"SNAKELAND MUST BE DESTROYED!": SCENE TWENTY-FIVE

* This is a fictionalized account of some shit that actually happened. All the names, locations, etc. have been changed to protect the innocent as well as the guilty. – JG *

EXTERIOR - FALLSVILLE - DAY

This is Fallsville in the 1960s, so everything should be shot through various filters to give shots a fuzzy, prismatic quality like the Woodstock film or an After-School Special about the dangers of LSD. A GIRL and BOY, both disgusting hippies, dance in a field as the boy plays a pan-pipe.

JIM (voice over)

Apparently, there was this girl who lived in Fallsville

back then and she took a lot of acid.

The Girl grins, pushes the pan-pipe Boy to the ground and falls on him.

JIM (v.o.)

And she also did the bone-dance a lot.

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EXTERIOR - FALLSVILLE - NIGHT

Still in the 1960s. The Girl is having a bad, bad trip.

JIM (v.o.)

The story goes that she was already pregnant when

she tried the Owsley Purple Moonbeam, this strain

of LSD that would supposedly give the tripper psychic

powers. Thing was, it didn't give you psychic powers, it

just made really bad things happen in your brain.

It gave a lot of kids birth defects whose moms took it

before they got pregnant.

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INTERIOR - WOMB - NIGHT

A fetus, writhing in the midst of chemical lightning.

JIM (v.o.)

And if you were unlucky enough to actually be in utero

when your mom took it, bad bad things happened to you.

And when the kids popped out…

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INTERIOR - HOSPITAL - DAY

The doctor holds up a hopelessly misshapen baby to the Girl, who screams and hides her face.

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INTERIOR - NEEDLE TRAX - NIGHT

JIM

Well, you get the picture. So the story goes that

this girl took her kid to Snakeland and…tossed him

in the water in the back.

HOOVER

Jesus.

GUERRASIO

That's fucked up.

JIM

That's the 60s for you. The most self-centered, self-congratulatory

decade in the history of decades. (shrugs) If that thing survived,

some sort of dark power kept it alive. And it must be using that

same power source to take out all your classmates. Just

the same way it took out those two workers. (pauses,

looks around) So what do you guys think you want to do?

HOOVER

(exhales) We gotta go in there, into Snakeland. We gotta

find this thing, fight this thing.

GUERRASIO

(scoffs) You guys don't know that place!

You'll fucking fall down a hole and die!

HOOVER

(pissed) Well, what do you suggest, tough guy?

GUERRASIO

(serious) We'll go into Snakeland, but

we'll all go…together.

Hoover nods gravely. Jim smiles.

JIM

Okay then. You guys better all get going

before it gets any later.

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