Movie Script

Haruspex Medium

Characters:

Oren Soloshenko 

Oscar Holliday (and cassandra gemini)

Killian Crespo

Santi De La Amorebielsa 

Verrieux Duparte

L’Via L’Viaquez

Kier Yashin

Lionel Lys Dyer

Jouan estiene

FIELD BESET GOLIATH - 1AM

Oscar runs out from the woods, covered in blood, as track marked amoeba land craft. Cinders fall from the sky and gingerly land across their bloodstained chins. They come to a pause amongst a field lonely in its haunt and they sit, tired, to look on into the distance and into the sky. The sun rises up growing brighter before it turns into a mushroom cloud and envelopes the screen in a bright light.

FADE OUT: from the field into a bright light

FADE IN: the title cards

INTERROGATION ROOM - 4AM  

A white room. The camera rests on a blank Kier Yashin who sit across from the table from a man whose face is obstructed by different objects. He asks Kier questions but you don’t know how long they’ve been there. 

THE MAN (quietly)

I just haven’t the lay men’s terms to call the mess you’ve made. Is there nothing more beyond you?

Kier’s eyes flicker.

THE MAN (continued)

It’s either me or caiaphas my friend. Is there no man within that blood you call home… don’t go wandering saint christopher

The man slaps Kier lightly as he says “don’t go wandering saint christopher”

Kier’s eyes are finally alight and they arrive stationary to meet the man’s eyes. The camera follows behind him to the back of his head to finally see the man.

CUT TO: a woman standing at a payphone. Her back to a man standing a few feet behind her.

CUT TO:return to Kier staring at the ground in his White Room

KIER YASHIN (gently)

Nature’s adage is tooth and claw

CUT TO: a close up of someone donning a leather glove in a black room

CUT TO:Yashin pulling tight a glove on his right hand, following his body over to his left hand clutching a knife.

CUT TO: The leather clad hand thrusting itself forward

CUT TO: Yashin charging the woman with his knife

CUT TO: A close up of Yashin’s face in pain

CUT TO:The Man leaving the White Room

ASIDE THE WHITE ROOM - 7AM

The Man leaves the White Room. His brow is slick with sweat, his clothes are dirty. His eyes hang a hapless haunt and his breath is heavy. He is broken like a dacian catamite. A man with a red livery of a rider’s jacket comes upon him. 

The Livered man pulls The Man o’er his shoulder and pulls him tight and away from the door. 

LIVERED MAN (bordered and restlessly calm)

Solomon don’t fall apart, the words have made desperate graves of you don’t let them saw along your hollow heart.

THE MAN (tired)

It’s my noctourniquet but it’s his haunt

FADE OUT: The camera follows them out and through a corridor into the next scene.

AN OLD ROAD - 2PM 

Oscar walks down the road with his thumb out to hitch hike into Malkin. The day is bright and the air is light. Shadows haunt in the distance but all is well. A car pulls up beside him and he enters.

DRIVER (warmly)

Malkin? You’re bugger lost then mate, what took you all the way out here?

OSCAR HOLLIDAY (blankly)

Lapochka i had’t a gentle clue. I found myself adrift in a navel stream then one decade i fell into this world. I’ve  been meaning to find my way back to where i once was.

Oscar holds a polaroid of a woman’s face inbetween his fingers and listens to the driver.

DRIVER (bright)

 If you need anything. If you should find yourself lost. I can help you.

MOTEL BATHROOM 

The driver bursts through the door, clutching his chest and courts the wall. Oscar follows and drives a blade in his back, throwing him down into the ground. A few firm prods into his side and Oscar sits upon his corpse and retrieves the photo which he smears o’er the face with blood.

CUT TO: Shots of the city, moving in its way.

CITYSCAPE SHOTS

CASSANDRA GEMINI (a distorted electronic voice)

Oh… Mother. 

I’ve been looking still

Oh… mother 

I’ve found myself beset 

A bedlam in goliath

I’ve found myself beset

Oh mother…

You better hush your...

Oh mother…

You better drag your…

Oh mother...

The gates of thanos are spread eagle wide

Oh mother... 

You better hush your... 

Oh mother... 

