Director André Øvredal‘s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is of course an adaptation of the books written by Alvin Schwartz, but the premise of the movie centers on a book written by a girl named Sarah Bellows, which unleashes monsters upon a small town. Sarah is played by actress Kathleen Pollard, and we get our first look at the character in this new TV spot.

Pollard, it’s interesting to note, had recently been Sally Hawkins’ stunt double for Guillermo del Toro‘s The Shape of Water. Del Toro, of course, was the producer of Scary Stories.

Meet Sarah Bellows below.

In this summer’s PG-13 adaptation…

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.