Chupacabra (short film 2021)
Producer: Sienna Beckman
Writer & Director: Nichole DeLaura
Logline: After a string of grisly livestock attacks in rural Texas, a Sheriff’s tenacious teenage daughter is determined to find the monster responsible.

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Video transcript:
1:22: Six o’clock, seven o’clock, eight o’clock, nine o’clock
1:27: ten o’clock, eleven o’clock, midnight!
1:30: Nobody don’t see no ghosts tonight.
1:34: Scout!
1:35: Stay.
1:40: I hear Bushner found another cow.
1:42: Gosh.
1:44: It’s getting so I don’t feel safe letting the kids out at night.
1:48: My abuelo, he said some stories about the chupacabra.
1:51: He said every hot summer, the devil came out to play.
1:55: If you give our son nightmares Won
1:57: All I’m saying is the stories fit.
2:00: Scout.
2:26: [SCREAMING]
2:28: Get all the kids inside, now!
2:29: Maria!
2:31: Ma!
2:33: What’s going on?
2:34: Get inside, Erika.
2:44: Stay.
2:45: Stay there, it’s okay.
2:46: It’s okay.
2:47: It’s okay, come here, come here.
2:50: It’s okay.
2:56: Damn chupacabra.
3:13: Erika’s welcome to spend the night.
3:15: I know you’re on duty and I’m sure that house can feel pretty empty since Becky left.
3:21: Um.
3:22: Thanks but my daughter belongs with me.
3:26: Of course.
3:27: Erika.
4:00: What’s a chupacabra?
4:04: You heard mister Juan talking, huh?
4:09: It’s make-believe honey, don’t worry about it.
4:12: Mister Juan thought it was real.
4:14: Yeah?
4:15: Okay.
4:17: I shoot straight with you, don’t I?
4:20: The chupacabra is supposed to be this unkillable monster.
4:24: It sucks blood like a vampire and then melts into the earth at will.
4:28: So you tell me, does that sound real to you?
4:32: I guess not.
4:36: Erika!
4:41: Are you okay?
4:42: Erika?
4:50: Are you alright?
4:52: Something’s there.
4:53: What?
4:54: Look, are you alright honey?
4:55: Uh uh uh. I’m fine. Honest.
4:59: Honey.
5:00: You should worry about the pig.
5:05: Coyotes.
5:11: I think it’s still alive, daddy.
5:21: Bite looks off big for a coyote.
5:24: It might be a dog.
5:26: There were some wild ones around here about a month back.
5:31: I’m calling Martha to get you a ride out of here.
5:33: You could stay over there tonight.
5:34: But you said I belong with you.
5:36: I know I did.
5:37: But I can’t hunt this thing and watch after you at the same time, Erika.
5:41: But I wanna go with you.
5:43: Please, I wanna see the chu-
5:46: The dog.
5:49: There’s nothing else out there, honey.
5:51: There’s nothing to see.
5:55: You don’t know that.
6:03: Fine.
6:04: You do as I say when I say it.
6:09: Stand back.
7:02: You sure you’re up for this, kid?
7:04: Mm-hmm.
7:06: It’ll be like when we used to go camping
7:09: without…
7:11: Your mother?
7:16: Yeah.
7:21: Where to next, partner?
7:23: It’ll go to the cows.
7:41: Why don’t you believe in the chupacabra?
7:46: It’s an excuse, Erika.
7:49: It’s like the devil:
7:50: something people blame when they are too lazy or too scared to figure out the truth.
7:55: Looks true to me.
7:59: Listen to me
8:01: what you believe in owns you.
8:03: Don’t let fear dictate that.
8:09: Are you afraid?
8:11: No.
8:13: No, not of monsters of the night, no.
8:17: Of what drove mom away?
8:21: Nothing drove your mother away.
8:23: She made her own choices.
8:27: I don’t think so.
8:30: I think the devil chased her off.
8:32: Doesn’t work that way, honey.
8:34: I need you to understand that.
8:36: Why not?
8:37: It just doesn’t.
8:40: It just doesn’t.
8:45: Look, what your mother did, that’s
8:50: that’s on her, and
8:52: but not you.
8:54: You understand me?
8:56: I know it’s not on me.
9:02: Th- That’s the problem, isn’t it?
9:07: There’s nothing anyone could do to change that.
9:10: She just didn’t belong here.
9:14: She said the sky was too big.
9:16: That she was gonna get sucked right into it.
9:22: Hey.
9:26: It’s like she was always gonna leave.
9:30: Whether she wanted to or not.
9:48: [COW GRUNTING]
10:05: Daddy?
10:10: I’m coming down, daddy.
10:12: No! Stay there!
10:31: Damn dog.
10:36: Daddy?
10:37: Dad?
10:39: [GUNSHOT]
10:41: Dad?
11:14: Dad?
11:19: Dad?
11:20: Daddy?
11:22: I need to…
11:23: Dad?
11:33: Daddy wake up!
11:40: [GROWLING]
11:51: Dad?
11:52: [CREATURE SCREECHING]
12:19: [GROWLING]
12:25: [GROWL]
12:27: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
12:35: I will fear no evil.
12:50: Dad.
13:12: Hey.
13:13: You sure you’re okay?
13:17: I’m sorry mom left.
13:24: Maybe this place did chase her off.
13:27: She could have stayed.

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