Act 3: Fright Night 40th Anniversary Original Cast Table Read

As a as a momento, and to say thank you
to all of you for what you've done.
Behind your scripts.
There's a hardcover copy A Fright Night and everybody assigned it.
And Joy.
Recap act too, waiting to go live on air. Oh no,
they found another body of a young woman early this
morning and back of the Sheraton wall.
She was decapitated, like the other two.
Wants to hear this kind of.
News as if answering her question. Not me.
I've been sitting here in my tiny apartment, my bag
active flee and I can't do it. I can't leave
Charlie and Amy to the horror of Cherry Dandridge and
his ghouls Billy Cole now evil d. I have to
help Charlie save Amy. I'm so terrified I can't do it.
But if I don't, I'll have to admit to myself
that my entire professional life as an actor has been
a lie. Oh Charlie, the tears are welling.
Up in me. My vampire hunting kit? Whoere is it?
Back?
Here? It is?
I have it in my hand.
Now all I had to do is go forth the
Lord please help me for my sake.
And there's I go to fight the.
Undead, now one foot in front of the other.
As his footsteps proceed across the room, the door opens
and closes. Another voice is heard, this one dripping with
hatred and rage for himself as well as others. He's
coming par Incant.
I can feel.
Him as well as that boy, Charlie Brewster. I gave
him a choice, something I never had. But he's selected
to fight me, and now his fate is sealed.
Oh I admire him for it.
To save Amy, a girl who is my lovely born,
not his, and so many centuries ago, I have to
destroy both him and the monteback actor to survive and
perhaps save her, and.
Cursed with no one but myself to Glenn.
But I will save her by making her one of
my own. And that fool Peter Vincent his courage will fail,
and if it doesn't, I will destroy him. And the
boy now I will destroy him too if I have to,
even if I hate myself for doing so.
And so now into the third act and the end
of Fright Night, though I suspect, as does Jerry Dandridge,
once known as Gerald Delcatura, that it will never end.
Exterior Dandridge House, Night Charlie walks through the darkness with
cross and steak held in his hands, slowly approaching the
Dandridge House. Charlie growing more and more nervous with every
passing second. He stops to stare at the huge, silent house.
It seems to have assumed a life of its own,
turning into a hulking monster. Charlie grips his steak and
hammer and checks his cross, squares his shoulders, and starts
the slow walk toward the brooding house. Suddenly, a hand
snaps out of the darkness, grabbing him by the shoulder.
Peter Vincent need to do battle with the undead.
He is dressed as the vampire Killer, his kit slung
over his shoulder. He hands Charlie his box of movie
props and opens it.
Peter, this is serious. I am serious.
Let's see now, flashlight, steaks, hammer, Ah, yes, across.
What about Billy Cole?
How are you gonna stop him? Peter pulls out a
pistol from the box.
With this it is from Orgy of the Damned.
What if he's not a human? Bullets aren't gonna stop him?
Then he walks around in the daylight, doesn't he Oh yeah,
then he is human. Come on.
Peter marches toward the house, followed by Charlie. Peter, you
don't have to do this.
I want to thank not now.
But Peter's eyes are on the malevolent house as he
begins to slow his nerve, draining away. What's wrong.
Moving at all?
The two of them start toward the house, but Peter stops, grabbing.
Charlie, are you crazy?
Not the front door.
Let's go around to the back.
Sneak in the front door slowly swings open on creaking hinges,
a dark, gaping hole like an open mouth, ready to
swallow them too late.
I am Peter Vincent, the Great van bi a killer.
I am Peter Vincent, the Great vam by it kill it.
They disappear into the house, the door slamming behind them. Interior,
Dandred's House. Night. Charlie and Peter stop and stare into
the darkness. Charlie nods up at the grand staircase to
a balcony at the top, a circular eye of multicolored
glass staring down this way. The sound of wings flapping
as they start up the stairs.
Wait, che hear something.
No, let's come back at dawn.
He'll be asleep then, and we'll haven't been a chance
of getting in, and Amy will be dead by then too.
Now come on, Charlie turns to start up the stairs,
only to hear the sound of nails scraping along the
banister from above. Jerry steps forward into the light, his
talon's lifting the varnish as he walks.
