Dead and Walking by Sean Elwood - Horror - How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something that we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled, no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. - doc, format 8)

Yes this is another zombie script I wrote. What can I say? I like zombies and their movies.

Just think of this one as a Resident Evil type...but I kinda wasn't headin' that way...

Quoted from Don "In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living". - doc, format 8)

Haven't read this yet, but this quote is the tagline for the comic book series "The Walking Dead."

Yeah just thought it would be cool to use it.   :B

I love zombies, If you read my last two scripts

DEAD
and
Corpses

You can see that I love them. I am going to read this one tonight.

Quoted from jpitts Haven't read this yet, but this quote is the tagline for the comic book series "The Walking Dead."

That comic is the bomb!  Zombie movies are the new thing now-a-days!   I'll give this a read when I get the time, I promise! ;D

i can't find this script

Quoted from jpitts i can't find this script

Click on "Dead and Walking" next to my name and sypnosis at the top.

Sean

I absolutely loved this script!!  If I had the financing, I would make this in a heartbeat!  The only thing is that this would HAVE to have a big budget with the effects and all.
I loved the scene with Andrew and Rachel on the lake. For some reason, that scene really stuck in my mind the most. I could just picture it!
Great job man!!
You have any more zombie scripts? let me know!

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Thanks, moviekid21. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

For the lake scene, I figured I could try and get nature into the script to slow them down and make it more dangerous to travel and survive.

Glad you liked it.

Sean

I read your script and you do the ol' zombie formula well. Not to sound like a jerk though, but I felt reading your script was like watching parts of every single zombie flick made in the past 40 years. The snow was a great edge, but it felt more like dawn of the dead with snow.
And I know not even the most hardcore fans take zombie flicks that "seriously" (though I personally love them) But it's not that hard to create EMPATY for them. I mean how can people expect to when the characters talk like this.
WHITNEY
Haven’t you even noticed that whenever you talk about yourself, nobody seems to listen?

ANDREW
Haven’t you ever noticed that whenever you talk, somewhere in the world a baby dies?

WHITNEY
Oh nice comeback, Mr. I’m-so-funny-and-strong-and-has-a-pretty-girlfriend-to-smooch-all-over——

Your description tries to show us that our world as we know it can be taken from us. But I don't know how many young adults/teenagers speak like that. It felt more like the people were struggling with plain ol' survival as opposed to dealing with no tv and modern conveniences.

May Contain Spoilers

I am a big Zombie movie fan and I love the Resident Evil Games and books but I don't really have a taste for the movies. I loved reading your script. The first part was lovely and you set the scene of a nice peaceful place very well. You describe things very well throughout the script. I also like the whole split storyline at the start instead of getting halfway through Christines storyline and then adding other characters in who's storys are never seen. The Frozen lake scene I feel was one of the best if not the best part of the script. It was done really well and I could feel myself getting caught up in the script ;D  On page 7 I love the first bit of Zombie action in the Ambulance, I actually wrote a Zombie TV Series based on the Resident Evil Outbreak and wrote a scene very similar to this but in a hospital. On Page 12 - I like the Animals running away from the evil like they have another sense but this has been done quite a lot but still effective. Another thing I feel is that Racheal just forgets about Andrew to quick, you make it seem like she is shocked to remember that she left them behind which wasn't that long ago, I don't know if you meant this to make the character seem a little more selfish but just though I'd point that out. Jumping now tot he ending awww :'( Unlike the person above me I did not feel like I was watching a Dawn of the dead with snow... lol the whole thing did not take place in a shopping mall and I felt some of your ideas were original and the frozen lake thing was just great. Nothing else to really comment on. Loved the script but like someone else said it would need to be a high budget film to be good.

tony tuff nutz:

Since there are over hundreds (maybe even thousands) of zombie movies out there, it's beginning to get harder at thinking of original ideas. But there are still more ideas out there waiting to be found (like flying zombies for example, but the script would have to be written by someone really high). But I guess it would be cool to see a movie that has taken a bit from every zombie movie and put them all together and see what comes out...

...or not.

