I grew up fearing my mother the most, horror stories told in the dark

Brittany 2022-03-21 09:02:30

There is such a question on Zhihu: What was the scariest story that my mother told me when I was a child ?

It is said that in the middle of the night, I was excited and didn't want to sleep, and my mother talked about "the red-eyed wolf loves to eat children";

Some say "I was picked up";

The most classic ones are "Grandma Bear" and "Family with Children" scaring Liu Xing's " red hands, green hands, and big white hands ";

For a Northeastern child like me, the " Maskey Monkey " will definitely appear in the middle of the night.

When I was a child, when my mother mentioned horses and monkeys before going to bed, I would really go crazy, just sauce↓

Sure enough, the same world, the same mother!

Mom is so cute!

It was also in this situation that I gradually honed a strong heart for Stephen King, Wen Ziren, and Ryan Murphy (it doesn't seem to be that strong).

However, the most recent one, Horror Stories to Tell in the Dark, took place on Halloween in 1968. Although it was adapted from a children's horror story, it is really not suitable for adults.

Director, are you trying to kill obsessive-compulsive disorder? !

01

halloween haunted house

Halloween night in 1968.

Small town girl Stella and her two friends, Augie and Chuck , are busy planning a prank.

The prank was aimed at a senior bully at the school named Tommy , who always bullied them and the other kids.

Stella lives with her father, and dreams of one day becoming a writer and using her talent for ghost stories, but she can't bear to leave her father to the outside world.

This evening, they dressed up as "Spider-Man" who looked like a spider, an Italian poet who had been dead for hundreds of years, and a mysterious witch.

With the shit that Auggie "digs" from his toilet, they embark on the road of revenge.

Sure enough, the power of the shit bombs is endless, not only making Tommy smell like shit, but also half-dead...

Tommy, who had lost his dignity, chased three people with his subordinates and ran to an open-air drive-in theater.

Here, Stella meets the boy " Raymond " who is a hero who saves beauty and helps them escape.

Later, they invited Raymond to explore the town's haunted house surrounded by curses, where the Bellos family evaporated overnight.

It is said that everything is because of the girl named Sarah of the Bellos family .

Sarah has been locked up at home because she has albinism, but she lured many children into the house and told them ghost stories, and everyone who heard Sarah's story died.

Later, the members of the Bellows family also evaporated overnight, leaving behind an abandoned paper mill, which has become a forbidden place for people who have repeatedly disappeared.

However, the daring Stella and the others did not believe in this evil. They were locked in the basement by Tommy who was chasing after them, but they discovered the horror story book written by Sarah by accident .

Most of the legends do not have this book, but it is also said that the story of this book is written in blood, and what is written in the book will definitely become reality .

After Stella recited "Sara, please tell me a ghost story," the door miraculously opened and she took the scary storybook with her.

In the haunted house, something seems to be awakened...

02

Horror story becomes reality

The truth that disappears one after another

Stella came home with the storybook.

After pouring a glass of water, I accidentally discovered that there are more stories above.

Tommy, who was born into a farm family, has always hated the scarecrow named "Harold" on the farm .

Every time I saw it, I would beat its head, kick its body, and use all means to destroy it.

That day, he picked up the eggs and left home for the last time. Under the dim moonlight, he walked through the fields, but he encountered a ghost hitting the wall and couldn't get out.

Looking up again, Harold's face was in front of him. The scarecrow moved a little bit, chasing after Tommy.

It ran through his waist with a rake, and just a few steps from home, Tommy fell, and where he was punctured, his eyes, ears, nose, and nose grew straw.

He replaces Harold and becomes a scarecrow...

The next day, Bully Tommy literally disappeared. When Stella and her companions shared the story, they were all in disbelief.

The only one who believed her was Raymond, and they both saw the scarecrow hanging from the stick, wearing the baseball shirt Tommy had been missing.

Horror storybooks, are you really writing your own ghost stories? And everything will become reality ?

Stella clearly sent the book back, but in a blink of an eye, it appeared on the shelf again.

While they were wondering, the Book of Sarah Bellows started to do it on its own again.

Lines of viscous bloody words appeared on the yellowed paper. This time, the story was about Auggie.

"When my mother was digging on the edge of the garden, she saw a big toe. It was very nice and full. She said it could be used for stew..."

Stella couldn't stop the ghost story book, so she called Auggie at the first time, but it was too late.

Auggie, who was at home alone, had eaten stew while his parents were on vacation, and things were developing strangely as written in the book:

A big toe rising and falling in the stew that belonged to a corpse was eaten by Auggie.

Auggie, who discovered all of this, was talking to his friends and heard a faint voice in his ear, saying, "Who took my big toe?"

This story, his father told him when he was a child, scared him half to death, but now it really happened...

The corpse that lost the precious big toe chased after him. Auggie hid under the bed and shivered. He heard the sound of the door being twisted open.

After a while, there was no sound in the room, he carefully probed from under the bed, leaned over and looked up, and the grimace finally waited for him!

Stella came to Auggie's house, but her friends had long since disappeared, only scratches more than two meters long under the bed...

Another person has evaporated, and it is undeniable that the storybook is at work. Stella and the others tried to destroy the book, but the fire couldn't destroy it either.

The team that broke into the ghost house rummaged through the newspapers and books, trying to find out what happened to Sarah back then. Why did she leave this horror story book behind when she committed suicide ?

But unexpectedly discovered that the protagonist of the story has the names of Sarah's family, her father, her brothers...

At this time, the book began to create a story again, this time about "Red Spot", the protagonist is Chuck's sister Lucy.

