Well I didn't see this coming

It's probably the best they could do with a bunch of unconnected stories. Not to mention the original stories weren't the pinnacle of writing either, it was mostly the fucked up illustrations that sold it.

Any idea what this artist is up to these days?

Probably retired? He stopped doing anything after 2011, he is almost 80

Well that's disappointing.

Yeah, but he did a lot of stuff prior, mostly childrens books and war illustrations

Where you expect an R rating for a movie based on a fucking children's book?
There's no swearing in the books, no sex, and no gore.

Looks scarier than I though, at least they didn't tone down the monsters too much because of kids
I wish Netflix or HBO picked it up and did stories kind of like the The Ballad of Buster Scruggs movie

This set in the 1960s. You want me to believe that a Pajeet is in this story and with a white girl no less? Even when it makes sense to have an all white cast (((they))) go out of there way to pull something.

>no gore.
Harold skins a man, spiders split a womans face open, a man turns people into sausage, there are descriptions of decomposition, a boy eats a corpses toe

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Cast looks pretty bad and doing some meta thing like Goosebumps did is pretty lame. They should just make a Netflix anthology of the stories.

you are clearly retarded

You clearly didnt read the books

yes i did /vp/tard

None of which are depicted as gorey.

The artstyle would be sick as hell in a stop motion style
LAIKA

Shouldn've been an anthology film like Creepshow.
Same thing with the Goosebumps movies instead of "let's shove as much monsters into your face" though the second movie did feel more like an actual GB story.

The story clearly describes Harold laying out a flayed bloody skin over the roof, the image shows the womans face bleeding as spiders crawl out, a story features a severed hand, come on man
Clearly you didnt if you think there's no gore in the books

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I'm going to see this movie just to see how well they bring to life all the creepy imagery. I'm not looking for all the horrid fucking actors. Actually, I think I would have done a better job bringing these books to life on the silver screen.

>proving me wrong

How about you go fuck yourself you fucking faggot?

Should've been stop-motion. That way it would feel more like the books in tone and overall design.
Maybe Tim Burton could've done it if he wasn't shit right now

Again, none of which are given great descriptions, this shit was literally written for little children.

stay mad

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Sure, user

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Bullshit. It was written for middle schoolers. You sound like one of those bored soccer moms that tried to get it banned back in the 90s.

Stop motion would have been perfect
Burton is washed up but could get the people who made Coraline or Isle of Dogs

ABC of Death style?

LONDON

Starring Johnny Depp as the floating giant-headed corpse, Timothy Spall as Harold, and Helena Bonham Carter as the toeless corpse.

Sorry user, the pic was found on google images

Helena world be better as spider-face lady or the bride that gets locked in the trunk, she looks enough like a corpse for it

The book is recommended for children as young as 8 user.

What story is the Jangly Man from?

Even his jon scary stuff is creepy

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Wow, the writing is a lot more shit than I remember.

your imagination made it out to be much more than it was

Hopefully it'll be good gateway horror. Something you can take the kids to that'll scare em good and get them interested in more hardcore shit.

Pretty sure that one was made for the movie

This would never be allowed now days in a kids book.

Maybe middle school, though I remember reading the books in the 4th grade

WHEeEeEeRE IS MY sausage ?

>mostly miss
i thought they were cute.

The Viper is an underrated story

every line in that trailer is the most predictable tripe imaginable. good thing the monsters look cool.

Hit the showers

why can't these kids just use their guns to defend themselves?

The trailer honestly made me lose hope for the movie.
>Hey we have a source material that could make a great anthology film.
>Nah let's rip off the Goosebumps movie but use darker colors.

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Looks great. Not going to be a horror movie at all but the original books weren't horror stories either. This is just a bunch of campfire stories that are fun but not spooky. It reminds me a lot of Trick 'R Treat which is one of my favorite horror movies. The PG13 is going to make it tamer than Trick 'R Treat but that'll still be fine. I'm sure it'll be popular with kids too and that's the target market.

>shit writing
Are you retarded? It's intended to expose children to folk tales and campfire stories. It's written simply enough that an elementary school kid wouldn't miss anything and is sparse enough on the details that they could repeat it to their friends without fucking it up. There's a reason this book was a phenomena among kids.

>the original stories weren't the pinnacle of writing either, it was mostly the fucked up illustrations that sold it

EXACTLY. Which is why it's weirder that they didn't do it as an animated film based on the original art style.

That would have been great.

Ehh, animated films have a weird habit of choosing to adapt something with an iconic art style, and then not really managing, or even bothering to get the art style to work in an animated format.

That's right

Wasn't this a kids book? Why would it be R?

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Didn't they rerelease the books with different art that was more toned down?

Because a lot of the major stories they are using features gore

Yes, but they reinstated the old art after t sold like shit and everyone complained.
The arts pretty much the only good thing anyways. All the stories are all supertame kiddie campfire-tier.

Probably because they're for kids

>supertame
>harold
>spider zit lady
>sausage
>bride locking herself in a trunk
>the severed hand
>the severed head rolling down the chimney

Yes, supertam. None of those would scare a five year old if it weren't for Gammell's artwork.

Dude fuck off, the idea of spiders laying eggs under your skin would scare any 5 year old

...you are one of those people that got freaked out by those lotus pod nipple shops years ago, weren't you?

Dont even know what that is. Stop trying to make your 5 year old self sound cool

Monsters look cool at least, though notable that they got rid of Harold's descended stomach, maybe he'll offscreen kill the kid and the next time we see him he'll have a belly made of new skin

I think whether or not you found any of the stories scary or gory (ignoring the art work) entirely depends on how imaginative you were independently. There’s very little in the way of explicit detailed descriptions, but I think it can get a lot spookier if you were the kind of kid that would fill in the blanks. Like the bride story is just “oh and she got locked in a trunk and they found her body in there years later” and it isn’t scary if you don’t think about it. But if you were a kid who laid awake all night after reading it imagining being trapped in a box that feels like it has no air and screaming and kicking and clawing til your fingernails snap off as you slowly get thirstier and thirstier, then you’ll be more likely to remember the story being scary. The stories mostly were not scary on their own, but they were a lot of kids’ first introduction to horror concepts to think about.

>7.3 million views
Yikes

Looks like Based Disney's domination of the box office will be lasting the entire year

whats with those red-ass fingers

Those are literally stories kids told each other at summer camp decades ago. Some of them are literally based on old urban legends.

That one especially was common among kids.

Harper-Collins released new editions of the Scary Stories books about 10 years back where they replaced all of Stephen Gammell's art with new art by Bret Helquist. And yeah, without Gammell's art to sell the things, you got an idea of how mediocre the actual stories in Scary Stories really were. (Luckily, after a lot of backlash, Harper-Collins discontinued the updated versions and all editions now have the original Gammell art in them again)

>The Viper is an underrated story

G.I. Joe did it better.

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They look pudgy. Maybe she’s so fat she has blood circulation problems?