And that line I have been thinking about changing. I guess nobody really does expect somebody to say that, especially from a goth type person. But I'm glad you enjoyed my script, and as I have said before, I tried adding in nature to slow the victims down and give it a little more tension.

Cirrus:

You know what is hard about being a zombie fan? You can never find too many other zombie fans out there.

But thanks for the feedback for my script. I think this is one of my best works out of the scripts I have written. Haha and everyone seems to get pulled in by the lake scene which I also thought was a great scene. And I added in the "animals running away" after reading the "Zombie Survival Guide" (Oh yes, I am that obsessed) and I was like "What a good way to tell when there are zombies around" but unfortunately, our characters never figure that out.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Sean

Hey I've read that book too, it was on display in barnes and noble. Who wouldn't buy that if they saw. Could save our lives one day. You never know....

Yeah it's a pretty good book so far. I got it on my birthday (November 2nd) and I'm only half way through it since school has basically taken over my life (no joke). But I'm really starting to enjoy it and if there happens to be a slight outbreak of zombies caused by radiation carried by a space probe from Venus, an evil corporation that created viral weaponry that went wrong, voodoo gone bad, a virus that only infects the recently diceased, or any of the other ideas that have been used in zombie movies, this book is going to save my life (and plenty others if they've ever read this book).

If you read this, and haven't read "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks, READ IT! :)

Sean

I got to say Sean that I love your stuff and you inspire me to write horror/survival scripts that can use old elements but with a different flare. You are one of my favorite screenwriters on SimplyScripts and Dead and Walking is your best script yet (I did like SM5 too! ;D). Also when I become a director(in about who knows how many year) I want to direct this!

I thought it was unqiue how you kept on adding on characters throughout the script like Vivian, and how they help each other out. I also like how you didn't do a ZOMBIE DOG scene with Mix. Also, there wasx a nice flow from the Ice scene to the Zombie fight scene.

However, the ending suprised me even with that Dawn of the Dead aspect.

Tell me when you write more.

Quoted from Zombie Sean You know what is hard about being a zombie fan? You can never find too many other zombie fans out there.

I'm a zombie fan. Haven't read your script yet, but I will. Still, I'm a zombie fan.

I have finally finished reading this, Sean.  Man was this fast paced!  I had some nostalgic feelings when I saw the name Rachel pop up, so I was pulling for her the whole way and was pretty pissed when she died.  I think the character I liked the most was Troy, I kind of wish he had more of a backstory, because he was kind of badass.  I'm not a zombie officianado, but why do certain people that get bit turn into zombies right away, but others don't turn for hours?  Is it just a main and minor character thing?  Or was it because they would get bit in the arms and legs and it would take longer, rather than those that got bit in the neck?    

There is not much to say.  You have written a fine script complete with developed characters.  The arc of the story seems to fit together well and it moved along at a good pace.  You definately have a knack for the zombie genre.  I almost envy you, hehe.

The only problems I have were that there was no down time in the script from the zombie attacks.  In nearly every scene a zombie was popping out.  After a while it was getting a little repetitive, but you managed to make each encounter unique, how I don't know because that was a lot of action you had to come up with, but different each time so it made it worthwhile.  The other problem was with your pronoun antecedents and semantics.  Now I am probably one of the few people on this planent that could really care less about how you write your script, I believe it is a personal choice.  But when you were intercutting between certain scenes, you would start it like:

INT. CITY

Rachel and Andrew blah blah

EXT. GAS STATION

Vivian and Troy blah blah

INT. CITY

She picks him up.  


I was getting lost at some points.  I feel everytime  you start a new scene, just let the reader know the characters' names that are involved in that scene, regardless of how many times you have cut back to it.  It would make it much more easier to follow.  

The ending definately caught me by surprise.  It had a Dawn of the Dead feel to it at first, then a Shaun of the Dead with them finding the basement passage.  I thought Christie and Chase would have survived but when he pulled the gun out I knew it was over.

Very good, Sean.  I applaud you for making a 120 page zombie script actually worthwhile to read.  I enjoyed it all the way through.        

Quoted from Guy Jackson I had some nostalgic feelings when I saw the name Rachel pop up, so I was pulling for her the whole way and was pretty pissed when she died.

