e-DEMON

(Please note: this is not in proper screenplay format.)

INT. SALEM HOUSE - GAMMA'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Mar approaches his elderly and practically blind GREAT GRANDMOTHER, GERTRUDE GUSCHWALD (101), sitting in her wheelchair. Frail, translucent pale skin, wispy white hair.

Suzie's twin brother, SEBASTIAN (BASTIAN) PETRUSO (18) reads to their great grandmother. Bastian wears black nail polish, black clothes, many rings and a nose ring.

Mar puts his younger brother, Bastian, in a headlock.

BASTIAN
Knock it off.

DWAYNE (via webcam chat)
Just 'cause you're back living at home, Mar, doesn't mean you're back in high school.

KENDRA (via webcam chat)
Did I mention I've made peace with my decision to break up with Mar back in our college days?

Bastian escapes from Mar's noogies and realizes Great Grandmother had been sleeping.

Great Grandmother slumps in her wheel chair, head tilted down, eyes shut.

BASTIAN
Gamma, you fell asleep. Time to wake up. Gamma?

Great Grandmother doesn't budge. Panicking that something might be wrong, Bastian gently shakes her.

Great Grandmother STARTLES awake as she GASPS for air. The nearly blind elderly woman reaches out her frail, shaky hand.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER (frantic)
Where's the creative child?

MAR (mocking)
It's me, Gamma. The creative one.

BASTIAN
Stop messing with her, Mar.

BASTIAN (CONT'D) (to Great Grandmother)
I'm here. What do you need, Gamma?

MAR
Gamma, please tell us the story of the cursed trunk.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER
It's very important that I tell you about the cursed trunk.

MAR
Oh goody, Gamma.

BASTIAN
Mar is just playing a bad joke on you, Gamma. You've told us about the trunk many, many times.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER
It's dreadfully important that you know about this.

BASTIAN
Okay. You can tell us again, if it makes you feel better, Gamma.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER
Yes, that'll do. Right here, in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1693, my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother was killed for practicing witchcraft. They called her... Watcha...

BASTIAN
They called her Granny.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER
And they accused Granny of... They said she... What was...

BASTIAN
They accused her of being a witch after she burned the unborn baby in the womb of a pregnant women.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER
Precisely. Chanting in tongues. And when the townsfolk came to drown her, our Granny locked everything in a trunk and made her children promise to guard it. The trunk contains a powerful evil that must never escape.

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GREAT GRANDMOTHER (CONT'D)
And now that cursed trunk is... It's been kept in the... up in the...

BASTIAN
It's in our attic and we are never to touch it. Ever. Right, Gamma?

GREAT GRANDMOTHER
Some of the psychiatrists in our family think our Granny simply went mad from being a 1690s mid-wife who witnessed so many babies die. But they're just twits who don't know their ass from their elbow.

BASTIAN (chuckling)
Okay, Gamma. I know. I know. Do you feel better now?

GREAT GRANDMOTHER
Listen, child. It's going to be your responsibility. Guard it. Don't let it out. "The End of Days" will come. You must promise me, Bastian.

BASTIAN
I promise, Gamma. Always.