Rating: 3/4 Reading a scary story is a courageous act. For many children, it’s their first — offering metaphorical spaces for dread and fear to occur. Th...

It’s difficult to say just how many people were kept up late at night as little kids, afraid to turn off their flashlights and emerge from under their blan...

“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” actually makes you care about the fates of its characters, likable or venal. It has a way of treating even the gross-...

Guillermo del Toro-produced adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s books brings spooky spin to horror, but winds up in a sort of no man’s land creatively

This adaptation of Alvin Schwartz's iconic books is more fun than spooky.

This film is for a new generation, with new fears to exploit.

Seems like nobody reads books anymore. Everybody's just too…

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK Review - Childhood Terrors Faithfully Recreated

André Øvredal and Guillermo del Toro adapt the iconic horror collection. Read the Empire review.

Guillermo del Toro-produced terror tale has monsters to spare.

Looking for a horror movie that should please you and your young-ish ones alike? This creepy, crawly spookfest just might do the trick.

Guillermo del Toro came up with the screen story for 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,' a lackluster adaptation of Alvin Schwartz's popular children's horr...

 While it’s a loving and faithful adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s short stories, it gets lost in its attempt to wrap the whole thing up in a neat meta...

Jumpscares come thick and fast in Scary Stories, an Andre Ovredal horror based on the classic children’s book of the same name.

From producer Guillermo del Toro comes a clumsy but admirably bold adaptation of every millennial's favorite YA horror series.

The illustrations were the scariest part.

Review: Guillermo del Toro produces a very agreeable horror romp to appeal to teens

Guillermo del Toro's ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ delivers chills, thrills, laughs and everything you'd want for a night out of teen horror.

Like the books before it, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie is the perfect gateway to horror for younger viewers. Just not too young.

The film’s framed tales of the macabre don’t come near delivering the uncanny creeps of the pulpy originals from the book series.

Adapted from Alvin Schwartz’s popular series, the film is set in 1968 with the ghosts of Vietnam haunting the periphery.

Devised by producer Guillermo del Toro, the PG-13 flick is meant to be a young person’s gateway into the spine-tinglers he adores.

But it’s just scary enough to be fun

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, based on the novelby Alvin Schwartz (with illustrations by Stephen Gammell), is three-fourths ofa good horror movie and on...

The Jangly Man and The Pale Lady are here to terrify you all over again.

While it doesn’t break any new ground, there is plenty of vintage fun to be had with kids who feel their way through life’s impending fears and live to t...

Slow to get going and lame once it gets there. I’m tempted to leave “Scary Stories to tell in the Dark” at that, because that’s about all it amounts ...

'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' turns popular '80s books into spookiness for kids—it's training-wheels horror done right. Our review.

The adaptation of the classic children’s horror anthology is a surprise hit.

Guillermo Del Toro came up with the idea of filming this haunted house story. And it’s clever enough to spawn a franchise – Hollywood’s own species of ...

At times, the film seems like a horrifying Nancy Drew story or a more sophisticated Scooby-Doo episode without the dog and with a face full of spiders

★★★★☆ The producer Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) has called his delightful genre throwback “a gateway movie” to the world of horror h...

It’s a smart horror film about how stories constrain and compel us.

You don't have to be a fan of the popular (and often banned) books to have fun with writer-producer Guillermo del Toro's adaptation

How did they turn the '80s horror-story collection into a movie? By recreating its greatest hits, minus the creepiness that made them great.

The adaptation of a classic tween book series is also about ... Vietnam.

It starts off as a quaint, small-town fright flick before plunging headlong into a full-on, grotesque shriek-fest.

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark is gateway horror that treats intended audiences to many a scream, pulling no punches while doing so.