Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain’t no motherf****** game. The Blackening centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. The synopsis for The Blackening goes like this: Judging from this latest trailer we can tell that this film is going to be a real blast to see with a theater filled to the brim with horror lovers. The entire thing is like Saw meets Scream but set in a throwback to the blaxploitation era of horror. The Blackening is going to be the most fun that you have at the movies, y’all. If you intend to read these books, you may want to turn back, now.** Cold as Clay (Volume 1) **Author’s Note: There are indeed some spoilers ahead for these classic stories, though it boggles the mind that you might not be familiar with them if not from the books then from time around campfires or sleepovers when you were a kid. Here are my favorites with notations for the volume in which they were included in no particular order. With all of this in mind, I thought it might be fun to revisit them once again as I prepare to take a trip to the theater to see them come to life on the big screen, and share my picks for the ten creepiest entries in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The stories have never lost their ability to chill the spine, and the illustrations, if anything, have gotten more creepy as my imagination has become more sophisticated and I have learned to look beyond the surface of those deceptively simple images. Stephen Gammell’s illustrations came to life with each turn of the page, and Alvin Schwartz’s re-tellings of folklore, urban legends, and campfire stories crept into my imagination.īy the time I was in the fourth grade, I was reading Edgar Allan Poe, but I never left Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark fully behind me, and I would return to the original collection as well as the two volumes that followed it again and again over the years. I will never forget the first time I read those stories in our local library. I was four years old, and it would be a couple of years before I discovered this treasure in probably the second grade. The first Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book was released in 1981. The big screen adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark hits theaters tomorrow, and its imminent release has had me re-reading the books and reminding myself of just how creepy those stories were to me when I was a kid.
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