Welcome to fright night.
Reel. Where's Amy up here?
All you have to do is to get by me.
Peter whips out his cross, thrusting it at the vampire.
Back fat.
Really, He reaches out, takes the cross from Peter's hand
and crumples it contemptuously, tossing it aside.
You have to have faith this to work on me,
mister Vincent.
He starts down the stairs again. Peter backs away, terrified.
Charlie steps forward, staring up at Dandridge. He thrusts his
cross at the vampire.
Stop back.
Jerry backs away from the cross, disappearing into darkness. Charlie
glances back at Peter. We're gonna make it. Suddenly, Billy
Cole steps out of the darkness in front of Charlie
and viciously back hands him across the face with a scream.
Charlie goes over the stairway railing, plunging to the hallway
floor below. Jerry appears in back of Billy, leaning on
him and smiling down at Peter on the stairway. Peter, terrified,
tears down the steps and out the front door. Interior
Brewster House night. Peter smashes through the front door, yelling
up the stairway.
Missus Brewster, Missus Brewster.
He grabs the phone from the table and punches out.
A number, operate it, get me.
The no dial tone. He holds the phone up, only
to see the cord has been ripped from the wall.
Missus Brewster.
He races up the stairs and burst through the door
of Judy's room to see her in bed, the back
of her head to him.
Missus Brewster. Thank god the phone wars had been cut.
He reaches out, turning her over on the bed to
face him. Only it isn't Judy. Yeah, I know, I know,
I did it.
Oh where is Charlie's mother?
Evil ad whips off his wig leefully, dropping it to
the floor.
Wow. Well, apparently she's working nights, but.
She left it out.
Hm hm.
Hm eh.
It's since they opened.
Evil roars and lunges at as Peter races out of
the room and down the hallway, only hit a table
in the dark, crashing to the floor and the landing
the table splintering beneath him. He suddenly hears a growling,
low and deep and vicious, coming from the other end
of the hallway. A huge wolf appears under the master bedroom,
its eyes glow like red hot coals in the dark,
saliva dripping from its huge fangs. With a terrible snarl,
the huge animal bounds down the hall toward him. Peter screams.
He picks up a splintered leg of the table, just
as the wolf launches itself into the air. As Peter
slams the jagged piece of wood into the animal's chest,
its snapping jaws, missing his throat by inches, the beast
hits the river, plunging over the side in a blur
of fur and fangs, hitting the chandelier and crashing down
into the floor below. The wolf lays there, the long
wooden spe buried in his heart. Peter hurries down the stairs,
stopping above him and watching in fascinated horror as his
limbs regenerate, becoming more human. Evil ed heart Wolf art
boy is changing back as he tries desperately to remove
the stake and pales in his chest. He falls over, struggling,
the humanity leaking back into his eyes, his face transforming
into that of a normal teenage boy. He looks up
at Peter, reaching out to him, trying to speak, and
then he dies. Interior Dandridge House, Bedroom Night. Jerry comes
through the door with Charlie over his shoulder and dumps
him on the floor, where Amy lies curled up in
a fetal ball.
Do you want of her?
There? She is? He nods at Amy as Charlie opens
his eyes, regaining his senses, just as Jerry plunges a
wooden stake into the floor.
Here, you're gonna need it.
Just before dawn, Charlie sees Amy lying there, her body trembling.
What have you done to her? Jerry exits, the sound
of the key turning in the lock as Charlie crouches
over her Amy. Jerry is whistling, then stops on the
stairs and waits and waits, Bedroom Night.
Amy.
Charlie turns Amy over, revealing that she has already begun
to change her upper lip, slipping back the beginnings of fangs.
No interior Stairway night. Jerry pauses, listening to the agony
in Charlie's voice as the scream dies away, smiles, then
continues on Interior Brewster House Night. Peter stands looking down
at the young man that evil ed once was slowly
pulling the steak out of his chest. His mission clear
as he heads out the door. Exterior Dandridge House Night,
Peter faces the brooding house, his steak in hammer in hand.
A quick moment of doubt crosses his face, then he
brings the stake up, his face now set hard with determination.
