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Last Fall the low budget horror film Paranormal Activity became a movie box office hit of nearly The Blair Witch Project proportions and this Fall a sequel to the effectively scary film is already scheduled for release. Today we learn that not only do the makers of Paranormal Activity plan to scare the Hell out of us again in theaters but they are also planning to scare the Hell out of us … on TV:

The tremendous success of indie flick “Paranormal Activity” is stretched much wider with a TV deal. The small screen viewers may soon have trouble sleeping for a TV show is being worked on based on the movie about unknown being which disturbs a young couple’s sleep at nights. Creator of the movie, Oren Peli, is teaming up with Dreamworks TV and ABC Studios to develop the series which is going to be called “The River”. Executive producers Steven Schneider and Jason Blum who worked on the first installment and “Paranormal Activity 2″ screenwriter Michael R. Perry are also involved in creating the horror series. Not much different from the movie, “River” will show a recording from a video camera that captures inexplicable happenings. However, instead of being set in a bedroom like in the original movie, the series is bigger in spectrum by covering people who went missing on the Amazon River. A famed adventurer disappeared in the area and was looked for by his friends and crew … No idea when the project will come to life but THR said Dreamworks is “near a pilot deal” with ABC. And since this is a coveted project, ABC is bound to produce the pilot or a penalty is incurred. NBC is said as the other network which had an interest in the project.

No. Just … no. I loved the first film and I’m actually very excited for the sequel but this sounds like a bad idea. The surest way to kill the novelty of stories being told thru “found footage” is to serialize it for TV. I don’t understand how a TV series would even work … do we get to watch a portion of the “found footage” one hour at a time over the course of 22 episodes? And then what? No, story-telling conventions like this must be told singularly and wholly … we watch the footage, the end. This just sounds like a bad idea to me … which bums me out cuz I loved the film. Let’s hope this planned TV series never sees the light of day … let’s also hope that Paranormal Activity 2, due out next month, is just as scary (or scarier) than the first film was.

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