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Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins on Halloween of 19 68
The nondescript small farming town is alive with preparations for the harvest, Halloween,
and the Vietnam war draft
Three young friends, Stella, Auggie, and Chuck go out that night
Stella is dressed as a witch; Augie is a clown; while Chuck is wearing a spider costume
Every year, Tommy, the school bully, and his friends steal the Halloween candies of other kids
That is why this year, Chuck came up with a plan to get back at him
The three friends wait on the side of a street;
and sure enough, Tommy's car comes barreling down the road
One of the boys in the backseat leans out of the window, and snatches their bag of candies
Chuck's sister is with them too
But Tommy and his friends quickly realize that the bag smells terrible,
and that they've been pranked
Chuck, Stella, and Augie pelt Tommy's car with eggs
Chuck then hurls a flaming ball of poop inside
Tommy gets freaked out, and crashes his car into a neighbor's fence
He gets out with a baseball bat, and chases the three friends
They stumble into a drive-in theater; and Stella chooses the car of Ramon to hide in
Ramon is a drifter who's new to town
At first, he orders the three friends to get out of his car;
but Stella convinces him to let them hide there
Unfortunately, Tommy finds them, and demands that they get out and face him
Ramon defends the three friends, and tells Tommy to leave
Elated that they escaped Tommy, Stella invites Ramon to see the town's haunted house
It's a large run-down mansion that's been empty for years
The house was built by the Bellows family, one of the town founders
The group opens the door, and steps inside the dark house
Stella tells Ramon that the Bellows had a daughter, Sarah, who they hid from the rest of the world;
but not much is known about Sarah, or why she was hidden
Kids from the town used to go to the house, but they couldn't see Sarah;
she talked to the kids through the walls, and told them many scary stories
However, Kids started disappearing; so the townspeople blamed Sarah for that, and demanded her head
But before people could get her, Sarah already killed herself someday
Since then, The house has become famous for being haunted by Sarah's ghost
After the story, Ramon finds a secret passageway hidden behind a shelf
He and Stella explore it, and end up discovering Sarah's room
Meanwhile, Chuck hides in a closet to scare Auggie
But when he opens the closet, he sees an old woman wearing a veil, sitting on a bed
The old woman turns to look at him; and he closes the closet door in surprise
Auggie then opens the door a few seconds later; and the old woman is nowhere to be seen
Chuck and Auggie look for Stella and Ramon, and find them in Sarah's room
Stella finds Sarah's book of stories, and is about to open it;
but Chuck is spooked and says that the book is written with the blood of the dead children
The friends argue about whether or not they should open the book;
and then the door to the room is closed by Tommy, who has followed the group to the house
Chuck's sister opens the door, intending to let them out,
but Tommy pushes her inside, and locks the door again
Spiders get into her hair; and she shrieks
The others try to open the door again,
but Stella sits down in a corner and opens the book, asking Sarah to tell her a story
The door mysteriously opens; and the group walks out of the house
When they go outside, they see that Ramon's car was vandalized by Tommy
Stella offers him her couch in the basement of her house to sleep in for the night
Stella's father is already asleep, so she easily sneaks Ramon inside
Ramon reads her writing; and he advises her to leave the small town and go into the city,
so she could be a successful writer
Stella tells him that she can't leave her father
Ramon accepts this, and proceeds to go to the basement to sleep
Stella opens the book she found in the haunted house
A story about a scarecrow is already written in blood-red ink
She runs her thumb along the title; and the ink smudges
Across town, a drunken Tommy arrives home,
and gets berated by his mother for not delivering the eggs as she asked him to
He gets the eggs, and trudges through the cornfield near his house,
and passes by a scarecrow that he hates
A few meters later, he passes by the scarecrow again
He looks at its mottled face, confused;
but he decides that maybe he's just too drunk and walks on again
But eventually, he sees the scarecrow again
Or more specifically, the empty wooden post where the scarecrow once hung
Bewildered, Tommy walks around, trying to find it
Behind him, something skulks through the corn stalks
He swivels around, but doesn't see anything
When he turns, the scarecrow is in front of him
It begins to move; and Tommy tries to stab it with a pitchfork;
but the scarecrow grabs the pitchfork, and stabs him with it
Tommy manages to get out of the field, and tries to call his mother for help
But it's too late; hay starts to pour from his mouth; and he turns into a scarecrow
The next morning, Ramon gets his car checked in a local garage
The police chief stops by, and informs him that Tommy has been missing since last night;
and witnesses saw that he got into a fight with Ramon
The police chief also tells him to stick around in town for a few days
On the other hand, Stella excitedly tells her friends about the book,
and how the scarecrow story seems like what happened to Tommy
Chuck also shares with the others his strange vision of the old woman back in the house
But Auggie remains unconvinced that anything paranormal is happening
Eager to prove her theory correct, Stella and Ramon drop by Tommy's family's farm
They see a scarecrow hanging along the path; and it's wearing Tommy's clothes
Stella returns the book back to the room where she found it in the haunted house
That night, Ramon visits her again
They're in her room; and she notices that Ramon is reading Sarah's book
She tells him that she returned the book earlier; but he explains that he found it on her bookshelf
She opens it, and is horrified that a new story is being written right before their eyes
Auggie is in the story; and Sarah hurriedly contacts him through a walkie-talkie
Auggie is home alone, and he sees a pot of stew inside the fridge
He picks up the walkie-talkie, but doesn't believe Stella when she says that he is in the story
She tells him that there is a corpse coming after him, looking after her missing toe
Auggie disregards this, and eats a spoonful of the stew
He is surprised when he pulls out a toe from his mouth
Then, he begins to hear the voice of the corpse, looking for her toe
