Halloween 7

Treatment by
Kevin Williamson

LAURIE STRODE, thought dead, is discovered to be very much alive and living a 
quiet and content life as mother and teacher at a small New England all girl's 
prep school.  But with the Eve of All Saints quickly approaching, Laurie Strode’s 
world will once again be ripped apart by the arrival of an old member of the family.

PITCH:

Chicago Suburbs.  Night.  We open on a woman coming home to find her front 
door ajar.  Scared, she goes next door to enlist the help of a neighbor.  A temage 
boy.  They call the cops.  The woman, afraid someone has broken into her home, is 
scared to go inside.  While waiting for the cops, we learn the woman is Rachel 
Loomis - daughter of Dr. Loomis.  The teenager - Timmy is bored, he's missing 
SEINFELD.

The cops are taking too long.  Timmy decides to check the house out himself.  Armed 
with a baseball bat, Timy goes inside the house while a fearful Rachel stands outside.

Inside the house, Timmy discovers nothing amiss.  The house is empty.  He returns 
outside and tells Rachel.

He says goodnight, leaving her alone.  She goes inside and locks and bolts the 
front door.  She checks the house out.  It does not appear to be burglarized.

RING!  Rachel jumps when the phone rings.  She answers.  It is the police.  They're 
still on their way.  Rachel continues checking the place over.  Everything seems 
fine.  Except in her office.  Certain files have been opened.  We glance them.  The 
name KERI TATE is glimpsed.  Rachel's face goes pale.  She immediately goes for the 
phone.  CLANK! A noise is heard.  She's not alone in the house.  She moves through 
the house to discover the front door wide open.  Shit.  She bolts.

Rachel runs out the door and back to the neighbour's house.  She POUNDS on the 
neighbor's door.  "Timmy!".  The door opens to reveal...

MICHAEL MYERS.

Standing, poised, evil eyes burning through slits in his trademark mask.  Through 
the door, she sees into the living room.  SEINFELD is on TV.  The bloody dead body 
of Timmy lies in front of it.

The last thing Rachel sees is the blade of a knife as it slices into her, killing her.

CUT TO...

BRIARCLIFF, MAINE.  TYLER PREP SCHOOL

Here we meet none other than Laurie Strode.  Only her name is not Laurie--it's Keri 
Tate.  She  runs an all-girl's prep school which works out well for her son MICK, 16.  
He's the only boy in the whole school.

The school is planning for their annual HALLOWEEN festival which includes a dance 
with the neighboring all-male prep school.

We learn that Keri (aka Laurie) never died.  She assumed a new identity and now 
lives, divorced with her only son.  But things are not easy for Keri.  She has a 
volatile relationship with her Mick.  He hates her.  There 's a lot of divorce 
wreckage and it doesn't help that Keri is a closet alcolaolic.  This particular 
morning, Keri is disturbed to read in the paper that Rachel Loomis, daughter of 
renowed Dr. Loomis was found murdered in Chicago.  She’s afraid of what this may 
mean.  Halloween is tomorrow night.

Later, in class, it doesn't help when a bitchy student, SARA, gives her oral report 
on the famous serial killings that plagued Haddonfield, Illinois for years (sum up 
the last six films - explain Laurie's daughter from 4, 5 6).

Mick wants desperately to go live with his father but Keri won’t allow it.  This 
discussion ends in a huge fight.

Meanwhile, there's a whole MURIEL’S WEDDING subplot going on with a young, ugly 
duckling of a girl.  MOLLY, who's madly in love with Mick.  Her friends don't 
understand this since he's such a cocky asshole but Molly wants to ask him to the 
dance so her friends give her a Sally Jesse Raphael make-over and transform her to 
a beauty.  But it's too late, Mick is going with the bitchy Sara.

This all intercuts with Keri/Laurie who starts to see the Shape around 
campus.  First, behind a hedge.  Then, outside her classroom window.  (The class 
discussion is FATE).  Then again, between sheets that blow in the clothesline.  Keri 
thinks she’s going crazy.  Her past has come back to haunt her.

When she confides in a fellow teacher, JAKE BRANNEN--the English Lit. teacher who has 
a crush on her--that her never found brother may have turned up he takes the 
opportunity to confront her about her drinking.  Keri starts to crack.  In full 
teacher mode, she goes off on Jake.

					KERI
Thanks, Jake, for your well-intentioned and over-boundry stepping concern but just 
for your own personal file cabinet info let me give you a quick flash lesson in the 
life of an alcoholic.  Let me share with you my experience, strength and hope because 
I’ve done the AA thing, I’ve been in therapy, done the vomit pills, the Moderator’s 
club, you name it, I've tried every little 80's self-help tactic devised and you know 
what I've discovered, in addition to unconditional love of Absolute Citron, is that 
alcoholism is not a negative in the 90’s.  It might have been self-destructive at one 
time but it’s a big fucking plus in present day USA because the world is not 
kind.  It is harsh and cruel and bloody out there and if my two aspirin a day comes 
in the form of a nice half gallon of Robert Mondavi then so fucking-be it.  And I can 
go to all the little 12 step meetings in the world and I can say, "Hi, I'm Keri and 
I'm an alcoholic."  And everyone can hold me and tell me everything is going to be 
fine with Keri once she quits drinking but what you seem to be missing from your 
loving and non-judgemental point of view is that Keri doesn't exist.  At the end of 
the day, the Halloween mask comes off and it’s Laurie fucking Strode who has to find 
a way to get to sleep at night with out a butcher knife slicing into her dreams.

					JAKE
You need help.

					KERI
No shit.

					JAKE
I'm sorry to upset you.  I'm just trying to help.

