HALLOWEEN 7

HALLOWEEN 7

TREATMENT

LAURIE STRODE, thought dead, is discovered to be very much alive and living a
quiet and content life as mother and teacher at a small New England all girl's
prep school. But with the Eve of All Saints quickly approaching, Lauxie Strode抯
world will once again be ripped apart by the arrival of an old member of the family.

PITCH:

Chicago Suburbs. Night. We open on a woman coming home to find her front
door ajar. Scared, she goes next door to enlist the help of a neighbor. A temage
boy. They call the cops. The woman, afraid someone has broken into her home, is
scared to go inside. While waiting for the cops, we learn the woman is Rachel
Loomis - daughter of Dr. Loomis. The teenager - Timmy is bored, he's missing
SEINFELD.

The cops are taking too long. Timmy decides to check the house out himself. Armed
with a baseball bat, Timy goes inside the house while a fearful Rachel stands outside.

Inside the house, Timmy discovers nothing amiss. The house is empty. He returns
outside and tells Rachel.

He says goodnight, leaving her alone. She goes inside and locks and bolts the
front door. She checks the house out. It does not appear to be burglarized.

RING! Rachel jumps when the phone rings. She answers. It is the police. They're
still on their way. Rachel continues checking the place over. Everything sems
fine. Except in her office. Certain files have been opened. We glance them. The
name KERI TATE is glimpsed. Rachel's face goes pale. She immediately goes for the
phone. CLANK! A noise is heard. She's not alone in the house. She moves through
the house to discover the front door wide open. Shit. She bolts.

Rachel runs out the door and back to the neighbour's house. She POUNDS on the
neighbor's door. "Timmy!". The door opens to reveal...

MICHAEL MYERS.

Standing, poised, evil eyes burning through slits in his trademark mask. Through
the door, she sees into the living room. SEINFELD is on TV. The bloody dead body
of Timmy lies in front of it.

The last thing Rachel sees is the blade of a knife as it slices into her, killing her.

CUT TO...

BRIARCLIFF, MAINE. TYLER PREP SCHOOL

Here we meet none other than Laurie Strode. Only her name is not Laurie--it's Keri
Tate. She runs an all-girl's prep school which works out well for her son MICK, 16.
He's the only boy in the whole school.

The school is planning for their annual HALLOWEEN festival which includes a dance
with the neighboring all-male prep school.

We learn that Keri (aka Laurie) never died. She assumed a new identity and now
lives, divorced with her only son. But things are not easy for Keri. She has a
volatile relationship with her Mick. He hates her. There 's a lot of divorce
wreckage and it doesn't help that Keri is a closet alcolaolic. This particular
morning, Keri is disturbed to read in the paper that Rachel Loomis, daughter of
renowed Dr. Loomis was found murdered in Chicago. She抯 afraid of what this may
mean. Halloween is tomorrow night.

Later, in class, it doesn't help when a bitchy student, SARA, gives her oral report
on the famous serial killings that plagued Haddonfield, Illinois for years (sum up
the last six films - explain Laurie's daughter from 4, 5 6).

Mick wants desperately to go live with his father but Keri won抰 allow it. This
discussion ends in a huge fight.

Meanwhile, there's a whole MURIEL扴 WEDDING subplot going on with a young, ugly
duckling of a girl. MOLLY, who's madly in love with Mick. Her friends don't
understand this since he's such a cocky asshole but Molly wants to ask him to the
dance so her friends give her a Sally Jesse Raphael make-over and transform her to
a beauty. But it's too late, Mick is going with the bitchy Sara.

This all intercuts with Keri/Laurie who starts to see the Shape around
campus. First, behind a hedge. Then, outside her classroom window. (The class
discussion is FATE). Then again, between sheets that blow in the clothesline. Keri
thinks she抯 going crazy. Her past has come back to haunt her.

When she confides in a fellow teacher, JAKE BRANNEN--the English Lit. teacher who has
a crush on her--that her never found brother may have turned up he takes the
opportunity to confront her about her drinking. Keri starts to crack. In full
teacher mode, she goes off on Jake.

KERI
Thanks, Jake, for your well-intentioned and over-boundry stepping concern but just
for your own personal file cabinet info let me give you a quick flash lesson in the
life of an alcoholic. Let me share with you my experience, strength and hope because
I抳e done the AA thing, I抳e been in therapy, done the vomit pills, the Moderator抯
club, you name it, I've tried every little 80's self-help tactic devised and you know
what I've discovered, in addition to unconditional love of Absolute Citron, is that
alcoholism is not a negative in the 90抯. It might have been self-destructive at one
time but it抯 a big fucking plus in present day USA because the world is not
kind. It is harsh and cruel and bloody out there and if my two aspirin a day comes
in the form of a nice half gallon of Robert Mondavi then so fucking-be it. And I can
go to all the little 12 step meetings in the world and I can say, "Hi, I'm Keri and
I'm an alcoholic." And everyone can hold me and tell me everything is going to be
fine with Keri once she quits drinking but what you seem to be missing from your
loving and non-judgemental point of view is that Keri doesn't exist. At the end of
the day, the Halloween mask comes off and it抯 Laurie fucking Strode who has to find
a way to get to sleep at night with out a butcher knife slicing into her dreams.