"Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark" is going to be a movie

I actually have more of an issue with the bland surroundings. Part of why the drawings work was everything was part of the nightmare. It wasn't just the monsters. The surrounding environment was like a bad dream, like an evil alternate world warped by malevolence.

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In fairness, they barely animated that as I understand it and cut out a lot of details.

The logical solution is CGI animation that hyper-mimics the art style. I imagine the motions would be unnatural and jerky.

david lynch's old stop motion style would have worked really well for this

I mean you'd have random splurts and drips of blood from things that shouldn't bleed, like walls.

People should actually be more worried at the story.
>In the book, there are stories that don't connect.
>The movie is more of a cursed book where the stories happen to the core characters.
So yeah the monster might look good, but probably will just be injected in the story of x character.

Hopefully something like that will happen. Like when the Bloody Head(or any other fiend) starts getting close reality starts to decay.

Oh my god shut up

I'd fashion it as an overarching nightmare world. All the stories come from the same hell, akin to "Stranger Things". But there's no big bad, it's just a place of horror.

It's also why the environments are unnatural. It's not our world, and the problem is, every now and then, they get into ours or we get into theirs.

These books were my childhood, dude. I still own them.

I'm still creeped out by "The Big Toe".

They changed the art for the new books. But the movie is using the old art for its monster designs... does that mean any new imprints will go back to Alvin Schwartz's pictures?

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i had these books as a kid, and i would try to read them before I knew how to read so me and my friends would just make up our own scary stories based on the pictures

>does that mean any new imprints will go back to Alvin Schwartz's pictures?

I think they did start doing that again.

>Junji Ito gets an anime
>this doesn’t get an animated movie
Being a western animation fan is suffering.

I think it looks great and the attention to detail with practical effects are awesome.
Can't wait to see it

That’s a mountains worth of projection user

>They changed the art for the new books

they did what

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They did at one point. The backlash was so intense, they had to reverse course.

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>Looks at dress

The dead bride?

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Very obviously Harold, who is incredibly vicious even by the standards of the books.

He used a man as a way to get "new clothes", and it was not pretty.

The movie looks like some sort of "You're Cursed by the scary story books" rather than recreations of short stories.
I dont entirely know how to feel about it, but I'll wait and see better trailers til I pass total judgement.
I'm more interested in the documentary, I think it's coming out in July now
vimeo.com/240388446
It's the Toe story

And that's it from the trailer. I dunno if there's a second trailer.

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Seriously, only the cannibal sausage-maker is worse than Harold.

I'm curious on her. Is she dress that way because of a theme dance like sadie-hawkins. Or is this a time jump to the 50's?

Meh. Doesn't look like something that would say, "To scratch up your grave!".

It should have looked like the thing that came down the chimney (the alternate ending of "The Big Toe").

So it is essentially a collection of true stories? That is cool

The trailer suggests this scene happens during/after a high school performance of "Bye Bye Birdie".

The 3D creature adaptation from 2D source material are top tier.

More accurately, folklore.

A few have been adapted into horror films (the man with the hook, the phone call inside the house, etc.)

Oddly enough, not the church one. It's one of the few with an ally character (the friend of the protagonist, who is now dead and attending the services for the deceased, tells her to escape before the others attack).

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I don't know if anybody cares, although I shared some of the art here years ago, but I made my own book in the spirit of Scary Stories.

I can't imagine the movie will ever live up to how cool the books are, and the experience reading them as a kid.

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"Shall we do it now?"
"No. Let's wait till Martin comes!"
*man jumps out of the window and flees*
"When Martin comes, you tell him I couldn't wait!!!"

In that one instance, though, I can't imagine why anyone would want to take the thing o nthe left back home with them. Definitely scarier, sure. Honestly, it wasn't that good a story anyway, and the only thought on my mind when I finished that one was "why?"

Here's another trailer for the Documentary
youtube.com/watch?v=3nxSlNKt708
It'll get a DVD release in July, but apparently it's available on VOD today

This goes to Yea Forums or Yea Forums. Fuck off.

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I loved how the guy decided to flee before Martin showed up.

It's one of a handful meant to make you laugh at the end, along with "The Viper", etc.

(The Viper turns out to be a weird-voiced, scary.....window-washer. He only kept calling to notify the man he was about to start working.)

