Review – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Going into it, the folks who made this movie must have realized that they weren’t going to be able to create anything as eerie as the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book series, especially not Stephen Gammell’s excellent art work. So they didn’t bother to try. Instead, this is a handful of elements from the books stirred into a gumbo with everything from high school bullies to the Vietnam War. The main thread is about a ghostly manuscript that writes itself, bringing doom to all who find their stories told within its pages. Mildly amusing