• Guillermo Del Toro To work on "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" Adaptation
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[media]https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/687722848379506688[/media] [url]http://deadline.com/2016/01/guillermo-del-toro-scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-alvin-schwartz-cbs-films-1201682700/[/url] [QUOTE]Guillermo del Toro will develop to potentially direct Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark for CBS Films. The film is based on the wildly successful trilogy of books by Alvin Schwartz, which included iconic illustrations by Stephen Gammell. John August wrote the script.[/QUOTE]
Those books were scary as shit when I was very small. I remember checking them out at my school library.
Oh my god yesss
time to relive my nightmares of being made into a skin suit worn by a scarecrow!!!
I hope it's not as bad as the Goosebumps movie.
The one thing that's ever scared the shit outta me(still does), and the horror genius is making a movie out of them. Gonna have nightmares for years. I'm still gonna watch it/them. Hell I recommended that he be the one to do it. The Thing, Harold, and The Big Toe are probably gonna make me scream.
Please Get Kojima to work on it too!
Could you imagine an animated adaptation in Gammell's style?
[QUOTE=Katska;49531927]Could you imagine an animated adaptation in Gammell's style?[/QUOTE] [media]https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/687775984737595392[/media]
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;49532053][media]https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/687775984737595392[/media][/QUOTE] Oh my god. Best news I've heard all year. Now that I think about it, the ghosts in Crimson Peak vaguely sort of had a Stephen Gammell-esque quality to them. I thought they looked really cool.
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;49532053][media]https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/687775984737595392[/media][/QUOTE] Yep. No sleep for the weak.
Feels like this guy has never finished a movie in his life. Minimal hopes up.
[QUOTE=Waffle cones.;49532269]is this the book with the girl with the green ribbon around bet neck? because that seriously spooked the shit out of me when i was younger [editline]14th January 2016[/editline] wait, just googled it, that was a different book actually i remember this one as well, though. it had some sick art. consider me excited.[/QUOTE] I remember that story, the art was creepy as shit [editline]14th January 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Take_Opal;49532284]Feels like this guy has never finished a movie in his life. Minimal hopes up.[/QUOTE] I am still waiting on Monster
[QUOTE=usaokay;49532299]The art scarred me from Elementary to High School. Fuck that story with the hide-n-seek bride.[/QUOTE] Don't forget Harold, the only picture that didn't terrify me, but the story did. [IMG]http://cdn3-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/12/Scary-Stories-to-Tell-in-the-Dark.jpg[/IMG]
If it weren't for Guillermo and the promise of Gammell's imagery, I would be super skeptical. Now I'm only sort or skeptical. Also sort of excited.
Oh fuck no. This was the worst childrens book ever, I dont want to see it come back and haunt me now. [editline]14th January 2016[/editline] [t]http://comicsalliance.com/files/2010/10/sc9pi8.gif[/t] this guy must of fucking hated children. I can hardly think of something with scarier imagery.
Not very excited given how Crimson Peak was just a gothic romance. Besides, he needs to stop pussyfooting and pitch In the mountains of madness properly already.
[QUOTE=Mr.Moustachio;49532437]Oh fuck no. This was the worst childrens book ever, I dont want to see it come back and haunt me now. [editline]14th January 2016[/editline] [t]http://comicsalliance.com/files/2010/10/sc9pi8.gif[/t] this guy must of fucking hated children. I can hardly think of something with scarier imagery.[/QUOTE] The Dream, Haunted House, The Dead Hand, The Bride, The Thing, and Someone Fell from Aloft to name a few that scared me then, and still scare me now. [sp]Please don't post them for the love of God![/sp]
The actual stories in these books never did much for me, but Jesus Christ the imagery is still fucking horrifying to this day.
The funny thing about the illustrations of the series is that the illustrator, Stephen Gammell, didn't think kids would find them scary because they're so "over the top." Yeah okay Stephen, [I]sure. [/I]
[QUOTE=spekter;49532590]Not very excited given how Crimson Peak was just a gothic romance. Besides, he needs to stop pussyfooting and pitch In the mountains of madness properly already.[/QUOTE] I'm surprised he can even make a new movie. Guy keeps getting blue balled with all of his projects.
remember finding these books in the book cabinet in my elementary school, can say that had a large impact on my developmental young brain.
The illustrations were so beautifully grotesque, I hope just a bit of that makes it into the film.
[QUOTE=Waffle cones.;49532269]is this the book with the girl with the green ribbon around her neck? because that seriously spooked the shit out of me when i was younger [editline]14th January 2016[/editline] wait, just googled it, that was a different book actually i remember this one as well, though. it had some sick art. consider me excited.[/QUOTE] Same author who did the book
Oh god, this combination is pretty much one of my personal pipe-dreams made real. I wait with bated breath... for the announcement of it's cancellation. Neither me nor Del Toro are allowed to ever get what they want. Court order.
Now people are starting to post pictures from the books Time to stop reading this thread before someone inevitably posts the one that freaks me out
Fuck, I read these as a kid. One about a mummy zombie thing in the graveyard behind their house. Freaked me out because I live by a graveyard, couldn't sleep for like 3 weeks
The rerelease was even more horrifying. [IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCKjM7_8Qx8/T-PtjXzv_PI/AAAAAAAAEjw/e6_7u6Us_OY/s1600/scary.JPG[/IMG]
For a second I was thinking of Are You Afraid of the Dark
All I can think of when I hear these stories is the parodies on YouTube now.
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