One Shot - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (e)
2019-08-19Chris Hamm, Chris Jacobsen, Travis Rowe
Wherein we discuss the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book series and recent movie adaptation. Including the power of really creepy illustrations, horror movie logic, and period specific smoking.
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Things of note in this episode:
- Intro Clip: were any friendships ruined by watching this movie?
- What we remember about the books
- Stephen Gammell's (creepy as fuck) illustrations
- Things are always scarier once you have to go somewhere by yourself
- How cool would it be to follow a siren song?
- Reactions to the movie
- ...and allowing kids to be mischevious
- Historical Smoking
- The 1968 framing story
- ...and horror movie logic
- Mixing & matching illustrations and stories from the books
- Scary stories you ain't never heard of
- References to other movies in the background
- Found appendages and their viability as stew
- On Second Thoughts
- After Credits: Marie Kondo doesn't understand the TBR stack
An automatically generated transcript of this episode is available here