Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Hours,” recently sold his horror/thriller spec to Screen Gems called, “Beautiful Girl,” reports Variety.

Here’s the pitch: “…A shy but brainy high school girl…returns for senior year after having slimmed down six dress sizes. She finds herself flirting with the handsome English lit teacher, but the mutual crush turns deadly when the teacher’s obsession with the student compels him to exact maniacal revenge on everyone who was cruel to her.”

Cunningham told Variety that he’s always been a horror fan:

“While I was writing about Virginia Wolff, my mind was never far removed from the idea of girls in bikinis being hacked up by guys wearing hockey masks, and I vowed that if I ever had a good idea, I would write one of these scary movies,”

“We’ve become such genre paisans, and when I showed the script to [producer] Doug [Wick], he showed it to Clint, and it was instant love,” Cunningham said. “This summer, I will finish a novel where nobody gets anything gouged out of them, but my plan is to then write another idea I have for an actual monster movie.   As it turns out, we sometimes find we can do more than one thing in our lives.”

Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce through their Red Wagon banner.