Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Teaser Trailer: The Book Reads You
Alvin Schwartz's creepy children's horror stories come to life in the trailer for the Guillermo del Toro-produced Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Published from 1981-1991, Schwartz's three Scary Stories collections were inspired by a variety of older folk stories and urban legends about everything from wicked scarecrows to vengeful ghosts, Death itself, and even the occasional polite, if misunderstood, monster.
CBS Films acquired the Scary Stories movie rights in 2013, and had writers like John August (Frankenweenie) and Saw sequel duo Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton work on a movie adaptation, before bringing del Toro aboard. The Shape of Water director is credited for the film's screen story and served as a producer here, with André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe) calling the shots from a script by del Toro's Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia collaborators, Dan and Kevin Hageman.
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The film's marketing got underway in February with a poster and Super Bowl TV spots that nodded to some of Schwartz's more infamous stories, like "The Red Spot", "Harold", and "The Big Toe". CBS Films has now released a Scary Stories teaser trailer online, in theaters with Pet Sematary next week. CBS also released a pair of posters this week that once again reference "The Red Spot" and the Pale Lady character from Schwartz's books (who also showed up in the Super Bowl spots). You can check out the latter one-sheet after the trailer, below.
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