Scribes Hired to "Scare Jessica"

By: News Editor
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Source: Variety

Bennett Yellin and James Johnston have been hired by Paramount Pictures to write the remake of "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." The new story centers on a fearless young man at a college in Colorado who, while pledging a frat, must prove his allegiance to the house by scaring his girlfriend into believing the college is haunted. The prank then takes on a life of its own.

Christine Peters will produce.

The original film was about a woman who had been recently released from a mental hospital tries to start over by moving into an old New England farmhouse.