A dismembered body (and the previously attached bits) fall down a chimney. Someone is attacked by dozens of spiders. A person is stabbed through the abdomen with a pitchfork. A zombie head is shown from the film “Night of the Living Dead”. Violence: People are threatened with a baseball bat. Why is Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark rated PG-13? Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for terror/violence, disturbing images, thematic elements, language including racial epithets, and brief sexual references. Starring Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, and Gabriel Rush. Just keep a good grip on your popcorn - I’m positive someone behind me managed to startle so badly they spilled theirs. Brave teens and young adults looking for a good scare can find one here.
#Stories to tell in the dark movie#
The movie also makes excellent use of silence, letting you build tension in a vacuum while you wait to hear the next ominous footfall/bony crunch/unsettling scream.ĭon’t bring easily frightened or nightmare prone movie viewers into this one – it will have them screaming in their sleep for a week.
#Stories to tell in the dark skin#
True to its name, the stories are told very much in the dark, making it hard to tell if that’s a corpse-like monstrosity scuttling up the hallway at you or just a curtain being blown by the wind, until bam, you’ve jumped clean out of your skin and into the lap of the poor bloke sitting next to you. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a scarier horror movie than a big franchise piece like Annabelle Comes Home, and has a better script to boot. Obviously, this film is wildly unsuitable for kids because it is white knuckle terrifying. I have eaten spaghetti while watching The Thing without an issue, so for a film to get a solid retch out of me is really something. “The Big Toe” part specifically managed to make me physically gag, which is amazing. The gross-out comes from fantastic character design (based heavily on Gammell’s illustrations) and some superb sound effects. It could have done with less profanity but the violence is mostly vague enough to be absolutely terrifying without trying to just gross you out. PG-13 is just about the perfect rating for this movie.
For me, “Harold” was the scariest illustration, and I am personally horrified that he made it into the film. The nostalgia factor with these books is strong: you remember at least one of the dumb campfire stories in the books for sure, but what stuck was the nightmare-fueling illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Doing the logical thing, they read it, frightened themselves half to death, and then passed it around to share the scare with as many other kids as possible. Somewhere around the third grade, everyone I knew in elementary school found one of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books in the school library. The only problem? The book seems to be writing grisly deaths for everyone who came into the house…
Locked in by the bullies, the three friends find an ancient book, written by the Bellows’ mysterious (and allegedly murderous) shut-in daughter Sarah. The terrorized youth find shelter with Ramon (Michael Garza) in the local haunted house - formerly the mansion owned by the Bellows family, who ran the paper mill in town. Unfortunately, the thugs react poorly to being the targets of the prank, and proceed to chase them around with a baseball bat. Halloween comes to Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, and Auggie Hildebrandt (Gabriel Rush) and Chuck Steinberg (Austin Zajur) are trying to convince their friend Stella (Zoe Colletti) to join them in a nefarious prank against the high school bullies.
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