Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

André Øvredal's Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark is a fairly solid creepy horror film with serviceable acting from its casts but production design befitting a stronger story. Zoe Margaret Colletti is a commendable lead as the motherless child Stella who finds a haunted book that scripts and executes all who trouble it. The story shimmers with Stephen King-like weirdness and will certainly strike some viewers as a bit of a retread of earlier (and better) movies. Still, the young actors who fall victim to the unhappy spirit's scorn are believably freaked out by the intrepid creatures (no doubt courtesy of producer Guillermo del Toro's imagination) who come for them.