While Guillermo Del Toro didn’t actually direct new movie Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the marketing team surely seems to make you want to think otherwise.
During a panel with actual Director André Øvredal at SDCC this weekend, the pair divulged more information about their upcoming film based on the books by Alvin Schwartz.
“It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. 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.”
Once the panel was over, a new poster for the movie featuring new villain The Jangly Man hit the internet, and you can check it out below!
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is set to open next month on August 9th.
