DREAM SEQUENCE
EXT. DESERT – DAY
In the desert a man, MARTIN, is walking alone down an abandoned highway. The environment is very inhospitable. On the horizon a buzzard rips flesh off the carcass of unknown roadkill. Waves of heat rise off the surface of the road as Martin continues his walk alone. Martin sees a flicker of light on the hostile horizon. He walks towards the light. As he approaches the object he begins to hear the sound of singing and realizes that the flicker of light is actually an old church. We walks up the stairs of the old white church. He slowly opens the heavy wooden door and enters.
INT. CHURCH – DAY
He enters the church to find a choir practicing. The choir begins to sing the old Baptist hymn “How Great Thou Art.” Other than the choir the church is empty with one small exception – a young boy sits alone on the front pew listening to the choir. The man approaches the boy from behind and places his hand on his shoulder. When the boy turns around you discover nothing but a charred disfigured mess where his face should be. The man panics looks to the choir. The choir stops singing. Martin notices that all the members of the choir are wearing bloody military uniforms. As he takes a closer look, he realizes they are all dead.
CHOIR (In unison)
Why did you kill us Martin? We wanted to live.
Martin turns to run out of the church. The choir begins to sign the chorus of “How Great Thou Art.” As he runs for the door, he realizes there’s something in his way. It’s a bed. There are people in it having sex. The man has no face and has horns on his head. But the woman is a beautiful redhead. Martin looks shocked to see her. The redhead looks at Martin and smiles.
INT. MARTIN AND LISA’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
MARTIN (Screaming)
Martin awakes from a nightmare and sits straight up in bed covered in sweat and breathing heavily. The woman next to Martin wakes up. It is Martin’s wife. The redhead from his dream, LISA.
LISA
It’s Okay. You’re at home.
MARTIN (Whispering and out of breath)
Just a nightmare. I’m Okay go back to sleep. Sorry that I woke you.
LISA
What was it about?
Martin turns his back to Lisa and sits up on the edge of their bed.
MARTIN
I’ve already forgotten it. I never remember my dreams.
As Lisa rolls back over and to goes to sleep. Martin lays in bed with his eyes wide open unable to get back to sleep.