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[unsettling music]

[machine whirring]

[unsettling music stops] [birds chirping]

[calm music]

[startling music]

- Hey do you remember that attorney's name?

The one we met last time?

Hello? Hello?

[chuckles] Good dope, huh?

- I guess so.

What did you say?

- We met some attorney over there.

Remember his wife worked for some judge?

- [sighs] I don't know.

- Well, I saw him in the street the other day.

- His wife's name was Jane or Janet or...

- Yeah, I don't want to walk in there and do one of my,

[claps] "Hey, man," routines.

- Everybody will be stoned when we get there anyway.

- Ooh, speaking of which,

I laid out a few lines in the bedroom.

- [Rita] Great! That's just what I need.

[Barney chuckles]

- Cut!

Okay, that was good everybody.

Dom, what about that turn?

- Got it. She looked great. - Good.

- Well, I still don't know what to do when he comes in.

- No, no, you're fine.

You're stoned. You're confused.

Besides, everything's happening too fast

for you to even be scared.

- All right, what's next?

- I think we're through.

Barney, Rita, you're finished.

- [Barney] Oh great.

- Tomorrow, we start early. - Oh, man.

- I mean it. - I need that light.

- That's right. - I gotta get some sleep!

- 6:00 am, early.

[Barney mutters] You be there.

- Oh, do you want the jogging suit or the shorts?

- Probably the jogging suit. - Yeah, all right.

- Yeah, so you're ass doesn't hang out.

[Rita grunts]

- [Lacey] See you two tomorrow.

- [Barney] Hey, listen...

- Aha, so is that a wrap?

- That's a wrap. [door closes]

[Rita and Barney arguing in next room]

- [Dominic] That went pretty well.

- [Lacey] Still on schedule.

- They're not bad together.

- On camera. [arguing continues]

- They married or what? - For now.

- [Barney] Oh, bull shit, I could drive a truck

through your God damn lines!

- Okay, you two, I'll see you later.

- [Rita] I just saw you go crazy.

- [Barney] Yeah, well why don't you stop smoking

real joints in the God damn take?

I don't know, it's in the bathroom.

Have some self respect.

- Did Lacey want these any place in particular?

- Oh, yeah, over on the kitchen counter.

He's got somebody who picks it up

and takes it to the bus station.

[faint arguing in next room continues]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

- This is sync take three.

Okay, standby.

I got speed.

[camera ticking] - Speed.

- Slate it, Celeste. [clapperboard claps]

Action. [dramatic music]

- Case comes up in about a week.

Anyway, we don't have much of a chance.

They have the judge in their hip pocket.

Yeah, he's Sloan's golfing buddy.

Something's wrong, Mona?

[clapperboard claps]

Something's wrong, Mona?

Hey, the Steelers are playing the Browns on Sunday.

We ought a get tickets if we can.

[gunshots firing] Something's wrong, Mona?

- Thoughts tending to ambition,

these do plot unlikely wonders,

how these vain weak nails may rend a passage

in the flimsy ribs of this hard world,

my ragged prison walls.

And for they cannot die in their own pride.

[Celeste sighs]

Thus play I in one person, many people,

and none of them contented.

Sometimes am I king,

then treasons make me wish myself a beggar.

But whatever I be,

nor I, nor any man that but man is

with nothing is content,

till he be eased with being nothing.

Play that one back for Lacey, Billy, hmm?

[band playing soulful ballad]

- How's the tuxedo?

- [Nicky] Hi, baby.

- Out of date.

- I left my top hot in the car.

- [laughs] Yeah, right.

- How you doing? - Hmm...

- How am I doing, right?

- Hmm? - How you doing?

- Fine. [laughs]

- We played a good day today.

- Not bad.

- Excuse me. Maria? - Yeah.

Maria, that's her name, huh?

- Stroh's. - Hey, you doing?

- Good. - Good.

Maria? Maria, a double bourbon for the lady and a double--

- [Celeste] Scotch, please.

- All right, wait, double scotch for the lady,

and double bourbon for me, easy on the ice, please.

Why aren't you acting in this film

instead of doing the lights?

- Rita's better for the role.

I like doing the lights all right.

- I never worked with a woman gaffer before.

- Beats working at a massage parlor.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, sure does.

Did you do that?

- No.

- Yeah, well, it beats, I mean, it beats...

I mean, look at that guy over there, right?

Gene Kelly should of had one of those things, right?

♪ I'm singing in the bar ♪ [Celeste laughing]

♪ Just singing ♪

Uh-oh, uh-oh.

- You know what the-- - You and your big mouth.

- No, you know, my father, he knows I--

- Hey, where's your cape, Drac?

- Ugh. Hi.

- We were just talking about you.

- You got a light? Got a light?

- I had one.

- Hi. How you doing?

Here's my card. - Uh-huh.

- Have umbrella will travel, right?

- Would you keep that away from the tux?

Would you care to get that away?

- Oh, here we are, right here.

