Script for George A. Romero's unmade Goosebumps movie

It was written in the 1990s and was discovered by the University of Pittsburgh Library System:

“The first installment of the book series is titled Welcome to Dead House. The story tells the adventure of Amanda and Josh as they move into a strange town called Dark Falls. Little do they realize, the townsfolk are the living dead. Each year, they must eat a new family to maintain their undead status quo.

Romero retains the basic scenario and all of the major character names but tweaks the story in revealing ways. In the Stine book, the zombification comes, a la Return of the Living Dead, because of a mysterious gas that escapes from a local factory. Romero makes the capitalistic origins more emphatic: the town patriarch, the wealthy Foster Devries, has in death possessed the town. The state of living death experienced by the residents stemmed from a supernatural power that Devries has now shared with/imposed on the town.

"Romero re-imagines Dark Falls as the ultimate company town, in which the townspeople are wholly reliant on their boss for their continued undead existence, but the scope of their new “eternal lives” are highly circumscribed, limited entirely to what Devries allows. That means remaining within the city limits and feeding him a new family every year. Unlike in the Stine version, the threat here is not that the inhabitants will simply kill them and drain their blood, but that they will be forced to join the town and “live” according to the requirements of the town. That means a loss of independence, no possibility for self-determination."