Horror Script
Bored Of Fear
Scene
Four students at Winchester University first weekend in their flat they are sharing. Bored with no money one of the girls suggests they tamper with a Ouija board that she has never opened. It was a Christmas present that has been sat there for years – she found it in the loft before packing for university, packed it for ‘fun’.
Characters
Jerry aged 19 comes from London, he studies teacher training, very loud, honest and is the soul of the party.
Lewis aged 19 Lewis’s gay friend, from Essex also studying to be a teacher, a quiet deep thinker.
Leyci aged 19 comes from Scotland studying drama to try and ‘find herself’ as she is a shy, nervous character.
Jo aged 19 comes from Berkshire also studying drama and she is a big girl with a big personality.
(Set on a dreary cold winter’s night it is a Saturday, the students had been drinking all night)
LEYCI
(opening fridge) Jerry have you taken the last can of fosters, god I thought you were pissed enough already (slams fridge door)
JERRY
(walking over to Leyci) Oh come on Leyci, you have had enough. Saw you sneaking that extra one in the ‘Red Lion’ (hugging Leyci) anyone for a bit of fun tonight, (insinuating to Leyci) don’t need beer to have fun Leyci! (Both giggle and play fight on the floor)
LEWIS
(enters room, speaks loudly) Come on guys, let’s all have a game of strip poker! (Insinuating to Jo) Jo is up for it, already half way there!
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(Students then walk to the sitting room
and plonk onto the sofa and grab a blanket each)
JO
(flicking through the channels with TV remote) anything interesting on, (angrily) so bored and have literally no money for tonight argh! I really thought campus bars would be cheap, oh how I was wrong.
JERRY
(snatches the remote off Jo) Lets have a good look as it’s Halloween tonight so there must be some silly creepy shit on TV that won’t be too boring or on the another hand may ‘get your spine tingling’(pretend to howl like a weir wolf)
LEWIS
(sarcastically) I know! Jason, Friday the 13th I know what you did last summer. Don’t believe in any of it, all shit(turns the light off next to him)
(The room falls into darkness, all students muck about in ghostly antics
Lights turn back on and Leyci is crouched next to a coffee table in the middle of the room, on the table is a board game named ‘Ouija Board‘ Leyci is transfixed and reads the instructions)
JERRY
(turns head from watching the TV to Leyci sat around coffee table) What’s that Leyci, scrabble!(confused) where did you find this – think I will give it a miss(looks fed up and heads for the door)
JO
(hears Leyci fiddling around with the board game and is intrigued)Let’s see(grabs instructions) Ouija Board?(knows what she is talking about)All you need is a glass, a flat surface(thoughtfully)and bloody hell a lot of guts!
JERRY
(Over hearing Jo and Leyci’s conversation) that’s more like it (excited, he walks back into the room and shuts the door) totally up for this!
LEWIS
(shocked) God, Ouija Board, look I know were all bored out of our minds but seriously tampering with the occult,(reluctant to the idea) To be honest I don’t want to be a party pooper but I’m not sure about this guys.
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JERRY
(being self-indulgent) don’t be such a wimp Lewis, nothing to it – god this is one of those things you just have to do before you die!
LEYCI
I noticed it when daddy was rummaging through everything up there, finding any ‘useful old crap’ for me to use at uni, and spotted it and well it’s come in handy as we all can see!
Honestly what harm can it do eh, bit of a laugh on a creepy Halloween night!
(All students crowd round the coffee table, and all play a part in setting up the game, Leyci lights the candles around the room to create an atmosphere. The main lights get switched off, focus on students faces as the place their fingers on the glass in the middle of the coffee table, all of them waiting with anticipation for something to happen)
JO
(hesitating) Is anybody there
(clear silence, not even alcohol fuelled giggles)
LEWIS
(terrified) Is anyone out there
(candles flicker, the curtains move slowly because of the breeze. The students don’t notice this as they are too transfixed on the glass as suddenly it moves to the letter D)
JERRY
(nervous laughter) Come on Lewis, are you moving the glass mate. Just keep still
LEWIS
I’m not moving anything (sarcastically) ‘mate’
LEYCI
(shivering) Shit! Is it me or has this room all of a sudden just turned cold
(glass moves to E)
What’s D-E
JO
(stands up, chair crashes to the ground) I’ve had enough of this, is someone pushing the glass because I’ just resting my fingers on it!
LEWIS
I’m also freezing now Leyci
(glass moves to A then to T then to H)
(panicking) fuck! It spells DEATH! Jo get those lights on Jerry blow the candles out!
(The coffee table gives a sudden shake, spilling the words off the table and onto the floor, where it there also spells DEATH. All the students scream)
LEYCI
(screaming) DEATH!! Who is death, what do you want from us stop the board, I’m frightened now
(Throws board into the air)
(Mad rush to get lights on – lights won’t work, electric has failed.
Lots of screaming in candle light, Leyci goes into the kitchen carrying the candle where she finds the torch onto of the fridge, flashes torch onto the fridge where it spells out D-E-A-T-H.)
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