You better drag (your mouth)

Oh mother,

I’ve been looking for you…

CUT TO: a corpse languishing on a cross with a red sack mask over its face

A CAR PARK 

Oscar leaves the car he stole from the driver and walks across the concrete. In the distance men in black four follow him. Some in shots behind him, some in the distance. Oscar approaches an elevator where he is pushed into it by two of these men. Lionel Lys Dyer and Killian Crespo.

OSCAR HOLLIDAY (panicked)

Woah! Woah now! Lapochka lets keep it calm… keep it cool…

LIONEL LYS DYER 

You ain’t gotta worry my friend. We just gotta take our payments hand in hand.

OSCAR HOLLIDAY

I’m sure you’ll regret this malchick.

Killian draws closer and pulls out a knife. 

KILLIAN CRESPO

If that bulge ain’t a knife i think we should take a walk. 

Oscar draws his eyes down onto the blade and back up to Killian and Lionel.

ELVIA ELVIAQUEZ'S HOME

Oscar is carried limply by Lionel and Killian as they carry him over to a bright room through a corridor cold and dark. He is thrown down before a chair that rests in the center of the room. As Oscar awakes he draws his eyes up from Elvia’s feet to her face. 

L'VIA VASQUEZ

My dear fowlers… you’ve found me a brittle like bird and i thank you. But there’s nothing i’m more afraid of than your loss.

LIONEL LYS DYER

I’m afraid this ones a fighter but we can make do. Nature’s adage is tooth and claw, and they always fall in love with the handle of your revolver.

L'VIA VASQUEZ (to oscar) 

Oh delicate and gentle thing tell me your name.

OSCAR HOLLIDAY (with a chuckle)

I hadn’t a clue to begin with, i’m not sure i have one anymore.

Killian slaps him and grabs him by the hair. Directing him to Elvia’s eyes.

L'VIA VASQUEZ

Don’t you dare invite the captain’s ghost to dinner, we’ve had enough of a banquet. 

L'VIA VASQUEZ (with a sigh - continued)

Show him some of our quaint hospitality, my dears

THE BLACK ROOM

Killian walks down a corridor and turns the corner to where Oscar’s cell is, unbuckling his belt. As he enters the room, he is thrown back out along with Oscar who wields a hammer. Oscar pounces upon him and begins slamming the hammer down, intercut with images of beasts and Cassandra Gemini as Oscar slowly finds himself intertwined in blood.

A moondrunk Molochwalker now stalks the halls and he bids them blood for it’s the beast burden. Nature’s adage is tooth and claw and we should make desperate graves of ourselves alike Cotopaxi in the court of caiaphas leaving cruciform.

ALL ALONG THE HALLS AND CORRIDORS

Cassandra gemini makes its way through shadowed rooms and halls. Hunting down the four Black Imperators that took him captive. It crawls upon the floors and along the walls. The Imperators hunt the halls but find themselves beset by gnashing teeth. It drags itself along the floor and tears itself from grips.

L'VIAS THRONE ROOM 

L’via stands in her room talking to a man in a suit and a red sack cloth bag over his head. The room then turns black as the lights go out and at the top of blackened stairs a door opens, light ejaculates itself through the gates of thanos and standing cruciform is Oscar Holliday. A silhouette in light.

CASSANDRA GEMINI

I’ll induce a multistrobe of melody in you... I can smell the yellow in your spine and it’s making me thirsty… you’re gonna wish you hadn’t ran...

As the lights turn back on, Oscar finds L’Via is now gone and all around him are men dressed in Red Sack cloth bags and wielding scythes made of broken rulers. They stare him down and at once collapse their scythes into him. Oscar fights back. Soon finding a sack cloth of his own thrown over his head.

THE HANGMAN'S HAUNT OF OSCAR HOLLIDAY 

A Beherit stands over oscar who sits prostraight in a black room, a spotlight cast on him. He sits there counting rice from a massive pile. Another beherit comes before him, their mask now but a strip of cloth o’er the eyes.

EYE BRANDED BEHERIT

The longer you rub your eyes, the further you’ll be blinded.

OSCAR HOLLIDAY 

Please i beg you let me free. I can hear the saber rattling and it's making me sick.

THE IMPERIOUS BEHERIT

Riddle me this, three half eaten corneas… who hit the aureole?

IN THE FLAT FIELD - NIGHT  

The red sack cloth is torn off and he awakes in surrounded by these “Beherits” who lead him in procession towards a noose. As Oscar starts coming to wake, he finds himself beset by the blood. 

THE END