Stake Land (2010) - full transcript

[Blues music]

♪♪

- [V/O] Call me Martin.

I've seen things

you wouldn't believe.

Things a boy shouldn't see.

But... I'm not a normal

boy anymore.

And it ain't a normal world.

Get used to it.

That's what Mister tells me.

We live by his rules

or we die.

Or worse.

We die and we come back.

[Gun shots]

[Vamp screaming]

But let's begin at the beginning.

I was like any other kid,

I had a family.

I went to school,

I didn't believe in the boogey man.

But then the world

woke up to a nightmare.

[Thunder cracks]

- [Radio]... Stay in your homes

and not to travel by night.

Route 422...

- Maybe we should wait.

- We'll take the back roads,

you'll be safer there.

[Dog barking]

- No. Martin, come back!

- Hey!

- Martin!

- Cooper!

Cooper!

Cooper...

Cooper!

[Door creaking closed]

[Baby crying]

[Distant screams]

- Martin, run!

- Mom!

- Shh! Shh!

You wanna live boy,

you listen to me.

You scream,

I'll break your neck.

They're dead!

There's nothing to be done

about it but kill that thing.

Can you shoot?

You shoot me

I'll fuckin' kill you!

- [Radio]... A 24 hour hotline

for missing persons

attributed to the outbreak

has been set up on

a county by county basis.

Phone lines in all areas

have been flooded in.

Officials ask for patients as

recovery teams are

doing all they can

to maintain order

on the east coast...

[baby crying]

...I repeat, do not venture outside

after sundown.

Stay in your homes and

lock the doors and windows...

[vamp growling]

[Gun shot]

[Thud]

Get a fuckin' hammer!

I only got two hands, boy.

Do it!

- Save him...

[thud]

- One day you'll learn

not to dream at all.

Get your shit.

Welcome to Stake Land, kid.

[Vamp growling]

- [V/O] Months passed

in a blur of days and nights.

We traveled east and west,

but always north.

Away from death.

We avoided the cities.

Mister said they were the worst,

hit the hardest in the beginning.

As people flocked together

for safety,

the plague marched through

their locked gates

and they became death traps.

When Washington fell, it was over

for America as we knew her.

As government blew away,

our great leaders ran for it.

And hope was abandoned.

We were on our own now.

Me and Mister.

Traveling through a ruined land.

Pockets of civilization survived.

Towns locked down behind fences

and guns holding the night away.

Cults spread like wildfire

across the southern states.

Waitin' for the messiah,

but he never came.

[Distant screams]

Death came instead.

And it came with teeth.

[Soft piano music]

♪♪

- Dumb fuck got himself trapped.

Burnt up in the sun.

Berserker.

It's the oldest of the vamps.

Can't stake 'em in the chest.

Got a breast bone like iron.

Gotta get 'em in the

base of the skull.

Vamps...

function from the reptile brain.

It's like pullin' the

plug on a computer.

[Water trickling]

- [V/O] We were all orphans.

Just lookin' for something

to hold on to.

He's a Mister.

Maybe that's why

he keeps me with him.

- What's that?

- Garlic oil.

- Does that really work?

- Don't hurt.

One strike boy.

Make it true.

- Where you boys comin' from?

- South.

- Get outta the car.

Did you get any?

They alright boys, let 'em roll.

- [V/O] Another town,

another lockdown.

People just tryin' to go on.

Hopin' they'd wake up

and it would all be a bad dream.

They could go back to their lives,

families and careers.

- He needs more fresh food.

And some vitamins,

if you can find them.

Where's his folks?

- Dead.

- He'd be better of here.

With people.

Other children.

- What do I owe you?

- I could use all of them.

- Good.

Hey.

Got any liquor in this town?

- Jake's.

Homemade, mostly.

He got some tap beer.

A little sour,

but it wont kill ya.

- Boy needs a hair cut.

[Ethereal music]

♪♪

- Sheriff said take whatever you need.

It's on me.

Have you been through Haggerstown?

I had family there.

- Vamped out,

everything south of here.

- Rea?

- He really kills 'em, huh?

- You gotta get 'em in the heart.

Pierce the breast plate.

Guns hurt 'em but unless you

sever the spine they keep comin'.

You got any gum?

- Yes.

- Cool.