- That's, that's...

- Anyway-- [trick lighter pops]

- Great, that's terrific. [laughing]

Okay, great. Look, guy...

Hey, why don't...

Hang on. There you go.

No! Look, pal, I mean what the fuck, right?

- Okay, you know what?

[band playing disco]

♪ Don't you feel it, oh ♪

♪ Don't you feel it ♪

- Celeste, come on. - I know, but...

- Aw, come on, man.

[Dominic grunts] [shrieking]

- Oh, god!

[men grunting]

[Dominic breathing gingerly]

- Hey, thinks for defending my honor.

[both laughing]

- For what? - I said thanks.

That was pretty swell. - Yeah.

That was pretty swell. - Yeah.

[woman's scream echoes]

- All right, looks real enough.

Now, if we put this under her skirt,

are we really gonna make the audience believe

that is her leg?

- Sure, on the cut after she's knocked down, yeah.

- All right, but what about the blood?

- What about it?

- Well, is there enough? - Why?

- That's the way it would read with a razor cut down there.

- Listen, how important is reality when we're trying to--

- [Celeste] Are we making a cartoon?

- It would be nice just to see one little spurt

at the moment of slashing.

- Nobody is gonna believe a spurt of blood.

- They'll believe anything we show them.

- But blood doesn't spurt when you cut somebody there.

It's spurts when you cut by an artery.

- Hey, Celeste, I don't need an anatomy lesson.

Besides nobody has ever gone broke

underestimating the intelligence of an audience.

- Well, for sure, but they'll be plenty of blood

because he's gonna be slashing at her repeatedly, right?

- I know that, but I want the first one to grab 'em!

- You're so subtle.

You want the blood to spurt up into the camera lens?

- Yeah, why not?

- Give me the razor.

All right, we start here, right?

He slashes at her repeatedly, huh?

She drags herself up the stairs!

Blood flows, it's starts slow at first,

but then it builds up to a frenzied pitch!

[blade scraping]

Look at that. Plenty of blood, huh?

Maybe a little dramatic buildup.

You know all about that, right?

God knows this script could use some.

- [Lacey] What a bitch.

- She's pretty good with that razor, huh?

You ought a put her in the movie.

- Yeah.

I'll see you at 4:00.

- Hey!

I'm going to town for a burger, you want one?

[dramatic music]

[startling music] [Rita gasping]

[Rita panting]

[dramatic music] [camera ticking]

[radio playing rock music]

- It was close, but nothing...

There we go. Set it right there.

- Hey, Lace, how's the movie going?

- Nicky! All right.

- [Radio Deejay] Yeah! [laughs]

Hair styles, hair styles, yes, yes, yes.

Got my hair looking' fine.

And Barry's the name, and music like this--

- The chase...

[Barney chuckles]

He cannot escape.

He has nowhere to go.

- Here it is, buddy.

- I have him in my sites.

- Gin. [mimics shotgun blast]

- [laughing] All right.

- Run 'em. Hey, where's Lobo been?

- He found this actress last night.

- Oh, really? From around here?

- Down in Pittsburgh. - Oh, yeah?

- You should see her dance. Whew!

- Really? - What she doesn't know

we have never even thought of.

[Barney chuckling] - All right, here you go.

- All right, well bring her up here.

Maybe she wants to be a movie star.

- Mm, I'll talk to Lobo.

- Not now, I want to get some more of this shot.

- Hey, when do we do my scene, Mr. Director?

- Two weeks.

Just don't forget to tell Lobo and Scratch.

Four of spades, double.

- You got it.

There you are.

Mm.

- Gin. - Aw, come on!

[Nicky laughing] You're kidding.

On a double? Oh, no. [laughs]

- Hey, nice cards, Barney, nice cards.

- [Barney] [laughing] Yeah, right. Aw...

- [Nicky] Anyway, there's some coke around.

- Any good?

- [Nicky] I just happen to have a sample.

- Hey, well, here, we can do it right up on this.

- No, no, no, no.

Go get the mirror out of the other room, Nicky.

- Okay. - Hey listen!

When you come over here next week,

I don't want you getting all coked up

and talking about the chase, the chase, huh?

- Hey, I'm cool, I'm cool.

I'm cool! - All right.

- Yeah, well, if you're so cool,

how about cooling off my nose then?

- Deal, loser. - Yeah.

- [Woman] [whimpers] No! No!

[dramatic music]

[woman screams]

[music stops] [crickets chirping]

[unsettling music]

[woman screaming] - What are you doing here?

- [Barney] Nothing. I thought I heard something.

- Downstairs? - I don't know.

I was having this horrible dream, something was outside.

- Did you check outside? - Mm-hmm. Don't worry.

Oh, what a nightmare. It was horrible, ugly.

[camera ticking]

- [Lacey] Cut. [clattering]

Celeste, what? What?

- [Celeste] I just think I blew a fuse.

- [Lacey] Now, how am I supposed to shoot in the dark?