Haha yeah I realized that also. Sorry she died and she is nothing compared to the Rachel in your script. Your's is the hardcore, cowardless girl that everyone loves, while mine is the whimpy one who whines a lot, and ends up dying anyways.

Quoted from Guy Jackson I'm not a zombie officianado, but why do certain people that get bit turn into zombies right away, but others don't turn for hours?  Is it just a main and minor character thing?  Or was it because they would get bit in the arms and legs and it would take longer, rather than those that got bit in the neck?

You nailed it on the head. If you've seen the Dawn of the Dead remake (or in fact any kind of zombie film) the longest it has been before anyone has turned was around five hours or so, depending on where the bite is. Like you said, if it was on the neck, you're pretty muched screwed over for the first five or ten minutes. If it's around the arms, legs, anything below the head, etc., then it usually takes much longer.

Quoted from Guy Jackson The only problems I have were that there was no down time in the script from the zombie attacks.  In nearly every scene a zombie was popping out.  After a while it was getting a little repetitive, but you managed to make each encounter unique, how I don't know because that was a lot of action you had to come up with, but different each time so it made it worthwhile.

You never know what could be around the corner of a building until you reached that spot.

Quoted from Guy Jackson antecedents and semantics

My what and what? Hehe sorry, in English, we read and do worksheets, not learn grammar and spelling, along with other English vocabulary stuff.

Quoted from Guy Jackson The ending definately caught me by surprise.  It had a Dawn of the Dead feel to it at first, then a Shaun of the Dead with them finding the basement passage.  I thought Christie and Chase would have survived but when he pulled the gun out I knew it was over.

Haha that made my day...sort of...(sorry my bad day started in Theater), but that was what I hoping for for everyone. You'd think they'd get out alive, and then WHAM! Something gets in the way and all becomes one depressing ending.

Well thanks for the comment Jackson and everyone else, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Sean

rock on man, a zombie flick I could sink my teeth in  ::)

a great story and some great scenes made for one of the better zombie / horror scripts I've read on this site.  

One minor complaint is that some of your scenes are a little close to other zombies movies out there, but then again after 9 million zombie movies there isn't a whole lot of new ground to cover.

overall a big thumbs up and I'd pay to go see this.  At night even lol

brion

Okay... I added page numbers and started reading



SPOILERS..........























Pg. 2 - Once again... I can feel the atmosphere. You're great at setting mood and describing setting

Pg. 7 - Sure, we know it's a zombie but are you sure you should identify the dead guy as a zombie right away?

Pg. 8 -

Quoted Text Rachel, a brunette with nothing on her mind but her looks

we can't see what's on her mind. I think instead you should describe just how she looks.

Pg. 9 -

Quoted Text [center]ANDREW[/center] So what if people are being 'bitten' or 'attacked' at the city we're headed to. There's nothing that is going to ruin my break

What an idiot!

Pg. 10 - Wow! That deer came out of nowhere! The car crash was well written.

Pg. 12 - The animals running away in the snow, sensing the danger, reminds me of that one scene in Dreamcatcher.

Pg. 14 -

Quoted Text Her teeth ripping his lips off his face

Ouch! Sounds really painful.

Pg. 21 - Rachel's bitching is getting on my nerves!

Quoted Text RACHEL Make it go away, Andrew. please make it go away

What is she five?

Pg. 22 - With the switching back and forth of the scenes...i'm getting the characters mixed up. I'm sure I'll get them down soon. I always do.

Pg. 29 - FROZEN LAKE: Nice setting. I liked this scene...very entertaining.


1 MONTH LATER
The above are the notes I made while reading this. I had to stop(Busy with school) now I'm continuing a little over a month later. I skimmed over the pages i read again.


Pg. 31 - We need to be reminded who is in this scene at first ... even though you just came from that scene.

Pg. 32 - ICICLE DEATH: Nice an nasty (Oxymoron?)

Pg. 33 - I wonder what effect the ice and freezing would have. Wouldn't it slow down the decaying process?

That's it Rachel! Fight back! Now all you have to do is stop whining.

Pg. 34 - HOMEMADE CAMPFIRE: What is she a forest ranger?...........oh nevermind...she explains it.