- Ah, just...

So who are you?

- His helper.

- Where are you, uhh... where are

you guys headin'?

- North.

Uh, Mister says less population,

less bloodsuckers.

- Wait, wait, wait...

Not New Eden right?

We had a fella,

he came through here,

and he said there's nothing there,

there's no food at all.

He said it's not the Vamps

ya need to worry about...

it's the cannibals.

- Thanks.

[Crowd in the bar talking]

- [V/O] Sometimes I think I could

stay in a place like this.

Make friends,

live in the daylight.

Just be a kid.

But the truth is

I don't feel safe around people.

They can think what they want

but New Eden was real.

It was the answer to all of this

and we were gonna find it.

Fight our way north,

make the open territories.

Like Mister says.

'Live free or die tryin'.

Fuck the cannibals.

- What's her name?

- I didn't ask.

- [Radio] Why did this happen?

How can God let this happen?

How can this be his love...

[woman screaming]

[Thud]

- Oh... oh, my God!

- Oh... oh, God!

- It's okay, lady.

- No! No!

- Shh. Shh.

It's okay!

- No! No!

- It's alright!

- No!

- It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay, it's okay.

[Soft piano music]

♪♪

- [V/O] Mister,

where'd all that

hate come from?

I never asked.

- Those men that...

They said they were Christians.

- We don't do history.

Doesn't do anybody any good.

Grab them traps, boy.

[Bottles clinking]

Give me a finger.

[Rain pouring down]

[Distant bottle clinking]

Time to go fishin'.

[Vamp growling]

[Vamp screaming]

Get the long pole.

- Sister Agitha.

We thought she was dead.

- She is.

- What are you gonna do?

- I'm gonna kill that thing.

- Go with God.

- Lock the door.

[Vamp growling]

Newbie.

Shouldn't be too hard.

Too fat,

I can't break the spine.

[Vamp growling]

[Vamp screaming]

You missed the heart ya,

dumb shit.

Fuckin' vamps!

- Stop it!

[Thud]

[Door slams shut]

- [V/O] Mister dug a grave.

I think he felt bad

for the sister.

He did pull the fangs out, but...

he waited till she went

to pick the flowers.

- How many of those things

have you killed?

- Not enough.

- And people?

Those two men?

- In my book,

rapists got no place to live.

- It's not ours to judge.

- Then don't.

Next lockdown,

we drop you off.

You go save some souls.

- And what about him?

He's just a boy.

- Yeah.

A live one.

[Ethereal music]

♪♪

- [V/O] But we never dropped her off.

Where was she gonna go?

- [Radio] Satan's soldiers

march the night,

but God has not abandoned us.

Those who believe in him

shall never fall.

Jesus and the angels are

coming and judgment is upon us

and the Christian Army of Aryans

are here to fight for you.

And have created a safe refuge

for the holy among us.

Join us brothers and sisters,

Lafayette Valley welcomes

the righteous and the pure.

Together we shall lead

the world back to the light.

And the right,

the America God loves.

- [V/O] In desperate times,

false gods abound.

People put their faith in the loudest

preacher and hope they're right.

[Baby crying]

But sometimes they're wrong.

Dead wrong.

[Crying continues]

- My name is Jebedia Loven.

And you killed two of my men.

In cold blood.

Staked one in the back.

He was my son.

My own boy.

He was only sixteen.

He cried for his mother for

three hours before he died.

God rest his soul.

Now you a fine lookin'

young buck.

That's your father?

- My father's dead.

- Oh, don't you worry.

We'll get you some religion.

Bring you to God

and the right way.

Good stock.

You'll still serve.

As for you, Mister.

Oh, yeah.

We know who you are.

You kill them that come back,

them that serve us,

them that God brought down

to do his work.

Leavin' us to purify

the blood of our fathers.

And when that day comes,

he will bring them back

in peace and purity

will reign on the earth.

Forever!

Amen!

- [Together] Amen!

- What do you have to say

for yourself, sinner?

- Fuck you and fuck your God.

- Well...

You can tell him that yourself.

You're about to meet him.

[Gospel music on radio]

- Welcome to the Valley of Them.

Last stop for the weak of faith.

Get him out here!

- Ow!

[Thud]

- Ah, look at them.

The children of salvation.