- [Celeste] Would you just cool it a minute?

- Rita, listen.

[power cord pops] - All right.

- All right, this is the first time that you've encountered

that presence coming up the stairs, okay?

You're really frightened,

but you turn and are drawn to that gun in the closet.

Al right.

Okay, now, once you've picked up the gun,

you turn and aim towards

whatever's coming up the stairs at you.

You don't know what it is, but you're really scared.

- Okay. I just spin around and in.

- Exactly! All right, let's do it!

- [Celeste] This'll just take a minute.

- All right, from Arthur's exit. Barney, over here.

How you doing?

- Just fine. - Okay.

Okay, let's do it!

- [Celeste] This is four.

- [Lacey] This'll be take four.

- Let me get frame. - All right.

- Ready? - You all set?

I got speed. - Speed!

- [Lacey] Slate it.

- Take four. [clapperboard claps]

- [Lacey] And,

action!

- Downstairs?”

- Yeah, it was a nightmare though, terrible.

I thought someone was outside.

- Did you check outside? - [sighs] Nothing there.

Oh, but it was horrible though, ugly. [moans]

- [Nicky] Hey, party time! [whoops loudly]

- [Lacey] Did we get it?

- [Dominic] I think we got enough to cut.

- [Lacey] All right.

- You! Hey, my ribs are still sore!

Hey, Lace, remember I told you about that brawl

and the chick that kicked me.

- Nicky, what do you want? We're not finished yet.

- All right, take it easy, take it easy, listen.

I want to tell you, we brought that actress out here.

- Yeah? - And she wants to meet you,

you know? - All right.

I'll be right over, okay? - Okay.

[Nicky grunts] [laughs]

How's the jaw, pal?

Hey, no hard feelings.

I didn't know you were part of this crew.

- No problem.

- I'm gonna be here this movie...

- Nicky, out! I told you I'll be there in 10 minutes.

- Yeah, okay. - I'll be right over.

[slaps Rita's butt]

[Nicky humming]

All right, let's try one more time.

- No, we got it.

- You sure? - Sure.

Yeah, why don't you head over?

We can get the door shots from here okay.

- You're welcome.

- No, I think I'll stay with Dom and help him strike.

- All right then, that's a wrap.

Rita, Barney, you're okay.

Dom, just get three shots each of the door, okay?

- Right.

[camera ticking]

- [Celeste] Yeah?

- Okay.

- [Celeste] What do you got?

- We're wide open here, how you doing out there?

- Three steps down. - Good.

[calm music]

How long have you known Lacey?

- Not long.

- How'd he get so rich?

- His parents.

They had their own plane, one day it blew up.

- Okay, let's get one a little wider.

And you used his money for awhile?

- Well, we used each other for what we both needed.

- Now you're an actress/gaffer?

- Gaffer.

- I'd like to see you act sometime.

If he's so rich, how come I'm shooting in 16 millimeter

with a one man crew?

[rock music blaring] - Hey, Nick!

You ought a get up here and try some of this.

[crew chattering downstairs]

[Barney sniffles]

♪ And if you're with me we could both have fun ♪

♪ Don't need to show you how ♪

♪ And I hope you're into my dreams ♪

♪ 'Cause right now you and I are a team ♪

♪ I'm not sure that you know what I mean ♪

♪ Whoa whoa, whoa whoa, whoa whoa, whoa whoa ♪

- [Nicky] Hey what do you think, Lace? [chuckles]

Hey, blush, you pop tart.

[rock music blaring]

♪ If you're staying baby that's okay ♪

♪ Where you are will do ♪

♪ But if you're changing you can stay away ♪

♪ 'Cause I won't ♪

[film snags] [music stops]

[Barney sighs]

[sultry rock music plays]

♪ Desperate pain ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I've got to get away ♪

♪ So get out of my house ♪

♪ Been locked up for days ♪

♪ Always knocking me down ♪

♪ Making good things turn out bad ♪

♪ Always blocking my way ♪

♪ Finally alone ♪

♪ And you're breaking my heart ♪

♪ I think we should stop ♪

- Okay, just checking.

[crew coughing] [sniffing]

- [Lacey] Yeah, right. I don't know.

You're gonna have to talk to him about that.

I have no control over that.

Okay. We're cool with it, baby, we're cool.

This is all right. - This is.

- You know it is. [laughing]

[calm music] [birds chirping]

- Bring your elbow a little closer to your body.

Okay, a little higher.

Okay. Now, everything is in the wrist, okay?

- Okay. - So you bring it back,

we brake, pause, and whip it.

Okay, try it again. - Back...

- Bring it back, brake, pause,

and whip it.

Okay, try it.

Back, brake...

Good, you see how far it went?

- No, it's caught on something.

- What? You got a fish!

Okay, reel it in.

Okay, now, give it some line, give it some line.

Give it some line, a little line.

Okay, good.

Now start reeling it in, slowly, don't lose it now.

