Script

Doll

EXT. ORPHANAGE – DUSK

PAN SHOT

INT. DOORWAY - ORPHANAGE BEDROOM – DUSK.

We see an elderly Nun usher a young girl (Shelley) in to room. Shelley walks in a sits on a bed in front of which are two boxes, one big and on top of it a small one. There are two more beds behind Shelley's upon which too girls sit. They turn to look at Shelley. Shelley does not acknowledge the other girls. She picks up the smaller box and opens it.

MED SHOT – Shelley.

She takes out a doll from the box.

CLOSE ON DOLL.

MATCH CUT TO:

FLASH BACK – INT. LOFT – SHELLEY'S HOME.

Shelley holds doll high out of it's box. There is a small amount of light coming in from the right. Shelley is in awe of the doll.

SHELLEY'S MOTHER (O.S)

Shelley? Shelley? What are you doing up there?

Shelley looks towards the light source.

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:

EXTREME CLOSE ON Shelley's mother's hand.

SHELLEY'S MOTHER

(worried, shoving the doll back in the box and slamming the lid)

Don't touch it! Don't even go near it again!

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:

INT. SHELLEY'S ROOM

Shelley's mother goes to kiss her goodnight. Shelley puts the pillow in front of her face. Shelley's mother kisses the pillow instead.

SHELLY'S MOTHER

(sighing) Goodnight sweetheart

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:

INT. THE LOFT - NIGHT

DOLL (O.S)

(whispering) Shelleeey. Sheelleeeey.

Shelley looks for the box and takes out the doll.

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:

INT. SHELLEY'S ROOM - NIGHT

Shelley snuggles down in to bed with the doll beside her.

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:

INT. SHELLEY'S MOTHER'S ROOM MORNING

CLOSE ON SHELLEY'S FEET.

Shelley walks quickly in to the room. Blood splashes up around her feet.

WIDE ON Shelley horrified. The room is covered in blood. Her mother isn't there. The doll is sitting on her mother's bed.

ZOOM IN ON Shelley's horrified face.

END FLASHBACK - MATCH CUT TO:

INT. ORPHANAGE ROOM.

CLOSE ON SHELLEY.

Shelley's eyes well up and she shoves the doll back in the box, slams the lid and shoves it under the bed. Shelley curls up on her bed. In the background the two girls look curious. Shelley shuts her eyes.

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:

LONG ON ROW OF BEDS. Shelley is asleep. Behind her the other two girls wake up. ORPHAN ONE places a finger over her lips and SHUSHES ORPHAN TWO while taking her by the hand. They go over to the end of Shelley's bed and kneel down. Orphan one reaches under the bed and pulls out the dolls box.

ORPHAN ONE'S POV

The box is empty. Orphan Two looks confused and shrugs. Underneath Shelley's bed is empty. Orphan Two YAWNS.

LONG SHOT

The orphans go back to their beds. As they pull down the covers we see kiss marks on the pillows. They look confused but turn the pillows over and go back to sleep.

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:

SHELLEY'S POV

A SCREAM stifled by GURGGLING is heard. A blurred view of Orphan One. BLINK. HOARSE BREATHING. EXTREME CLOSE ON Orphan One, she is bleeding from every orifice on her face. Crawling backwards, Shelley falls off the bed. We see blood creeping closer and glimpse tiny shoes go out of shot under the bed. Shelley gets up. Orphan One is visible over the top of the bed. As Shelley's view point gets higher, WHIMPERING is heard; Orphan two comes in to shot, she is bleeding in the same way. We see the orphans begin to shrink. Orphan One reaches out then crunches backwards. They shrink further, joints dislocating, limbs shortening. Orphan two drops to her knees then falls forward and her skull CRACKS revealing a shrunken steaming brain. Orphan two spurts out one final gush of blood and settles on the floor, a lifeless doll.

MED ON SHELLEY

Shelley crawls to the edge of the bed and stares at orphan doll one. Shelley is curious and slightly apprehensive as she reaches down to pick up the new doll. Blood drips from it's hair as she lifts it. Shelley notices a mark on it's cheek. She hesitantly brushes the dolls hair aside to reveal a pink kiss mark. Shelley then looks up at the bed opposite.

SHELLEY'S POV

The Doll from the box is sitting on the edge of the bed.

CLOSE ON DOLL

Images of Shelley's mother and inhuman mutilated faces mix in with the innocent doll's and flash before us. Shelley, having seen her Mother's face in the doll's, hesitantly picks it up. TRACK IN ON DOLL'S FACE.

MATCH CUT:

Shelley's Mother's face. Her lipstick is the same colour as the doll's lips.

MATCH CUT:

Shelley hugs then kisses the doll on the forehead. The doll shakes. Shelley drops it in the pool of blood that came from the orphans. The doll soaks up the blood through it's facial orifices and grows. It transforms into her mother.

SHELLEY

Mummy?

Shelley jumps up and hugs her mother.

TWO SHOT – SHELLEY AND MOTHER

Shelley's Mother's eyes are glazed over,similar to a dolls.

FADE OUT.

THE END