Interior Dandridge House Night. He slips through the front door,
grabbing his vampire killer kit, pausing to look down the hall.
The basement door is open, the sounds of Jerry and
Billy working down there faintly heard. He hurries up the stairs.
At the top of the stairs, Peter can hear Charlie
crying from behind a door, and he quietly raps on it.
Charlie, Charlie.
Charlie springs to his feet, hurrying to the door.
Peter, Charlie, I'm going to have to break the door down.
You make as much noise as you can.
Charlie beats on the wall and yelling for all he's worth.
Help help.
Basement Night, Jerry and Billy are preparing a spare coffin
for Amy, dumping dirt into it. They pause in their
work as they hear Charlie screaming. Jerry smiles and takes
a bite of his apple.
I think she just opened her eyes.
Bedroom Night. Peter leans into the bedroom door, snapping the lock,
letting himself in. Seeing Amy grab her.
Let's get out of here. We can't look.
He rolls Amy over. She is covered with sweat and
trembling more violently. Now her upper lips slips back, revealing
lengthening fangs and the beginning of red in her eyes.
Oh my god, Basement Night. Jerry looks up.
Something wrong.
Yes, we have a visitor they had for the stairs.
Bedroom Night.
Is it too late to save her?
No?
Not if we killed Dandridge before dawn? Are you sure?
So far everything has been like it was in the movies.
We just had to keep hoping.
Exterior Dandridge House Night at the bedroom window, the sound
of heavy breathing, watching Peter and Charlie grab their wooden stakes.
Jerry is out there, clinging to the wall. Upside down
watching them. Let's go, Charlie and Peter hurrying out the
door as Amy trembles on the floor, changing losing her humanity.
Interior stairway Night, Charlie and Peter come out of the
bedroom and start down the steps, only to find themselves
facing Billy Cole coming up from below.
Well, what do we have here? Vampire killers?
Peter pulls a pistol, one of the props from his
apartment from his pocket.
Stop or I'll shoot.
Billy just shrugs and continues up the stairs.
I mean it, don't force me to shoot.
Billy is just feet away from them, as Peter fires
the bullet, punching a neat hole through Billy's forehead, throwing
him backward and tumbling down the stairs. The sound of
approaching footsteps on the balcony above. Peter and Charlie stare
up at Jerry stepping out of the shadows. Charlie thrusts
his cross up at Dandridge. Stop. Jerry whirls away with
a wail covering his face. Come on, we have him, Jerry.
Dandridge's gaze snaps past Charlie's shoulder, burning into Billy's corpse. Dooooo,
he turns and disappears into the darkness. What did he
mean by that?
Nothing? He was just bluffing.
They continue up the stairs as behind them, Billy snaps
up and begins to walk up the stairs, the first
step groaning under him. Charlie and Peter freeze. They see
the huge man coming up the stairs toward them, a
thin trail of blood leaking from the bullet hole in
his forehead. Peter whips his pistol out and unloads the
entire revolver into Billy, the smoke obscuring their view of
the stairway below. A thudd, then nothing. They begin to
think they've killed him. Then more stairs creak as a
pair of hands emerge from the smoke. Then Billy reappears,
going for Peter, grabbing him and jerking him into the
air like a rag doll, about to fling him over
the balustrade. No, Charlie slams his stake into the creature's heart.
Billy drops Peter, crashing to the steps, and staggers back,
hanging there the steak protruding from his heart. Green Drew
begins leaping onto the steps as the two watch in horror.
Cole's hands bend backwards as they dissolve, his face and
body putrefying. As the seconds take past, the legs turn
to bone, dust falling out of the smoking clothes. What
remains of the body no more than a skeleton. It
tumbles backward down the stairs with a clatter, landing with
a crash on the floor below, the smoking skulls skittering
across the floor. Amy Bedroom Night. They rush into Amy's room.
Charlie hurries to Amy, kneeling by her side. He gently
turns her over to see her continuing to make the
transition from the living to the undead.
Amy.
Peter glances out the window, searching for Jerry, as above him,
the vampire clings flat to the wall. Jerry slowly draws
back his clawed hand to tear Peter's throat out Peter.
Peter turns back just as Jerry is within inches of striking.
She's worse.
