Splice

SPLICE by Vincenzo Natali Antoinette Terry and Doug Taylor 4.10.07 Producer: Steven Hoban Copperheart Entertainment Inc. steve@copperheart.ca (416) 516-4950 Copyright 2007 1 BLACKNESS A MUFFLED HEARTBEAT. Faster than normal, and quickening. A SLIVER OF BLINDING LIGHT cuts through the darkness, revealing the constricting walls of a fleshy liquid-filled chamber. The walls close in, squeezing us towards the light. Our heartbeat becomes LOUDER and FASTER. The walls spasm again with an oddly mechanical THROB. THRRRUMP - THRRRUMP - THRRRUMP We are experiencing the POV of an infant's birth. The LIGHT expands until we are engulfed in WHITENESS. With a WET FLUSHING SOUND, we are abruptly spit from the womb. As our vision adjusts, the WHITE LIGHT DIMINISHES until we can make out colors, and shapes, and... 2 INT. BIRTHING CHAMBER -- DAY MAINTAIN POV: The faces of TWO MASKED DOCTORS lean in, serious and intent. Behind them are SEVERAL ASSISTANTS. One records the event with a digital cam-corder. OUR HEARTBEAT bangs rapidly. The male doctor, CLIVE NICOLI, speaks... CLIVE Vitals? The female doctor, ELSA KAST, glances at a bank of monitors. ELSA Stable. CLIVE Severing support. Clive deftly cuts the umbilical cord with a scalpel. OUR HEARTBEAT slows. Subsiding. The room grows dim. ASSISTANT Dropping. Dropping fast! A HIGH-PITCHED WHINE sounds from the panel. Clive jerks his head to the monitors, annoyed.