They come at my calling.

They feed on the unfaithful.

[Vamps growling]

Shh.

They say hell is cold,

Hunter.

Don't let that flame burn out.

[Vamps growling]

[Vamps screaming]

- Get back, you bloodsuckers.

- How's your head?

- Mister.

- I'm sorry.

- Go on down to the creek,

fill 'em up.

Bring 'em back.

- Wait.

- Hey, boy.

You can run if you want to.

Ain't nothing out there

but sundown and them.

You won't get far.

- [V/O] Mister taught me

how to read the stars.

I could make my way

back to the car,

get the weapons,

find them robe-wearin' crazies

and send them back to that God

they kept talking about.

I had to keep movin'.

Had to make the car

before night came.

Mister was gone.

And out here alone

I didn't stand a chance.

[Vamp growling]

[Vamp screaming]

- Shh.

- How many of them

things out there?

[Vamp screaming]

- One.

But she's really pissed off.

- Make some noise.

- Hey! In here!

Hey!

Hey, hey, hey!

Come and get me!

Yeah, that's right, come on!

I'm in here!

Hey, I'm in here!

Heeeey!

- Come on, baby,

come on, baby.

[Engine starts]

[Vamp screams]

[Thud]

Martin.

I hate fuckin' vampires.

[Engine revving]

[Thud]

[Vamp screaming]

[Thud]

- [Radio] The Brotherhood needs

your eyes, followers.

There are evildoers among us.

This enemy of America

walks with faith.

His name is Mister and he

is traveling with a young boy.

They are armed and dangerous.

- What happened?

- [Radio] They were last seen heading

north to Lafayetteville.

If spotted,

dispatch of them immediately.

These actions will not

go unrewarded.

- We're gonna leave in the morning.

We'll have to take a back road.

Brotherhood got the

rest locked down.

Let it go, boy.

- Get over there.

You're gonna be crispy

in the mornin'.

Come on, Willy!

Give him a hand!

Whoa!

[Vamp screaming]

[Bar crowd talking]

- What have ya got for trade?

- Antibiotics.

Some weed.

And these.

- Goddamn.

That's a big one.

What about the boy?

I ain't got no soda pop.

- Give him another glass.

- You fellas look like

you've seen some trouble.

- A little.

- Vamps?

- Holy rollers.

- Yeah, well, we don't tolerate

religion or politics in here.

- Where's the next lockdown?

- Just over the mountains.

Past Lafayette Valley.

But that's Brotherhood territory.

They don't take too kindly

to strangers.

♪... I'll shiver the whole night through

♪ Her husband,

was a hard working man

♪ Just about a mile from here

- Thanks.

- Been talk there was a hunter about.

- Thought you was all dead by now.

- Not yet.

♪... My girl, my girl, don't lie to me

♪ Tell me where

did you sleep last night.

♪ In the pines, in the pines,

where the sun never shines,

♪ I'd shiver the whole night through.

- Thank you.

We got one more for ya.

Ready, boys?

♪♪

♪ Maria please don't leave

me now I need ya

♪ I'ma wanted

♪ There's nowhere I can go

♪ My up's turned down

♪ My luck's spun round and left me

♪ No I didn't see it...

- [V/O] Her name was Belle.

Her story was no different

from anyone else's.

Home gone.

Family gone.

Oh, and she was pregnant.

But I guess life goes on.

She wanted to get to New Eden

before the baby came.

[Flies buzzing]

[Generator starting]

[Thud]

[Light violin music]

♪♪

- Hi.

Scamp!

In the attic!

[Footsteps]

[Scamp breathing heavy]

[Scamp screaming]

Do it.

Stake the bitch.

Stake the bitch!

I let her go and

she'll eat your ass!

- [V/O] A Scamp.

That's what Mister

called the kid vamps.

She was just a kid.

[Thud]

And if not for Mister,

I might have become like that.

[Thud]

- Out of the fuckin' car!

Out of the fuckin' car!

Get your hands on your head.

[Distant gun shot]

[Mister whistles]

- That's a nice shot, kid.

[Door shaking]

Fuck.

Hey, hey.

What the hell

happened to you, man?

- Fuckin' Brotherhood

dumped me out of a truck.

For vamp bait.

- This is their territory.

Let's get the fuck out of here.

