Gauntlet: A short film that will only ever exist in my head*
Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 8:04AM A heavy steel door opens with a thunk, letting in daylight and silhouetting me a woman standing wielding dual katana blades. Through the opening door we can hear the faint groans of the undead.
Cut to a side view of me the woman. She is wearing heavily reinforced leather gear and a helmet with a face shield. She's almost entirely covered but we can tell she's buff. She's staring straight ahead (out the door). The last thing she does before lowering her face shield is insert iPod ear buds.
The woman steps out of the doorway. The sunlight is blinding; she's washed out. As the door closes behind her, a tune starts up on her iPod, something upbeat but incongruous with zombie slaying, like Gnarls Barkley's Run or You Spin Me Right Round. She begins a choreographed run down a whitewashed alleyway, leaping, slashing, beheading. Zombies swarm her as she keeps moving, killing with precision. Zombie slime splashes across her visor.
As the song ends abruptly she stops at the other end of the alley, breathing hard, and raises her visor. She pauses, then looks down to her own shoulder. The leather has ripped away, showing very clearly a zombie bite. Her expression does not change as she lowers her visor again, and turns back to face the door. We get a close up of her hand tightening her grip on her sword.
A shot past her hip towards the door. It opens again with a mechanical clunk. A blurry silhouette holding two swords steps into view.
Fade to white.
*Though at some point I might draw it into a comic.
Reader Comments (16)
You have a very interesting mind!! I like it.
Yuss! i like like it! in totally have a dream like this all the time, cept im not punching out zombies, im punching out peepz i dont like... :D
There is a reason I religiously follow your blog..I think this is it.
Thanks. Now if I have a nightmare and pee the bed I'm blaming you.
;)
nite.
Now where did this come from?? LOL!! And shouldn't there be some concern? I mean she was bitten by a zombie...won't she now turn into a zombie?? I would be worried!!
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SueAnn
I like it - I'd read that.
Look at you, not being you, zombie slaying and going down fighting. Cool.
Awesome. Just awesome. Every zombie killing word of it.
Love it, love it, love it!
Kind of reminds me of "Hit Girl" from the movie "Kick Ass", with exception of the zombies of course, that's pure Keely.
What color is the zombie slime in this story?
I'll buy the comic if you draw it! And give it to my sons, who are currently preparing for the imminent zombie invasion by playing Left 4 Dead...endlessly.
Nice soundtrack...and I can totally tell that you're buff!
Something incongruous on the Ipod... hmmm.. what about Scarborough Fair?
I always enjoy hte zombie killing. Shotguns are for lazy people. Katanas... that's where the bad meets ass.
you should submit this to http://www.365tomorrows.com/
nice post. thanks.