I’m guessing a lot of movie companies saw the success of Lights Out and realized that horror short films are a gold mine for potential feature length stories. Case in point: The Weinstein Company has opened up sales for a feature length adaptation of Polaroid from Lars Klevberg, according to ScreenDaily.
The short is described as being in the style of The Ring and Final Destination, although one look at the synopsis and the first thing that came to my mind was the Goosebumps book “Say Cheese and Die!“. Check it out and tell me I’m wrong:
‘Polaroid’ centres on a high school loner, Bird Fitcher, who stumbles upon a vintage Polaroid camera. Bird soon learns that the camera houses a terrible secret: whoever has their picture taken by it meets a tragic and violent end. The girl and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.
Benderspink’s Chris Bender, Jake Wagner and Jake Weiner are producing along with John Einar Hagen and Petter Onstad Lokke of El Dorado Films, who produced the original short. Roy Lee of Vertigo Films will also be a producer.
Just like how David F. Sandberg directed the feature length adaptation of Lights Out based on his short, Klevberg will be directing the Polaroid adaptation, which is written by Blair Butler.
