The Red Book Ritual (2022) Movie Script

1
(dramatic music)
(machine rattling)
(dramatic music)
- The rules of the
game are these.
One, go into a quiet room.
Two, place a candle
in the middle.
Light it.
Use a book with a red cover
and without illustrations.
Three, ask for permission
to enter the game
and never quit the game
without requesting
it from the book.
We're gonna need a
book with a red cover.
- I have one in my room.
- Are you sure your
parents aren't coming?
- Yeah, I'm sure.
My Daddy's working all night
and my brother won't wake up
even if there's
fireworks over his head.
- And your mom?
- It's just my dad, my
younger brother and me.
My mom passed away.
- Oh, I'm sorry. What happened?
- A few months ago she had an
accident on her way to work.
She was a doctor.
- I'm sorry.
- Well, let's continue.
Bring the book.
Let's freak her out.
- You're so evil.
Oh, I love you baby.
- Thank you.
- Bea!
I had a nightmare.
There was a horrible woman.
(both whispering)
- She is such a free.
Now that is one creepy ass book.
- It was already here
when we moved in.
- It's perfect.
(cat meows)
Is that your cat?
- No, it was already
in the house too.
It must have belong to the woman
who was living here before.
- Mmmh, it must be
the witch's cat.
- Yeah.
- What witch?
- Don't you know the
story of this house?
About the creepy old lady
who used to live here.
The whole town says
she was a witch.
She did satanic
rituals on animals
and then one day
she disappeared.
And that's her cat.
- People say that cat
it's actually a demon
that possesses its owners.
(dramatic music)
- Bonnie!
(grass rustles)
(footstep noises)
(door hinge creaks)
Bonnie!
Bonnie!
Bonnie, Bonnie, hey, hey.
What happened?
Are you okay?
(gentle music)
Hey.
I'm home.
(gentle music)
Where did you come from?
(door creaking)
(legs pattering)
Bonnie, what happened here?
(door creaking)
Bonnie?
Bonnie.
Let's cover, cover you up.
Bonnie, what are you doing?
Bonnie!
You can't be out here
like this, Bonnie.
(dramatic music)
(birds chirping)
(Argus barking)
Argus?
(Argus barking)
(man laughs)
I missed you, Argus.
Come on.
(gentle music)
Argus, come on.
Come on, let's go.
(Argus barking)
(dramatic music)
Don't judge me.
(cinematic music)
You'll enjoy this.
Picked it up on
the way to Libya.
I thought Bonnie
would love this.
That was a year ago.
Alright, buddy.
You've had enough.
(dog barking)
Argus, no, no.
(gentle cinematic music)
(guttural noise)
(cinematic music)
(door hinge creaks)
(guttural noise)
(Bonnie screaming)
(Bonnie sobbing)
(Bonnie crying)
(Bonnie screaming)
I'm sorry. It was Argus.
It happened so fast.
Bonnie no.
(suspenseful music)
(dog barking)
(Thomas sobbing)
(suspenseful music)
(Bonnie screaming)
(Thomas grunting)
(Thomas sobbing)
(gentle music)
(dramatic music)
(Sophie laughs)
(Justin laughs)
- You're making fun of me.
- Yeah, I'm sorry Bea
but you see in your face though.
You were freaking
out, it was amazing.
- I don't know if it's true,
a friend told me that story.
But the disappearance
of the old woman
who used to live
here, that's true.
Anyway, let's get back to rules.
Four, close your eyes,
place the palm of your
hand on the books cover
and ask the following question.
Red book, may I enter your game?
"The sky suddenly turned dark."
That's not a yes!
It makes no sense.
- But it's pretty is scary.
- Oh, come on Sophie,
this game is a scam.
- Are you frightened, babe?
(Justin mimics)
- Are you frightened babe?
- He's right, we
better leave it.
- Let's try again.
- [All] Red book, may
I enter your game?
- "She opened door,
and let in the
shadows of the past."
- Is that a yes?
(strange whispers)
- Did you hear that?
- Ahh, no.
- I don't wanna play this.
Let's watch a movie.
- Is there anyone with us?
"She was not alone.
The shadows of the past
were always with her."
This is awesome!
- Okay, let me try.
It's getting pretty good.
Okay.
How old am I?
"They met October the 17th
at the Counts mansion."
That makes no sense.
- Wait, the people
who play this game
argue that the answers
aren't always literal.
