(WHISTLE BLOWS)
OK, pass, guys. Guys, pass! Here!
Over here! I'm open! To me, guys. To me!
(KIDS SHOUT EXCITEDLY)
- Didn't get picked, eh? - I don't care.
- What are you drawing? - Nothing.
Let me see.
It's not very good.
You were not kidding.
- (BURPS) - Ugh.
Sorry. What's it supposed to be?
- You wouldn't get it. - Fine.
It's a posse of vampires
who sleep by day but fight crime at night.
Kind of like Galadrian the Immortal?
Yes, exactly like Galadrian the Immortal!
- You know Neville Moore? - He's my favourite!
Zombie Skaters From Mars? Best comic ever!
- You ever played the game? - I'm not good at video games.
But I was the Asphodel Heights Junior Go-Karting champion
three years running, so it's not like I can't do stuff!
That's cool, I guess.
- So you're making a comic? - Yeah, but my pictures blow.
Well, my writing sucks. Can I...?
- So who is this guy? - Chick Felipe.
Vampire from the outback forced to move to the city
'cause he's run out of people to eat.
Does he like the city?
Hates it. Too noisy, dirty, all the skyscrapers.
Like this?
This is everything!
Want to get out of here?
- What's your name? - Chester.
Mapplethorpe.
(FAST-PACED THEME MUSIC)
(CRAZY LAUGHTER)
♪ La, la, la, la. ♪
Welcome to Crazy Fun Park!
(LAUGHS)
Is it really you?
(POIGNANT MUSIC)
FUN KID: Are you sure about this?
Whoa, hey! It's OK.
Yeah, you really, ah...
- You really scared me! - Yeah! We got you good.
(REPEATED CLANGING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
Who do we have here?
He's cool. I got him.
He's seen us, Maggotboy.
He can keep a secret. Can't you?
I-I-I don't know what's going on.
Am I dead?
(FUN KIDS LAUGH)
- No. But we are. - You're all...
Been six feet under since '79.
- Nimrod? - '84.
- '99. - '97.
(STAMMERS) But... I mean, that's...
'Rod. Show him.
Oh, no! No, no, no, no! No. No, thank you.
Thank you, just back down. Back...
The park claims who it claims. Name?
Chester.
- Fester? - Chester.
That's what I said - Fester.
(FUN KIDS SNICKER)
Here's how it works, Fester.
This place...
This is our home.
And we don't really want the living messing with our home.
I mean, how do we know
that you're not gonna mess with our standard of living?
So to speak.
He's cool, right?
Right? Chester, tell him you're cool.
Who's up for paintball?
Yeah. Paintball?
I'm...not gonna tell anyone.
Promises are easily broken.
And the living can be very disappointing.
Come on, Remus. He could be useful.
Exactly! He can bring us more food.
You guys were complaining about the lack of variety.
I miss sausage rolls... I think.
Shouldn't we ask Baba? Seems fair, right?
BABA VANGA: Are you ready to learn the truth?
- Hey. - Ow!
Get out of it!
"Get off your high horse. Giddy up, partner.
"It's time to ride or die."
I don't get it.
Does it mean I can stay?
Obviously!
- Who wants churros, yeah? - Not so fast.
"Get off your high horse."
High horse.
Ah!
- High horse. - Huh?
High horse!
(ALL LAUGH)
Can someone tell me what's going on?
FUN KID: Yeah.
A video game?!
Ready for your worst nightmare?
Get it? 'Night mare'.
Yeah, I get it. Very witty.
Ready for the rules?
Try to win.
Got it?
Super helpful.
You win, you stay.
You lose, you wocka, wocka, wocka your way out of here
and you never see any of us ever again,
including Maggotboy.
(VIDEO-GAME MUSIC STARTS PLAYING)
(ALL START SHOUTING)
MAPPLETHORPE: You're falling behind!
Ride it! Come on, ride it!
CHESTER: I'm rocking, I'm riding!
MAPPLETHORPE: Why are you stopping? Come on!
Whoa, you weren't lying. You really suck at these things.
(ALL CONTINUE SHOUTING)
(SHOUTS) Come on, ride faster! Come on!
(MAPPLETHORPE CONTINUES SHOUTING)
(ALL CHEER)
Give it to me!
(ALL CHEER AND WHOOP)
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Remus rules again.
And you know what that means.
- Nice knowin' ya. - Wait! Wait!
- See ya, homie. - No. Mapplethorpe.
FUN KID: Later, 'gator.
(LIGHTS FLICKER AND BUZZ)
Come back.
(BIRDS WARBLE)
(SIGHS)
Your mum's not gonna let you wear a T-shirt, mate.
