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STORY
7.31.06 | estimated
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Killer Pants: The Pants That Kill . . . You
by Ben Kharakh
EXT. CITY APARTMENT DAY
The doorbell rings.
DRACULA
Coming.
As Dracula reaches for the knob, the door is kicked in his face.
VAN HELSING
I hope you're okay, cause I'm going
to kill the shit out of you.
Van Helsing runs toward Dracula, jumps, and kicks, but since he has no martial arts training he just looks foolish. Dracula grabs hold of Van Helsing and the two appear to be hugging, but really it's an intense struggle. The two are punching each other's back and sides until they keel over, with Van Helsing resting on top of Dracula.
VAN HELSING
I hope you like your steak rare,
cause it's about to get bloody.
Dracula punches Van Helsing in the face.
VAN HELSING
Fuck you Dracula!
Van Helsing drives a stake into Dracula's chest, gets up, and wipes sweat from his brow. He surveys the room and robs Dracula. Van Helsing heads for the door, and looks over at Dracula, noting the quality of his pants.
VAN HELSING
Nice pants.
INT. VINTAGE CLOTHING STORE DAY
Two employees stand behind a counter, Jason and Chris, discussing the appearance of customers.
JASON
(Indicating a blonde woman.)
Would you hit that?
CHRIS
Only with a brick.
Van Helsing approaches the counter carrying Dracula's pants.
VAN HELSING
How much can I get for these pants?
CHRIS
You didn't get those off a dead
guy, did you?
VAN HELSING
No, undead.
CHRIS
Great, I'll give you ten bucks.
VAN HELSING
No deal.
CHRIS
Twelve?
VAN HELSING
Done.
The two exchange pants for money. Van Helsing begins to leave the store.
JASON
Hey, you almost forgot to enter our
raffle.
(Points at fish bowl full
of business cards.)
VAN HELSING
Oh, man, that was a close one. How
could I forget something so
important?
CHRIS
Well, you're lucky we noticed, or
otherwise we'd all be in big
trouble.
All nod in agreement. Van Helsing exits.
EXT. ALLEYWAY DAY
The Wolfman and a Mummy meet in the alleyway to discuss their scheme.
WOLFMAN
I saw the whole thing, boss. Van
Helsing sold Dracula's pants to a
vintage clothing store.
MUMMY
Excellent. Soon, the moon shall be
full and you will bite me. Then, I
shall have your powers and, with
Dracula's pants, will become the
most powerful thing ever! Then
you'll get your money.
WOLFMAN
I'll buy a fast car and use it to
get lots of chicks.
MUMMY
(Sarcastically)
Yeah, I'm sure that'll help.
INT VINTAGE CLOTHING STORE DAY
A customer is trying on Dracula's pants.
CHRIS
How long has that guy been trying
on those pants?
JASON
Like ten minutes. I'll go check in
on him.
(Jason knocks on fitting
room door. )
Sir, are you alright? Sir? Sir?
Sir? Sir? He's not answering.
Jason opens the door to reveal the customer, laying on the ground with Dracula's pants around his ankles.
JASON
Crap ass! He's on the floor; call
an ambulance.
(Jason begins slapping the
man's face while Chris
calls for help.)
CHRIS
(On the phone.)
No, he's unconscious. I don't know
if he's breathing. My friend's
slapping him right now.
(Pause)
Jason, stop slapping him!
(Hangs up the phone. )
They said they'd be here in two
minutes.
JASON
What about the pants?
CHRIS
What about them?
JASON
We can't let them take the store's
pants. That's profit.
CHRIS
You're right. Take them off.
JASON
Why me?
CHRIS
One two three not it.
JASON
You can't do one two three not it
when there's just two people.
Besides, one two three not it!
CHRIS
Shit!
(Removes Dracula's pants
from the customer. )
Where are his pants?
JASON
I don't see them anywhere.
CHRIS
Well, hopefully the paramedics
won't notice.
Two Paramedics enter.
PARAMEDIC ONE
Where is he?
CHRIS
Right there. (Points at dead guy.)
PARAMEDIC ONE
Where are his pants?
CHRIS
We don't know.
PARAMEDIC ONE
What do you mean you don't know?
JASON
There's no time for that right now!
This man is dieing.
PARAMEDIC ONE
He's already dead.
JASON
Well, get him out of here!
Paramedics put the body on a stretcher and wheel it out of the store.
CHRIS
Hey, do you think we can use this
as an excuse to close the store
early?
JASON
Definitely. Let's go get shitfaced.
CHRIS
Hooray!
(Both high five.)
The following noon, Chris and Jason enter the vintage clothing store, outside of which an ambulance is parked.
OWNER
Where were you two assbags? I had
to open the store myself and then
one of the customers died on me.
Here, throw out these pants.
(Throws Dracula's pants to
Chris.)
And you, get behind the counter.
(Owner leaves.)
JASON
Wow, that's weird. Those are the
same pants from yesterday.
CHRIS
Yeah. It's a shame to just throw
them out. I'm going to give them to
that homeless guy that lives down
the street.
Chris exits and returns five minutes later. Time passes and now it's six PM. The store is empty as the Wolfman and a Mummy, who is now covered with patches of fur, enter. Wolfman locks the door behind him.
CHRIS
Oh Jesus Christ! Shit. Balls. Fuck!
It's The Wolfman and a Mummy. And
the Mummy has a gun.
JASON
How do you think the Mummy got that
gun?
MUMMY
I killed a guy for it.
