One of the terrifying drawings from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books that’ll be coming to life on the big screen later this year is the Pale Lady (from “The Dream”), glimpsed in the original Super Bowl spots and then later in the official trailer. EW shows off a new image of the sinister figure today, along with some comments from producer Guillermo del Toro.
“[Stephen] Gammell draws these very ephemeral images, and we tried to translate them into 3D,” del Toro told the site. “I actually recruited the best sculptors I know, who are Mike Hill and Norman Cabrera, and went to one of the best physical-effects makeup companies, Spectral Motion, and from there we went and really honored the Gammell drawings. We did several of the characters in the book. In each instance we would say, ‘Does it look and feel like the character on the page?’”
He added, “Once you see them in movement in the film, they come across exactly as close as you can get to a Gammell drawing come alive.”
In the André Øvredal-directed film adaptation of the spooky books:
A group of young teens must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town.
“It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time—stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome.”
Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Kathleen Pollard, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur and Natalie Ganzhorn star.
Daniel Hageman & Kevin Hageman and Guillermo del Toro wrote the script.
The stories come to life on August 9th, 2019.