It's the only black shirt I have.
Why don't you wear one of mine?
They're too big.
We'll just have to make it work. Here.
Yeah, you're right.
Kind of looks like an art smock, doesn't it?
Well, you've just got to try and make it work.
Here.
How are you doing?
You OK?
You know, it's normal to feel... scared or...
Dad.
I'm... I'm fine.
I'm just...
I'm just... I'm so sorry, Ches.
(SIGHS)
Come here.
(DAD SIGHS DEEPLY)
I'll, um...
I'll let you have a moment and then we've got to go, OK?
(CHURCH BELLS RING)
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
You two go inside.
I just... I need to go to the bathroom.
(BROODING MUSIC)
Hope you can hear me...
..if you're still there.
If you were ever...
..really there.
Am I going crazy or...
..did that night actually happen?
This week's been...weird.
Everyone's being super nice to me...
..treating me like a... I don't know,
a first-edition comic or something,
handling me with gloves and tweezers.
I don't know what I'm meant to do...right now.
I can't even finish this.
I don't know what happens next
and I don't want to know what happens next
if it's not with you.
And he spits fire!
I mean, you always knew exactly what should happen
and what we should say and where to look.
- He swoops on down! - So tell me what happens next.
Revenge!
Because I need you.
(SCHOOL BELL CHIMES)
So, the Education Department have decided that every school
needs a "wellbeing coordinator".
Apparently being fire warden isn't enough, so...
It's natural to feel a little out of sorts
when someone...
Moves on?
Yes. Thank you.
I remember when my father... moved on.
I didn't cry at his funeral.
I wanted to.
But couldn't.
(SIGHS)
Maybe there might be some online resources he can take a look at.
Yes.
I'll just bring this up here. (TAPS KEYBOARD)
Are you experiencing any or all of the following emotions?
Grief, anger, confusion, curiosity,
disturbed sleep, decreased appetite,
poor school performance or physical reactions,
for example, headaches?
It's common to sometimes have strange dreams.
Honey, is there something you want to say?
You can ask us anything.
Of course. That's why I'm here.
I've got some literature that might help.
I know they've brought me a lot of comfort
over the years.
Are you sure there's nothing you want to ask?
If you were a zombie,
and...and you just won a major battle,
what would you say to your slaves?
MS WIEST: Because he's in denial,
Conor attempts to make things appear normal.
But this just leads to difficult situations with his family
because they're attempting to prepare him
for his mother's...
Let's just pick it up at page...page 137, the yew trees.
MAN: Tadaima.
Okaeri.
Ah, thank you, Vio-chan.
- Dad. - Mm?
How do you know what to say to comfort people?
I watched my Chichi-oya and his Chichi-oya before him.
Over a thousand funerals.
You know we come from a long line of Nokanshi.
Yeah, you may have mentioned it before.
(CHUCKLES) When I was a boy,
the attitudes were very different.
Some thought we were unclean and polluted by our work.
That's awful.
Well, people aren't always kind, especially when they're hurting.
We learned to just let people know
we are there if they need us.
Everyone must deal with their own feelings in their own way.
And what if they're not?
Dealing with it?
Grief is not about death.
It's about change.
The end of what might have been.
You cannot force someone to make peace with something
if they're not ready.
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
Hey.
I know you probably don't want to talk to me right now,
and that's OK.
I just wanted to give you this.
I digitised the photos we took with Mapplethorpe.
I can't imagine what you're going through right now
so you don't have to say anything
but if you want to talk I'm here
and if you don't, I'm still here because...
..he'll only be gone if you let him go.
(POIGNANT MUSIC)
The butt tree.
What about our own Pride Rock? Roarrrr!
CHESTER: The ambiguous pole.
Hello?
Anybody there?
I want another chance.
Alright.
If you guys don't let me in,
I'll tell everyone you're ghosts
and then people will come and they'll bust you.
I brought sausage rolls.
(GATE CREAKS)
(FUN PARK MUSIC STARTS PLAYING)
You said sausage rolls?
- Gimme! What's in there? - Ooh, I love these!
(ALL TALK AT ONCE)
- That's mine! - Wait up!
So do all those suckers miss me?
They better not have played that Green Day song at my funeral!
Um...
I didn't go.
Excuse me?! Something more important on?
I was trying to finish this.
Zombie Joan!
I couldn't figure out what she'd say.
It's easy.
She'd say, "Sayonara, buzzkills. Tonight we live forever."
And she'd run off into the sunset.
Well, stagger off 'cause she moves weird, being dead and all.
Of course!
Oh, and before I forget.
I believe a certain someone will be missing this?