CHRIS & JASON
Oh no!
(Mummy punches Chris in
the face.)
CHRIS
We better do what he wants, that
hurt.
MUMMY
I want those pants.
JASON
Dude, the Mummy's queer.
MUMMY
(Mummy punches Chris in
the face again.)
Not your pants. The killer pants!
CHRIS
(Rubbing his jaw. )
I gave them to a homeless man.
MUMMY
Take me to him.
(The four exit the store.)
You know, you shouldn't make fun of
gay people like that. There's
nothing wrong with that.
JASON
Dude.
MUMMY
Shut up.
EXT ALLEYWAY DAY
A large cardboard box covered with a tarp, outside of which stick out a homeless man's legs. The Mummy pulls off the tarp to reveal that the homeless man is dead. His pants are missing and Dracula's pants are around his ankles.
MUMMY
Once I put on these pants, I shall
be the most powerful thing ever.
Then I'm going to make you two beat
the shit out of each other because
if I beat the shit out of you it'll
kill you. And after you're done
beating the shit out of each other,
I will kill you!
(The Mummy puts on
Dracula's pants. )
I feel it. I feel the power.
(Panicking)
Draining out of me, oh no!
The Mummy disintegrates into a pile of dust, clumps of hair, and bandages. The pants fall to the ground.
CHRIS
Hooray, the mummy's dead!
JASON
Yeah. What about him?
WOLFMAN
Eh, we're cool. I. Yeah, we're
cool.
Then the pants get up and kick the Wolfman in the nards.
WOLFMAN
My nards!
The Wolfman keels over and the pants run away.
CHRIS
Holy shit! Did you see that? That
was awesome.
JASON
Yeah! But we got to stop those
pants.
CHRIS
If I were a pair of killer pants,
where would I go?
JASON
Well, those pants don't know their
way around the city.
CHRIS
You're right. To the vintage
clothing store!
(Both run to the vintage
clothing store.)
INT. VINTAGE CLOTHING STORE AFTERNOON
CHRIS
Shit, the pants aren't here.
JASON
Why would the pants.
CHRIS
(Interrupts.)
I don't know. I just thought. Wait!
The guy that sold us the pants.
JASON
Yeah?
CHRIS
He'd know what to do.
JASON
Why?
CHRIS
They're his pants.
JASON
Yeah, get his name out of the
raffle thing.
CHRIS
(Dumps all of the business
cards out of the fish
bowl and onto the
counter. )
Which one is he?
JASON
We'll have to call all of them.
CHRIS
But it's ten o'clock. Is that too
late?
JASON
Shut up!
CHRIS
(Picks up the phone and
dials.)
Hello. Dr. Wiener? Dr. Wiener
Wiener. This is Ralph's Vintage
Clothing. Did you sell us a pair of
killer pants? Hello? Hello?
JASON
(Holding up a single
card.)
Wait, this guy's name is Van
Helsing. It's got to be him.
CHRIS
How do you know?
JASON
It says, "Yep, that's me," on it in
quotes.
CHRIS
(Calls Van Helsing. )
Van Helsing, we have a situation.
Get down to Ralph's Vintage
Clothing as fast as you can.
Van Helsing runs into the store, panting.
JASON
Why the hell did you sell us those
freaking pants? They've killed
three people, a Mummy, came to
life, kicked the Wolfman in the
nards, ran away, and now they're up
to who knows what.
VAN HELSING
I didn't know.
CHRIS
You didn't know? You're Van
Helsing.
VAN HELSING
No, I'm Doug Van Helsing. I'm Van
Helsing's great, great, great,
great, grandson. I'm a web
designer. I don't know anything
about any of this.
JASON
But you took out Dracula.
VAN HELSING
No, that was Dracula's great,
great, great, great grandson. Kevin
Dracula. He was a stoner.
JASON
I don't care if it was Flip Dracula
the Transexual, you're going to
help us get those pants. Now what
do we do?
VAN HELSING
Well, how do you conquer a pair of
pants?
WOLFMAN
With a belt!
(Wolfman is holding a belt
and he snaps it.)
VAN HELSING, CHRIS, JASON, & WOLFMAN
(All at once.)
Wolfman!
WOLFMAN
That's right. No one kicks me in
the nards and gets away with it.
VAN HELSING
Alright, my Toyota's parked
outside.
CHRIS
To the Toyota!
All run to Toyota.
WOLFMAN
Shotgun!
JASON
Backseat!
INT. TOYOTA DUSK
The street is littered with pantsless dead people. The pants, which have grown to an inseam of sixty-two and a waist of fifty-six, are chasing a man, who they leap at waist first, engulf, and force out pants less and dead out of their left leg.
WOLFMAN
Pull up next to the pants.
EXT. STREET DUSK
The Wolfman jumps out of the car onto the pants and rides them like a bull at a rodeo. Some women walk by and a small crowd gathers. Wolfman gets the belt around the pants' waist and ties them tightly. He jumps off and lets them run off into the distance.
WOLFMAN
Those pants are going to starve
now.
VAN HELSING
I don't think that that's how it
works.
CHRIS
Yeah, I'm unsatisfied.
Wolfman walks over to the Toyota, turns up the radio so that Working for the Weekend by Loverboy starts playing, and pops the trunk to reveal a cooler full of beers. Wolfman starts passing the beers around and a party breaks loose.
WOLFMAN
Satisfied now?
CHRIS
Yeah!
Wolfman and Chris raise their beers in celebration. |