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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3071
- IMDb #4160
- Google retired #2332
- Rotten Tomatoes #2056
- Metacritic #2599
- Letterboxd #4580
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2158
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2431
- Metacritic Critics #2347
- Metacritic Audience #3007
- Douban #2303
- Kinopoisk #4316
- AlloCiné #3852
- Trakt #3952
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Letterboxd on 56, highest is Google on 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →On Halloween night in 1968, a group of teenagers discovers a secret book of scary stories in a haunted house. They soon realize the book is writing itself, penning terrifying tales that feature each of them as the main character. As the stories materialize into real-life horrors, they must uncover the dark history behind the book and the ghost who writes it to break the curse.
Details
- Director
- André Øvredal
- Writers
- Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman
- Based on
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
- Released
- 8 August 2019
- Country
- Canada, Hong Kong, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $104.5M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Saturn Awards 2021 | Best Horror Film | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 2021 | Best Make-up | Norman Cabrera, Mike Elizalde, and Mike Hill | Nominee |
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2 awards — Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
×| Best Horror Film | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Nominee |
| Best Make-up | Norman Cabrera, Mike Elizalde, and Mike Hill | Nominee |