Looks dope care to give a rundown of the book for a random user in Yea Forums

>You know this would have been an amazing animated horror cartoon.

30 years ago, before the switch from traditional to digital animation. Done entirely on tablets and software with no grit, texture, looking utterly slick and sterile... No. It would look like trash.

Check out that recent animated anthology film that adapted a bunch of Junji Ito stories. His textured art style doesn't translate into WACOM AND TOONBOOM digital animation. Stephen Gammell's art would look just as soulless.

It could still be done as an art-house animated film.

The style would be cool in Stop Motion

>Check out that recent animated anthology film that adapted a bunch of Junji Ito stories. His textured art style doesn't translate into WACOM AND TOONBOOM digital animation.

Yech. Yeah, the Junji Ito Collection anime does a shit job of adapting Ito's art. You can tell when they straight up trace from the manga, but they're doing it on a tablet with a stylus and the medium is completely lost in translation.

youtube.com/watch?v=kQZ84ggCrMc

But then again, I think the switch to digital filmmaking has harmed horror in live-action, too. Horror that looks too clean and slick and polished doesn't conjure the same reaction from you as an older movie that has a lot of artifacts and muddiness and filth on it.

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You can check it all out for free here. roryedd.com/archive

It's just a bunch I shit I wrote for fun then illustrated and put in a book.

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Will do

Is that the same guy who does the chapter illustrations for American Harry Potter books?

I am looking forward to this the most

youtube.com/watch?v=i7xWw-_VIy0

I hope they include it

I agree, along with "I-Pod Future" horror. I miss the used-car look of the original "Alien", where everything was grimy and dirty.

Polished, pristine environments are just meh for horror.

Horror shouldn't look pretty.

It's Bret Helquist, who does the art for the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Here's an old article from when the Scary Stories volumes first changed to his art:

adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/

pic related was much scarier
>still can’t sleep on left side of bed

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Horror is one of those elements that does good when looking a little rough around the edges

True. And the books excelled at "rough at the edges", to the point horror seemed to seep off the pages.

To be fair, the Junji Ito anime was Meh at best

Dude, have you seen the Ito anime? There's a clip posted here: His style does NOT translate to digital animation at all. The Scary Stories art would look bad, too.

I don't know why, but I've never been able to get into Junji Ito. I think it's because it feels emotionally distant somehow. I don't connect with the characters.

Kinda surprised the girl wasn't the monster. I was expecting that to be the twist.

Or the boy to be a creature as well. He didn't look human at first with those teeth.

>TFW thanks to the Shitty Gooesbumps movies we'll never get a Based Goosebumps cartoon without it being infected with the Film's shittyness

Honestly I would have made the protagonist turn out to be The Girl Next Door, for an emotionally moving ending.

The one who burned to death but didn't know she died.

>Movies
There was more than one?

youtube.com/watch?v=nQeOzfm-lps

This just reminds me how shitty and boring average monster design in horror movies is.
Why do you need to ape an old book to make a scary design? Where did all the creative people go?

I don't agree. Guillermo del Toro is always careful about his monsters design, down to making sure his lagoon monster had a tuck away penis.

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Didn't see the movie but I knew they... But I didn't know you could actually see it?

you don't see it but the woman explains with hand-motions when a coworker asks about it

I blame people lacking imagination in horror. The farther a thing is from human (or the more uncanny valley), the better.

they could do it like Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories or Kagewani, that style would work pretty well for an animated adaptation of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

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Looks like direct to DVD schlock

I was a big fan of goosebumps. I read scary stories but really the art was scarier the actual stories, feel kind of silly.

This book stuck with as a kid longer. A little book I pulled of a shelf, it really was a "book I judge from the cover" but damn if it wasn't what I wanted

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They already reprinted them with the old art after everyone was piss mad about it. Rightfully so, the new art was dogshit.

She was tho.

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Damn, they're the same guy? Outside of them both being grayscale I would have never guessed.

That tune sounds so familiar, like something we would sing at an assembly in grade school.

I don't remember where, but I read an interview with him that basically says his characters are set pieces, that he intentionally doesn't let them learn or have legitimate chances at solving the mystery before it's too late, and that makes the characters kinda bland.

I read his stuff more intellectually than anything, for interesting designs/settings.