					KERI
Then pour me a drink, Jake, because you picked the wrong day for an intervention.

Keri assures Jake that she's an intelligent, informed and functional drunk and 
that he need not worry.

The Shape, however, keeps appearing.  Keri plays the woman who cried wolf until 
Molly is attacked by the Shape in the girl's locker room.

It turns out to be Mick (and Sara)--playing a mean joke on both Molly and his 
mom.  In a huge fight, it is discovered that Mick had found Laurie’s journa1 from 
20 years ago.  He knows of her past and is fucking with her head.  He really wants 
to go live with his dad and it's his way of getting what he wants.

Keri, relieved, but still a mess, carries on.  As they plan for that evening’s 
Halloween festival.  Darkness falls.

ACT TWO - THE HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL

The school is enclosed behind tall gates.  An electric gate with guardhouse sits 
at the entrance.

In the guardhouse, sits an older, female GUARD.  Hattie is her name.  She pretty 
much runs the place in matters of security.  Several bus loads of boys comes riding 
through.  They’ve come, dressed in costume, to party with the girls.

Moments later, a car pulls up to the gate.  She checks the monitor.  There’s no one 
behind the wheel.  She steps outside.

Through the gate, she sees the idling car just sitting in front of the school.  She 
doesn’t know what to do.  She opens the gate and walks through.  She checks out the 
car.  There's no one there.  The trees rustle nearby.  She takes a look, spooking 
herself.  It is, afterall, Halloween.  She doesn't see Michael Myers pass through 
the open gate.

She returns to the guardhouse.  It has an entrance on either side.  She phones the 
local authorities when Michael appears in the open door behind her.  She turns just 
as he disappears.  There is a huge cat and mouse, involving the two doors and Hattie 
and The Shape as they follow each other around until Hattie meets her end, stabbed 
through the heart.

Keri, pissed at her son, punishes him, making him stay in his room for the rest of 
the day and night.  Sara sneaks in and they have sex.

The new and improved Molly (the result of her make-over) charms a few guys at the 
dance.  One, in particular, puts the moves on her.  He’s a studly guy with one 
thing on his mind.  He talks her into going for a walk.

Meanwhile, Sara is done with the sex thing and now she wants to go to the 
dance.  Mick is feeling bad about what he did to his mom and doesn’t want to disobey 
her.  Sara takes off ,without him.

Molly gets caught in a compromising situation with stud-boy.  He puts the moves on 
her.  She shys away just as the Shape appears--Molly thinks it's a hoax till he kills 
the guy.  Molly takes of running.

Sara arrives at the dance in full swing.  She starts to flirt.

Molly runs to Keri--in her office.  She tells her what's going on.  Keri calls the 
police.  All the lines are dead.  They go to the gruard gate--discover the gates won't 
open.  They’ve been rigged closed.  They're trapped.  Keri and Molly return to the 
dance in search of a cellular phone.  (They know Sara has one--she had it earlier)

At the dance, they don’t want to cause a panic.  They get the phone and call the 
police.  Keri is surprised Mick isn't at the dance--she was sure he would disobey her.

Keri, with Sara's cell phone, calls the local police--they start up the mountain to 
the school.  It’s a long way.  Keri enlists Jake's help to help evacuate the 
school.  Then, Keri goes for Mick.

Jake figures out how to unlock the gates.  They load kids into buses and sends 
them out.  Keri is attacked by the Shape.  Mick arrives to save her.  They run.

The police, while travelling up the mountain, discover a severe car crash in a tunnel 
that blocks their path to the school.  It will take hours to clear the tunnel.  When 
they finally do, the police discover that three people were killed in this car 
crash--further inspection reveals those three victims’ throats were slashed.

The police send a helicopter with four police officers up the mountain to help.  When 
it arrives, the police go in search of the Shape while Jake and the helicopter pilot 
try to bring the remainder of the school to safety.  They load the helicopter up when 
the Shape appears.  The Shape kills the helicopter pilot.

Jake jumps into the pilot's chair.  He tries to fly the chopper.  He ends up crashing 
it into a mountain side, killing him and all the other innocent victims in it.  Keri 
arrives just in time to see it explode and careen down the mountain.  
The Shape turns to Keri.  A standoff.

Suddenly, Mick appears with Sara.  They scream from a school window.  The Shape turns 
to them...then back to Keri.  Then, he turns and disappears inside the 
building.  He's going for Keri’s son.

ACT THREE:  A MOTHER’S WRATH

Keri enters behind them.  It's just them now.  A fight to the finish.

Inside, the Shape attacks Mick and Sara.  Just as the Shape is about to kill 
Sara--Molly appears, saving Sara and Mick's life.  They escape, briefly, for the 
Shape can't be stopped and he kills Sara leaving only Molly and Mick.

Molly and Mick team up with Keri and they fight it out for their lives.  They escape 
to an old school bus that takes them down the mountain side.  What they don't know is 
Michael Myers is atop it.  While Keri drives, Mick and Molly fight off the Shape.

The bus crashes inside a tunnel (not the same one as before) where the bloody climax 
takes place.  Molly dies in an unexpected, surprise attack.  Mick, mad as hell, kills 
the Shape but he doesn’t die.  The Shape continually comes back for more.

Another helicopter, spotting the overturned bus at the lip of the tunnel, 
arrives.  The police enter the tunnel as the shape kills them of one by one.

Mick and Keri escape the tunnel jumping into the helicopter just as the Shape 
appears.  Mick and the Shape fight it out while Keri starts up the propellors just as 
Mick lures the Shape into them.

The propellers slice Michael Myers in half --killing him for good.  Mick and Keri 
reunite as mother and son.

(END)