Beautiful, huh? Does it feel like a big one?

- I don't know, I never felt one before.

- Oh, right, right, right.

Okay, look, there it is.

It's coming. Come on, reel it in slowly.

Slowly, don't lose him now, slowly, slowly.

Bring him in, bring him in, bring him in.

Okay, there it is!

The net, I don't have the net. Where's the net?

- It's over on the tree. - Okay.

[Barney splashing] [grunts]

[Celeste laughing]

- Yeah, very funny. Just don't lose that fish, it's dinner.

Okay, come on, reel him in.

Here he comes, here he comes.

Okay, Charlie! All right!

- Now what? - We Kill it.

- I don't know. - Why, you like raw fish?

We could eat it like the Japanese.

- How do we kill it?

- Well, there's a lot of different ways,

but this one's the easiest.

You weren't so squeamish the other night

when you kicked that guy in the stomach.

- Then, that was different.

He was a real creep.

- Mm.

[unsettling music]

[game pulsing electronic tones]

[door Opening]

- We're ready Lacey.

- Okay, I'll be right there.

[game pulsing]

[dramatic music]

[crew chattering] - Hey.

[unsettling music]

[all chattering] - Oh, hey!

Woo! Hey, we got plenty of this!

- Hey! [whistles] - Hey, Barney.

- All right! Come on, welcome aboard, mates!

Who wants a piece of ass? [laughing]

Just get down here.

[all chattering]

- Yeah, yeah.

- I'll have a little piece of that ass.

[laughing] - Yeah, right

- What you doing, taking off finger prints off of it?

- [Barney] Hey, a tasty treat by all accounts, huh?

- [Celeste] Is it really a pig?

- I wouldn't kid you, sweetheart. [chuckles]

- Oh, I thought I caught the resemblance.

- Oh, no. Really, Dom, try this.

- You ought a try it. It's good pig, Celeste.

- I'll pass it up, thanks.

- How about a special thanks to my lovely wife

whose sauce and seasoning has made this little piggy wiggy

an epicurean standard. [laughing]

- [Guest] Have a good day now, love?

You're face is slightly blue.

- Probably the fire.

- Hmm. - Yeah. Where's Lace?

- Oh, who knows?

He gets off by himself sometimes,

you know what I mean? [laughing]

- [Lobo] Well, [sniffs] you catch anything?

- She did.

- Yeah, that's a nice spot up there.

- Yeah, well, I think I'm gonna go to bed.

- Hey, you just got here!

We were just gonna do some serious drinking--

- Not me. - And smoking.

[insects chirping]

- Hey, what do you say, Dom?

Get stoned?

- No, I'm gonna sack out myself thanks.

- Yeah, I didn't know you had

anything to do with this movie the other night.

- So? - Well, how about a beer?

- No, no, I gotta get up early, gotta catch the light.

- Aw, to hell with the light.

- Come on, you don't have to be so unfriendly.

- No, I don't have to be, I want to be.

- Hey.

- Look, I don't want to be your friend.

[door closes] - That little bitch.

You ain't no prize anyway.

What are you smiling about?

- None of your business, pal.

- Hey, watch out you don't catch anything

from that bitch, man.

See you later. [door closes]

[unsettling music]

- [Lacey] Okay, now pan down their bodies to their hips.

- Okay, pan on down their bodies to their hips.

- That's good, there you go. - Yep, yep.

- Good, slow slow, that's good, that's right.

[breathing heavily]

[Rita moaning]

- That's great. Good work. - Looks good, looks good.

- Nice flesh tone. - Yeah, yeah, looks great.

- [J.B.] Want to bring up the breathing, Lace?

- [Lacey] Yeah sure, J.B., why not?

- [J.B.] Yeah, it's getting really heavy.

- That sounds fantastic J.B.

Where'd you put those mics? [all laughing]

- [J.B.] Well I got a shotgun--

- We got about two minutes of tape.

- Now I want a tight shot of their faces.

- [Technician] Tight shot of their faces.

[breathing heavily] [moaning]

- [Lacey] Hey, I think we're gonna get it.

- [Technician] Think we got it clear right here.

- Nice, okay, hold it, hold it there, hold it.

Yeah, we got it. - Good, good, good.

All right. - Right on.

[Dominic shuddering]

- Okay, get ready.

And a fade to black.

[technicians sighing]

- Good. Did you cum? [coughing]

[bluesy piano music]

- You know, Lacey, I been on a lot of shoots,

but this is the craziest.

The location, sleeping on the sets with people,

my gaffer's an actress, it's been interesting.

- Hey, we're a peoples film company, man.

- You ain't seen nothing yet, buddy.

- The movie will do all right,

possession's the thing right now.

Characters are good, a little shallow, but...

- [Barney] Oh really?

- About the only thing you don't have

is a good chase to the climax.

♪ Bum, bum, bum ♪ [all laughing]

- Well, thanks. That's a nice vote of confidence.