Come on, we're running out of time. The two men
rush out of the room as the sound of flapping
wings move away from the window and up the side
of the house exterior roof. Night. Jerry lands like some
huge nocturnal bird of prey.
Ay, oh, wake, I command you two oh.
Bedroom Night. Amy lies on the floor, hardly moving. She
begins to groan, throwing a hand over her face. Roof night.
Jumie, watch me me ju.
He roars in frustration and slams his elbow into the
side of the chimney, crushing him. Bedroom Night. Her eyes
open with a start. There's not a vestige of human
life left in them. Second floor Night, Charlie and Peter
hear a crash above. They look up at the ceiling.
She's on the roof.
I'm going up there. Charlie rushes to the stairs, followed
by Peter. Suddenly the sound of Amy screaming. Peter runs
to her as Amy turns and growls at her, causing
her to shrink away, then running to the stairs as Jerry,
unseen loose outside the window.
Charlie, he's not up there.
He points to the window.
Look out.
Peter looks out the window to see Jerry snarling just
inches away. Jerry pulls away outside, disappearing into the darkness.
He's going downstairs, Charlie.
He runs after Charlie, when behind him there is suddenly
a violent pounding at the bedroom door. What used to
be Amy is trying to get out. Charlie runs down
the hallway toward the basement, as the huge stained glass
window above Peter bursts apart in an explosion of shattering glass,
Jerry plunging in from the outside, Charlie rushes in stay back.
Charlie freezes as Dandreds takes a step toward Peter, but
Peter whips out across, thrusting it at him back. Jerry stops,
first covering himself, then laughing at him.
You have to have faith for that to work, mister Vincent. Remember.
Peter continues to hold his ground as the vampire jerks
to a halt, staring with slowly dawning fury at Peter.
Peter peers over his shoulder out the ruined window. On
the horizon, the first peak tendrils of dawn are breaking,
the clucks in the wall chining, signaling that at six
a m.
Dawn you're out of time, mister Dandridge. Look over your shoulder.
As the first ray of sunlight hits him, he throws
himself off the landing, hurtling through the air. His shape transforms,
no longer a man, but now an enormous bat. Peter
runs down the stairs, pushing Charlie aside as the bat
goes for him, throwing him to the stairs and going
for his throat. Peter jams the wooden steak and the
bat's jaws as if violencely naw the way at it.
Charlie jumps up to help Peter. As the bat turns
and sinks his fangs deep into a screaming Charlie's arm,
Peter pulls it back into an errant shift of light
coming from the shattered window. Can you take that sentence again?
Peter pulls it back into an air shaft. So just
Peter pulls it, yes, into a shaft? Yeah, yeah, gotcha?
All right. Charlie jumps up to help Peter. As the
bat turns and sinks his fangs deep into a screaming
Charlie's arm, Peter pulls it back into an errand shaft
of light coming from the shattered window. The screaming bat
pulls back and flies down the hallway, knocking over a
sculpture and disappearing into the darkness.
Are you all right?
Yeah? Quick?
This them Maybe I'm not all right? Yeah, he's in
the basement.
He helps the boy to his feet, the two of
them disappearing through the bay basement. Dawn Charlie and Peter
hurry down the stairs into the dark room. The floor
a mass of antiques, its windows painted black to keep
out the light.
Quick's coffin. It's got to be here somewhere.
As they search the basement, the faint sound of a
door creaking open. What was that?
You keep searching?
I'll check it out. Charlie appears down a row of antiques,
stopping and staring up at the basement door above. It's open,
allowing a sliver of light into the darkness. From out
of the darkness, Amy appears a shadow, stopping and leaning
into the doorway. Amy, it's me, I know. Peter, looking
for a release on a huge piece of furniture, finds
a latch, revealing a hidden alcove and Jerry's ornate coffin.
Charlie, I found it. Don't be frightened, Charlie.
Hurry, Peter, get it open.
He's locked it from the inside. What's wrong? Don't you
want me anymore?
Coming to his senses, he raises up his cross, thrusting
it in her face as Amy whirls away with a snarl,
buried her face in her hands, softly beginning to weep.
It's not my fault, Charlie. You promised you wouldn't let
him get me.
