scary stories to tell in the dark

June 3, 2019

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark: The New Spooky Trailer

Peter Paltridge Guillermo del Toro, Horror, Movies, scary stories to tell in the dark 0

It’s been a long time since the 80s — also known as the Golden Age Of Unsanitized Terrifying Eye-Scarring Movies Aimed At Children. Anyone who wonders why Stranger Things is half-horror hasn’t seen the kind of films kids had to watch back then — Return To Oz, The Secret of NIMH, The Witches, The Gate, you name it. Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark is an attempt by producer Guillermo del Toro to get back to that era. Why? Because childhood itself isn’t completely sunny. “Personally, I think the most dangerous time is your childhood,” Del Toro told the crowd at a sneak preview screening this weekend, attended By Polygon’s Karen Han. “It’s always like, ‘It’s a golden time.’ Not for me, man. I was in Shawshank (he’s speaking metaphorically…we think). I was going to a Jesuit school, I was in the prison, having to fight in the yard and this and that.” “[Director Andre Øvredal] captured that, and it made the kids more complex. A lot of movies

April 10, 2019

“Scary Stories” Documentary Coming From Wild Eye

Peter Paltridge books, documentaries, Horror, scary stories, scary stories to tell in the dark 0

Alvin Schwartz’ Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark was sure great. It was one of those rare “kiddie” horror books that didn’t talk down to them or pull back its punches out of fear we couldn’t handle it. What made the book most memorable were the delightfully ghoulish illustrations which made kids feel they were reading something they weren’t supposed to — and depending on what state you lived in, this may well have been the case. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark was banned by some schools under pressure by parental groups, which in some cases meant it had to be read under the covers for more than one reason. Schwartz’s iconic book will be heading to the big screen this summer for its first movie adaption, but before then, an upcoming documentary about the impact of Scary Stories — which is simply called “Scary Stories” — will be released from Wild Eye Releasing. Explore the history of one of the most controversial works of modern children’s