But I think it's gonna be your special effects

that's gonna bring them in.

- That's bullshit, unless something's really happening,

people don't care how they die.

- No, you're wrong man, that's all they remember.

- Yeah, remember when they chopped

that guy's head off in "The Omen?"

- Yeah, but it was the way it happened, the situation.

- Why? It was the guys head falling off?

Or when they blew that guy up in "The Fury."

- Oh, no, the greatest was "Night of the Living Dead"

with those cats eating one another.

- Oh, man, I was 14 when I saw that film,

it scared me for a year. [laughing]

- Sure, but the films that work for me

have to have something more going for them.

- Yeah, I know what you mean.

But I'm not sure it matters to most people.

[tapping razor blade]

- Hey, Dom, you wanna do a line of cocaine?

- Cocaine?

- Yeah, haven't you ever seen any before?

- Yeah, I've seen it, I just never did any.

What do you do?

- Hold the bill up to your nose and snort, hard.

- Hard?

[Barney and Dominic chuckle]

I blew it all around.

- Okay, now stick your thumb up in your nose

to block the air off.

[Dominic sniffing]

- Makes your nose cold.

- [Lobo] Now do that line with the other nostril.

- I won't OD or anything will 1?7

[both laughing] - Come on, man.

It won't hurt you.

- Okay? - Yeah.

[Dominic sniffing]

- Okay, now, take your fingertips and dip them in the glass.

- What?

- Take some water on them

and snort up your nostril. [sniffs]

Seriously.

[Dominic sniffing]

- [chuckles] It's funny to have your nose cold.

[both laughing] - Don't make me laugh, man.

Hey, man, you're okay. - Oh, thanks, Lobo.

- He must be okay to get Celeste in the sack.

That chick's crazy.

- [Dominic] She's very talented.

- Oh, yeah, tell us about it, Janet.

- [laughing] Whoa, I think my head just lit up.

No, really, she can she can sing, I mean really sing.

And she's the best God damn gaffer I ever worked with.

- Yep, [sniffing] she can act too.

She's gonna be very good in this film.

- She's not in this film.

- Oh, right. Must be better coke than I thought.

[Lobo and Barney laughing]

So, tell me some more about this theory of yours.

- Ah. - Yeah, come on, come on.

- It's not a theory, I mean it's just an opinion.

- Oh.

Well, [sniffs] in that case,

I have a film I want you to see.

- That film. Oh, what?

Man the lifeboats, women and children first!

I wouldn't let any son of mine see a film like this.

So in the words of Ichabod Crane,

I'll just take my head and go.

[Dominic laughing]

- [Lacey] This film was sent to me

by a friend of mine in England.

Shove over. [sniffs] [Lobo grunts]

- [Barney] This movie will blow your mind.

- What's it about? - You'll find out.

Can we do some more lines before we see it?

- Hey, I don't want to talk all night, I might bore Lobo.

- Oh, come on, we have nowhere to go.

Sit around for awhile.

You can do your Doris Day impersonations.

[all laugh] - Thanks.

- This film was made for a rather specific audience.

- Yeah, I'll say.

- Will I like it?

- Yeah, Lobo, you'll love it. [Lobo chuckles]

[Dominic sniffing]

- [Barney] Yeah, you got it.

- Another nose fiend. - [laughs] I know.

- Okay, let's see a movie.

- Dom, would you get those lights please?

[projector ticking] [whirring]

- All right. [laughing]

Hey, I've seen this one before.

- Yeah, they all look the same, Lobo.

- No, no, no, this isn't what I thought it was.

This is too much.

Hey, is this for real man?

[projector ticking] [whirring]

- [chuckles in disbelief] Jesus Christ.

I've heard of them films. - Is it real, man?

- Where the hell did you get that thing?

- Friend of mine sent it to me.

But you can never find out who made it.

- I don't know what to say about a film like that.

- Was that girl killed?

- It's trash, killing somebody on film?

It's sick, for what?

- Well, now wait a minute.

You make your living creating

and photographing special effects.

Couldn't those of been special effects?

- Maybe it's not real. - No, no, that was real.

- It looked real to me. Play it again.

- No, not for me, thanks.

- Tell me, Dom, do you think people would pay

to see something like that?

- Sure, sure, people pay to see anything.

You did, your friend did.

- Yeah, but I'm a filmmaker, what about the general public?

- What's the difference, you paid?

- Okay. Now, what if I told you that I made that film?

- Oh, Lacey, don't bust my nuts.

- [Lacey] I'm serious.

- You made that film? - As a student.

- You're even sicker than I thought.

- I made that film as a student,

and that girl was never hurt, she was never touched.

- I don't believe you, that girl was killed.

- Are you're really sure?

- Did you really do that movie?

- You should've hired that guy

to do the special effects on this film if he could do that.

- Well, he died in a motorcycle accident last year.

- Oh, come on, man. Quit fucking around!

Is it for real or what?

