ScaryStoriesMovie turns the popular '80s YA anthologies into a gleefully ghoulish Horror 101 primer. Take the kids! Our review
, is aiming for. And the fact that it nails a lot of the books’ giddy grotesquerie helps smooth over the set-up’s hodgepodge structure. It’s 1968, America’s turbulent Year Zero of the 20th-century. Nixon is talking Vietnam on the tube;is playing at the drive-in. In small-town Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween still means innocent fun like dressing up as a witch or a clown — sorry, a “Pierrot” — and throwing flaming bags of shit at the local high school jock-bully.
That’s exactly what Chuck , Auggie and Stella end up doing, and the cretin in a letterman jacket who was their target is looking for payback. Eventually, he and his goons end up chasing the three kids, along with Ramón , a young man who has his reasons for passing through town, into an old dark house. Legend has it that the decrepit Bellows Manor was home to one Sarah Bellows, a girl who was driven mad by her family back in the 1890s. She may have known black magic.
Bring on the arachnids, which come pouring out of “The Red Spot” on the face of Auggie’s sister ! Here comes “Harold,” that straw man with a grudge to settle! Enter the shuffling corpse looking to retrieve “The Big Toe” she seems to have lost! How about “The Dream” you never wake up from, the one that includes a corpulent, pale figure following you down a red hallway? The movie strings together a number of the kids-lit series’ greatest hits, each of which are presented with a gleefully ghoulish...
It’s all a lot of chain-rattling, black-cat-screeching fun, though not such a blast that you don’t notice how generic and ramshackle the whole endeavor feels, or that an ending that can best be summed up as “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” doesn’t necessarily tie everything together the way the creators would like it to. But little things like narrative and technique feel slightly secondary here.
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