Mapplethorpe - fixer of lives!
What happened?
I remember I found the film roll.
I knew how happy you'd be.
And then...
CHESTER: And then...?
REMUS: Accidents happen.
And speaking of bad accidents, who let you back in, Fester?
- He bought us snacks. - Sausage rolls!
We don't have them!
That's 'cause you can't eat
'cause you don't have a digestive system
'cause you're dead.
Still tastes good but.
I want to race again.
- Do you? CHESTER: Yeah.
- Give me another chance. - Why?
Because... Because Mapplethorpe's my friend.
I'm not ready to say goodbye.
OK, Fester.
But this time, if you lose, you don't get to go home.
Ever.
You sure you want to do this?
"A good test of any friendship is how quickly
"they speed to be by your side."
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
It looks like we feel the need.
The need for speed!
This is a place to go hard because you can never go home!
Want to know the rules? There are none.
The more you risk, the more alive you'll feel.
Want me to drive?
Nope. I got this.
It is not safe. You WILL get hurt.
You might even cop a few scars.
- (MAPPLETHORPE SIGHS) - What's that for?
You'll see.
But I promise you,
embrace the night and there will be a huge smile on your face!
SUICIDE: ♪ Ghost Rider
FUN KID: Go! Come on!
(ONLOOKERS WHOOP AND CHEER)
Ooh!
Keep any body parts you want to keep
inside the vehicles at all times.
♪ Ghost Rider Motorcycle hero... ♪
(REMUS LAUGHS)
Remus is leading but Fester is getting antsy.
♪ Hey, baby, baby, baby He's a-lookin' so cute... ♪
Come on, we got this! Go!
Drive it right up that tail!
He's taking those hairpin turns like a fever dream
on a hot February night!
(POP-GUN FIRES)
♪ Ghost Rider Motorcycle hero... ♪
- He's gaining speed! - Stay down!
♪ Hey, baby, baby, baby He's a-blazin' away... ♪
Wanna give up?
He was Asphodel Heights Junior
Go-Kart Champion three years running.
Is that supposed to impress us?
Nah, but this might!
Argh!
Off with his head!
(TYRES SCREECH)
♪ Ghost Rider Motorcycle... ♪
GONZO: And Fester takes the lead!
He passes the finish line!
- Whoo! - (FUN KIDS CHEER AND WHOOP)
♪ Hey, baby, baby, baby He's a-screamin' the truth... ♪
(ALL LAUGH)
NIMROD'S HEAD: Oh, that tickles. GONZO: We have a winner!
Turns out the living kid not only has a pulse,
but also a giant...
REMUS: Can it, Gonzo!
(SILENCE)
So?
ALL: (CHANT) One of us! One of us!
Gooble, gobble! Gooble, gobble!
MAPPLETHORPE: We did it!
I wouldn't be so sure. Remus doesn't like to lose.
I'd watch my back if I were you.
FUN KID: He loves ya. He loves ya!
He's a big softie.
PENNYWISE: ♪ Bro Hymn
♪ Ever get the feeling you can't go on?
♪ Just remember whose side it is that you're on
♪ You've got friends with you till the end
♪ If you're ever in a tough situation
♪ We'll be there with no hesitation
♪ Brotherhood's our rule we cannot bend
♪ Whooooa-ohhh-ohhh-ohhhhhh
♪ Whooooa-ohhh-ohh-ohh-ohhhhhh
♪ Whooooa-ohhh-ohhh-ohhhhhh. ♪
(FUN KIDS CHEER AND WHISTLE)
You gotta be out by sunrise.
Why? What happens if I don't?
GONZO: Them's the rules!
Well, come back, yeah?
Someone's got to bring you snacks.
Don't forget extra sausage rolls.
Yeah, and don't skimp on the sauce.
NIMROD: The dead must be fed. - C'mon, Siobhan, time to die.
I guess you've got to come back now.
This isn't one of those 'too good to be true' dreams?
You miss me that much, huh?
What?! No. Ya mum does.
Oh! You need a better comeback.
We'll be here at sunset.
Every day.
Friends for another day?
Friends for another day.
(ROOSTER CROWS)
(FUN KIDS CROW)
FUN KID: Cock-a-doodle-doo!
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)
(GATE CREAKS)
(ROOSTER CROWS)
(FUN KIDS CROW)
(MAPPLETHORPE CROWS)
(FUN KIDS HOOT LOUDLY)
(ALL HOOT)
Come on!
(ETHEREAL MUSIC)
(ALARM GOES OFF)
(TURNS OFF ALARM)
(SIGHS)
(FAST-PACED THEME MUSIC)
♪ La, la, la, la. ♪