Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark poster

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

2019 ·1h 48m · ★ 6.5 (2,826)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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5 horror films in catalog

Horror DNA

Gore
Bloodless Splatterfest
43
Slow Burn
Shock-driven Slow burn
17
Psychological
Straightforward Mind-bending
0
Supernatural
Grounded Otherworldly
80
Creature
Human threats Monster-driven
18
Disturbing
Tame Deeply unsettling
50
Fun Factor
Deadly serious Blast to watch
50
Cerebral
Popcorn horror Thinking horror
71
Survival
No survival element Fight for your life
50
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Child in DangerBody HorrorEye Trauma
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TMDB Keywords

1960saspiring writerbased on novel or bookdraft dodgerfamily secretsfolk horrorhalloweenhaunted househigh school friendsracismscarecrowsmall townurban legend

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