Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Stories taken from true urban legends
Country
Production
Budget
$25 000 000
Box office
$104 545 505
Director
Actors
Zoe Colletti, Dean Norris, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Gil Bellows, Natalie Ganzhorn, Austin Abrams, Austin Zajur, Kathleen Pollard, Lorraine Toussaint
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Sean Daniel, Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Jason F. Brown, Elizabeth Grave, Joshua Long, Roberto Grande, Alex Ginno, Peter Luo
Camera operator
Roman Osin
Composer
Artist
David Brisbin, Barbara Agbaje
Audition
Rich Delia
Short description
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
What's left behind the scenes
- Mike Elizalde, Norman Cabrera, and the other special effects artists decided that Harold the scarecrow would be constructed from composite parts (a rotting pumpkin for a belly and a wooden frame instead of a skeleton). It was Cabrera who suggested using an old rubber mask that had been left in the sun to dry out for a long time as Harold's face.
- Creating the Pale Lady was no easy feat. The costume for this character was worn by Mark Steger, who is a veteran of the horror genre (and previously worked at Spectral Motion, a company specializing in creating cinematic monsters through animatronics, makeup, costumes, and so on). Among other things, Steger played the Demogorgon in the first season of 'Stranger Things'. Mike Elizalde, a special effects specialist, later spoke about the difficulties with the creature's eyes, which were positioned too far apart.
- Mike Elizalde, Norman Cabrera, and the other special effects artists decided that Harold the scarecrow would be constructed from composite parts (a rotting pumpkin for a belly and a wooden frame for a skeleton). It was Cabrera who suggested using an old rubber mask that had been lying in the sun and dried out for a long time as Harold's face.
- The Bellows family home was filmed in the small town of Petrolia in the southwestern part of Ontario province.
- A film adaptation of the book series of the same name by Alvin Schwartz, with illustrations by Steven Gammell. The series was published in the 1980s.
- Mike Elizalde, Norman Cabrera, and the other special effects artists decided that the scarecrow Harold would be constructed from composite parts (a rotting pumpkin as the stomach and a wooden frame instead of a skeleton). Cabrera specifically suggested using an old rubber mask, which had lain in the sun for a long time and dried out, as Harold's face. Elizalde seized on this idea.
- CBS Films acquired the film rights to the book series in 2015. Five years later, it was announced that Guillermo del Toro would serve as one of the screenwriters and producers of the cinematic adaptation. It was del Toro who decided to include several monsters in the script.
- The Bellows family home was filmed in the small town of Petrolia in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario.
- CBS Films acquired the rights to adapt the book series in 2015. Five years later, it was announced that Guillermo del Toro would be one of the screenwriters and producers of the film adaptation. Del Toro himself decided to include some of the monsters in the script.
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