Pg. 47 -

Quoted Text The window whistles through the branches above them.

I got confused at first 'til I realized that's supposed to be wind instead of window.

Pg. 49 - Poor mix...I love zombie dogs!

Pg. 50 - Barricade + Zombie movie = Bad NEWS

Pg. 51 -

Quoted Text Chase and Christie sit on a crappy sofa

Lol! whay s that funny?

Pg. 53 -

Quoted Text RICK What exactly are those things are there?

I'm assuming it's supposed to be out instead of are

Quoted Text Christie stands up, covering her mouth, read to cry.

Read to Ready

Pg. 60 - I love/hate how in every horror movie somebody rips a piece of their shirt (with ease) and wraps it around a wound. Like tearing a shirt is like tearing paper. lol

Quoted Text He kicks another in the stomach, but the creature is so decayed, his foot smashes through it's bosy with ease.

Ugh...Soggy Zombies!

Pg 69 -

Quoted Text RACHEL We should fill these up for further use]

Why is she talking like a Newreporter? Sometimes your characters use words that people wouldn't normally use.

Pg. 70 - VIVIAN - Ooh! Army Bitch! LOL!

Pg. 74 -

Quoted Text Exposing the outside world to the inside of the van

Nice Phrasing.

Pg. 75 -

Quoted Text The van hits two threes

I think you mean two trees

Pg. 78 - Ha-ha Cool! MUD ZOMBIES! LOL.

Pg. 85 - The whole Jason situation is sad. Yep. It's kinda like that scene in Dawn of Dawn (Remake) when they kill Lindy Booth's dad.

Pg. 90 - Repeated:

Quoted Text A dead a dead

The zombies have a enhanced sense of smell?

Pg. 98 -

Quoted Text ...when a cat pops out through the window

This is the the most cliche fake out scare ever.

Pg. 113 - I like Christie but why would she do something so stupid. Why did she open the bathroom door?

Pg. 117 - Aw. Too Bad. I kinda liked Rachel even though she was a whiner. It would be really messed up if they were stuck sitting on an elevated forklift with the zombies below them.



FINISHED

The ending really gives you that sense of hopelessness. It reminds me of the ending to Return of the Living Dead and Shaun of The Dead.
This was a pretty good read...better than Kill Ride. This is the 2nd Zombie script I've read on simply scripts (I think;1st being Tanner Murray's Apocalypse...I think) This went by fast. Even though it took more than a month for me to read it  ;D ;) I liked most of the characters too. I'll look forward to reading more of your scripts.

Hey Shawn thanks for the review. Wow I didn't realize I had that many spelling mistakes in it. But thanks for pointing them out.

I was thinking about having them find a few frozen or really, really slow moving zombies in the snow on their way to the warehouse, but I will have to find time to do a rewrite.

Quoted Text Pg. 85 - The whole Jason situation is sad. Yep. It's kinda like that scene in Dawn of Dawn (Remake) when they kill Lindy Booth's dad.

Yeah I was kind of afraid that it would turn out to be like that, so I tried to give the same effect, but write it as differently as possible.

Quoted Text The zombies have a enhanced sense of smell?

Yes. Lol.

Quoted Text This is the the most cliche fake out scare ever.

Hey what's a movie with any cliché fake out scares? :P

Well anyways, thanks for the comments/advice/review and I will try and take a look at your stuff before school starts again. Unfortunately, I have summer school P.E. (Which really sucks by the way!) and so I am exhausted whenever I come home so I always just sit down and rest. I could try and squeeze in a few hours during the weekends when I have nothing else to do.

Sean

OMFG!!! I love this script... This is the first REAL script I've read. Everyone is giving me crap about all of my scripts... but yours is great and I see what I did wrong in my scripts. I give your script a 9.2/10

I'll prove to you I read it  SPOILERS.....

