‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Gets a Teaser And Poster
The Guillermo Del Toro-produced adaption of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark now has a poster and a teaser trailer.
The film, based on Alvin Schwartz’s three collections of the same name, features all sorts of strange and horrific monsters. From the looks of the trailer, it seems the adaption is set to follow suit.
It seems Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will take a page out of the 2017 version of IT‘s book, following a group of teenagers in a small backwater town called Mill Valley. The key difference here is that instead of going with a period-piece movie set in the late 1980s, the story will be set in the late 1960s. The teens investigate the mystery of Sarah Bellows, a young girl who died long ago while living in a now-abandoned creepy mansion on the edge of town. Naturally, the kids decide to investigate the creepy mansion and end up reading the dead girl’s journal.
Soon, they realize that the writings in her journals have come to life, and spend the rest of the film running from all manners of creatures dreamed up by the girl in her old book. Not everything in the trailer is scary; the old woman’s voice narrating the beginning sounds a little clichéd and some other moments remind you of all the classic horror tropes that are usually unavoidable in these films.
If nothing else though, the monsters will prove a horrifying experience and the film’s first poster showcases one of them brilliantly.
The film’s premise is as follows:
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.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is directed by horror aficionado André Øvredal and is being produced and published by CBS Films and Lionsgate. It is scheduled to haunt theaters on August 9, 2019.
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