Synopsis
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
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Cast
- Zoe CollettiStella Nicholls
- Dean NorrisRoy Nicholls
- Michael GarzaRamón Morales
- Gabriel RushAuggie Hilderbrandt
- Gil BellowsChief Turner
- Natalie GanzhornRuth Steinberg
- Austin AbramsTommy Milner
- Austin ZajurChuck Steinberg
- Kathleen PollardSarah Bellows
- Lorraine ToussaintLou Lou
Recommendations
- 80
IGN
The fun and frightful Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark will introduce a new generation to the joy of being scared. - 80
ScreenCrush
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is drenched with symbolism and layered with ideas about lost innocence and the power of stories — and the power of creating something that resonates with an audience for years and years. I suspect this movie will do exactly that. - 75
TheWrap
True to its word, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark delivers an entrancing thriller that explores the power of narratives with a few screams to boot. - 75
Chicago Tribune
The movie’s good even when it goes in too many directions at once, because it gets the kids right. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
At times the film seems like a horrifying Nancy Drew story or a more sophisticated Scooby-Doo episode without the dog and with a face full of spiders. - 60
The New York Times
Whether it’s the scene-setting blast of Donovan (“Zodiac”), the low-height Steadicam work (“The Shining”), the red-suffused hallways (David Lynch) or “Night of the Living Dead” playing at a drive-in, the movie takes from the best. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
There is absolutely nothing original in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which just goes to show that you don’t need originality to be effective. - 58
IndieWire
A movie that’s scary enough to get under your skin, but not scary enough to stay there.
