FREDDYS DEAD – THE FINAL NIGHTMARE

       He smiles.

       DIFFERENT ANGLE

       And now Karen is herself again.  They're still very close.

                           JACOB (cont'd)

                 Much better.

       They look like they're about to kiss... but Karen suddenly

       sees something that grabs her attention.

                           KAREN

                 Look!

       Jacob turns as Karen runs over to ANOTHER DOOR.  It's not the

       one to the bedroom.  It just hangs there in space between two

       trees.

                           KAREN (cont'd)

                 I wonder where it goes?

       She reaches for the knob and opens it. 

                           JACOB

                 Karen, no!

       But she's already stepped through.  Jacob runs up to the

       doorway and it SLAMS in his face.  Jacob tries to open the

       door.  It doesn't budge.  He keeps twisting the knob to no

       effect.

                           JACOB (cont'd)

                 Karen!

       Jacob starts to pound on the door as we:

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       INT. KAREN'S HOME - KITCHEN

       Sixties style decore, appliances that look about twenty-five

       years old -- not the Foster Home kitchen at all.  Karen is

       standing in the middle of the room, completely disoriented. 

       She walks across to a counter top where she finds a framed

       picture.

       It's a picture of HER, Karen, age thirteen.  Karen sets the

       picture down and quickly walks back to the door she came in.

       INT. KAREN'S HOME - LOWER HALLWAY

       Karen steps out of her old kitchen expecting, hoping to be

       back in the forest again.  Nope.  She blinks.  Then she

       starts to walk down the corridor.

       More pictures on the wall this time.  One of a WOMAN and

       another of a MAN (Karen's MOM and DAD).

       Karen's sure of it now.  She's home.  The center of her worst

       nightmares.  She creeps along to the main stairs.  And that's

       when the NOISES begin.  A thumping from upstairs.  A CRASH,

       like something hit the floor above.  More thumping,

       repeatedly and then human MOANING, the sound of pain.

       Somebody is getting beaten.

                           KAREN

                 Oh no...

       Something is twisting deep inside the girl.  Her face goes

       shallow as she slowly shuffles around to the foot of the

       stairs...and starts to climb them.

       ON THE STAIRS

       Karen goes up, step by painful step, as the sounds of the

       BEATING increase in their intensity.  Every hit seems to

       touch Karen as she flinches.  She's afraid to go on - but

       can't seem to stop.

       INT. KAREN'S HOME - UPSTAIRS HALLWAY

       Karen slowly heads for a door at the end, nervously reaches

       out for the knob.

       INT. KAREN'S PARENT'S BEDROOM

       Karen opens the door.  What she thought she was going to see

       was bad enough - but this is worse:

       Freddy Krueger is in the middle of the room.  In front of him

       is a giant human-sized version of an inflatable punching

       doll, the kind little kids hit that keep bouncing back.  But

       the doll doesn't have the image of a clown on it.

       It's a flattened wrapped-around version of KAREN'S MOTHER, a

       pitiful beat-up look on her plastic face. 

       Freddy SMACKS the doll - it falls to the floor - and just

       bounces back up.  And now the face on it has a NEW BRUISE.

       THWACK!  He hits it again, CACKLING with glee.  Swoop,

       bounce.  More bruises develop.  Krueger looks at Karen.

                           FREDDY

                 Welcome to Romper Room!

       BAP!  BOOOOING!  The face on the punching doll changes again,

       it's even sadder now.  And it's looking at Karen.

                           KAREN

                 Why are you doing this?

                           FREDDY

                 Don't you remember?

       ZING!  Krueger whips up his finger knives.  SWOOP!  he RIPS

       them through the plastic doll.  SISSSSSssss.  The doll starts

       to deflate.  SKREEEEeeeee.  The escaping air sounding like a

       human SCREAM.  Freddy turns to Karen.

       And a HAND reaches out from behind her and pulls her out of

       the room.

       INT. KAREN'S HOME - UPSTAIRS HALLWAY

       Jacob pulls Karen away from the door and slams it shut. He

       grabs her hand.

                           JACOB

                 Come on!

       They turn to run down the hallway, and it's CHANGED.  There

       are now NO DOORS and NO STAIRWAY.  The only way out is the

       bedroom door they just closed.  They stop and Jacob turns to

       Karen.

                           JACOB (cont'd)

                 Wake up!

                           KAREN

                 What?

                           JACOB

                 You heard me.  I said wake up!

                           KAREN

                 How?  This is my old house.  How did I

                 get here?

       He begins to shake her.  She is confused and disoriented.  A

       CRASH is heard at the bedroom door.  FREDDY'S COMING.

       And Jacob HITS Karen.  Nothing major.  It's a good slap,

       nonetheless.  She stares at him unbelievingly.  He WHACKS her

       again.

                           KAREN (cont'd)

                 Why are you doing this to me?

                           JACOB

                 This is a dream!  You have to get out of

                 here.  I'm not hurting you, only he can

                 really do that!  Wake up now!

