Black Rose Script
Short film about a Black Rose with special powers
The Black Rose only appears at night
Characters
Gaz, Callum, Shannon
Part 1 - Meet and greet
A single black rose sits in the graveyard, at the foot of a certain grave stone.
Every day, Gaz would walk through the graveyard to get to work. Although unaware, he would pass the Black Rose most days on his walks. The graveyard was a shortcut to the town and no one was any wiser to just what the rose was capable of. The secrets it possessed.
One day in the autumn, a few days before Halloween, Gaz was about to walk through the graveyard to get home. It was late, around 6/7pm and had just gone dark. Only the sound of rustling and bats were to be heard from the graveyard, with the light coming from the full moon overhead.
The wind was relatively calm and everything seemed normal. So it seemed.
After walking for some time, Gaz stops halfway through the graveyard, then suddenly hears a faint scream in the distance, right near the abandoned building which is falling apart.
He heads over the investigate, not seeing or hearing anything else as he approaches the building. Confused, he heads back and re-joins the path home
Walking down, he looks back at the abandoned red brick building a few times, but walks a bit faster now.
Much further down the path, still in the graveyard, Gaz here's a slight rustling in the bush just off a side path, about 100 yards away. As he looks, a figure walks across the graveyard right behind him, Gaz is totally unaware and carries on walking down the path. We only see the outline of the figure and have no idea who it is. As Gaz walks around the corner and away from the figure, we get a close up of a black rose sitting on the end of a grave, but give no clues as to it's whereabouts within the graveyard.
Part 2 - Voices
The next day, Gaz is about to walk though the graveyard, it was late as Gaz had been the gym.
He walks through and gets about halfway, when he sees a grave with overgrown branches covering most of it, and it was set apart from the rest of the graves around it. Gaz moves the branches away and reads what it says. 'persons name, missing presumed dead 1899-1924'.
Suddenly he hears a voice in the distance, "It wasn't an accident you know"
Startled, Gaz stands and looks around, expecting to see some people playing a prank or something. No one was there. He assumed they must have ran off and gets up and returns to the pathway once again.
This time he walks a bit faster, feeling a bit more tense. Not looking back he walks fast and towards the exit.
There is an erie over the shoulder shot of a person as they stare out into the distance at Gaz leaving. All we see is a shadowy outline of a figure, looming over the graveyard like a monster. The shot itself shows the dominance of the figure upon the graveyard, but the mystery remains. For now.
Later that night as Gaz is in bed, he peers out the window and thinks he sees a figure once again in the distance, stood near the park.
He stared for a second, then looks away. When he looks back then figure has vanished.
Half asleep he goes back to bed. He would have horrible dreams that night based on what he thought he seen.
In his dreams (or nightmares) he sees the graveyard at night, the mist covers the ground, and it looks like something from a horror film. Amongst the mist he sees the graveyard again with the writing on it. Also he sees the mysterious figure once again, this time he was stood next to this grave, silent. He is holding the black rose..
Part 3 - The Truth
The next day Gaz sketches a drawing of what he dreamt of. Drawing the graveyard and figure holding the black rose. That was what was significant about the rose, the fact that it was black. Possibly signifying something important. Or maybe because it was dying.
Gaz would once again head to the graveyard and search for any clues, anything related to a black rose.
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