Script – The UNKNOWN

EXT. SHOT OF HOUSE - AFTERNOON

The trailer shows a shot of a normal house, on a normal street. Shot

of characters MICHAELA, JAMES, LIBBY and SOPHIE, 4 teenage friends

walking towards the house as shown in the previous shot by from

behind them.

MICHAELA

I’m telling you, my house is haunted!

JAMES

Yeah right

SOPHIE

Hahahaha Stop joking around, ghosts aren’t real

The friends carry on walking down the street, nearly reaching

Michaela’s front door.

MICHAELA

Right, well if you don’t believe me, why don’t you see for yourself!

LIBBY

What do you mean?

MICHAELA

All of you can stay round for the weekend andthen you’ll believe me,

there is definitely somethingdifferent about my house.

JAMES

All right, why not. If it will prove to youthat your house ISN’T

haunted then I’m up for it.

INT. HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – NIGHT

James sitting in the corner of the room, shaking and crying.

INT. HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – DAY

The trailer then returns to the present, showing Sophie setting up

the cameras in the living room of Michaela’s house. Sophie puts the

camera on the stand and fixes it to it.

INT. HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – MORNING

It is the next day, the friends gather around to watch the footage

from the cameras. The footage shows that there isn’t a ghost, but

there have been some suspicious movements.

SOPHIE

Well that was a waste of time then

MICHAELA

I promise if you stay for a bit longer, more things will happen

LIBBY

Fine. Why not, what’s the worst that can happen?

INT. HOUSE – LIVING ROOM - MORNING

The scene flashes forward again showing a door slamming. This

creates a loud banging sound. This loud noise scares the characters.

A close-up of Libby, shows her screaming and looking nervous after

the previous events have been revealed.

INT. LIVING ROOM – MORNING

The scene shows a close-up/over the shoulder shot of the camera that

the teenagers except James – out of the room at the time, have

recorded the events of the night on. A shaky camera action shows a

picture falling over and the floorboards are head to be creaking

when there is no one else around.

From the camera footage, the teenagers see James standing over

Michaela’s sleeping body in the night.

A close-up of all of the teenagers whilst the camera pan shows the

teenagers to be scared and the tension builds.

Sophie

Guys, I’m scared, I wanna leave now.

James

What happened? What did you see on the footage?

The camera flashes forward with a montage of short/quick shots of

unrelated scenes. Firstly the shot is of someone screaming. Next is

an over the shoulder shot from James’ perspective, with a close-up

of Michaela’s face as she sleeps.

Next is Sophie crawling away, scared, looking up suggesting that the

ghost is above them.Finally a door is shown to be locked, as the

group of teenagers try to escape, forcefully and scared as the

tension builds. The final scene shows one of the teenagers close to

death, as the shot fades to black.