Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2019 Directed by André Øvredal
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
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The late American writer and folklorist Alvin Schwartz tapped into the minds of young readers and traumatized generations of eager children by telling otherwise PG-13 horror tales with a transgressive, R-rated glee that made kids feel like they had read something they weren’t supposed to. There’s hardly a millennial in the United States who wasn’t happily scarred by the three volumes of Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” series, and couldn’t describe Stephen Gammell’s rotting illustrations to their therapist in all of their red and blue detail.
André Øverdal’s film adaptation, as clever and well-crafted as it is, can’t help but invert the formula that the source material relied upon for its success. Here is an R-rated concept…
felt like a tv movie for tweens until the Scary Stories themselves unfolded and then my mind was boggled at how the hell this managed a pg-13 rating. if you showed me one of those scenes out of context and said it was from a new french extremity movie, i would believe you
It is possible to make a genuinely scary PG-13-rated horror movie, and here is the proof. Full review at ScreenCrush.
Interesting approach to the fabled nightmare stories of my generations youth... gateway horror that lands somewhere between Goosebumps and It—utilizing setpiece style scares reminiscent of the latter, and managing to feel just as sincere (if not more?) than either.
I absolutely LOVED the first act of this movie: the mood, setting, season of the witch needle drop, editing, and how the story unfolded was right up my alley—mixing legit better than/darker than expected scares and big set piece after big set piece for each of the recognizable nightmare illustrations come to life. I was totally invested and ready to slap 4 stars all over this but unfortunately after the ‘let’s go visit the voodoo lady who tells us we’re doomed’ trope…
the jangly man was flexible in the streets 🛣wonder if he’s flexible in the sheets?🛏 haha just kidding ... unless?
[stefon voice] this movie has Everything: a nasty zit, vore, lana del rey, a basement that's not upstairs, toe stew, a smushed banana, AN ALBINO CHICK
Very enjoyable horror film. It has a Something Wicked This Way Comes/Stand By Me feel to it.
The horror parts are definitely creepy and memorable. Well directed.
ainda bem que Lana fez uma música pra esse filme e justificou a existência desse.
For a PG-13 horror movie, this one knocked it out of the park. There were scenes where I was genuinely scared/disturbed without it ever going overboard. I thought the kids were all great and the creatures were very well done.
It’s well-directed and the monsters look creepy enough, but I’m at least 30 years too old to find it actually scary.
Maybe a bit to scary for the "kid-friendly" tag, but definitely tween and up friendly. One of the best surprises of this year, and I'm sorry I waited to see it. Great Folk Horror.
I applaud the effects on the monsters, and the scares.
Movie was pretty boring when when the monsters werent on screen.
Disposable characters, nothing special.
Hopefully the sequel makes up for it
PRE-DIC-TUH-BULLLLLLL. I wish, I really wish that the obvious sequel that was set up at the end, will make me like the characters more. I hope with my heart of hearts that it elevates them above the level of middle school Y/A novel archetypes. That’s my biggest complaint, the characters, I just simply didn’t care about them. The story was good, the settings were spooky enough, and the fat ghost lady was genuinely unsettling. But the damn characters need some work. I often find myself comparing this movie to pictures like It (2017) where I really cared about the children in that film. Then I go watch It, not this. Trust me, I wanted to love this movie but I just came out of the theater liking it.
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