Review of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) by Trineo99 — 10 Aug 2019

First of all, I will admit that in a few cases that the CGI in this film was okay but I do know that they also used makeup to help make these creatures and whenever it was practical it looked well done.

I’ve seen multiple things online comparing the creatures in the film to those in the book and you can see the level of detail the make-up people put into making them look as if they just popped right out of the book.

As much as I want to say this film is scary it honestly isn’t. You can tell right away when a jump scare is about to happen because it’s such a cliché way. I will say that there was one point where I felt like I was going to vomit but it was one moment out of I don’t know how many.

The pacing in this film is another big problem with this film. The film is one-hour and forty-one-minutes long and you feel it. The plot moves at a snail pace speed and the film keeps coming up with dumb ways to keep making the film longer.

Like I said in the intro this feels like a long episode of a kids show like Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark and it probably would have been better as a two-part episode of one of those shows.

The acting in this film was mediocre at best and I couldn’t really care about any of these characters. I don’t want to say which person it was but there was one character that could have been better recasted.

In the end, I feel like this could have worked best as a TV Show than a full-length film. It ends off with a possible sequel that I think will never happen. I give Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark a 5.

5/10.