1. I think it was RICK and CHRISTENE talking in the beginning when they saw the ambuliences. and then CHASE and MIX come into the story

2. RACHAEL, JASON, ANDREW, and WHITNEY. Whitney is a goth and andrew is like a football player type. And they Hit this deer and Jason has to call a towtruck when a zombie comes out of the woods and bites whitney in the    arm? and Jason tries to help her and andrew takes a tire rotator and hits the zombie in the scull.
Jason makes a bed of blankets for Whitney and hen a bunch more zombies come. Rachael is scared and runs into the woods (They have to walk 10 miles to the city anyways) Andrew chses after her. Jason picks up whitney and goes through the wall of zombies into the woods.

3. CHRISTENE wakes up and is in a carcrash and gets out of the car and a bunch of zombies attack her. One is on her and then out of nowhere TROY shoots them all and CHRISTNE gets in troy's truck and they drive away.

4. Andy and Rachael are in the woods talking and trying to get to the city before the zombies get them.

5. Jason has to kill rachael because she "died" then came back to life and Jason had to hit her with a branch.

6. Rachael and andy have to run across a thin ice on the pond whie hundreds of zombies try to get them. Jason falls in     (OK, ANDY WAS IN THE WATER FOR ABOUT TWO MINUTES IF YOU TIME THE STORY WITH REAL LIF TIME... AND HE WOULD OF GONE INTO HYPERTHERMIA AND DIED... that's a little problem.) And ?Rachael makes it across and Andy makes it to land and Rachael fights off some zombies and makes a fire for jason.

7. Christene and Troy are talking. Then Christene sees her apartment and the roof is collapsed. Christene goes in and Troy sees that zombies are coming. So Troy fights off the zombies with a MACHETE, SHOTGUN, and his FISTS. And then his car blows up. They get inside and Troy, RICK, Chase and Mix come and they board up the bottom door.

8. Rachael hears a noise and goes into the woods and gets scared by JASON, who has made it. The two see smoke to the city and run up to the city and see it's destroyed. Then they hear gunshots and run down, they run into an alley where the zombies get them, Jason gets his finger bit  "off"? and then they get out when   Rick? gets them They Get in a Van and leave.

9. They end Up at a gas station where they get suplies and meet... VIVIAN, who is a good shooter. They leave with vivian and then they crash into a ditch soon after and zombies come up out of the mud, but no one dies. Then  SADLY... Jason HAS to die. but Troy shot him in the HEART before he changed, now they shoot him in the head.

10. They get to this wearhouse where it looks like no one was. They seem safe, CHRISTENE TAKES A SHOWER, EVERYONE GETS LOOKING FOR FOOD... then Racheal and Andy start to kiss and go into the other room and see ZOMBIES ALL AROUND THE ROOM!!!! The others come in and shoot all of them.

11. The zombies start to come and they are trying to get in. And the others put forklifts  agienst the doors. And the zombies break down the gate and Vivian and Rick are out there shooting when they get attacked and Vivian gets bit on the shoulders and Rick gets taken back into the crowd...and eaten. Troy dos something to the forklift and it goes by itsself and impales Rach in the stomach. And then turns to a zombie and bites Andy.

12. It's just Troy, Chase, and CHRISTENE... they go into the back room. Troy tells them he was bit on the wrist. CHASE AND CHRISTENE find a basement they go into... and troy gets devowered.

13. CHASE AND CHRISTENE are in the basement waiting to be rescued, but they know they wont...so Chase shoots CHRSTENE and then himself.......... the next day a helicopter is riding around the US looking for survivors and talking to the president.

THE END

I love the script so much. It was great.

MY CAST...

CHRISTENE--- Jessica Biel
TROY--- Kurt Russel
RICK--- Bruce Campbell
CHASE--- Jake Gyllenhaal
RACHAEL--- Monica Keena
ANDY--- Tobey Maguire
JASON--- Ryan Merriman
VIVIAN--- Amanda Peet
WHITNEY---Ali Larter

I wish Rachael didn't die, I thought it would be the 2 younger people who lived... I didn't want Vivian and Troy to die either... AND MIX!!! WHY MIX!!!!???


GREAT SCRIPT... I KNO WHAT I DID WRONG!!! THANK YOU, I'M GOING TO READ MORE HORROR SCRIPTS TO LEARN.

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im so mad by the ending!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they wait this long, only to kill themselves when help is right around the corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
u r brilliant!
great story, def. reading this again!