FEAST Writers To Adapt SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK For CBS Films

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All proper 80s and early-90s kids remember Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories series. The short story collections published in 1981, 1984 and 1991 were the height of awesome mostly for those creepy illustrations, which also got the book in hot water with parents groups. Still, most of us who were around during the Scary Stories years have a soft spot for the books after all the years.

Which brings us to today, when we learned that Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan’s pitch to adapt the Scary Stories series into a motion picture has been picked up by CBS films.

According to Deadline:

The project… will see Melton and Dunstan adapt some of the Scary short stories into a screenplay about a group of outcast kids who stand up to their fears to save their town when nightmares come to life.

Now, I know some people might be hesitant to embrace a film adaptation, but you can trust that these guys will come up with something clever in the way of a screenplay. This is the pair that brought us the glorious Feast and the gloriously awful sequel Feast II: Sloppy Seconds.

Melton and Dustan have also collaborated on a couple of Saw movies (meh), The Collector series and Piranha 3DD. If nothing else, Scary Stories from these guys could be a schlocky good time.