Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark review, Culture Whisper
Decent horror shakes and shocks, breaks through to our greatest fears, and stops us sleeping at night. Sometimes the most audacious filmmakers can burrow to the soul and rip it apart, like Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) loves to do.
But the most underrated aspect of the genre is the joy of a frightening adventure, of watching kids run and quip and flounder as monsters stalk them around a haunted house. It's perhaps as important as dead mums or bloody bathrooms. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a horror movie that tries to have fun.
