just survived Terror Incognita. The CAMERAMAN and REPORTER give PRICE a look, he smirks and leaves the cab. He stands outside the cab at the top of the ride and looks over his shades. PRICE: From here on it gets really scary. A roller coaster train passes overhead. Cut to the roller coaster boarding station. The CAMERAMAN and REPORTER are harnessed in the ride and it sets off. The CAMERAMAN looks a little bored until the ride speeds up and he starts to laugh and enjoy himself. We can see another train just ahead of them. Cut to the boarding station, PRICE is on his cell phone. PRICE: Alright princess, now what were you babbling? Cut back to rollercoaster, dropping into a fog filled dip. PRICE: Congratulations, on a scale of 1 to 10 on the perversity meter you just hit a 73. Cut back to rollercoaster - the two trains are still going. The CAMERAMAN and REPORTER are screaming and laughing, having a great time. Cut to a close up of a section of the track - it breaks. Cut back to PRICE. PRICE: Why don't we go and celebrate at some nice quiet little restaurant? A technician approaches PRICE. TECHNICIAN: Houston, I think we got a problem. PRICE: Evelyn, Evelyn, go stir your cauldron or something for a sec. PRICE and the TECHNICIAN look at monitors showing the rides progress. The train in front of the one carrying the CAMERAMAN and the REPORTER approaches the faulty section of track and careers off the ride. The CAMERAMAN sees the first train fall off the track, he looks horrified. CAMERAMAN: (pointing) Oh shit! We're gonna fall, we're gonna fall. Oh my god. As the second train approaches the faulty track, the "broken" track moves back into it's original position, and the train passes over it without a hitch. CAMERAMAN: Ohh! Oh my god! Cut to PRICE and the TECHNICIAN watching this on the monitors. PRICE: Problem? Where? Looked good to me. TECHNICIAN: Passenger 6 - he keeps losing his arm. PRICE: So disengage the flailing limb mechanism - make him into a screamer. TECHNICIAN: Ah, okay. EVELYN: (shouting down the phone) Stephen! PRICE: Here dear. Little suggestion. Forget it. Cut to more technicians fitting a dummy passenger into a train. | |
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