This establishes the basic premise of the film, in which new stories are being written in the book and they appear to be targeting Stella and everyone else that entered the Bellows’ house that night. The next day, they realize that it seems as though the story actually came true, and that the book itself may be haunted. Upon opening it she sees that a new page is somehow being written in blood right before her very eyes, and it happens to be about the bully that chased them into the house.
Stella, an amateur horror writer herself, finds the rumored book that was written by Sarah. While inside this haunted house, our group of protagonists Stella (Zoe Colletti), Ramón (Michael Garza), Auggie (Gabriel Rush), and Chuck (Austin Zajur), discover the room Sarah had spent her life trapped in.
According to legend, Sarah wrote a book of horror stories and would read them aloud through the walls of her room to frighten the local townspeople. Sarah had been accused of killing the town’s children, and so her family kept her hidden away and attempted to erase her from existence, even removing her from their own family portraits. It was once owned by the wealthy Bellows Family, who according to urban legend, locked away their own daughter, Sarah Bellows, inside the cellar of their home. They know the story of this house well, whose folklore is rooted in the origins of their own small town. In Mill Valley, Pennsylvania in 1968, a group of teenage friends fleeing from a band of bullies hide out in an abandoned haunted house on Halloween night. Produced by Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and directed by André Øvredal, the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark film constructs a new narrative around several of the iconic short stories from the book series, and brings them to life to haunt the movie’s teenage characters. Over the next ten years, Schwartz wrote two more books in the Scary Stories series, and now, nearly forty years later, it has finally been adapted into a major motion picture. Combined with its morbid and ghastly illustrations by artist Stephen Gammell, the book would serve as an introduction to horror for many. In the early 1980s, author Alvin Schwartz created a book of short horror stories titled Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark that would go on to terrorize a whole generation of curious young readers. Rated PG-13 for terror/violence, disturbing images, thematic elements, language including racial epithets, and brief sexual references Starring: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Zajur, and Austin Abrams
Written by: Dan & Kevin Hageman, and Guillermo del Toro
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