Based on the three book collection of short stories of the same name, the collection was considered controversial at the time (the nineties) due to their violence and macabre topics. The film tries to shock and disgust its audience and with some modern film techniques it delivers quite a few scary moments.

Set in small town America on Halloween, its young cast have the usual obstacles to overcome on the road to adulthood. There is the usual town bully, who meets a suitably gruesome end, the nerdy dude, the jokester and what in the late sixties would have been a cutting edge goth. Add in a town drifter and you have a rather predictable cast.

The original creation of the evil presence that haunts the town’s people has ecological overtones and touches on elements of familial abuse. This underlines what turns into an effective story with some decent scares and a little more depth that usual for films of this ilk.

Rob Hudson
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It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time-stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will be released in Australian cinemas September 26!
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