![]() Two saves: They got Gill Bellows in a movie about the Bellows family! Womp-womp. Even in a teen horror movie, that earns a big Fuck You from me. Whhhhaaa? The highest script sin of all is Stella demanding someone to get over trauma because it’s inconvenient for everyone else. Why have it? Draft dodging is a theme, along with the gruesome fate of soldiers, but still ends with a pro-draft scene. Why have it? The Nixon election is constantly referenced on television and radios, but with ambiguous purpose. Plot-wise, Stella’s relationship with her father is framed around tragedy, but is never resolved or used to fuel her to defeat the ghost. And everyone is there to serve Story Arc A Arc A should be solid. They are there to provide a few extra bodies for the monsters to overtake before they go for Stella. Her friend Chuck (Austin Zajur) and August (Gabriel Rush) fare no better. ![]() Even though I’m pretty sure she’s playing 16 and he’s playing 19 and that gets weird. Little is revealed of his background unless it serves his role to dote on Stella. Michael Garza gives more as Ramón Morales, but he is there to serve the token “outsider”. Stella Nichols (Zoe Margaret Colletti) is a modern American Actress: pretty, understands her angles, but only knows what she should feel rather than feeling it. There is a fresh idea of comparing the stories to the Nixon and the Vietnam war…but it doesn’t make any sense. A lead girl who acts too hard, a trope-copia of supporting characters, a mostly white cast with one token diverse actor. Instead, I was met with a basic of YA flicks with an interchangeable plot with any YA flick. Knowing Guillermo del Toro was attached as writer and producer led me to believe this would be full of grotesquely beautiful puppets and a nagging sensation of danger for the entire 111 minutes. ![]() ![]() I was frankly disappointed by this adaption of my childhood classic. When she passes, the people of Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, believes they are once again safe until 1968, when Stella Nichols and her friends check out the local haunted house and finds the novel of their own doom. She uses the book and her own blood to write down stories…dangerous stories…that might not be fiction at all. But Sarah doesn’t sit quietly in the dark. Living in the early 1900s and suffering from a form of albinism, her family has relegated her to the basement with nothing but a bed and a blank book. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, your favorite young adult (YA) short story collections you pretended didn’t scare you but absolutely did, has a new iteration as the brain-children of an isolated young woman named Sarah Bellows. ![]()
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