Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

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They're not just stories anymore.

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

• Released: 2019-08-08
• Genres: Horror, Mystery
• Runtime: 1h 48m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 6.5/10 from 2,978 votes

Directed by André Øvredal.

Top cast

• Zoe Colletti as Stella Nicholls
• Dean Norris as Roy Nicholls
• Michael Garza as Ramón Morales
• Gabriel Rush as Auggie Hilderbrandt
• Gil Bellows as Chief Turner
• Natalie Ganzhorn as Ruth Steinberg
• Austin AbraDIH as Tommy Milner
• Austin Zajur as Chuck Steinberg
• Kathleen Pollard as Sarah Bellows
• Lorraine Toussaint as Lou Lou

Full cast & crew

Where to watch Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

• United States: stream on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+, Shudder, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel; rent on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home; buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
• United Kingdom: watch free on BBC iPlayer; rent on Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Sky Store; buy on Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Sky Store
• India: stream on Movie Sphere+; rent on Amazon Video
• Canada: rent on CosmoGo, YouTube, Amazon Video; buy on CosmoGo, YouTube, Amazon Video
• Australia: rent on Amazon Video, Fetch TV; buy on Amazon Video, Fetch TV

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