Naughty Or Nice?
Written By
Roger B. Domian
12/17/97
Fade in to a quiet night. A house brightly decorated for the holidays.
We hear the soft music "Silent Night". We slowly zoom in.
Cut to a close up of a young girl asleep in bed. A noise from downstairs stirs her awake.
Cut to upstairs hallway as girl comes out of her room and walks down the hall.
Cut to girl standing at top of stairway. Shot from bottom looking up. Another noise from downstairs.
Cut to close up of girls face. She smiles.
Cut to girl slowly walking down the stairs. Shot from top of stairs as girl walks away from us. A shadow of someone moving about in the other room is seen on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.
Cut to medium shot of girl sitting on stairs and looking through banister towards us.
Cut to close up of girls face. She smiles.
Cut to living room. P.O.V. of girl. The room is decorated festively for the holiday. Tree lit. Stockings hung. We see the large red Santa Moving about the room.
Cut to close up of girl smiling.
Cut to P.O.V. shot of girl. Santa stops moving. He slowly turns to us. His face is blocked by a shadow.
Cut to close up of girl. She’s afraid that Santa has seen her eavesdropping.
Cut to P.O.V. of girl. Santa takes a step forward. He motions the girl with his hand to come to him.
Cut to medium shot of girl. She smiles and moves down the stairs.
Cut to girl getting to landing and moving to living room. Shot taken from top of stairs. The shadows stretch.
Cut to girl slowly walking up to Santa who still motions for the girl to come to him. Shot from low angle behind girl and we dolly in as she walks.
Cut to Santa’s P.O.V. shot from high angle. The girl walks into frame and stops. She smiles in glee. Santa’s hand comes into frame holding a stuffed animal. The girl takes it.
Cut to girls P.O.V.. Santa steps forward out of the shadow. We see his smiling face turn evil.
Cut to girl not looking at Santa but looking at her gift.
Cut to Santa as he raises an ax and swings.
Cut to girl looking at gift as ax comes into frame.
Cut to another angle of the room. A Christmas tree. The girls body flies into frame and into the tree.
Cut to a plate of cookies and milk. Blood splatters the scene.
Cut to the master bedroom. The man awakens and sits up in bed.
Cut to medium shot of the man sitting up in bed listening. The woman is laying next to him. She stirs.
Woman - "What is it?"
Man - "I don’t know. I thought I heard something."
Woman - Maybe it’s Santa Clause."
Man - "Funny."
Cut to long shot of man getting out of bed and putting on his robe.
Cut to the hallway. The man enters the hall and heads to the girls room.
Cut to medium shot in girls bedroom. The man looks in.
Cut to the girls empty bed.
Cut to the man realizing that he was woke by his daughter roaming the house.
Cut to the man walking down the stairs. Shot from the top of the stairs with the man walking away from us.
Cut to the man stopping at the entrance of the living room. He looks at the mess.
Cut to the mans P.O.V. . The tree is knocked down. Some of the packages are open and spread around the room.
Man - "What the hell..."
Cut to a close up of one of the open presents. It is a cutlery set.
Cut to a tight close up of the cutlery set. The big knife is missing.
Cut to the man in medium shot. Santa now stands behind him and brings the big knife around to slash the mans neck.
Cut to a mouse hole. A mouse is watching but quickly runs out of frame as blood splatters the floor.
Cut to a tight close up of a Christmas ornament. We see the reflection of Santa heading to the stairs. The man who is still standing then falls to the ground.
Cut to the master bedroom. We see the shape of the woman in bed.
Cut to close up of Santa opening the bedroom door and coming in.
Cut to Santa moving to the foot of the bed and stopping. Shot laying in bed.
Cut to Santa’s P.O.V. as he sees the woman’s sleeping shape.
Cut to Santa at foot of bed. He raises the ax slowly and swiftly brings it down.
Cut to medium shot of the ax hitting the shape in the bed. It is engulfed in the blanket. No blood. Nothing.
Cut to close up of Santa looking confused. We hear the sound of a shotgun.
Cut to close up of Santa another angle looking towards us - to the sound.
Cut to a medium shot of the woman moving out from behind the bedroom door. She has a shotgun which she points to Santa.
Woman - "I’m sorry fat ass but I ain't the one that’s been naughty this year."
Cut to close up of Santa’s face looking distraught.
Cut to outside of house looking up to bedroom window. We hear the shotgun fire and watch as Santa breaks through the bedroom window and falls to the ground.
Blackout - We hear the woman.
Woman - (Tough like Ripley) "Faliz Navidad."
END
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