[Emily]: 252.Dark and Horror.Dark Junkie Screenplay

Please be warned that this content contains drugs and if you are not mature enough to read said content, please direct yourself to another part of my library.

I had to put this in "Play" even though it's a screenplay. This is what is completed so far. I turned this in to my teacher as my final project and aced it, even though the content is unfinished. She will be submitting it to some film festivals later this year and see how it does. It will be completed by then.

It is a screenplay version of Dark Junkie. It's much better developed, I think, and we also get a small glimpse into Roman's past. Adelaide also becomes a more rounded character. Here is an excerpt:

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BLACK

SILENCE. A PHONE RINGS LOUDLY. Marco grunts and a car driving by flashes light through a window, showing Marco’s silhouette in a bed, another figure beside him, for a second.

MARCO: (Sleepily.) Hello? What? … A riot? Yeah okay. I get it, Roman. Yeah, just let me call up a favor and let them know you’re coming over to stay. … No, you won’t have to do any extra jobs. … Forbidden Curse, Roman, I’m not a hotel service! Just get over there and they’ll figure it out. Yeah, okay.

Marco hangs up the phone.

FADE BLACK to INT. STUDIO APARTMENT – NIGHT
Music booms through the room, heavy on bass. There are strobes lights and candles lit, and people strewn across the room, either sitting or laying down. Almost everyone has a joint or a pill in their hand or nearby. Everyone is smiling and happy. DOLLY IN to Roman, who is near the apartment window overlooking a very beautiful city scene. He looks healthier and younger than before, his blond hair and green eyes very vivid. He makes for an extremely handsome young man. He looks bulkier and broader than what we were exposed to earlier.

He is surrounded by other male friends and they are passing around a joint.

ROMAN: (Laughing.) I told her she could go screw herself.

The boys around him start laughing hysterically, as if they are having the time of their lives. Roman continues with his story, but stops abruptly and looks at someone off-screen, smiling dumbly with glassy eyes. He takes a long drag off the joint and offers it to someone off-screen. A young girl’s hand comes into view, incredibly thin but polished, and takes the joint.

CUT TO YLNIRI’S face, who is looking at Roman off-screen. Ylniri takes a drag off the joint and then blows the smoke from her mouth to her nose and back out again, seductively.

PAN LEFT from Ylniri’s face to Roman’s. Roman scoots and makes room for her, but she leans down towards him. DOLLY OUT to view the entire circle, Ylniri’s short skirt exposing her to one of Roman’s friends.

CLOSE UP to Ylniri whispering something into Roman’s ear. There is IDLE CHATTER in the background and MUSIC playing. Ylniri’s lipstick is so incredibly dark red that it’s almost brown, and glistening as if she had just applied it. She has black hair and pale skin, and dull brown eyes. She is very beautiful.

YLNIRI: (Purring.) Let’s go for a walk. (Pause.) Just us.

ROMAN: (Looking at Ylniri.) My mother wouldn’t approve of you.

Roman’s friends laugh.

YLNIRI: (Seductively.) She’ll never have to know. Just come with me, you’ll be safe…

Ylniri strokes Roman’s collar and takes his shirt in a fistful, lifting him up almost effortlessly. Roman’s friends look a little bewilder, but then laugh at what was a fantastic joke to them.

Roman and Ylniri exit the scene. CUT TO Roman and Ylniri walking into an empty bedroom. CUT TO Roman beginning to kiss Ylniri, moving them to the bed.

Roman pauses, some of Ylniri’s lipstick smeared over his mouth. His tongue darts out for a taste and his eyes widen in shock.

Roman: (Eyes wide) This isn’t lipstick…

CUT TO Ylniri, who’s on the bed, disheveled. Her skirt is not on correctly and part of her shirt is ruffled. She suddenly looks menacing and she licks her lips hungrily, her teeth ever so softly pointed.

Ylniri: No… (she shakes her head) It’s boy’s blood.

Ylniri suddenly lunges towards Roman, and Roman’s SCREAMS are heard off-screen as the camera is kept focused on the bed.

CUT TO Roman’s face, which wakes up from slumber.

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EXT. ALLEYWAY – NIGHT
Adelaide and Roman’s walking has come to a stop at the ALLEYWAY from the opening scene. Adelaide is looking at her shoes, furrowing in concentration and deep though. Roman seems to loom over her, ominous with the yellow light of the street lamp above them. He takes her chin in his hand and tilts it up to him, kissing her gently.

ROMAN: You feel safe with me. I feel alive with you.

CUT TO a CLOSE UP on Adelaide’s upturned face, her lips slightly parted from the kiss.

ADELAIDE: I suppose I could give in to curiosity… but only once… is this safe?

Adelaide’s last three words come out breathless.

CUT TO Roman’s face, looking down at Adelaide. He looks at her with true and honest concern, a tinge of pain in his features.

ROMAN: It will be with me. I won’t let anything bad happen to you.

There is a sudden BANG and a CRASH. Someone in the b.g. has been tossed into the alleyway from above. The silhouette gets up, hissing and crazed, coming to Roman and Adelaide. Adelaide SHRIEKS and retreats into the light, Roman moving to guard her.

The MAN has twisted features and his clothes are cut and bloodied. He hisses and looks normal aside of his purposefully twisted features.

MAN: Ooh, such a pretty little treat she is…

The man comes forward, but Roman stops him. The man takes a large sniff at Roman’s arm.

MAN: (To Roman) I’m more interested in the girl. She isn’t spoiled with age.

Hissing again, the man attempts to lunge at Adelaide, who SCREAMS and presses herself against the brick building behind her. Roman steps in and grabs the man by the throat, showing a surprising amount of strength for his very lean body.

Roman easily tosses the man into the street, then lunges at him with a sort of animalistic growl, teeth bared. Adelaide has covered her eyes and now faces the brick wall, shivering, as Roman is seen shredding the man’s throat open with his teeth. The man scrambles and runs away, Roman knelt on the street, gasping.

He wipes the blood carefully from his mouth, and slams his knuckles against the street, scraping them. Getting up, he touches Adelaide gently, his turns to look at him and collapse in his arms, squeezing him.

ADELAIDE: What WAS that?

ROMAN: A Dark Junkie who didn’t get his fix.

ADELAIDE: What do you mean?

ROMAN: If w… they don’t get their fix – if they don’t get high – they turn on people. They want to drink blood, even though they don’t need it. It’s a withdrawal symptom.

ADELAIDE: How do you know all that?

ROMAN: I’m surprised you don’t. Come on… let’s go to one of those coffee shops you like so much. There’s nothing to be scared of, you’re safe with me.

ADELAIDE: I know that…

Adelaide shakes slightly, somewhat hesitant to take his clean hand.

ADELAIDE: The look on your face wasn’t human. You looked like he did.

Roman’s features soften and he nods slightly, not sure if he can keep hiding his secret. Adelaide says nothing and takes his hand, getting close to him.