@@ranchmantubularspacesausag5709 I know. My GI Joe radio set could barely cover a block. And anyone I knew who could afford real ones were not enough of a nerd to use them.
Another subtle reason being that we present-day target audiences connect the colors and styles of the furniture and architecture here with what are now older homes, giving the visual settings of the story a more surreal and spooky feeling even without something spooky happening. Though I do I agree the cell phone thing is a huge reason.
5:57 - did Sin Count really not give this movie a sin for having a character explain the basement was downstairs? Like oh shit I thought it was in the attic!
I can't believe they didn't take off even ONE sin for the monster designs. That was ALL practical effects! The Jangly Man performer could actually move like that!
Sleep is the only good thing in this world did he take it seriously? I think they’re just usually good about taking sins off for good effects. Sooo... comedy or not....
Okay wow. Wasn't expecting this comment to blow up like this but here we are lol The more recent episodes seem more lenient in giving credit where credit is due while still having some good ol' sinning fun, even if that is just removing a sin for a well-constructed joke or a good performance by a single actor. I didn't mean to come off as overserious or butthurt- I was just genuinely surprised that no sins were removed for the monsters (again, ALL prosthetics, makeup, and performance.) If anything in this movie deserves admiration, its the dedication to practical effects. So, sorry about the trouble, and I'll be more articulate in my comments in the future. :)
When I was a kid I LOVED the Scary Stories books. If you could check them out of the school library and read them, you were a certified badass. I loved the stories and illustrations. The movie's costuming for the creepy characters were spot on! However, I really didn't like the whole plot with Sarah Bellows. It struck me as Disney Channel-esque. Stella wasn't terribly likable for me, either. She acted like her taking the book from the haunted house is what started the killings, when it was her asking Sarah to 'tell her a story'. But she never told anyone that. The characters don't have much background and we don't know enough about them to like or dislike any of them. When the characters are killed it doesn't incite any particular response for me.
I wish they wouldn't have tried to string them all together with a jumbled plot like this. It would have been cool just to have them be individual stories brought to life in limited series.
How they should’ve done this movie: It’s Halloween night, and the family returns from trick or treating, they’re excited to eat some candy but the parents decided no. So the kids request a bedtime story (which to the parents is boring, and exhausting especially after a night of walking around bringing their kids to collect candy). Anyways, the kids get cozied in and one of the parents pulls out an old book (with no origin described) but it happens vignette style (like princess bride) and each story being read is played out in the film. The ending of the movie comes around and the kids enjoyed it and ask for more, which would bring in the sequel even more scary stories to tell in the dark. It would’ve been so much better as a vignette style movie or even as a Netflix series, each episode being one of the stories. This movie just seemed like a cash grab from 90’s kids and modern teens.
rdp16rulez for the better side of thirty years, but that’s just another prime example! Tree House is a great example of where/how this could panned out. But it didn’t. Sadly.
@@legendofzeldarules44 the murder house from AHS is actually a really house in a real place. Of course the version we see in AHS has been CGI-d a little bit. But it's a place for real and not a set
If the ghost girl actually showed up and said “I’m always angry” after the old lady said “you shouldn’t have taken the book you made her angry” I would have voted to remove all the sins
I enjoyed it for the moment but the characters did anger me when they dragged Chuck into their hunt for files. They had no use for him overall so I don't understand why they forced him to tag along, especially if they were going to separate from him anyway. Saddest part is that it's the scariest death scene of the entire movie and yet it was also the most avoidable death scene
Ikr?! Exactly what I thought while watching the movie. Like, I'm sorry but if a walking corpse chases you asking for it's toe, and you literally have the goddamn toe, why not, idk... Hand it over???
@@anyxd9950 Exactly! Sheesh, even My Little Pony figured out that one! (Or if you're too scared to face the walking corpse, just leave the toe in the middle of the doorway where the corpse can find it.) And that's not even addressing the insanity of finding some random toe and deciding to COOK IT IN A FREAKING STEW TO EAT IT. ffs.
The Pale Lady was the best part, she was seriously disturbing. The fact that she never screamed or did many of the usual horror cliches made it fun and memorable, and oh so scary. Kinda upset you didn't remove sins for the practical effect and makeup. The Jangly Man was performed by a contortionist, many of his movements were real .
