The children's horror book comes alive / Movie

If you were a kid in the 1980s or early 1990s, chances are you'll see the children's book series Scary stories to tell in the dark. Inspired by folklore and urban legends, the series of books written by Alvin Schwartz was all the more terrifying thanks to Stephen Gammell's inked and twisted illustrations. Now the book series comes alive in a film adaptation produced by Guillermo del Toroand the first Scary stories to tell in the dark trailer (or rather a series of mini-trailers) shows us the kind of terror we can expect.

Scary stories to tell in the dark Trailer

"Who took my big to-o-o-o-o-e?"

From the dark imagination of Guillermo del Toro, inspired by the series of iconic books, your first glimpse of Scary Stories to tell in the dark – at the cinema this summer. #Scary stories pic.twitter.com/am6qjrD5eg

– Frightening stories to tell in the dark (@ScaryStoriesMov) February 3, 2019

This first teaser is inspired directly from the original book with a grotesque stillborn woman looking for her missing big toe that has been dug up in a garden. This is one of the most troubling stories in the book, and this woman looks quite rude.

Turn off the lights and get ready for terror … the Jangly Man comes your way.

From the dark imagination of Guillermo del Toro, inspired by the series of iconic books, your first glimpse of Scary Stories to tell in the dark – at the cinema this summer. #Scary stories pic.twitter.com/b76IxYSDwI

– Frightening stories to tell in the dark (@ScaryStoriesMov) February 3, 2019

The following teaser makes us raise our eyebrows because it has a kind of nasty terror called The Jangly Man. As far as we can judge, it's not something that has been drawn from Scary stories books.

There is a lot of pressure for this film to produce the kind of nightmares that terrified children when they read these books so many decades ago. The illustrations were so horrible that books were banned in some libraries in the country. Based on this introduction to the film, we do not know exactly if it will meet expectations, but we are still curious.

In addition, here is the presentation poster that debuted just before the weekend, with a pretty terrifying picture:

This appalling disturbing is called Harold. His story is just one of many items in the collection Scary stories to tell in the dark. In the episode, the scarecrow animates in front of two cowboys driving a herd of cows in a green pasture in the mountains. Both think they are just losing their heads under the hot sun for so long. But the story ends when one of them meets a macabre end in the hands of the scarecrow.

For all those who fear that this film is not faithful to the terror of books, look at Harold's illustration:

It's damn close, if you ask me. I hope director André Øvredal (The autopsy of Jane Done, Trollhunter) will be just as faithful when it comes to making the other horrors of the book live. It will not be a collection of news like The Twilight Zone moviebut simply a fusion of various terrors as a group of young teens who have to solve the mystery surrounding sudden death and macabre in their small town.

The stars of the movie Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Bellows Gil, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn.

Scary stories to tell in the dark hits the theaters on August 9, 2019.

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