A scary good Halloween flick
Tonight is Halloween, how will you spend it? Perhaps watch a scary movie, but which one, especially if you aren't a big fan of horror. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a competent PG-13 horror, which is rather surprising when seeing the negative reputation horror movies with this rating have. The movie tells a story set on Halloween night when a group of young teens find an abandoned house, and within it a old book. The book is filled with tons of frightening stories, which all start becoming true.
This movie is inspired by the popular anthology book series of the same name that released from the mid-eighties, to the early-nineties. Surprisingly enough I feel it is a rather faithful adaptation, then again I've only read the stories that were featured in the film; Harold, The Big Toe, The Red Spot, The Dream, The Haunted House, and a original one that takes inspiration from Me Tie Dough-ty Walker! (Yes, that is the full name of the story). The movie doesn't just focus on those stories as there are plenty of easter eggs to the original book sprinkled around the movie for fans of the series to find. It probably helps that the twisted mind of Guillermo del Toro (Whose works include Pan's Labyrinth, the original Hellboy movies, and most recently the Academy Award winning, The Shape of Water), who was able to bring Scary Stories' illustrator Stephen Gammel's morbid drawings to life.
I'm going to be quickly honest, this review may be a bit biased as I actually never grew up reading the books as the cover art always scared me too much to even open up. It is because of this, I won't fault you if you personally think this is a bad adaption, but hey it's at least a good horror film, much more better then last week's Deadly Detention anyway. All in all, this scary story get a 4 out of 5 paws up from me! Have a happy Halloween everyone!
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