- I was in the Marines.

Got called back from the war

when it started.

- What happened with the war?

- No one left to fight it.

The Middle East is gone.

Vamp land.

- How did you end up here?

- We were deployed to

see to the evacuation to Canada.

Keep the peace.

But we couldn't contain it.

Most of their troops left,

tryin' to make it home to their families.

I guess you heard

the President's dead.

- Which asshole's president now?

- Beats me.

Way I see it,

muthafuckas booked and left us

with our dick in our hands.

- (singing) Baby don't you cry.

Papa's gonna make sure don't...

- Please help!

No!

Please!

I need a doctor.

The baby's coming.

- Where the hell

did you come from, girl?

- I'm traveling with three men,

but they can't help me.

- Where are they?

- Right behind you.

[Thud]

- You should have been an actress.

- What are they doing?

- They've been takin' out the

lockdown towns with captured vamps.

They crash the trucks into roadblocks

and let the vamps do their thing.

They even crashed a few planes loaded up

with vamps into cities at the beginin'.

That's what took down Washington.

- Check the other one.

- Howdy, Clem.

- This your boy, Clem?

Shit!

- Where's the woman?

- Bitch run off.

We was just tryin'

to protect her.

[Thud]

- Run!

[Preying to self]

- [V/O] Vamps could smell blood

from miles off.

Mister knew it.

And so did Jebedia Loven.

I could tell by

the look in his eye.

[Distant screaming]

- [V/O] We were movin' north.

Away from The Brotherhood,

skirting the Adirondacks

Less towns, less people.

Hadn't seen any vamps yet.

Mister said it was too cold for

them up here in the mountains.

They were cold-blooded.

Like reptiles.

When we hit the lowlands,

they'd be back.

- [Radio] If you are

receiving this signal,

you are approaching

the Strivington border.

Under protection of the

United States volunteer militia.

All those seeking asylum

will be processed and

dealt with accordingly.

Weapons will be confiscated...

- You get 'em back when you leave.

- Mm-hmm.

- Where you comin' from?

- South.

Lafayetteville.

- Any trouble with The Brotherhood?

- Nothin' we couldn't handle.

- [V/O] They renamed

their town Strivington.

Said it all.

It gave me hope for people.

It gave me hope for New Eden.

Sometimes hope is all ya got.

[Festive music]

♪♪

[helicopter approaching]

[Crowd screaming]

[Gun shots]

[Vamps screaming]

- [V/O] And it was over, like that.

All that goodness.

Shattered by some Christian crazies

droppin' vamps from the sky.

- We're gonna stay

right here till morning.

- Fine by me.

- How you doin', mama?

- She's gone.

- Tough old lady.

- Climbed those stairs

and didn't say a word.

[Somber piano music]

♪♪

- Damn Brotherhood shit-kickers.

Ten dead.

We've got things

under control now.

We'll have this place

up and runnin' in no time.

Sure you won't

stick around for a while?

We could use

a couple good men.

- No.

We're headin' north.

- Stick to the back roads.

They're the only way outta here.

Brotherhood owns the rest.

Good luck to you.

- Thanks.

- [V/O] We'd come far.

We didn't know

what was waitin' for us.

But anything had to be

better than what we left behind.

At least I kept

telling myself that.

But when I close my eyes,

I kept seein' that

little girl's dead legs

stickin' out from under that tarp.

- Ah, fuck.

- What is it?

- Fuckin' radiator.

- Can you fix it?

- Not this time.

She's dead.

Everybody grab your shit.

- [V/O] One week in the woods and

we were becoming different people.

Small talk stopped.

We worked as a pack,

each to his task.

It was cold here in the hot passes,

but we hadn't seen any vamps.

The forest cast

a kind of magic over us.

Away from people.

I stopped thinking

about the past.

And about my family.

I had found a new one.

- You think we'll make it?

- I'm just worried about the girl.

She's slowin' us down.

[Cans clinking]

- There's no wind.

[Cocks gun]

[Vamp screaming]

[Gun shots]

- Berserkers.

- Run!

- Come on!

We gotta run now, lets go.

- Move!

She's comin'!

No, no, no!

What are you doin'?!

What are you doin'?!

We gotta go!

Keep movin'!

- Please, Please. We gotta move.

