SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK is based on the series of three horror books for children written by Alvin Schwartz, the first of which bears the film’s title.  The three books each feature numerous short stories in the horror genre where author Schwartz draws heavily from folklore and urban legends as the topic of his stories, researching extensively and spending more than a year on writing each book.  The film comes with the praise of being a Guillermo del Toro production.  At best it is an excellent ghost story made up of other little ghost stories and at its worst slides into slasher type…

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK is based on the series of three horror books for children written by Alvin Schwartz, the first of which bears the film’s title.  The three books each feature numerous short stories in the horror genre where author Schwartz draws heavily from folklore and urban legends as the topic of his stories, researching extensively and spending more than a year on writing each book.  The film comes with the praise of being a Guillermo del Toro production.  At best it is an excellent ghost story made up of other little ghost stories and at its worst slides into slasher type…