       SLAP!  Karen's getting angry.  She doesn't know what she's

       supposed to do.  KA-BLAM!  Freddy blasts through the door in

       a shower of splinters.  He sees them and grins.

                           FREDDY

                 Gettin' kinky, huh?

       Jacob turns to Karen, raises his hand.  KA-BLAM!  Something

       blasts through the wall across from them.  It's POWER COP.

       CRASH!  The other wall explodes.  BLADE appears in the

       rubble.

       BOOM!  A piece of wall falls down at the end of the corridor. 

       SOUND COP steps through.

       Karen looks at all this nonsense, then at Jacob.

                           KAREN

                 I think I get it now.

       She closes her eyes and DISAPPEARS out of Jacob's hands.  The

       DREAM POLICE stand in the hallway.  Freddy just puts his

       hands on his hips and LAUGHS at them.

       Then Krueger lays his arms flat on his sides, takes a deep

       breath and begins to INFLATE.  His body expands, his clothes

       and skin stretch and flatten.  The bottom half of him getting

       fatter.

       He turns into a giant FREDDY PUNCHING DOLL.

       Power Cop jumps in front of the plastic horror and lets loose

       a devastating swing.  POW!  The Freddy Doll swings back and

       BOUNCES right up again.

       POW POW POW POW POW!  The big Dream Cop pummels away at the

       Krueger toy as it slaps back and forth between the floor and

       his fist until SHINK!  Two knives appear in Blade's hands and

       SWOOP.  She swings them out.

       RIP!  The Freddy Doll tears, air blasting out in a grating

       SHRIEK which screeches and hisses until it becomes:

       Freddy's LAUGH.  The red and green plastic flutters to the

       ground as the evil guffaws fade away and we:

                                                            CUT TO:

       INT. KAREN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

       Karen shakes Jacob awake.  His eyes open.  They stare at each

       other for a few beats, then Karen frowns.

                           KAREN

                 You hit me.

                           JACOB

                 Are you hurt?

                           KAREN

                 Um...no.

                           JACOB

                 If he had done it, you'd be dead. 

       Karen is confused.  She doesn't know what to make of all

       this.  She looks at a clock.  It's late.

                           KAREN

                 You better get back to your room.  We

                 don't want anybody to get the wrong idea.

                           JACOB

                     (smirks)

                 Or the right one?

       Karen finally relaxes.  She smiles and playfully pushes him.

                           KAREN

                 Get out of here.

       Jacob reaches under a pillow and pulls something out.  It's

       the framed photo of Karen, age thirteen - from her dream.  He

       hands it to her and she looks at it in astonishment.

                           JACOB

                 That's something else my mom taught me.

       He gets up and goes to the door, turning back to her.

                           JACOB (cont'd)

                 Don't sleep.

                           KAREN

                 No.  Not tonight.

       She holds the picture tightly- staring at it with those

       faraway eyes.

       INT. FOSTER HOME - UPPER HALLWAY - NIGHT

       Scott comes out of the bathroom in his night clothes, the

       toilet flushing in the B.G.  He goes into his room, but stops

       at the doorway when he hears Karen's door open.

       Scott ducks behind his door as he watches Jacob leave Karen's

       room and head for his own.  Scott frowns.  His is not

       pleased.

       INT. FOSTER HOME - DOWNSTAIRS HALLWAY - DAY

       David Ross is sifting through some mail when a heated

       conversation in the kitchen catches his interest.  He stops

       to listen.

       IN THE KITCHEN

       Karen is finally convinced, Jacob and Scott are looking like

       they're ready to punch each other, and Gina looks scared.

                           KAREN

                 I'm telling you, this Freddy guy is for

                 real.

                           SCOTT

                 And I'm telling you a dream is a dream.

                           KAREN

                 Jacob was in there with me.

                           SCOTT

                 And where else was he with you last

                 night?

                           JACOB

                 What the hell is that supposed to mean?

                           KAREN

                 I have the picture in my room if you want

                 to see it.  He brought it out from the

                 nightmare.

                           SCOTT

                 Or from your hope chest.  I bet your bed

                 isn't the only thing he's been into.

                           KAREN

                 That picture was destroyed years ago.

                           JACOB

                 You better watch your mouth, pal.

                           SCOTT

                 I'm the last person you want to start

                 fucking with.

                           JACOB

                 Go ahead and be a tough guy, Scott. 

                 Krueger will cut you to pieces before you

                 can even flex a muscle.

                           GINA

                 Will you two stop it!  You're scaring the

                 shit out of me.

                           KAREN

                 You should be scared.

       Mr. Ross enters the room, none too pleased.

                           DAVID

                 Alright.  What's going on here?

                           SCOTT

                 Join the fun.  Jacob and Karen were just

                 telling us about their new excuse to

                 sleep together.

                           JACOB

                 Nothing happened between us last night.

                           SCOTT

                 You mean in plain old reality, right?

                           DAVID

                 Okay, everybody.  Out.  Jacob and I are

                 going to have a little talk.  Now.

       Scott, Gina and Karen grudgingly leave the room.  David turns

       to Jacob.

