Creepily spectacular Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark is a throwback to films like Jeepers Creepers and Gremlins, films that were aimed for teenagers but had more of a horror side than most films aimed at that age-group.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2024

Alvin Schwartz’s book series, of which the film adapts, also celebrated the power of monster stories, however graphic they got. The film channels that very spirit to entertaining, if somewhat conventional, degrees.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has Guillermo Del Toro’s fingerprints all over the film but benefits heavily from André Øvredal’s assured direction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2024

Attempts to replicate Gammell's iconic visuals mostly work, but the Vietnam backstory is undercooked, villain Tommy is dispatched too early and most of the set pieces are too brief. What worked in Schwartz's campfire tales doesn't translate to screen

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 17, 2023

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a distinct horror flick, with well-developed leads, and a creative approach to a unique premise.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 24, 2023

When Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark brings Gammell's art to life, it's terrifying.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 26, 2022

Episode 46: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / Share / The King of Comedy

| Original Score: 46/100 | Oct 4, 2021

Scary Stories is the perfect gateway horror film to fire up youthful imaginations, yet disturbing enough to scratch even the most seasoned genre buff's itch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2021

"Not ghosts but human beings," reads a slogan for International Albinism Awareness Day, so it's ironic that the sole person with albinism in Scary Stories shows up as a ghost.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 22, 2021

During one of the longer sleuthing scenes I wondered, "When is the pacing building suspense and when is it building tedium?"

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

While only rated PG-13, this Guillermo del Toro produced horror film delivers more than its fair share of thrills, turning the popular YA book series into a pseudo-anthology film that avoids the trap of being inconsistent.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 21, 2020

Tone, flow and chemistry... those are the three things that didn't really mesh.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 26, 2020

It does it job at being a good horror flick for a night out of the house, but it still isn't as bold as it probably could've been.

| Sep 24, 2020

A nasty slice of PG-13 horror that shows a family-friendly feel doesn't mean the boundaries of terror can't be pushed and twisted with grotesque glee.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2020

A PG-13 adaptation that delivers intermittent frights amid plenty of campy nostalgia as it tries to stitch together unrelated spooky stories with mixed results. One can't help but think that it would have been better as an episodic 온라인카지노추천 series.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2020

I liked Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, I just wish I loved it.

| Original Score: B | Jul 8, 2020

A very good Goosebumps movie, not a very good Scary Stories movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 30, 2020

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is true to its name ... genuinely creepy, with an incredible sense of atmosphere.

| Jun 27, 2020

Format-wise, the film may have benefited from being a more straightforward anthology of shorts based on the stories, which were effective because they were so brutally concise.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 20, 2020

These and other spooky specters are memorably incarnated, to be sure. But I'm pretty easy to scare, and I can't say I found the movie, directed by Norway's Andre Ovredal of 2010's excellent Trollhunter, all that scary.

| Jan 6, 2020