Listen, October is month 10.
- So?
- And it says the 17th.
10 plus 17 is 27.
- Holy shit, it guessed it.
(Justin chuckles)
It did.
- You're fucking with me again.
- I swear to you Bea,
this is not a joke.
Your turn.
If you don't believe
us, ask for proof.
- If you're really
here with us, prove it.
- But that's not a question
though, will it work?
- "She screams loudly,
but no one can hear her."
- What does it mean by that?
(woman screaming)
- That scream came
from inside the house.
- No, it truly came
from the street.
- It just wants
to scare us guys.
- Do you realize that
she's in the house with us?
I don't wanna play anymore.
- We can't quit the game
without asking
permission from the book.
- Maybe we should ask
permission from the book.
- Red book, how can
we leave the game?
- Sophie, that's not funny.
Sophie stop joking,
that's enough.
Sophie stop that.
Sophie...
- What the fuck was that?
- Okay, we gotta go.
We gotta get the fuck outta
here right now, right now.
- It's helping us,
didn't you see?
- What?
No I'm done with this shit.
I just wanna get outta here.
- If we leave the game,
we'll be in real danger.
That's what it said.
How many spirits are with us?
Three.
- Red book, how can we
get out of the game?
"Read me."
- What? What does it mean?
(wind howling)
- It's a story.
- I'll start.
"She was sitting in the car
feeling pain and sadness."
- Sorry.
And this two, please.
(suspenseful music)
(car engine revving)
(car door bangs)
- Here.
Does it hurt?
Got you water too.
If you wanna take
whatever they gave you-
- Can you just take me home?
- Yeah, of course.
(car engine roaring)
Hey, we'll try again, okay.
Over there is nothing
that you could have done.
Hey, come on, talk to me.
- Do you think
that this is easy?
- No, of course.
- It was a part
of you too, Nick.
- I know.
- Yeah.
Well, it doesn't seem that way.
Not this time,
not last time.
- What do you want me to say?
- I don't want you
to say anything.
- Ever think that maybe-
- What?
- Nothing.
- No, what were you gonna say?
- Nothing, I wasn't gonna say,
I don't know, Chloe!
Maybe this is God trying
to tell us something.
- God's trying tell
us something?...
- Yes, I don't know,
I don't know...
Maybe this isn't the
right time for us.
That we should wait
to do this later on.
(car engine roaring)
Fuck.
I'm sorry.
Chloe, I'm sorry.
- Pull the car over...
Just pull the fucking
car over Nick...
- We're in the
middle of no where
I'm not going to pull
the car over right here.
Well look where we are
- Nick stop the car
we are in the middle of no where
I'm not going to
pull the car over-
- Nick, stop the car.
- Wait stop the fucking car
- What the fuck are you doing?
(tires screeching)
Are you trying to kill us?
- I think I saw something.
- Hey, you okay?
- Let me see your head.
Chloe, where are you going?
Chloe.
Chloe.
- Hey.
It's okay.
- Chloe.
- Don't take another damn step.
Leave.
Just get back in your car
and continue on your way.
Chloe, let's go.
- Did you hurt him?
Did he hurt you?
- Don't you dare touch that boy.
You do not understand what
that demon is capable of.
- You're lying.
- Chloe.
This is non of our business.
Let's go, come on.
Chloe.
Just listen to the man, please.
Come on.
- Okay.
Okay.
(gunshots)
- Hey. Hey.
You okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
Come on.
We're done.
Okay.
Lets get you back in the car.
- Wait, Nick we
can't just leave.
- Okay.
- Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
You don't understand.
You don't get it.
You don't understand
- Hey.
Hey.
It's okay.
You're okay.
You're okay.
It's okay.
You are safe now
- Nothing happened.
- What do you see?
- Nothing.
There's nothing there.
- Nose, nose, nose, lips, he
repeats sitting on the bed.
- [Ji-hyo's father]
Nose, nose, nose, lips,
nose, nose, nose, nose.
Nose, nose, nose, nose.
Nose, nose, nose,
nose, noses, nose.
Eyes.
(ji-hyo screaming)
- Mommy.
- What's the matter Ji-hyo.
- I had a bad dreams.
- Another bad dream?
- Daddy's eyes were strange.
- Why, honey?
Daddy's fine.
- I wanna go to see him.
- I don't want you
to go in there.
Don't wake Daddy up.
