A couple of new adapted monsters from the original Scary Stories book trilogy have been
revealed in the new trailer, so if you want to hear about those, then stick around -- to
the end of this video.
But first…
I’ve been waiting all winter to hang this baby back up.
So the new Scary Stories trailer contains a mix of new footage and stuff we’ve seen
before in the Super Bowl Teasers.
If you’re sitting there wondering, “why I haven’t seen that footage; what are you
talking about?” -- it could be because you’re not subscribed with deathbell notifications
on?
So the trailer starts, as many movie trailers do, establishing the setting.
1960s.
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania.
Our characters discover a spooky house and go inside where we see our first Thing You
Missed.
Yeah, we got a counter now, because I ran a poll and you guys said yeah… might as
well put a counter.
The room is lit by candle light -- and this whole situation is probably a reference to
The Curse, a story from More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, in which some college
kids are doing a frat initiation where they must explore this deserted house with a candle.
The other students watch from outside where they see that each pledge who attempts the
dare disappears after their candle goes out on the third floor.
Eventually, they all go up to investigate, thinking it was some kind of prank, but they
find nothing, with no sign of the disappeared students.
Every year since then, a frat member has died or gone crazy, and the writer of the story
is the only one left remaining.
My guess is that this college initiation was changed to a high school dare to better fit
the characters of this movie.
The kids in the movie find this book, and it seems that the scary stories from the book
start to come true and haunt their town.
I’m guessing this is one of the illustrations found in that book.
Not quite as creepy as some of the illustrations in the actual book trilogy that this movie
is based on, but still kind of creepy to find an old picture containing a headless sailor
just standing there.
It looks like they are going to be combining tales from different stories.
Headlessness is one of the most common themes found in the books, as someone loses their
head, literally in six different short stories: “May I Carry Your Basket”, “Aaron Kelley’s
Bones”, “Oh Susanna”, “The Brown Suit”, “It’s Him” and the iconic “Me Tie
Doughty Walker”.
But the sailor outfit can only point to one story called “Somebody Fell From Aloft”,
about a mysterious body that falls onto a ship on an oversea voyage.
If you pause on the next image you’ll see that “May I Carry Your Basket” and “Somebody
Fell From Aloft” are next to each other in the movie version of the book, despite
the fact that they aren’t even in the same book in real life.
There’s one short story that’s generally regarded the highest by fans, and that is
“Harold”, the tale of two farmers who make a scarecrow and name it after another
farmer, Harold, that they don’t like.
The Scarecrow becomes a punching bag for them whenever they needed to let off some steam,
but eventually start to notice that Harold is making grunting noises, growing, and eventually
walking around on their roof and deskinning his victims.
The trailer shows the ominous cornfield, Harold possibly watching one of the farmers and Harold’s
angry expression as his face crawls with cockroaches -- this looks like it’s going to be even
creepier than the story that it’s based on.
Another story I think we’ll see is called “The Bed By The Window”.
In the trailer, we see the kids approaching this hospital, and in the story, patients
who have the bed next to the window keep dying.
One man who moves into the bed keeps describing how amazing the window view is -- so this
other guy named George ends up murdering him in his sleep so that he can move into the
bed with the window view, but when he gets there, all he can see is a brick wall.
Since the movie is going to be combining stories, I think the hallway scene where we see the
Pale Skinned Lady from “The Dream” could be at that same hospital -- I believe in the
last video I speculated that it might have been their high school.
By the way, if you want to hear my analysis of The Pale Skinned Lady, The Big Toe Creature,
The Red Spot or The Gangly Boi, I go more in depth about those in my Scary Stories Teaser
Analysis video, which you can check out here.
The trailer also features a police officer character, which is probably a smart choice
considering that there are at least five stories in the books where cops get involved.
There’s “High Beams”, in which they arrest a man found hiding in the back of a
girl’s truck with a knife; “The Babysitter”, in which they arrest an intruder hiding in
an attic; “The Viper” in which a paranoid man alerts the police of some suspicious phone
calls but it turns out to be a German janitor who vants to vipe his vindows…
...by the looks of things I could use a Viper right about now myself…
... then there’s “The Window”, not to be confused by the previously mentioned “The
Bed By The Window”, where police are called after a vampire breaks into someone’s house
through the window even though that’s not allowed with vampires; and finally, “The
Trouble”.
This one has the most police involvement -- it’s about a house that is seemingly possessed
by a Poltergeist and the stubborn detective tries his best to find a rational explanation
for everything that's happened.
This cop’s jailhouse looks to play a significant role as the home of the monster from “The
Thing.”
The characters in that story describe a strange creature crawling out of a turnip field.
At first it looks like some kind of weird animal, but then they realize it is vaguely
human.
This might be the creepiest image in the trailer actually if you slow it down and get a good
look at this The Thing’s face.
I’m sure there will probably be some weirdo in the comments though who thinks he’s cute...
“Who’s a good boy?”
There’s one more new creature at the very end of the trailer.
Now there are several ghosts throughout the series, but I think this is the ghost from
“The Haunted House”, a story from the first book.
It’s about a preacher who tries to put an uneasy spirit to rest.
He hears murderous sounds within the house, before the ghost eventually approaches him
and tells the story of how her lover killed her for her money and hid her body in the
cellar.
She wants him to give her a proper burial and use her detached finger to find the her
killer.
He puts the finger in the collection plate at church, and it sticks to the man who murdered
her.
He confesses to his crimes, and so the ghost tells the preacher where to find the hidden
money.
But the spot where the ghost initially grabbed his coat has her finger marks permanently
burned into the cloth.
I’m going to keep you up to date on any things you might have missed in future teasers
and trailers for Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark.
By the way, how many was that?.
Ohh okay, so that’s how many there were.
No more comments questioning the number of Things You Missed.
That just leaves the comments saying “you don’t know what I missed -- how dare you
assume what I missed.”
If you haven’t seen the video on the left, watch that to see about the other creatures
that I didn’t cover in this video, and remember to subscribe to CZsWorld for new horrors every
week -- ring that deathbell for notifications, and I’ll see you in the next episode, assuming
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