                           DAVID (cont'd)

                 Your days are numbered here, buster.

                           JACOB

                 I'm sorry, but...

                           DAVID

                 Hey, I don't know what kind of shit

                 you're shoveling to these kids, but it's

                 going to stop.  My Good Samaritan

                 instincts have their limits.  We've had

                 enough tragedy around this place.  We

                 don't need you making things worse with

                 fantasies.

                           JACOB

                 You don't understand

                           DAVID

                 And I want you to stay away from Karen.

       Jacob starts to get defiant.

                           JACOB

                 It's a free country.

                           DAVID

                 This isn't America, it's my house.  I've

                 been checking up on you.  You have no

                 record with the police or the state or

                 any of the runaway groups.  You're the

                 invisible kid.  And if I sense even a

                 little bit more trouble-making from you,

                 you're going to vanish from here.  Got

                 it?

                           JACOB

                 Yes, sir.

       David catches his breath.  He looks like he wants to say

       more, but doesn't have the energy left.  He just walks out of

       the room leaving a frustrated Jacob.

       EXT. FOSTER HOME - NIGHT

       Mr. and Mrs. Ross are getting into their car.  The engine

       starts and they drive away.

       INT. JACOB'S ROOM - NIGHT

       Jacob sits in bed, staring into space.  Karen quietly enters

       the room, carefully shutting the door behind her.

       She sits down next to him.  Jacob looks at her with weary

       eyes.

                           JACOB

                 You're supposed to be off-limits to me.

                           KAREN

                 It's okay.  The Ross's have gone to a

                 council meeting and Scott's in his room. 

                 We should be safe for awhile.

                           JACOB

                 Wonderful.

                           KAREN

                 Jacob, what are we going to do?

                           JACOB

                 I'm going to go to bed soon.

                           KAREN

                 Now you WANT to sleep?

                           JACOB

                 I have to find the Dream Police.  I think

                 I'm somehow their link to all this.  They

                 only seem to appear when I'm around.  You

                 woke me up before I had a chance to talk

                 to them last night.

                           KAREN

                 I'm sorry.  I was scared.

                           JACOB

                 your fault.  I have to ask them what

                 we're supposed to do to help them.  And

                 maybe I can protect Gina while I'm in

                 there.

                           KAREN

                 What about Scott?

                           JACOB

                 He's on his own.

                           KAREN

                 Oh...

                           JACOB

                 I don't mean to be cold,but we've done

                 everything to convince him.  Gina's too

                 scared to understand.  I think Freddy

                 will go after her next.

                           KAREN

                 What should I do?

                           JACOB

                 You have to stay awake.

                           KAREN

                 That's not going to be easy.  I'm half

                 asleep already.

                           JACOB

                 You have to try.

       She nods her head quietly.  Then

                           KAREN

                 I'd better get out of here.

                           JACOB

                 Okay.  Be careful.

                           KAREN

                 YOU be careful.  I'm not going anywhere.

       She kisses him quickly on the cheek.  He needed that.  Karen

       gets up and quietly leaves.  Jacob yawns

       INT. GINA'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

       Gina sits on her bed in her night clothes.  She holds a deck

       of cards in one hand while she plays solitaire on her bed

       sheets.

       She flips a card from her deck: A black nine.  She puts it on

       top of a ten.  Another card.  Queen of diamonds.  She lays it

       on top of a king of clubs.  Gina yawns.  Takes another card.

       It's the Freddy of Spades.

       Gina frowns.  Freddy Krueger's image stares up at her from

       the card.  She looks at her stacks.  There's no place to put

       this one.  She starts flipping through the deck of cards,

       trying to see if there are any more Freddys.  That's when a

       HAND RIPS UP through the bed and grabs her arm. 

       Gina SCREAMS, pulls away from the hand's grip and jumps back

       up on the bed.  And ANOTHER HAND shoots up from a pillow and

       grabs her shoulder.  Gina twists.

       RIP.  TEAR.  GRAB.  More hands appear out of the mattress,

       lunging for any part of Gina's body as she SHRIEKS from their

       touch.  And Gina jumps out of bed.

       She leaps to the other side of the room, bumping against her

       dresser drawers.  Turns to her bed.

       SWOOP.  The multiple hands disappear down into the mattress. 

       There is a quiet beat as she catches her shivering breath.

       Then a half-dozen ARMS AND HANDS pop out from the drawers

       next to her.  Latching indiscriminately.  Some grabbing her

       legs and arms.  Some grabbing more intimate parts.

       Gina SCREAMS.  Pulls away from the dresser.  Yanks a few

       drawers out as the hands vanish and she spins over to another

       wall.

       Where the wall ERUPTS with outreaching arms all around her. 

       Two grab her hair.  Three on each arm.  Her legs are pinned. 

       Gina shrieks and yells and flays her arms.  Beating the hands

       with her fists as two grabs her breasts viciously.  She

       starts kicking as one particularly perverse hand BURNT AND

       SCARRED, pops out between her legs.  Aiming right for her

       crotch and in an incredible show of strength, the girl pulls

       away from the horde.