- #Stories to tell in the dark movie#
- #Stories to tell in the dark skin#
- #Stories to tell in the dark series#
#Stories to tell in the dark movie#
The film is often referred to as a movie or moving picture.
#Stories to tell in the dark series#
The illusion of a series of images produces continuous motion in the form of video.
#Stories to tell in the dark skin#
And if Øvredal and del Toro struggle at getting these tales to burrow under our skin in a figurative sense, at least they can do it literally.Work of art in the form of a series of live images that are rotated to produce an illusion of moving images that are presented as a form of entertainment. lending credence to the theory that these books were written by an angry ghost to scare children.Ībove all, the film celebrates storytelling as both a healing and a harming force, a way for us to put a face on something as unknowable as death. There's some family business scattered around, too, involving a miller's heiress falsely accused of grisly acts who begins writing the creepy stories as an act of revenge. The premise itself, meanwhile, borrows from the far noisier 2015 kid-horror hit Goosebumps. You especially feel this in its lazy characterization of supporting players/victims like the group's official prankster (Austin Zajur) and the cerebral nerd (Gabriel Rush). Instead, letting teens loose in a period setting (it takes place in 1968, in the witching-hour period between Halloween and Richard Nixon's Election Day) becomes a clumsy effort to capture some Stranger Things magic. Narratively, the film isn't quite able to tap into the rich vein of campfire folklore it might have found had it embraced an anthology format. It's important to enjoy these sequences, repetitive though they eventually become, because the technique with which they're made is what holds the production together.
A showdown with a bug-covered scarecrow in a rustling cornfield is a highlight, as is another with a clever creature who can drop down a chimney one severed body part at a time. As the Crypt Keeper might say, they're just dying to know what happens next.īut in the meantime, the set-pieces are often smartly realized, with tension that builds in fits and waves, hooking audiences in for big communal frights. Given all this, it's a nice touch that even when things get bad, these kids are still reading the stories to each other. The book can't be returned or destroyed, and its various ghouls (who bear strong visual resemblances to Gammell's drawings) are trying to kill the teenagers who conjure them - including a horror-obsessed loner (Zoe Margaret Colletti) and a Mexican drifter passing through town (Michael Garza). And the stories write themselves, in this case literally. Recovered from its resting place in the local haunted house in suburban Pennsylvania, it's leather-bound and filled with gory, unseemly tales scrawled in children's blood. The book at the center of this new PG-13 Scary Stories film adaptation operates under the same rules. Such was the nightmarish power of their author, Alvin Schwartz, and original illustrator Stephen Gammell, that if a skittish parent tried to ban one book from the shelves, three more would spring up in its place overnight.
These were the defining images of the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books, which began haunting the children's section of your local library in 1981, although the stories themselves were based on centuries-old urban legends and folktales that have plagued various cultures for far longer. The pictures are probably what you remember: shrieking witches and half-melted skulls leering out from jet-black pages hideous creatures snarling on leashes and tree branches lurching like tentacles from tombstones. Guillermo del Toro produced and co-wrote this screen adaptation of the classic kid's horror anthology.
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