[chuckles] Shit, Lace, let's see it again.

[projector ticking]

[footsteps approaching]

- [Rita] Looking for inspiration?

How are we?

- This is in Russian.

But I'll show it to you some time.

- You want a drink? - Sure.

- [Rita] So, what are you doing

down here all alone watching home movies?

- [Lacey] I'm looking for inspiration.

How about you?

- [sighs] Well, I think this whole experience has been

really fantastic, very exiting.

But, I'm really glad it's almost finished.

There's just something a little weird,

you know, in-grown about this whole situation.

[laughs] Just what you need, right? A neurotic actress.

It's just I get so damned freaked looking in that mirror.

I'm actually a little tired and slightly frazzled.

[chuckling in disbelief] And Barney certainly doesn't help.

You should be filming this, right?

Sometimes, I think he's really gonna come at me

with that razor.

- Excuse for a minute.

- Hey, you don't have to stay up and babysit.

- No, that's okay. I'll be right back.

[dramatic music]

[unsettling music]

- [laughs] Get the camera,

my husband is driving me slightly crazy.

[Rita sniffles] [sighs]

I think this movie's really coming true.

Oh, this is fantastic!

Like I said, right? A great experience.

I think my mascara"s all over my face. [sniffling]

- [Lacey] Would you like to have sex?

[Rita chuckles] [sighs]

- That would feel really good, but...

[chuckles] Do you mean with you,

or just in general?

- Well, I'm looking for inspiration.

- [laughs] And I'm looking

for a good night's sleep.

I mean, thanks for the offer.

But then what am I thanking you for?

You know what I mean? [sighs]

[sighs] I really need to get a good night's sleep.

Ah, you don't care, right? [chuckles]

I mean, what kind of inspiration would I be?

See you tomorrow?

[Lacey sniffing]

[Lacey chuckles]

[birds chirping]

[Dominic chuckles]

[alarm clock blasting rock music]

♪ You know you are a scumbag ♪

♪ I'm just through with you ♪

♪ That's why they say you're such a bag ♪

♪ You got a long ways ♪

♪ Hair falling out of your head ♪

♪ Yeah your thumbs are bleeding freely ♪

♪ Got the pair little blues, baby ♪

♪ But not for me, ha ♪

♪ Yeah, one woman's good as another ♪

♪ When it comes to loving a man ♪

♪ One thing I know is so, baby ♪

♪ You're not doing the best you can ♪

- Jesus, Barney! [laughing]

[Barney sniffs]

- How do you shut that thing off anyway?

♪ Got the pair little blues baby ♪

[music stops]

I couldn't find a razor anywhere.

- Oh, but I see you found her. [chuckles]

She's a very beautiful girl.

- Yeah, well-- - She really could dance too.

[Dominic sighs] Mm.

- [Dominic] Should've sent her up to pay me a visit.

- Yeah, maybe. [chuckles]

- Maybe next time, huh?

- Yeah, sorry you missed her the last time.

- We need the razor. - Hmm?

Oh, yeah, sure, it's right here.

- I didn't think to look through your drawers.

- Oh, it's all right, handsome,

you can look through my drawers anytime. [laughs]

- You coming?

- If you insist. - Yeah.

- Say, listen, if you're into that sort of thing--

- [Dominic] No, no, not for me thanks.

- Are you sure, next time we get one of those up here?

- [Dominic] Well, we'll see, you know?

- [Barney] Oh, listen, you wouldn't believe

where I found her, Pittsburgh.

My buddy usually picks them.

Perfect chance to show his chest and arms and legs.

Still beats a hooker, I'll tell you. [laughs]

- Now he's slashing at you

as he follows you up these stairs, but you stumble and fall,

that means you're gonna have to crawl at the top.

- [laughing goofily] Here it is, boss.

- Okay.

Now, he's laughing at you like a lunatic,

he's cursing at you,

but somehow, you manage to get up to that closet.

- [Dominic] Well, you wanted the shot from behind.

- Well, yeah, you could do that.

- [Dominic] Handheld on the stairs, it's gonna be tricky.

- I know that.

Okay, now you've got the flashlight, use it!

It's gonna enable you to get up to the top.

And once you get there you turn and give him a little push.

He stumbles, but, you also drop the flashlight.

So you come to the closet, slide the door open,

reach inside for the gun,

which is kept there in case of emergency.

- Aw, that's a nice neat little package, Lace.

- Yeah, I learned it in film school.

- She could drop the flashlight, and we could finesse it

to get the shaft of lights on the stairs.

- Yeah, not bad, I like that.

- Now, am I screaming anything intelligible?

- Only till I cut your throat and slice your mouth off.

- Yeah, you'd be saying something like,

"Arthur why, you're killing me, you bastard!"

- [chuckles] Shouldn't be hard.

- Hey.

- Okay, Dom, let's take it from downstairs

so we can see if this handheld thing will work.

- Right. - Bastard, huh, Lacey?

