Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) (original) (raw)
It�s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind�but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time�stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah�s terrifying tome.
It�s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind�but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time�stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah�s terrifying tome. (less)
Director: Andr� �vredal
Writers: John August, Dan Hageman, Marcus Dunstan, Kevin Hageman, Patrick Melton, Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Troy James, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows
Producers: J. Miles Dale, Sean Daniel, Guillermo del Toro, Joshua Long
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Review by Brian Orndorf, August 8, 2019
6 / 10
�Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark� were a series of popular books from the 1980s, with author Alvin Schwartz doing his best to traumatize young readers and raise the ire of parental groups in a ban-happy mood. They predate the �Goosebumps� series by a decade, but the film adaptation is only materializing now, taking its time to hit screens. The delay doesn�t exactly help the production, as the two �Goosebumps� movies basically offered the same idea of literary monsters coming to life, only those pictures were meant for a family audience. �Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark� aims more for sinis ...read more...
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