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PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS

This is Halloween, this is Halloween!

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night --

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene

Trick or treat 'til the neighbors gonna die of fright!

EXT. HALLOWEEN TOWN. NIGHT/CONTINUOUS TIME.

Beyond the graveyard lies the little city of odd expressionist

angles and the morbid extravaganza of Gothic manses.

PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS (V.O.) (CONT'D)

It's our town. Everybody scream.

In this town of Halloween...

We swoop down the street, through the creaky iron gate of a...

EXT. DESERTED GOTHIC MANSE. NIGHT/CONTINUOUS TIME.

We enter THROUGH A BROKEN, COBWEB-CLOGGED WINDOW into...

INT. DESERTED GOTHIC MANSE. NIGHT/CONTINUOUS TIME.

Many CREATURES hide in the shadows of this creepy house. The

camera finds them...

CREATURE #1

I am the one hiding under your bed,

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red.

CREATURE #2

I am the one hiding under your stairs

Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair.

IN THE MANSE'S DECAYED PARLOR,

every item of furniture that could conceivably serve as a coffin

springs open -- the grandfather clock, the window seat, the sofa,

the chaise longe, the hearth rug (covering a trap door), the

drawers of a sideboard and out pop

CORPSES.

The Corpses sit bolt upright and heartily sing:

CHORUS OF CORPSES

This is Halloween, this is Halloween,

Halloween...(etc)

THE MANSE'S FALLING DOWN FRONT HALL

is tenuously illuminated by a tarantula chandelier which clings

to the ceiling overhead and lowers and rises according to the

whims of its web.

FOUR BIG VAMPIRES

lumber in from the dark, slanty hallways that fan off the

entrance hall. They march in and, in formation, march OUT THE

FRONT DOOR onto the ruins of--

EXT. WORM-ROTTED FRONT PORCH. NIGHT/CONTINUOUS TIME

The Vampires' bodies are huge, but their heads are small like

insect heads and the voices that come out of heads are little,

squeaky and high.

VAMPIRES:

In this town, we call home,

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song!

As they sing they march down the rickety steps. Out on the--

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