by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
Based on a single chapter in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, this two-hour tale shares the legendary vamp’s voyage from Transylvania to London through the use of Captain Eliot’s log.
Written by Dan and Kevin Hagemen (with some help from Guillermo del Toro)
Directed by André Øvredal
Starring Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza and Gabriel Rush
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for terror/violence, disturbing images, thematic elements, language including racial epithets, and brief sexual references.
Running time: 1 hour and 51 minutes
by Allison Yakulis
I’d like to suggest that Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) is a family friendly(-ish) horror film. I’m not talking about your spooky/macabre comedies like The Addams Family (of which there is an impending reboot set to drop in October) or Hocus Pocus (1993) or anything you’d indiscriminately show the kiddos - Scary Stories is certainly unsettling enough to have earned its PG-13 rating. But if you have a few tweens running around that seem to have a budding interest in horror, it’ll likely make the perfect gateway drug, much like its source material has been doing for almost 40 years.