![]() ![]() But their efforts are constantly foiled by the appearances of several grotesque monsters, which have appeared to have walked straight out of Schwartz and Gammell's books. Things kick off when Stella steals the book from the mansion and slowly discovers that Sarah's stories are literally writing themselves - the monsters coming to life to claim everyone who had entered the mansion that night.Īs the group scrambles to stop the book from taking more lives, they dig deeper into the Bellows' family history and the true tortured nature of Sarah Bellows. The group stumble upon Sarah's room, where they discover her dusty book of horror stories, written (aptly) in children's blood. But in her short life, Sarah became known as a storyteller who would regale local children with scary stories that she would tell through the walls of her isolated room. ![]() ![]() Stella, the group's resident horror girl, launches into a tale about the tragic Sarah Bellows, the unseen daughter of the Bellows clan who was kept confined for her entire life before she hung herself. Accompanied by a young stranger Ramon ( Michael Garza), the teens explore the dilapidated mansion, which had once been a go-to spot for teen Halloweeners before a kid mysteriously disappeared. In 1968, a group of teenage friends Stella ( Zoe Colletti), August ( Gabriel Rush), and Chuck ( Austin Zajur) seek revenge on their high school bullies on Halloween night with some petty pranks that lead them to the doorstep of the abandoned Bellows Family Mansion at the edge of town. Øvredal directs a story by Guillermo del Toro, scripted by Dan and Kevin Hageman, which streamlines the collection of disconnected stories into a narrative about a haunted house in an nondescript mill town. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark effectively captures the primal horror of campfire stories while doing justice by Schwartz's creepy designs in a marriage of old-fashioned practical thrills and sleek modern effects. But Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is very much geared toward a younger audience, one that will surely embrace the film as a classic for a new generation of horror lovers. André Øvredal's feature film adaptation of Schwartz's beloved children's books is heavily inspired by the Gammell's macabre drawings, so unnervingly so that one could mistake this as a horror film for a much older audience. ![]()
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