
- #SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK CAST AUGUST MOVIE#
- #SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK CAST AUGUST SERIES#
Yet, there’s such a deliberate effort to impose this theme on every aspect of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark that it soon loses its potency. If we repeat certain stories enough, they become true. “Stories heal, stories hurt,” the film’s aspiring writer, Stella (Zoe Colletti), muses. The fourth teaser is based on the story “The Red Spot.At the heart of this adaptation, penned by Dan and Kevin Hageman, is the power of storytelling itself. The third teaser features the Pale Lady from the story “The Dream.” The second teaser is based on the story “The Big Toe.”
#SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK CAST AUGUST MOVIE#
Is the movie version still aiming for that same crowd? Maybe on the older end of the originally intended age range. Our first look at the movie came in the form of four brief teasers aired during Super Bowl LIII, and they definitely look terrifying - especially for the younger audience these books were written for.

This first teaser for Scary Stories is terrifying: Oh, and there’s a sufficient amount of shots of ghosts, monsters and body horror. We’re next,” utters Austin Zajur to a friend. “The book reads you,” she says in another eerie moment. “I’m afraid I’m going to die,” Zoe Colletti says, tearfully and scared out of her wits. Lionsgate will release Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark on August 9, 2019. They’re joined by adult actors Dean Norris ( Breaking Bad), Gil Bellows ( The Shawshank Redemption) and del Toro staple Doug Jones ( The Shape of Water), who is portraying a monster known as “The Jangly Man.” The young cast of the movie consists of Zoe Colletti ( Wildlife), Michael Garza ( The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1), Austin Abrams ( Paper Towns), Austin Zajur ( Fist Fight), Gabriel Rush ( The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Natalie Ganzhorn ( The Night Before Halloween). Who are the stars of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

#SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK CAST AUGUST SERIES#
Their script was redone by John August ( Frankenweenie), who was then replaced by Dan and Kevin Hageman, who worked on The Lego Movie and Hotel Transylvania as well as del Toro’s animated Trollhunters series (which has nothing to do with Øvredal’s Trollhunter movie). There have been a few names attached as screenwriters over the years working with del Toro’s idea and an original draft penned by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, who wrote a number of Saw sequels as well as Piranha 3DD and The Collection. Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal, who is best known for helming the foreign found-footage cult classic Trollhunter and the American indie horror movie The Autopsy of Jane Doe, is directing Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark in del Toro’s place.

He developed the adaptation for a few years and came up with the story that the script is based on but ultimately found someone else to take the helm. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is another passion project for Guillermo del Toro, who was once potentially going to direct the movie, too. The plot follows a group of kids who must overcome their fears in order to save their small town, where a bunch of strange, horrific deaths have been occurring, which sounds like it should appeal to fans of It.

Rather than adapting any one story or multiple stories into an anthology movie, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will feature an original tale inspired by various classics from the books, similar to the Goosebumps movies. It’s truly terrifying.Ĭheck out the teaser down below after reading everything we know about the adaptation. The spot highlights how Scary Stories is based on the iconic book series “that has haunted generations,” and the teaser alone might give you nightmares with just a minute’s worth of footage, much of it featuring kids being traumatized in some way or another. Now there’s a movie adaptation of some of the bone-chilling tales found in the pages of that iconic collection.įollowing brief glimpses earlier this year, the first true teaser trailer has now arrived for the movie, and this thing sure isn’t for children. The series of children’s books, written by Alvin Schwartz and initially illustrated by Stephen Gammell, were staples of every boy and girl’s book shelf and provided so many of them with so many nightmares. If you’re a child of the ‘80s or ‘90s, you’re familiar with Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
