So my excitement to see this movie is waning due to people’s reviews, I was super excited to watch this because those books were my childhood, but now I really don’t know. Thanks for writing how y’all perceived the movie. I’m sorry you guys didn’t like it.

While I understand that the books are for kids, they aren’t as popular now as opposed to almost 40 years ago when the first book came out. All of the fans who read the books and loved them are adults now. And I cannot dent that the stories were very creepy. So for the R rating, I think it could have worked as a true R rating horror movie and been much better. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I have heard several people say it would have been better as an R rated movie.

And I think it’s different than if Harry Potter or Goosebumps we’re R rated. Scary Stories to tell in the dark set out to be scary as hell, and I personally think they are more scary than goosebumps. Goosebumps, and Harry Potter are also way more popular and still constantly being read by kids, where as the only people I ever hear talk about Scary stories to Tell in the dark are adults. Hell even @Box has read this, and he doesn’t read anything.

I’m not saying they should be missing out. I’m saying as someone who grew up reading these, I think they missed and opportunity to cater to their original audience. And Pet Sematary (2019) shouldn’t even be considered horror. They did terrible, and it was so slow. But as a fan of the series, I think they should have done better. And just because you read some of the stories to your kids does not make it popular with kids now days. I still stand by my statement that goosebumps is more suited for kids as being made into pg-13 horro. Scary stories to tell in the dark would have benefited way better if it was rare r

Okay. I will look at it later! Thanks for sharing!