- I need one second!

- Sister?

- I got you, I got you.

Just a little bit further.

Come on, keep moving.

She's comin'!

- Keep going.

- Come on, we gotta go.

We gotta go faster.

[Vamps growling]

- Come on, you fuckers.

[Vamps screaming]

The Lord is my strength.

My Lord is my...

Father,

forgive me.

[Gun shot]

[Somber piano music]

♪♪

- Martin, let's go.

- I don't think she's coming, Martin.

Come on.

- [V/O] We've been travelin' for days

now and hadn't seen a soul.

It was like people

had just disappeared.

But Mister wasn't

takin' any chances.

- What's wrong?

- Nothing.

I'm just getting old and scary.

- You okay?

- Oh, yeah...

Baby just kicked, I'm okay.

Here, give me your hand.

- Wanna feel?

- Yeah.

- Oh, wow.

- Let me check that out.

- Here, give me your hand, wait.

- That kid's got a strong kick.

- She's like, "Let me out,

I wanna meet everybody."

[Owl hooting]

- Wake up.

Get your boots on

and your guns ready.

Willie's missin'.

- Something's dead.

- It's fresh.

[Flies buzzing]

[Belle screaming]

Jesus! Fuck...

Oh, fuck.

Fuck.

- Oh, my God...

- Come on. Come on.

- Come on. We have to go.

- I can't.

- Come on.

- From now on you keep your

weapons close and ready.

That thing took Willie

away to kill him.

He got around our traps.

- What are you saying?

- This one uses its brain.

- I've seen a lot of mutant vamps

but I ain't never seen

a thinker before.

- [V/O] We were entering the lowlands.

New Eden was just beyond

the mountains.

We were getting close.

But so far

no sign of anything...

Alive anyway.

- You okay, girl?

- I...

- I have cramps.

My back hurts really bad.

I just...

I just need to sit for a minute.

I'm sorry.

- We gotta keep movin'.

- I can't.

- It's okay.

I got you.

You okay?

- My daddy used to carry me

like this when I was little.

- I'm not your daddy.

- You ain't such a hard ass,

you know.

- Let her sleep.

She needs it.

At daylight were gonna put some

distance between us and this place.

- What are we gonna do

when the baby comes?

[Distant rustling]

[Distant footsteps]

- Oh, fuck.

Fuck.

This way. It's close.

[Distant screams]

- That's her.

That's her.

- Wait.

It's leadin' us, boy.

[Screaming continues]

- Tough shit.

[Blood dripping]

[Vamp growling]

- Drink up, boy.

[Vamp growling]

I am a vengeful god.

Eye for eye.

Tooth for tooth.

Son for son.

- This is between me and you,

you bloodsuckin' son-of-a-bitch.

- When you left me for them,

I prayed.

I prayed and God listened.

So when they came for me,

the hungry ones,

I gave my blood, willingly, hunter.

Thank you.

I am your God now.

- Yah.

- Nice try, child.

- Try this, you fucker.

[Vamp groaning]

[Thud]

'Bout time you learn how to drive.

- [V/O] Almost there.

Almost.

'Almost' is a big word.

- Fuck.

[Soft violin music]

♪♪

- Hold it right there!

Don't move.

- Thank you.

- You boys look like hell.

- Shit happens.

- Yeah, sure does.

But like my mom used to say,

'Things are what they are.

Get used to 'em.'

- Smart woman.

- She owned this place.

Last stop before the wilderness.

Buried her out back and

I've been on my own ever since.

Except for them.

- It's good shootin'.

- Lots of practice.

- I'm gonna take a look around.

- What's your name?

- Martin.

- I'm Peggy.

It's been a long time

since I seen a boy.

[Somber piano music]

♪♪

- Come on.

- You gotta wait 'til it's in the lot.

- What's wrong with it?

They're runnin' out of food

so they're...

skinnier but meaner.

[Vamp growling]

- It smells us now.

- Oh shit.

It's Walter again.

I went to high school with him

and I haven't been able

to get a clean shot.

He was such an asshole.

[Vamp growling]

- I'll get him.

- Martin!

No, stop!

Get in here.

What are you doing?

Martin!

[Vamp growling]

[Thud]

[Soft violin music]

♪♪

[upbeat music]

♪♪