Is Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark scary?

Moderately so — Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark mixes scares with other modes. As a supernatural film, it scored 6.0/10 for fear, 8.0/10 for atmosphere, and 6.5/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has 8 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is tagged as supernatural, teen, creature feature on Watch Darkly. The film's page lists similar horror films selected by curated scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

2019 · PG-13 · 1h 48m

They're not just stories anymore.

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Plot summary via TMDB

Curator Score

6.5

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Carried by atmosphere.

Jump scares

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has 8 jump scares. Compare counts

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6.5Overall

Fear6.0

Gore6.0

Atmosphere8.0

Genres

mysteryfantasyhorror

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Details

Budget$25M

Box office$104.5M

Directed by

André Øvredal

Written by

Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman

Cinematography

Roman Osin

Music

Marco Beltrami, Anna Drubich

Starring

Zoe Colletti as Stella Nicholls · Dean Norris as Roy Nicholls · Michael Garza as Ramón Morales · Gabriel Rush as Auggie Hilderbrandt · Gil Bellows as Chief Turner · Natalie Ganzhorn as Ruth Steinberg · Austin Abrams as Tommy Milner · Austin Zajur as Chuck Steinberg

Production

1212 Entertainment, CBS Films, Double Dare You, Entertainment One, Hivemind, Rolling Hills, Starlight Culture Entertainment Group

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