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Hey guys! Since we're on the eve of Halloween, what better way than to plan for a line-up of horror movies for the night, right? Coincidentally, it's actually been a year since I've done any sort of movie review (honestly, where has all the time gone??), so if a global virus ghostly entity hasn't quite locked up all the children inside the their homes for this season, then you might as well spend the night letting them watch some slightly 'kid-friendly' horror movies.
Hey, I wasn't kidding when I said this movie was slightly 'kid-friendly' as with how horror movies go, I mean I've read the book some of the movie's plot was taken from back when I was still in elementary and I turned out fine.
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Disclaimer: If your kid does end up not wanting to sleep alone after watching this film, then you gotta do your parental duties. I mean, they are your kids right?
So I got curious about watching this film 'cuz I saw some really familiar nightmares faces from the book I read when I was a kid, just for the one reason as to how they would spin the stories altogether as the book was written in a sort of anthology/documentary kind of way.
Just found out it's actually sold in a Trilogy set
Imagine my surprise when they thought of an urban legend that would tie all the stories into a surprisingly good movie!
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The film sets itself in 1968, near Halloween, in the smalltown of Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, where we're introduced to three friends (Stella, Auggie, and Chuck) who are otherwise shown being bullied by the town douche and company. It's just one of those days where they're trying to avoid getting mauled when they accidentally come across a mysterious guy named Ramón, though town douche and co. still gets their hands on the trio (plus unwittingly, the mysterious dude too) and they're shoved into the local town's haunted house.
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Now the real horror story begins when Stella finds an old journal inside said house in which a certain Sarah Bellows allegedly committed suicide in. Stella is first fascinated when the then empty journal suddenly begins to have 'stories' written in it, but is later horrified to discover that the supposedly fictional ghouls in the stories are picking them off, one by one.
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Surprisingly, some of the ghouls in the film came out as the milder versions of their book counterparts. For one, "Harold" was a lot less 'Jeepers Creepers' and became more like a 'bully-vigilante' if you know what I mean, though I really liked how "The Red Spot" seemingly popped right out of our faces screens.
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Even though I can't speak for some of the scary stories that got their screentime in this film, I'd say the urban legend that was Sarah Bellows made for a nice spin to tie all the stories together. So if your looking for a movie that you can enjoy with the kids that's a little less tackier than the Goosebumps films and leaning more towards Stranger Things, then get your comfort blankets ready for some "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark".
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