Guillermo del Toro Is Scared Of Same ‘Scary Stories’ Monster As

Even within the daytime, Scary Stories to Tell within the Dark remains to be loads terrifying. Imagine how freaking scary it’s going to be in a darkish theater… when you may’t see what’s taking place behind you… or who (what?) may seize your legs from beneath your seat at any time. Anyway! Guillermo del Toro has turned author Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Stephen Gammell’s Scary Stories guide sequence right into a feature-length movie, however director André Øvredal desires you to know “this is not an anthology movie.” Rather, it’s a “single story that weaves the books’ (there are three) mythology into a larger whole,” based on IndieWire:

“We did American Idol with the tales within the writers’ room,” del Toro stated of that course of, and “distilled it to the ones everyone remembers the most.” He likened the end result to a “greatest hits” model of Schwartz’s unsettling tales. “They’re all supernatural,” he added. “We like creatures, in case you couldn’t tell.”

del Toro, who isn’t any stranger to monsters (whether or not they be of the hellish or fish-sex selection), additionally revealed the Scary Story character that scares him essentially the most: the Pale Lady, which, yeah. Maybe she and Pale Man can get a by-product film?

Here’s extra on Scary Stories to Tell within the Dark:

It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing within the wind… however seemingly far faraway from the unrest within the cities is the small city of Mill Valley the place for generations, the shadow of the Bellows household has loomed massive. It is of their mansion on the sting of city that Sarah, a younger woman with horrible secrets and techniques, turned her tortured life right into a sequence of scary tales, written in a guide that has transcended time — tales which have a method of changing into all too actual for a bunch of youngsters who uncover Sarah’s terrifying residence.

The movie is about to be launched on August 9. BEWARE.

(Via IndieWire)