Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Timing: 1:48 (108 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2019-08-08

Country

Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, United States

Production

Double Dare You Productions, Entertainment One, CBS Films, Starlight Culture Entertainment Group, 1212 Entertainment, Rolling Hills, Hivemind

Genre

Horror, Thriller

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$104 545 505

Website

https://www.scarystoriestotellinthedark.com/

Director

André Øvredal

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)

Scenario

Producer

Sean Daniel, Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Jason F. Brown, Elizabeth Grave, Joshua Long, Roberto Grande, Alex Ginno, Peter Luo

Operator

Roman Osin

Composer

Marco Beltrami

Artist

Audition

Editing

Patrick Larsgaard
All team (125)

• 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.
• The Bellows family home was filmed in the small town of Petrolia in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario.
• 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 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 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.