It's Barney. - Quiet Barney.

- Oh, well, you can call me Barney Farney,

or you can call me Barney, or you can call me Barnabo,

or you can call me Barnaster, or you can call me Barnacle,

or you can call me Burney, or you can call me Barnardo,

but you don't have to call me bastard!

- [Lacey] Barney, get out of here with that thing.

[Barney laughing goofily]

- [Lobo] Hey, take that over to lover boy.

- Hey, let's go away together.

- Hmm? - After the shoot,

we'll go up to Maine for a few days.

- You and me?

- Your name, please? [both laughing]

- Why? - What?

- Why?

- Jesus Christ, Celeste.

I want to make love by the ocean.

I want to sit up all night. I want to listen to the waves.

I want to make glorious unadulterated love, okay?

That's why.

Hey, you're not married are you?

Glorious unadulterated love.

I want to have breakfast in bed by the--

- [Celeste] But how?

- How what?

- How?

- I'll make some money on this film.

- I'm sorry. You just took me by surprise, that's all.

- Hey, me too! [chuckles]

Me too, I didn't expect to meet the greatest--

[startling music] - Surprise!

Anyone ever hear of nose jobs?

I do them quick and cheap.

[laughs maniacally]

- Hey, bitch!

- That was pretty gross, Barney.

- Be careful, man.

This is one sweet hog here.

How come you nose is always so far up in the air, bitch?

Hmm? Maybe we can fix it a little for you, huh?

- Just get out of here, asshole.

- We know different, don't we?

Well, if there's ever anything

I can do for your nose, handsome,

don't hesitate to give me a call. [laughs sadistically]

Happy trails.

[Barney laughs maniacally]

- Is he a faggot or what?

- I don't know.

- I mean, he's changing all the time, it's crazy.

I thought he was gonna slit your throat.

- I wouldn't be at all surprised.

[unsettling music]

- Hey, Celeste, you think I need a nose job?

[both laugh]

[Barney laughing goofily]

[unsettling music]

[birds chirping]

- Dom? Dom wake up. - Mm-hmm?

Huh? What's up? - We gotta change something.

Get dressed and come outside and meet me.

- What time is it? - Don't wake Celeste.

Just get dressed and come outside.

- Fuck me. [sighs]

[birds chirping]

- [Lobo] Hey, you know what? It's mighty early to be up.

- [Nicky] Yeah, some pretty movie.

- [Lobo] Wow, we didn't even go to sleep yet.

- [Lacey] Rise and shine, Mr. Lens Man.

- Please, huh? What the hell's going on here?

- I've decided that I want to run the credits

over a series of shots of this wild country, right?

We got a possession thing here, some demon all around us,

maybe some smoldering hatred that's been wickedly fanned.

This demon is everywhere,

even in this wild and beautiful country.

It's pretty scary if you think about it that way, huh?

- Sounds great. We have to do it now, right?

- Yeah, because I want the light to be just right.

Now, I been up there in the morning,

I know what it's like.

Nicky and Lobo have been there too,

and they're gonna take you.

You'll be back by noon.

We'll discuss the whole scene then.

- Come on, let's get this over with.

- All right, just tell Celeste I'll see her later, okay?

- Yeah.

[Lobo yawns]

- Hey, Lace! Remember, my left side's my best.

- [Lobo] Wake me when it's over, okay?

- You ought to be in movies. [Lobo yawning]

- Maybe we'll get something for dinner while we're up there.

[horn honks]

[birds chirping]

- [Nicky] Wake up! Come on!

Hey, Lobo, wake up, you big ox!

[Lobo mumbling] Is this the spot?

- [Dominic] Come on, man, where we going?

- [Nicky] Just up there on the hill.

If we go any further, I can't drive up.

[Nicky humming]

[Lobo yawns]

[Lobo whistling] - Down this path.

- Want us to go ahead, Nicky?

- Yeah, go ahead.

Just go with him, I gotta take a leak.

- Pretty country, Lobo.

Come here often?

- Yeah, sometimes just to hunt stuff.

- Any bears? - Not anymore.

[shotgun fires]

- [Lobo] Nicky, you got him! You had him!

- [Nicky] I know. Go get your gun before he gets away.

- Yeah, yeah. - And bring the binoculars!

[suspenseful music]

[Dominic panting]

[breathing heavily]

[groaning in pain]

[groaning in pain]

[unsettling music]

- Okay, Guide, we should just hold him there.

Yeah, let him finish putting his shoes on, then let him go.

[shotgun fires] [suspenseful music]

[unsettling music]

Okay, good. That's good.

Watch your focus, watch your focus.

Okay, keep him centered there.

This looks a little like Bigfoot, huh?

That's okay, we can pick him up at the stream after that.

Yeah. Okay, camera three get ready.

We got lucky.

Now just hold him there.

- [Technician] Not getting much, Billy.

- [Billy] We're gonna have to pick it up later.

