![]() Based on Susan Hill’s 1983 novel, The Woman in Black is genuinely haunting, though not particularly scary. Just like the opening in any version of Dracula, superstitious carriage drivers don’t make stops at the Eel Marsh House. Local children avoid it, only one road leads to it, and that trail is submerged by a bog a few times a day. Two things that go well in the dark.ĭirector James Watkins’ The Woman in Black lists Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role, but the most intriguing character is the mansion. These ghost movies come from the imagination and the page. Almost every Edgar Allan Poe film adaptation has a spectral presence Charles Dickens’ nighttime visitors in A Christmas Carol are only ghosts of presents we wrap for seasonal coverage director Lew Allen’s 1944 horror feature The Uninvited isn’t here because I haven’t read Dorothy Macardle’s Uneasy Freehold (1941), which it was based on yet The Amityville Horror comes from a novel, but is allegedly “a true story” ( which you can read about here). Some of the greatest films about hauntings originate as full cinema creations, with a director’s dark vision on the screen, others come from true cases or urban legends. ![]() Yes, there were oral traditions of the spooky place down the block or the hitchhiker on a lost highway, but usually someone put it down in a book. Before film, most apparitional tales came from novels or short stories. 9.Ghost stories have been around forever, and will haunt us long after we are ghosts. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark hits theaters (and your nightmares) Aug. Judging by the trailer, that’s no exaggeration - this is perhaps the scariest trailer yet, with Pale Ladies and spiders and scarecrows galore. They are more frail, but at the same, more complex, and they see that darkness, and that extends to this movie.” A lot of movies simplify kids and make them cute, skateboarding dudes who say one-liners and never get killed. ![]() captured that, and it made the kids more complex. I was going to a Jesuit school, I was in the prison, having to fight in the yard and this and that. “It’s always like, ‘It’s a golden time.’ Not for me, man. “Personally, I think the most dangerous time is your childhood,” said del Toro. The filmmakers also addressed the film’s PG-13 rating (“There’s no blood in this movie,” Øvredal said), explaining that it was in recognition of the fact that, scary as they might be, the books are meant for a young audience. For instance, the picky eater Auggie (Gabriel Rush), is seen encountering a creature missing its big toe - which he finds in his soup. As the central conceit of the film is that the book will tell stories tailored to the fears of the person reading/experiencing them, the stories will correspond accordingly to the characters. In a sneak preview on Monday in New York City, in which del Toro and Øvredal presented the trailer and a few new clips, the duo spoke further about their film, saying that the movie would contain roughly four to five stories from the original book (some of which can clearly be picked out from the trailer, e.g. ![]() We’ve seen bits and pieces of footage of the movie, produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by André Øvredal ( Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) the new trailer offers an even clearer look at what’s to come. As the spooky season creeps ever closer, so too does the much-anticipated film adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
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