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LEE
Dark’s coming. Why’s it getting
hotter?
Crash is wandering the length of the porch.
CRASH
She’s not here. Stupid girl
went after Paul.
LEE
Maybe she’ll come back dead.
(BEAT)
You’re falling in love Crash.
And yeah, maybe I should want
that for you but I don’t.
He looks down, there is something at his feet. It is a
black digital watch. The display is smeared with blood.
Crashes rubs his thumb over the display and illuminates the
display - 88:88. Lee grabs it.
LEE (CONT'D)
I’ll go find her.
She starts to walk past him. Crash pushes the ajar back
door further open and propels her through.
CRASH
Stay here. And keep the door
open, okay.
37.
She disappears into the house and Crash melts into the
thick trees.
WOODS - CONTINUOUS -EXT
The trail of blood tapers out beneath Shay. She stares
right ahead, turns right and presses through trees and
dying plants. Her trainers crunch the leaves.

Horror works so well on screen because of the intense and immediate impact it delivers.

Discuss, with reference to a small selection of films, how the desired effects are achieved.

Film, unlike many other text-based writing disciplines, does not rely chiefly on the

imaginations of the audience. Instead it offers a multi-dimensional product which makes
good uses of the visual and aural aspects of the medium. The intelligence of an audience

must not be under-estimated by having everything laid out for them. People who demand

this are asking for ever more skill from their screenwriters in order to produce the film that

makes them sit up and pay attention.