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Despite Some Super Cool Monsters, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Offers Only Fleeting Frights

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Despite Some Super Cool Monsters, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Offers Only Fleeting Frights

But unlike those spooky books, this perfectly fine big-screen version isn’t destined for classic status.

Stella is a bit of a misfit who loves to write horror fiction and deems Night of the Living Dead to be “the best flick all year.” Her bedroom decor is to die for, with its enviable mishmash of monster magazines and creepy movie posters.

The frame story eventually leads them into exploring an abandoned mansion, where Stella discovers a book filled with eerie tales.

With that inspiration to guide them, director André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe) and screenwriters Dan and Kevin Hageman (who’ve both written for del Toro’s animated Netflix series Trollhunters) give us a film that’s definitely not an anthology, but its structure is still far from original.

It’s basically a more creative spin on a slasher movie, complete with a villain who methodically picks off characters one by one.

The distinction, of course, is that each gruesome scene is plucked from the Scary Stories source material, with the story moulded to fit each victim’s worst fears.

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