SCARY STORES TO TELL IN THE DARK (2019) MOVIE NEWS & REVIEW

scary stories to tell in the dark (2019) movie

Genre              |   Horror Thriller

Classification   |   MA  15+

Running time   |   110 minutes

Released         |   8 August  2019

cast

Zoe Margaret Colletti ... Stella Nicholls
Michael Garza ... Ramón Morales
Austin Zajur ... Chuck Steinberg
Gabriel Rush ... Auggie Hilderbrandt
Dean Norris ... Roy Nicholls
​Gil Bellows ... Chief Turner

director

​André Øvredal

writer

Dan Hageman ... (screenplay by) &
Kevin Hageman ... (screenplay by)
 
John August ... (screenplay)
Guillermo del Toro ... (screenplay)
Marcus Dunstan ... (screenplay)
Patrick Melton ... (screenplay)
Alvin Schwartz ... (book)

cinematographer

​​Roman Osin

music

​Marco Beltrami
Anna Drubich

film editor

​Patrick Larsgaard

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box office result

Worldwide               $25 million

Australia                 $? million

North America        $? million

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movie minutiae

Based on the SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK book series published in the 1980s, written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell.

In January 2016, it was announced that Guillermo del Toro would develop the project for CBS Films with potential attachment to direct, while he would also produce the film along with Sean Daniel, Jason Brown, and Elizabeth Grave.

​In February 2016, CBS Films hired screenwriting brothers duo Dan and Kevin Hageman to polish the draft written by August, and before him the script was written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton.

In December 2017, it was reported that André Øvredal would direct the film.

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SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK (2019) STORY SYNOPSIS

​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 home.

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK (2019) MOVIE REVIEW

Reviewed by Mark Geraghty   |   Review date 8 August 2019

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SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK MOVIE (2019) USEFUL LINKS

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (film) - Wikipedia
​Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) - IMDb
​Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes​

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