You promise, Charlie stares at her guilt boiling up inside him.
Charlie steps forward, touching her shoulder, letting his cross drop
to his side. Amy She lifts her head to reveal
a face full of huge, razor sharp fans, flashing dripping
hungry saliva. She whirls and dives for his exposed throat,
pushing him into a pile of furniture. She grabs at him.
He tries to doe Jamie, but she leaps forward, blocking
his escape. Back at the dais, Peter is pounding at
the coffin clasp, trying to free it, when finally it
Charlie leaps over a pile of refuse. In his desperation
to escape, the girl vampire pounces on him, struggling to
sink her fangs in his neck. Peter throws the coffin
lid open, sees Jerry resting beneath him. The king Vampire's
eyes closed, He raises his hammer, about to slam the
steak home Peter. Jerry's eyes snap open, Peter finding himself
face to face with the enraged vampire. Jerry snarls at
him as Peter slammed the steak home, missing Jerry's heart,
the stake protruding from his shoulder. As the vampire rises
up out of his coffin, dandreds pulls the steak from
his chest and hurls it away, sending it smashing into
a far wall, shattering a small hole in the blacked
out window and sending a thin ray of light spearing
into the room. Charlie reaches for the blacked out window,
Amy desperately tries to stop him as he knocks her back.
Jerry smashing Peter into a wall, his hands around his neck.
Charlie breaks another window, sending a bolt of sunlight streaming
into the dank room. Jerry tries but cannot touch Peter,
the sunlight protecting him. Charlie smashes another window as Jerry
approaches him. Peter breaks another window, trapping Jerry between its beams.
Jerry runs to his coffin, but Peter beats into it,
slamming it shut with a thudh As he arrives, Peter
tries to run, but Jerry jumps over the coffin, blocking
his escape and laughing triumphantly. Jerry moves in for the kill,
just as Charlie pulls a blackout curtain from another window,
hitting Jerry squarely in the chest, picking him up and
throwing him across the entire length of the room and
pinning him against the far wall several feet above the floor.
He writhes in the golden beam, twisting this way and that,
but unable to escape as his body leaps into planes,
a million small fires breaking out all over him.
Oh.
Charlie runs to Amy and jumps on her to protect
her as what is left of Jerry lets out one
final death roll, blowing out all the remaining basement windows
in a cataclysm of fire and wind. The vampire's body
explodes in a wishing bowler flame that incinerates him instantly,
leaving nothing behind but the echoing scream of a soul
finally going to hell. Peter and Charlie help Amy, the
girl he knew, staring back at him. Her fang's gone.
She throws herself in his arms, weeping as Charlie grabs
Peter and pulls him into their embrace. Dissolved to exterior
Dandridge and Brewster houses night, the Danderd's house is dark,
a for sale sign prominently displayed on the front lawn.
The dark house now seems innocuous and ordinary, free forever
of the evil that once dwelt within. There are a
few lights on in the Brewster House, much as it
was on the first night, and from Charlie's bedroom window,
the TV can be heard coming from inside the.
Quiben, going in a circle, right back where we started.
From interior Brewster House. Charlie's room night, Charlie and Amy
lay on his bed making out the TV tuned into
Fright Night. They break for a moment as Peter Vincent
comes up on the screen.
Wendies and gentlemen, welcome to a right night. Dear all,
this is Peter Vincent, back once more with you as
those of light night.
I thought I'd let the vampires rest for a little while,
right Charlie.
Tonight the thread comes not from beyond the range, but
from beyond the stars.
As alien being stalk an unwary summer camp in Mars
wants flesh.
I cannot star in it.
Screams and gnashing of teeth from the television. As Charlie
smiles gets up and turns it off. As he heads back,
he casually glances out his window and freezes. There in
Jerry's window looking back at him are a pair of
red glowing eyes, but they are quickly gone. He moves
to the window, studying, watching nothing but darkness. Charlie, something wrong,
he smiles and shakes it off.
Nothing.
He jumps back onto the bed with Amy. The two
of them begin to make love as we move off
and push out through the window, closing in on Jerry's window.
Across the way, the pair of red eyes rehab appeer
there in the darkness.
You're so.
Rooster fade out the end.
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