Ahead of the film’s premiere this Friday, a brand new featurette for CBS Films’ forthcoming film adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has arrived online (via Fandango). The video features an interview with Academy Award winner Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) talking about how they’ve designed the film’s monsters in order to stay true to the original illustrations. Check out the video in the player below!
It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time — stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying home.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will also star Zoe Colletti (Annie), Austin Abrams (Brad’s Status, Tragedy Girls), Gabriel Rush (Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Michael Garza (Wayward Pines, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1), Austin Zajur (Fist Fight, Kidding), Dean Norris (Breaking Bad), Gil Bellows (Patriot, Jett) and Lorraine Toussaint (Into The Badlands, Selma, Orange Is The New Black) and Natalie Ganzhorn (Make it Pop, Wet Bum).
Pick up the original novels here.
The movie is directed by André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Trollhunter) and is co-written by Daniel and Kevin Hageman along with Guillermo del Toro, who provided the screen story.
The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book series was first published during the 1980s, written/adapted from folklore by Alvin Schwartz and gorily illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The film follows a group of young teens who must solve the mystery surrounding the sudden and macabre deaths in their small town.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will open on August 9.
.@RealGDT walks us through how they got the look of the #ScaryStoriesMovie monsters to so closely resemble the iconic drawings. pic.twitter.com/QsbzrYbOlQ
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