(phone vibrating)
- It's your brother-in-law.
- Hello, good morning.
No, I'm outside right now.
No, I'm working right now and
I think I'm gonna be late.
Yeah.
But they're both
probably sleeping now.
Sorry, but I'm a
little bit busy now.
Yes
Talk to you later.
- Mommy, why did you lie
to your brother-in-law?
- You should call
him, uncle, Ji-hyo.
- Why did you lie to my uncle?
- We have to be careful of him.
- Why?
- Your dad is sick, right?
- So we got some
insurance money.
- Yes.
I think your uncle's
thinking of that money.
- Did we receive
insurance money as well
When Daddy got burned?
- You remember that?
You're so smart Ji-hyo.
- Yes, I remember everything.
(door bangs)
- Hyeon-woo.
Ji-hyo.
Ji-hyo.
Hyen-woo
Ji-hyo
(door banging)
Ji-hyo
- I said we had to be quiet.
- Mommy, why did you cough?
- When did I do that?
(ji-hyo mimics coughs)
Why don't you go to your room
and do what you have to do?
- What about you, mommy?
- Mommy's gonna
go to mommy's room
and do with mommy do with dad.
- Oh, please, me too.
I wanna do it too.
- No way.
- Yes.
- Why.
- Yeah.
- You little bitch.
The minute I'm nice to
you, you walk all over me.
(door squelches)
(heavy breathing)
(man panting)
- Ji-hyo.
Did you eat anything.
I need you to call uncle.
Tell him to come when
mommy is not here.
(heavy breathing)
- Sleeping?
You're not sleeping.
(curtain draw whoosh)
It's all right.
Just hold still for a minute.
Stay still.
It's okay.
(man breathing heavily)
(hyen-woo whistling)
(patient screaming)
(hyen-woo whistling)
- Shhhhh.
- Ji-hyo, what are
you doing there?
(Ji-hyo screaming)
(patient heavily breathing)
Come out from there.
- I'm doing all this because
Daddy wants me to, huh?
Daddy can't make any money now.
And he asked mommy to do this
so we can raise you Ji-hyo.
- You're lying.
Don't hurt Daddy.
- Okay.
Then will you take
his place instead?
Will you take his place, huh?
Ji-hyo, will you?
Let's do it Ji-hyo.
Come here.
Come here, Ji-hyo.
- Please Let me go.
Mommy, mommy.
Daddy, Daddy.
(Ji-hyo crying)
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Let me go.
- It's okay, come here.
It'll be alright.
Stay still.
Stay still.
Stay still
- Do it to Daddy.
- What?
- Do it to Daddy.
- Then why don't
you go out Ji-hyo?
Huh?
Go.
(door hinge creaks)
(door bangs)
- [Ji-hyo's father]
Nose, nose, nose lips.
Nose, nose, nose, nose.
Nose, nose, nose,
noes, nose, nose, nose.
(door hinge creaking)
Ji-hyo.
(cinematic music)
(suspenseful music)
- Sophie, are okay.
- Yeah, I'm fine.
It happens sometimes.
Did you hear that?
- No.
What do you hear?
- Sophie, there's nothing there.
It's not real.
It's the book, it
makes you see things.
Sophie.
- No, it's next to me.
- No, there's
nothing there Sophie,
there is nothing there.
- Fuck this, I'm out of here.
(Sophie screaming)
No, no, no, help me.
(door banging)
- Sophie?
Sophie.
- Where is Sophie? Who took her?
- Fuck!
- "Keep reading."
Maybe if we end the
game, we can help Sophie.
- Let's finish this.
- "She felt guilt and believed
that she could save him."
(dramatic music)
(lady crying)
- [Man] This is the last ward
to be moved outta the hospital.
Guys let's move.
- Karla.
- There's still more we can do.
- That drug is just
keeping him a vegetable.
- That drug is
keeping him alive.
Judy?
- Doctor.
- We need another vial.
- Well, there's none left here.
Maybe in the East Wing
but the places is a mess and-
- It's okay.
Okay.
- Thanks.
- Karla, this isn't
what he wanted.
Keeping him alive
isn't right, it's time.
- [Judy] Let's go guys.
All these patients need
to be in the new site.
- Wait, listen to me.
- He's my brother.
- I can't believe they just
left east wing like that.
(door hinges creaking)
(door bangs)
- Lucky last.
(drawer door bangs)
Shit!