He hides under his bed in his room; and the corpse opens his door
The corpse drags him and screams
Ramon and Stella arrive at Auggie's house; but he is already gone
The two meet with Chuck and his sister the next morning
Stella believes that one by one, the book will write horror stories about them;
and so they need to destroy the book
The sister doesn't believe it and storms out
They try to burn the book, but it remains intact
The three friends then decide to learn more about Sarah, and find an end to the curse
They go to the local gazette to look at newspaper archives
Chuckie discovers from an old article that after Sarah died,
her family blamed their maid and her daughter, for teaching her black magic
Ramon then sees another article announcing that within a year of Sarah's death,
every member of her family left the town under mysterious circumstances
Sarah's father's name strikes a bell with Stella;
and she realizes that each of the family members is featured in the stories inside Sarah's book,
which would explain why they were gone
Stella flips to a new page, and sees that a new story is being written about Chuck's sister
The sister is performing in the school musical that night;
and she is very concerned about the noticeable spider bite on her cheek
She goes to the restroom just before the curtain call,
and is horrified that the bite seems to be swelling
Ramon, Stella, and Chuck race to the school, and try to find Chuck's sister
Something seems to be moving underneath the bite
A spider begins to come out, then another one and another one
Thousands of spiders emerge from her cheek, and the sister screams
The three find the sister surrounded by the spiders; and Chuck douses her with a bucket of water
An ambulance is called, and the sister is taken to the hospital
The next day, they track down the address of the maid's daughter, who is still alive, but is blind
She tells them that she befriended Sarah, and gave her the notebook; so she can write stories
She also refutes the family's story that she and her maid mother taught Sarah black magic
Lastly, it is revealed that Sarah didn't kill herself inside the house, but in a hospital instead
They go to the hospital, and ask to see Sarah's patient records
A nurse tells them that their request would take six weeks to be processed;
so the teenagers decide to sneak into the red room, where the records are kept
Chuck is scared to go inside the room, because it reminds him of the dreams,
that he's been having about the old lady inside the red bedroom;
so he stays behind while Ramon and Stella go inside
The pair find Sarah's records in the room
The papers reveal that Sarah's own brother had her admitted into the hospital,
and subjected her to various painful treatments
They also find a recording of Sarah during one of her sessions; and they play it with a gramophone
The brother was forcing her to admit that she killed the children;
but Sarah was adamant that she was innocent
She also said that it was the mercury from her family's paper mill,
that poisoned the water and killed the children
Sarah's family covered everything up by blaming her for the deaths,
and having her committed to the hospital; so she could be silenced forever
The voice from the gramophone begins to tell a new story; this time about Chuck
Chuck is running through the hallway; and the lights turn red
He screams for help, but no one else is around
From the other end of the hallway comes a big white blob with long, stringy hair
It begins to chase him
No matter where he runs, the blob is still there, slowly walking towards him
then it hugs and absorbs Chuck until he is gone
The two get arrested for trespassing;
and the police chief reveals that Ramon is actually a draft dodger, which is why he ran away
Stella and Ramon try to explain that Sarah's book is causing their friends to disappear,
but the police chief doesn't believe their smelly bullshit,
and throws them into a smelly cell for the night
Ramon and Stella huddle as close as they could through the cell bars
Ramon confides that ever since he saw his brother's dead body shipped from Vietnam,
he couldn't bring himself to do his duty and fight
The police chief sits down at his desk, and opens Sarah's book
A new story is being written; and the lights in the station flicker off
A decapitated head rolls to the floor, followed by a hand and other limbs
The body parts begin to mesh together, and form a towering monster
It knocks the police chief unconscious, and then stalks toward Ramon's cell
Stella manages to get the keys from the police chief's belt, and unlocks the cell doors
Ramon tells Stella to run and find a way to stop Sarah
He can't go with her, because the monster is following him
He gets into a police car and drives away, while Stella races to the haunted house
Ramon is chased by the monster, until he pins it into a truck
Stella gets to the house, and tries to speak to Sarah's ghost
Suddenly, she is back in the past, and the house is no longer dilapidated
People are looking for her; and she runs through the house
Ramon gets to the house too, but Stella isn't there
He picks up the discarded book, and sees that a story featuring Stella is being written
The monster follows him to the house, and Ramon hides
Meanwhile, Stella goes to a bedroom, and sees the old woman that Chuck encountered in his vision
Stella looks into a mirror, and sees Sarah's reflection instead of her own
Now we know that Stella must be living a part of Sarah's past,
and experiencing what happened to her
The maid's daughter comes in and helps Stella hide
But Sarah's brothers find her, and drag her to Sarah's hidden room
The room goes dark; and she is the present once again
She comes face to face with Sarah's ghost; and she cowers in fear
Ramon is still being stalked by the monster,
and whispers to Stella that she should tell Sarah the truth
So Stella tells Sarah that what her family did to her was terrible;
and she promises to write the true story of what happened to Sarah
The ghost gives her a pen; so Stella uses her blood to write Sarah's story
Appeased that justice to her has been served, Sarah stops her curse;
and the monster disappears in an instant
Ramon and Stella find each other, and they hug
She submits her story about Sarah, and wins first place in a contest
After the incident, Ramon finally gets the courage to enlist in the war;
and Stella says goodbye to him, and hands him a letter
Her two friends, Chuck and Auggie, are still gone;
and Stella is determined to find a way to bring them back
The movie ends with Stella's father driving her and Chuck's sister out of town,
as they start a new adventure
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