The Haunting Page #2
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1999
- 113 min
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INT. NELL'S KITCHEN - DAY
Nell rams through the door into the small kitchen, spotless, empty.
And then bursts into tears. Shaking, she digs in her back pocket
and pulls out a FINE FILIGREE NECKLACE. Her mother's. It's from
an age gone by.
Clutching the necklace, she goes back out the door.
INT. LIVING ROOM, NELL'S APARTMENT - DAY
Nell crosses the living room straight for the closed French doors,
the glass obscured by gauze curtains. She throws them open and
enters --
INT. SICK ROOM - DAY (CONTINUOUS)
-- what once was a dining room. Transformed into a sick room.
Drawn shades. Dim. The first traces of dust.
Nell lingers in the doorway a beat, daunted.
A perfectly made bed. The PILLOW, however retains the IMPRESSION
of a head. Lodged between the bed and a nightstand, a CANE. On
the opposite side of the bed is a plastic toilet. I.V. stand.
Shrouded white shapes.
On the wall above the bed, a framed needlepoint counsels: A PLACE
FOR EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE. A bit of wisdom. A way
to live a life.
A way Nell has lived for too long. Seeing it galvanizes her into
movement. She goes to an old armoire, a medicine chest, opens it,
removes a BOTTLE OF TYLENOL WITH CODEINE and marches out.
INT. LIVING ROOM, NELL'S APARTMENT - DAY
Nell closes the doors on the chamber of horrors, exhales. She has
been holding her breath.
INT. NELL'S KITCHEN - DAY
Nell sits at her tiny kitchen table, water glass and Tylenol in
front of her. The necklace dangles from her fingers. She stares,
mesmerized by it. Then she undoes the hasp. The clothes line
-- and, defiant, Nell puts the necklace on. She closes her eyes.
Silence. The battering has stopped. A BEAT. And then the PHONE
RINGS. Nell opens her eyes. The phone RINGS. Keeps ringing.
Nell, feeling the drug, finds her way to the phone and picks up.
NELL:
Hello? Yes, this is Eleanor.
-- Where? Yes, it's right here.
Nell listens for a long moment. She picks up the classifieds,
flips through. And there it is:
TROUBLE SLEEPING?
WANTED - RESEARCH SUBJECTS. $900.00/.WEEK + RM.&BD. @ BEAUTIFUL
OLD HOUSE IN BERKSHIRES. PSYCHOLOGY STUDY.
INT. PSYCH OBSERVATION LAB - DAY
The lab feels more like the video center of a security office than
a psychologist's laboratory. Two banks of black and white monitors
give us images of men and women, different ages, different races,
wired to electrodes. They are taking psychological tests, although
we never see the Testers. The subjects are working through
variations on object manipulation and pattern recognition tests.
There are subtle differences between the two banks of monitors. On
the left, the subjects are all twitching at exactly the same time,
on the right, the subjects are also twitching, but in no
discernible sequence. The subjects on the left are better able to
concentrate on their tasks. The subjects on the right keep
stopping, and going over what they have done.
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