(dramatic music)
(soft music)
Who's there?
(door bangs)
- Karla.
- Is anybody there?
Somebody?
(scary music)
No.
(dramatic music)
(soft music)
(metals clanking)
(Karla Screaming)
Let me out.
Please, please, let me out.
What do you want?
Blake?
I can't.
(cinematic music)
(door bangs)
(dramatic music)
- What happened?
Is it over?
- That story was about my mama.
- What do you mean?
- We all bled on the book.
On the stories.
I think our blood
is fitting the book.
It's giving life to it.
- I don't care.
I don't care, it's over.
- We're not finished.
There's another story here.
Mom?
- No, Bea.
Bea that's, she's not real, Bea.
Sophie?
Is that you?
- [Sophie] My love, it hurts.
(scary music)
- Mom, is it you?
(paper rustling)
Who are you?
(gentle music)
- [Ella] England,
What have you become?
What has happened to
your daughters and sons?
(suspenseful music)
(purple liquid rippling)
- Are we ready, Magpie.
- Yes, father.
- [Pastor] For all have sinned.
- [Congregation]
For all have sinned.
- For all have sinned,
but we don't know
how much we've sinned.
Like a fish,
doesn't understand the
concept that it is swimming
in the river.
It surrounds us.
We were born and
conceived in it.
Born into this fallen world.
My friends,
I've decided to deviate
from my planned topic today
because we have
witnessed an abomination
and we must look to
God for guidance.
Leviticus 20:13.
If a man also lie with man,
as he lies with a woman,
both of them have
committed and abomination.
They shall surely
be put to death
and their blood
shall be upon them.
(dramatic music)
What can I say to
you good people?
It's right here in
black and white.
Do not dishonor your bodies.
And above all else,
guard your heart
for everything you
do flows from it.
See the tender age at
which the homosexuals
prefer their conquests.
We must protect your children
from the lesbians, sadists,
masochists and sexual deviance.
And we will protect them.
Mark my words.
(mob murmuring)
(bell jingling)
Natural.
They used to say it's natural.
But they learned a hard lesson.
Didn't they friends.
(mob murmuring)
(bell jingling)
Because eventually the
river of moral decay ran dry
just like the black
in the ground.
And nature had her revenge
and God spoke to
us who could hear.
(crowd shouting)
Yet, even after all this,
we love the abominations.
We do not hate them.
We do what is fair and right
and try to help them
back to the path
because God cannot
love them as they are.
(dramatic music)
Yes.
Yes, that's it.
Drink from the blood of Christ.
Let it purify us.
Thank you, daughter.
Revelations, 21:7-8,
he who overcomes will
inherit these things
and I will be His God
and he will be my people.
But, for the cowardly
and unbelieving and
abominable and murderers
and immoral persons and
saucerers and idolaters
and all liars, their
part will be in the lake
that burns with fire
and brimstone (coughs)
Which is the second
death. (coughs)
(man vomits)
(man coughing)
(people vomiting)
(dramatic music)
(legs pattering)
(knife cutting)
(dramatic music)
(Bea breathing heavily)
(Bea thuds)
- Ethan.
Sophie, wait.
- Bea, I'm scared.
- Let him go.
- She wants pure blood.
- [Bea] No.
(Sophie speaking
foreign language)
Oh, she's coming now.
- Sophie.
Go upstairs and
hide in your room.
- No, I wanna stay with you.
- Go.
(cinematic music)
(blood toppling)
(suspenseful music)
- Can I come now?
- Yes, you can come now.
(scary music)
(bouncy music)
I walked through valley
of the shadow death
I walked through the
valley of the shadow death
I walked through the
valley of the shadow death
I walked through the
valley of the shadow death
I live in (indistinct)
in body shaking
Feels I'm shaking
The doctor said it's
for my now, for my now
I see shadows on to,
turn to (indistinct)
Shakes them (indistinct) wow
(indistinct)
(upbeat music)
I am scratching,
whipping, calling
I'm still finding my
way out, my way out
I am so crazy (indistinct)
They feel so
patient for my show
(indistinct)
(upbeat music)
I still lose (indistinct)
Powers blew me
And as I shall need you now
(indistinct)
(upbeat music)
I see blue skies
No, doubts. No doubts
of thyself, like the ego
Those are myths
(indistinct) among the stars
Then Scribe, let me go
(upbeat music)