The Nightmare Before Christmas Page #3
EXT. STREET. NIGHT/CONTINUOUS TIME.
A HEARSE passes the Manse. Riding on top is the corpulent MAYOR
of Halloweenland. Not surprisingly, he's a TWO-FACED SORT OF
GUY, revealed as each of his faces sings a line:
MAYOR:
In this town, don't we love it now
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise.
CORNER:
and glides past an ALLEY we hear a GRAVELLY VOICE:
GRAVELLY VOICE:
'Round that corner, man,
Hiding in a trashcan
Something's waiting now to pounce and how you'll--
The lid flies off of a trashcan and out pops the GRAVELLY-VOICED
TRASHCAN-DWELLING MONSTER. He's fat and slimy and grotesque.
GRAVELLY-VOICED
TRASHCAN-DWELLING MONSTER
-- Scream! This is Halloween,
Red 'n black, slimy green...
Aren't you scared? Well, that's just fine!
WITCHES speed toward us on their brooms -- zipping out of the alley.
WITCHES:
Say it once, say it twice,
Take the chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night (oh)
At the street, the witches fan out and swoop past the
HANGING TREE,
a gigantic oak with SEVERAL HANGED MEN dangling from its broad,
outspread branches.
The hanging tree itself sings:
HANGING TREE:
Everybody scream, everybody scream
In our town of Halloween.
The hanged men suddenly revive:
HANGED MEN:
This is Halloween, This is Halloween...
EXT. ANOTHER STREET. NIGHT.
A LUMPEN-LOOKING LONG-HAIRED WOMAN IN HEELS hurries away down a
tortuously windy street. This is SALLY. For now, we see only
her backside, her waist-length hair.
Behind her, and closer to us, a GHOUL tips into view to
demonstrate his particular talent:
GHOUL:
I am the guy with the tearaway face...
Sally hesitates, listening.
GHOUL (CONT'D)
Here in a flash and gone without a trace.
Sally is about to turn around, but as the ghoul vanishes, she
continues on her way. We follow her.
In a moment, a SECOND GHOUL sets upon her -- this one more
gruesome than the last.
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