Since this is a spoiler zone: I think the fact Stella was given a magical pen, the book to write the story in and directions on how to use both items so what you write comes true. I'm a bit disappointed that she didn't just write her friends back. All it would take would be at the end of the OG story put something like "and then they appeared later in there homes three days later unharmed and sane"
No it’s scary! You have a different opinion than me so I will not judge your own thinking. Literally had to cover my eyes because every second of each monster coming was creepy.
fun fact: one of Sarah's brother's name is Harold. So he was probably the original scarecrow! Do not know where he went after Tommy took his place though lol
I loved this movie. There's a lot about it that didn't work for me, but a lot did. And Zoe Colleti's performance was absolutely fantastic - this was her fourth role and she was KILLING it! I hope she has a long and bright future ahead of her (if that's what she wants).
I'm starting to wonder if there's going to a single book, song, movie or even just a simple *reference* to my childhood which won't eventually be turned into a two-bit cash grab by washed up, uncreative Hollywood opportunists... probably not, but it's nice to wonder..
I honestly didn’t find the pale lady that creepy, in the book she warns the lady in the dream this is an evil place then when she actually sees her again she lets her run outta there
I'm surprised Cinemas didn't point out that the jangly man, despite having his torso trapped by the car and the truck, is somehow able to free his torso from the truck by removing his head and limbs, which weren't affected by the crash in any way. They could have made it so that just his limbs were following them now, which could have been scary, or at least had him use his arms and legs to push the car out of the way. But instead his torso just magically goes free.
That was the best part of the story! This movie was too tame. Harold was probably the most interesting and frightening stories of the whole series, with lots of strange details and a slow burn to a horrifying conclusion. The movie is having an identity crisis as to who its audience is. The honest answer is, a bunch of morbid middle-grade readers who appreciate the astonishing illustrations and love the genuinely gorey stories about dismembered bodies. This is a version that's been gutted of its guts, leaving only cliches and tropes. Not to be completely negative.... I did like the Pale Lady and Harold puppets, but hey - I think puppets rule.
Fun fact: the beginning scene was filmed in my former city in canada near where I grew up, it amazed me considering hamilton is a horror movie all on it's own 😂
i'm really digging these new titles of "in ___ many minutes" but the end reel i was disappointed in the lack of the mummy quote "you must not read from the book!'
1:07 "The Whistling Room" is one of the classic Carnacki ghost stories published in 1910 by William Hope Hodgson, who was killed in World War I (and it begins the same way shown in the movie).
@@Malmothius The game that was based off the creepy pasta the movie's based on was way scarier, and it probably took like 24 hours to think up and design
4:22 I miss when Cinemasins would say "Roll credits" instead of "Roll Cocos" "Roll Rodents" or "Roll Undead-its" like he does in a lot of his newer videos. Don't get me wrong, I still love this channel, I'm just saying.
That whole missing toe thing is very similar to this old movie I used to watch when I was a kid called Mouse Soup. In it, a mouse tells a story about some mice who ate a monster's toe. The animation was like this really weird stop-motion thing with puppets that looked like they'd been in an attic since the 70's. The whole thing was really weird. Scared the crap out of me, though.
If you look closely at the book while Stella is flipping through it, you can see that there's a story titled "Harold". Later, when they find the article about her family members it states that she had two brothers, one of which named Harold. I'm not sure how Harold became a scarecrow but I figure it was through the book. That's why Tommy is so creeped out by it.
Honestly there are a lot of things in this movie I like The monster design The practical effects The creative ways they get around the PG 13 rating with the deaths Them not going straight gore and instead making genuinely eerie and uncomfortable sequences. The lack of basic jump scares. (There’s like 1!) The juxtaposition of what was happening that year with Nixon and the war showing that while what’s happening to kids is scary the historical events occurring are equally horrific Unfortunately it looks like all the effort went into making scary parts good and bare minimum was put into the actual story. So many plot threads are set up and then just erased 1) the girls mother 2) the relationship that seemed set up for the older sister and the blonde kid 3) How the ghost Sarah actually got her powers Just soooo much
ImaNerdANDaGeek Yeah there is a lot of racists today but I’m just saying at that time racism was very common because it was the time when Martin Luther King Jr was alive. Meaning there was segregation
I really wish that they had done this as more of a movie series, where they made movies out of the stories, and not like they did with the *Goosebumps* movie. …Wasted opportunity. [ _DING!_ ]
I understand this movie is cliche and everything, but my god was it fun. Me and my brother grew up with the Scary Stories book series, and this movie was just an awesome ride of nostalgia. I really liked it
8:45 uuum this might be a spoiler but the story is where a kid finds a toe, takes it and their family eats it for dinner. In the end, the kids is killed by the original owner of the toe, and there are two ways this happens to him.
@@jordangoertz9743 as I'm reading the comments it seemed people liked it. I'm kinda sad that horror isn't really my thing any more. Was my favorite genre.