- [Celeste] He wasn't supposed to get hurt.

- I know, but it works.

We're lucky Nicky didn't kill him altogether.

I want you to pull back for a reveal right about here.

- Okay, on three do that pullback.

- [Lacey] Yep, good.

Now he's transitioned himself

right in front of that camera, keep it right there.

- Watch the gun J.B. - Shit.

[shotgun fires] - Good.

- [Celeste] Better watch it, Lace, your gonna blow it.

- [Lacey] Don't worry, Celeste.

- [Technician] Okay, I think we're gonna lose him on three.

He's probably coming towards you on four, Guide.

[suspenseful music]

[unsettling music]

- [Lacey] I know.

I don't know where the other guy is.

Well, just follow him over to the door.

Pan right.

Okay, hold it there.

I don't know what he's doing.

Just hold it there.

- [Man On Radio] Bird Dog Two to Bird Dog One.

Come in, Scratch.

Come in, Scratch. Where's the lens man, Scratch?

[water running]

Bird Dog Two to Bird Dog One. Hey, Scratch, come in.

[harmonica playing outside]

- [Technician] Who's coming?

Okay, okay. Follow him over there to it, good.

This ought a be interesting.

Okay take him there and just wait.

- [Man On Radio] Bird Dog Two to Bird Dog One.

Scratch, come in.

- This is Bird Dog One I'm at the cabin.

- [Man On Radio] Hey, Scratch, get bent, will ya?

- [Scratch] Ah, your mother.

[laughing from radio]

[Scratch sighs]

[exhales sharply]

[playing cheery harmonica]

[suspenseful music]

[crowbar clanging]

[breathing heavily]

[Scratch groaning] [grunting]

[breathing heavily] [coughing]

- [Man On Radio] Hey, Bird Dog Three, come back.

Hey, Leslie, talk. Bird Dog Three, come in.

Hey, come on.

[suspenseful music]

[unsettling music]

- [Technician] Who's that?

Geez, Lacey, he's got the gun.

- [Lacey] It's all right, just follow him.

- [Technician] I don't know, just follow him.

Yeah, right.

I guess he's going back into the woods.

[footsteps sloshing]

Right. Yeah, we're close now.

He's on his way home.

Move easy with him there.

He's taking a rest.

[dramatic music]

[camera ticking] - Action!

[calm music]

- Mona, it's Arthur,

I'm here to kill you.

- [panting] No. - This is fucking scary.

[Rita screaming]

No! [screaming] No!

- Yes it's real.

This is our day, isn't it? - Save me!

No! Why?

- Come here, bitch! [Rita screaming]

Sweetheart, I won't give in, but...

- [screaming] Stop, no! Barney, no!

- [Barney] Oh, yeah, that's my name!

Barney, Barney.

- [Rita] Barney please, please, please, please.

- [Barney] That's the reason right now,

it's the whole reason I'm doing this!

I warned you, I told you this one...

[grunts] Right there. - No!

[Barney laughing maniacally] - Lacey!

- Oh, sweetheart.

Oh, sweetheart.

Look, look at your blood, taste it, lick it.

- [Rita] Lacey!

- Oh, come here, you bitch. [groans]

Come here!

That what you wanted your whole life, actress, huh?

Take all you can get now! - No!

Lacey, please, please!

- [Barney] Yeah, see if he can help you.

Oh, that's it.

Go for the gun, you brilliant little actress you.

Just like we planned, it's as useless as you are.

- What? No! [Barney laughing]

[Rita yells] [gun fires]

- [groans] Lacey! [unsettling music]

[breathing heavily]

- [Lacey] I'm not gonna talk about this.

Everything is fine, nobody is hurt, nobody has touched--

- [Celeste] Everybody is fine?

Where are they then now?

- [Lacey] I told you, they went home earlier.

- [Celeste] Their car is still in the driveway.

- So what, they went in my car.

What are you talking to me about this for?

- [Celeste] I want to know where they are.

- Dom is outside, I sent him out on a survey this morning.

- While you were here slashing Rita and Barney, huh?

- I didn't slash anybody, Celeste.

You think something's wrong, there's nothing--

[gun firing] [Lacey groaning]

- He killed Rita and Barney.

[horn honking]

- Give me that gun! - What are you doing?

We're aren't supposed to--

- [Nicky] I don't care what I'm supposed to do!

I'm gonna get that bastard!

[tense music]

You're damn right I'm gonna get him.

Damn right, we're gonna get him.

- Hey, take it easy! You don't have to do that.

[shotgun fires]

[unsettling music]

[engine starts]

You really killed him. - He would've killed me.

- This is a movie, you weren't supposed to do that! He...

This is not in the script!

What? You're not supposed to do that!

This is not in the script!

[tires squeal]

- What the hell are you talking about?

[explosion booms]

- [Technician] Okay, tilt down till you find him.

Slow.

Hold it there.

- Did you get it?

[calm music]

[horn honks]

[epic rock music]