Koobie's short story inspired me to post this intro to a movie script that I wrote a few years ago. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get past the intro because I couldn't think of anything to top it. Perhaps I'll be able to in the future. Enjoy.

- Scene open on an old country home.

A retired widower has just sat in his favorite evening chair after putting a tea kettle on the stove. He picks up a newspaper and begins to read. As the sun slowly creeps over the mountains, the room grows dark and the man turns on a lamp that is next to his chair. The shadows on the wall dance as the lamp wobbles until it comes to a stop. The man can smell the tea as it brews while he removes his glasses and massages his tired eyes. Suddenly, the man can hear a faint crying. As he listens more closely, he can tell that it is the sound of a baby. He gets out of his chair, throws the paper into the seat, and slowly walks around the room listening to the crying.

As he approaches an old wooden door, the crying seems to grow louder. The man pauses and puts his ear against the door while grabbing the handle. The tea kettle is whistling softly now, but the man pays no attention to it. He pulls his head away from the door, and slowly turns the knob. As the door swings open with a creeking sound, an old staircase vanishes into darkness. The tea kettle begins to howl as the man cautiously decends into the darkness. The crying begins to weaken into a whimper, until finally, all that is heard is the whistling of the old tea kettle.

- The camera slowly zooms into the dark staircase until all is black.

As the kettle whistles, another sound begins to accompany it. The gut wrenching screams of a man begin to roar up from the darkness, and the cellar door slams shut.

- Opening credits begin to roll while Metallica's "The Thing That Should Not Be" is played.

Shoggoth? Is that you?

Who?

Very creepy.

There was actually a serial killer (the name escapes me) who would do something similar to that. He had recorded the sound of of a crying baby, and would play it back outside of households (usually when only one or two people) were home. When the residents came out to investigate, they were murdered.

I actually hadn't heard of that until you just mentioned it. I decided to look into it since it really does sound more creepy if it really happened. According to numerous sites, though, it's just a rumor. But it is a practical idea, and it wouldn't surprise me if something like this really happened.

Click to learn, but you may incur a SAN point loss.

Oh, you were talking about the H.P. Lovecraft referrence. Thought something else, nevermind. But yeah, Lovecraft was the man.

yeah, the Metallica dudes seem to be quite fond of Lovecraft. anyways, this would probably look quite, er, disturbing on screen.

Yeah, could be quite hard to top. Better make that the unhappy ending.

While that would make an interesting ending, I don't want to set the bar that low. If I can find something that tops that by far, then I'll have the ending. Then I can work my way down to fill in the rest of the script.

Why low, I think it's quite good.

Well, I'm saying that I don't want to limit myself from the get go. I can probably think of something, just need some inspiring.

I found a character that would work well as the source of evil. However, it says according to the mythos that he didn't like to kill or cause destruction, so that's the only fault that I found with him.

Well, we don't know what happens to the man...

I do :em321:

So you are the god-type of writer.

In essence, I can control what happens to each of the characters and I know what has happened even when others don't, so I'd say that I probably am. Although, I'm rarely going to reveal what happens to the characters in this movie.