'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' Adaptation Lands Director

[Lou Cypher]

I fucking LOVED these books when i was a kid. Some of the stories legit scared the hell out of me.

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

I bet if I read those again they would still be creepy

 

[Lou Cypher]

I bet if I read those again they would still be creepy

Lol i bet too. Seriously some of the creepiest stories ive read even to this day. Some of them are stuck in my head.

 

[Broddie]

Autopsy of Jane Doe was really good.

 

[TheGOAT]

My brother used to read those out loud on long road trips just to piss me off.

Hated them books

 

[Lou Cypher]

My brother used to read those out loud on long road trips just to piss me off.

Hated them books

Lol did he scream the words during certain stories? I remember in the books they would have parenthesis saying stuff like (scream the last sentence very loudly) for folks who were reading out loud.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I bet if I read those again they would still be creepy

I read that they are banned in a lot of schools. At first, I was like "here we go again with the soft shit" and then I went back and read a couple and wondered how in the hell those books wound up in elementary schools to begin with. I remember reading them shits in second grade. Some of the stories are mild, but some of them are brutal like the story about the butcher that killed his wife, ground her up into sausage, and fed her to the townspeople.

The thing I wonder about the movie is will they use some of the mild stories and try to make it something like the Goosebumps movie where they try to appeal to a younger crowd. Or will they say "Fuck it, the people that read these books are grown" and put out some crazy shit made for adults.

 

[Lou Cypher]

I bet if I read those again they would still be creepy

I read that they are banned in a lot of schools. At first, I was like "here we go again with the soft shit" and then I went back and read a couple and wondered how in the hell those books wound up in elementary schools to begin with. I remember reading them shits in second grade. Some of the stories are mild, but some of them are brutal like the story about the butcher that killed his wife, ground her up into sausage, and fed her to the townspeople.

The thing I wonder about the movie is will they use some of the mild stories and try to make it something like the Goosebumps movie where they try to appeal to a younger crowd. Or will they say "Fuck it, the people that read these books are grown" and put out some crazy shit made for adults.

I found the books for the first time in 3rd grade. Even back then i was kind of surprised they had it in my school library lol. I read that story "The Hitchhiker" about the lady driving alone on a long rolling road, Low on gas, seeing a creepy hitchhiker every few miles. Then when her vehicle starts sputtering and she sees him again hes holding a knife and smiling. Then it goes to the next morning and the cops are describing all the stab wounds on her.

Some of the illustrations were fucked up too man lol. I really hope they do an adult version for this movie.

 

[TheGOAT]

My brother used to read those out loud on long road trips just to piss me off.

Hated them books

Lol did he scream the words during certain stories? I remember in the books they would have parenthesis saying stuff like (scream the last sentence very loudly) for folks who were reading out loud.

LOL i dont remember if he did or not but i remember a lot of the stories still.

Gave me PTSD

 

[atribecalledgabi]

Shout out to that harold the scarecrow story for freaking me tf out for a good decade. The one about that chick that had to wear a scarf around her neck all the time or else her head would fall off was classic too.

Didn't they tame these books down a couple years ago cuz they were too dark and graphic? I wonder if they go the old school scary way or the new school mild way with the visuals.

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

Del Toro would have been awesome on this

 

[atribecalledgabi]

Del Toro would have been awesome on this

He's a producer

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Ya'll remember this song from one of the books?


Seriously, who the fuck makes stuff like this for kids? lol

 

[atribecalledgabi]

Ya'll remember this song from one of the books?


Seriously, who the fuck makes stuff like this for kids? lol

Hell yea I remember this shit!!!! Damn I was singing along remembering the words lol

 

[Lou Cypher]

I didn't recognize the song at first but then certain lines were said like the worms crawling through your body and it just struck some thing in me giving me a mental flashback lol. Could remember being a kid coming in from recess for reading time and being creepeded out lol

 

[atribecalledgabi]

The worms play pinochle on your snout is my favorite line lol

 

[lord nemesis]

Fond childhood memories

 

[Max.]

Im scared :s

 

[BenjaminE]

Ya'll remember this song from one of the books?


Seriously, who the fuck makes stuff like this for kids? lol

I was teaching a middle school class and took them to the library... one kid wasn't fuckin with it, grabbed a couple books off the shelf and sat down just waiting to go back to class and horsin around with his friends... I was like "Is that the one with the hearse song?" He's like "Huh?" So I flipped it to the TOC and was like yup, there it is... When he got back he had half the class gathered around his desk reading it... I remember shit like that...

Anyway, I like how this guy performs it...

 

[Stomp Johnson]

I might be more excited for this than any comic book movie. I grew up broke so I didn't have access to comics but I stayed checking these shits out alongside RL Stine's fear street joints.