New trailer for Scary Tales to Inform within the Darkish brings Alvin Schwartz’s terrifying tales to life: Watch

Harold is coming to get you.

But so are all the different tales inside Alvin Schwartz’s trio of Scary Tales to Inform In The Darkish books. As we noticed within the first trailer for Lionsgate’s spooky adaptation again in March, director André Øvredal is taking liberties with that stack of scares, bringing the monsters into actuality.

Right now, they’ve dropped a brand new trailer that elaborates on that conceit, teasing the macabre attain of these tales which have despatched Kindergartners right into a panic over the previous few a long time. From Harold to the toeless corpse to the Jangly Man, everybody’s coming again for a scream or two.

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Directed by Øvredal and written by Daniel Hageman, Kevin Hageman, and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, Scary Tales to Inform In The Darkish follows a gaggle of younger teenagers who should resolve the thriller surrounding sudden and macabre deaths of their small city. The movie stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, and Dean Norris, amongst others.

Right here’s the total official synopsis that ought to add extra context:

It’s l968 in America. Change is blowing within the wind…however seemingly far faraway from the unrest within the cities is the small city of Mill Valley the place for generations, the shadow of the Bellows household has loomed giant. It’s of their mansion on the sting of city that Sarah, a younger woman with horrible secrets and techniques, turned her tortured life right into a collection of scary tales, written in a guide that has transcended time—tales which have a means of changing into all too actual for a gaggle of youngsters who uncover Sarah’s terrifying tome.

The movie hits theaters on August ninth.