>hand painted animation cells
Jesus that would have been expensive.

lol

Was that before gyo, because that was pretty straight forward

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This is so sad, "Alexa play Despacito."

>I am the Viper.
>I have come to vash and vipe the vindows.

In retrospect, it was nice of the author to include joke stories at the end of the books. Helps lighten the mood after listening to the story of a man who nailed horseshoes to his wife's hands and feet.

Yeah, a lot of the stories don’t really make as much sense if you picture them with the original art, and that’s a very good example. I cannot see how the thing on the left is supposed to be a rat someone mistook for a chihuahua. It looks like neither. At least the one on the left is a rat, though obviously much much less scary looking. The original art is still better because it’s scarier, but it doesn’t really go well with many of the stories.

I'm calling it now, this movie is the tipping point where del Toro loses any sense of artistic integrity and becomes a goofy caricature of himself making quirky dark garbage like Tim Burton.

This isn't a del Toro film, though. He produced the film and wrote the original story, but otherwise it looks as though del Toro's original ideas were given a one-over by others before going into production.

I don't know why they couldn't just make an anthology movie.

I know, but Burton solely-produced a lot of shit himself too (9, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter)

It's funny because in my opinion, horror stories should be character-driven.

It's why I loved "Us" so much. Adelaide is extremely complicated.

Flat characters a dull story make.

>It's why I loved "Us" so much
I like it because in horror movies actors have to do cliche roles. Like the rich white family. In "US" the actors get to double their roles with the doppelganger.

I like it because I loved seeing Tim Heidecker die twice and I want to fuck Lupita.

Considering Junji Ito keeps getting brought up, could a big budget western adaptated movie or tv series of pic related be pulled off?

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The Japanese movie kinda sucked but came across as the best a film adaptation could do. A TV series might work, since 2/3 of Uzumaki is episodic like an anthology and only gets into crazy dystopian epic territory in the final third. It could be done, but I've a feeling whoever would be behind it would miss the point.

It's clear that this movie was made by the straight lobby because gay people would want to fuck their doppelganger.

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>worms crawling in your stomach
>not playing pinochle

0/10

Who has my liver? Who has it?

The vampire one where it taps on the window scared the shit out of me for decades, and that fucking greentext story on here about the mexican gypsies didn't help.

>mexican gypsies
You have called my curiosity sir.

just imagine this happening to you in real life
You going down the wrong hallway and facing this and suddenly there's no one else around
you'd shit or pee your pants

Just some story from /x/ or someplace about this user's experience as a child where he was sleeping in bed and he felt something watching him and there was a fucking guy at his bedroom window in the middle of the night, grinning at him, so he swings a tire iron or a fire poker or some other mexican bedside tool at the window. His dad and uncle (he lives with his whole family or something? Mexico idk) come running in ready to beat his ass red but he tells them there was a guy outside, they find blood, and later in the week some other family down the road got murder/raped in their beds and all their shit stolen by roaming mexican gypsies.

This. Stephen Gammell has such twisted art. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten tons more work in horror-related stuff.

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This bitch better be in it, exactly like this.

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Who did it better?
youtube.com/watch?v=xclh_676KwE
youtube.com/watch?v=ZJppqS8uDyQ

Is something wrong?

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This picture scared the shit of out me as a kid. Like, to the point where I was practically hallucinating him. Scary stuff, yo.

>Wanting Lupita

You have excellent taste.

I love how ambiguous the main character is. You can argue forever how evil she is or isn't.

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>dude, just copy what's trendy

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Who else /Whoppers/ here?

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Hey guys what's going on in this thread?

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Had that too. Bruce Coville's "Book of" series was also great. Some of the stories were legit adult horror stories that just didn't have anything inappropriate for kids.

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Worst waifu ever.

>"For the last time, you cannot spy with your little eye. You barely have a face!"

Nope.

Ah, my arch-nemesis: Xanaxtoast.

At the very least, he should have inspired way more artists than he seems to have

Look at the landscapes he drew.

Random blood, faces growing out of nowhere, inexplicable cracks, vein-like branches, satanic fog, and fur-like grass.

They would never treat this series right anyway. They already butchered Stephen Gamel's original art in the later releases by replacing them, and making them pathetic and taking away all of the real impact of the stories.

I'm honestly curious if Japan could do them justice, in the hands of some competent and out-there animation studio.