A new featurette for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark showcases behind the scenes footage and the dedicated work into bringing Stephen Gammell’s illustrations to life using practical effects. You can watch the featurette below, be warned the video does include spoilers, so be sure to watch the film before viewing this video…
SEE ALSO: Read our review of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark here
To faithfully bring Gammell‘s illustrations to life, the cast and crew behind Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – directed by André Øvredal and produced by Guillermo del Toro – collaborated with practical and makeup effects company Spectral Motion.
In a recent interview with Collider, Øvredal spoke about the practical effects used in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The director stated, “it’s 90% practical. CGI is mostly for enhancement. It was a decision that was made very early. I was coming into it thinking, ‘How are we going to do these creatures?’ And Guillermo immediately said, We’re going to do it for real. We’re going to create these creatures.’ And that was fantastic.”
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is available in theatres and features a cast including Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Austin Zajur, Javier Botet, Mark Steger, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Natalie Ganzhorn, Dean Norris, and Kathleen Pollard.
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Originally published August 13, 2019. Updated August 12, 2019.
