I've started writing the first draft of Friday the 13th 1984, the second chapter in my Friday the 13th Reimagined Tetralogy.
Just as F1380 was essentially a mashup of Parts I & II, the plan is for F1384 to be a mashup of Parts III & IV. Exactly how I'm going to go about mashing them up is a question yet unanswered. But I have completed the opening prologue, which is set immediately after F1380. Here it is, provided for your reading enjoyment.
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FADE IN
On Camp Crystal Lake.
SUPERIMPOSE: "CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE — JUNE 15, 1980"
EXT. CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE — CAMPGROUNDS — DAY
Three ambulances and four police cars are parked around the main cabin area. All concerned are busy retrieving the victims of Jason and Pamela Voorhees.
EXT. CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE — MAIN CABIN AREA — DAY
A fourth ambulance travels down the road into the camp. It's stopped by one of the cops. Inside are two paramedics, VINCENT, and the driver, LAINIE. Vincent rolls down his window to talk to the officer.
VINCENT
What do you need? Where do you need it?
OFFICER
We got five of them. (points) Yours is at the boys' cabin.
VINCENT
What's wrong with them?
OFFICER
He's dead. (beat) Yeah, they're all dead. You can pull it up over there.
VINCENT
(to Lainie) All dead. Some emergency. (beat) Put her over there.
The ambulance makes it way toward the boys' cabin.
EXT. CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE — BOYS' CABIN — DAY
Vincent and Lainie load the body of SHELLY GREENBLATT, throat slit ear-to-ear, onto a stretcher. Vincent makes conversation with SERGEANT TIERNEY.
VINCENT
You catch the guy who left the wet stuff?
Tierney shakes his head.
Draping a sheet over Shelly's body and belting it in, the paramedics load it inside the ambulance.
EXT. CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE — CAMPGROUNDS — DAY
The cadavers retrieved, all the vehicles pack it in. They make their way down the driveway out to the main road.
Camp Crystal Lake is now quiet, peaceful, and serene.
EXT. RURAL ROAD — DAY
Tierney lags behind the other vehicles, keeping a respectful distance between himself and them.
INT. POLICE CAR — DAY — TRAVELLING
Tierney sees a man in green-&-tan dash across the road, slipping into the brush on the other side.
EXT. RURAL ROAD — DAY
Breaking, Tierney gets out of the car.
SGT. TIERNEY
Hey! Hey, you!
The sergeant takes off after him.
EXT. FOREST — DAY
Tierney pursues the man through the woods. Out of shape, the cop stumbles and stops, struggling to keep up with his vigorous quarry.
EXT. VOORHEES HOUSE — DAY
Tierney eventually emerges from the trees. He finds himself on the property of Pamela Voorhees. There is no sign of the man he was chasing.
Walking around to the front door of the house, the officer finds it ajar.
INT. VOORHEES HOUSE/ENTRANCE HALL — DAY
Tierney steps through the door. Carefully, he creeps his way inside.
INT. VOORHEES HOUSE/DINING ROOM — DAY
Tierney finds the tell-tale signs of recent violence. Lengths of sliced rope about a chair; a rifle discarded on the floor; pools and trails of blood which've attracted flies. Only the birthday cake atop the dining table, untouched, remains pristine.
He unholsters his revolver.
INT. VOORHEES HOUSE/STAIRWELL — DAY
Tierney climbs the stairs.
INT. VOORHEES HOUSE/2ND STOREY HALLWAY — DAY
Tierney makes his way across the hall, checking each of the rooms, wary of his prey.
INT. VOORHEES HOUSE/PAMELA VOORHEES' BEDROOM — DAY
Entering the bedroom, the sergeant is greeted by a most horrendous sight. A dresser, serving as an impromptu altar, bears the severed head of PAMELA VOORHEES, dried blood caking her mouth and nose. At the foot of the dresser has been deposited the drowned body of ALICE HARDY, tongue protruding from her slack mouth. While decay hasn't quite set in yet, head and body are already starting to attract flies.
Unbeknownst to Tierney, the man he chased here has crept up behind him.
SGT. TIERNEY
Oh my God….
Raising a claw hammer, JASON VOORHEES drives it into the back of Tierney's skull.
FADE OUT
TITLE: FRIDAY THE 13TH 1984