She was also locked up in the basement of the haunted house that day, and even worse, she was bitten by a spider on her face.

She was about to perform on stage, but the bag on her face became more and more red and swollen, and several layers of foundation could not cover it.

She felt that the girls were staring at her, so she went to the bathroom to look closely at the bag on her face.

She gently pressed the right cheek, and every time she made a pain, she saw that the bag was getting redder and redder, and a small circle was raised in the middle, as if something was crawling inside...

Suddenly, a hair came out of it, startling her. But this was just the beginning. She tried to touch the black hair on her face, trying to pull it out, but it moved on its own and scratched outwards.

Immediately afterwards, countless small spiders emerged from her face and covered her whole body, only to hear the shrill howls in the women's bathroom.

When she was finally discovered, surrounded by spiders, she was covered in blood and completely collapsed.

Losing another friend and replacing curiosity is incomparable fear. This storybook is also a countdown to each of their lives. Maybe it's your turn next .

The fear is just a prelude, and what is even more frightening is that the terrorist incident really happened to me:

Chuck was most afraid of the woman in his dream since he was a child. In the red room, a pale woman appeared quietly, with long hair and black eyes .

She approached him and said, " This is a dangerous place, run away while you can ."

The nightmare is an early warning, but the reality is the huge monster who can't tell the gender, hugs Chuck, and integrates him into his body in a few seconds;

And what Raymond was afraid of was also a childhood nightmare, the "undead zombies", those monsters that adults told over and over to scare children, really had a reality.

The body that was dismembered by five horses was assembled little by little, and it shouted over and over again the name of Raymond, its prey, the coward who evaded military service.

It's going to tear him apart, turning him into a corpse on the battlefield...

Stella, who wanted to hear Sarah tell horror stories, went to 1898 and became Sarah herself.

Tortured by her brother and father, and imprisoned in a cold back room, she finally understood Sarah's experience.

It turned out that this poor girl didn't kill those children, it was the mercury pollution from the paper mill, but her whole family put the blame on her and killed her even more cruelly.

This storybook is her revenge against everyone .

03

Stories can hurt people

can also heal

However, this indiscriminate revenge was thoroughly misguided.

Sarah's life was indeed a tragedy. She was brutally abused by her family, and was vilified as a legendary monster after her death .

People tell this story to children over and over again, and Sarah becomes more and more upset.

She hates everyone.

The quest of Stella and others made her crazy again, sending everyone a finale of death.

Each monster is tailor-made for them by Sarah, the most feared image they heard from their parents when they were children. Watching the nightmare approach me a little bit is far more terrifying than dying directly.

Sarah wants them to suffer and feel what they've been through. But what she wanted more, and what she didn't even discover herself, was that she wanted people to know the truth:

She is an unfortunate person, not an ominous person, nor a monster .

Those who spread rumors and give power to rumors are the ones who are truly hateful.

Stella wakes up to Sarah's mistake, and her anger must stop. As promised, she wrote in the book, "Sarah is innocent, she was destroyed by the greed and sin of her family..."

After 70 years, the truth is finally revealed, and what is left to the world?

Stella realized that " story has a powerful force, it can hurt people and it can heal people ", she is ready to call her friends back.

For more people, it may be to stop spreading, spreading and believing rumors, and let offensive words become sharp spears to stab innocent people;

And being obsessed with that fear will only let the monster in your heart be released and devour yourself.

This horror film with an 80 on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of only 6.0 is considered a failure by many.

Calling it "unsightly horror", it was a "teen inspirational film told in the dark", ruined by the emotional drama of teenage boys and girls.

The relationship between the male and female protagonists is indeed superfluous, but everyone in adolescence has their vulnerabilities, disgusting the original family, fear of parting, fear of death...

But it is precisely because of this that it is called a human being .

These teenage children experienced some bizarre things together, saw the fear in their hearts, and saw the truth clearly, and the moment of healing was finally ushered in after the bloody scars were uncovered.

In any case, it cannot be denied that its monster scene is truly incredible.

If you really want to challenge your tolerance, please loop "High Energy Moment" 1000 times!

Cannon fodder Tommy holds up the whole film

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Extended Reading
  • Harley 2022-01-06 08:01:12

    Better than expected. The director's creation of the atmosphere of the horror scene is an advantage inherited from "An Unknown Woman's Corpse", a kind of tension that "the rubber band gets longer and longer but I don't know when it will break". The images of different ghosts and the stages of their debut are also very original and exciting, much better than "Annabel 3". But ironically, while the film emphasizes the important role of "story" in the play, it also tells the audience a not new and interesting story. Putting a group of children on the task of investigating the case is also not convincing, and the characterization is very thin, but it also gives a sense of retro horror movies, and tributes to old horror movies can be seen everywhere.

  • Jazmin 2022-01-06 08:01:12

    The original book is from the early 1980s, five or six years earlier than IT, and more than ten years earlier than the "Goosebumps" series. Purely for children, the age group on Amazon is 8-12 years old, that is, elementary school students. Adapted into the movie PG-13, it is really a children's movie. The format is similar to the "Book of the Necropolis" in the 1990s. The main story is about a horrible book, and then a short story is brought out, so the heroine's friends are actually props for telling the short story. The short story itself is in the original book, and there are surprises in searching scaryforkids. In addition to the details of the president, the main storyline mainly talks about the Americans' fear of poisoning children in factories in the 1980s. The most famous case is that of DuPont. John Travolta has acted in related movies. Recently, another "Black Water" is going to be published, which also talks about this case.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark quotes

  • Chuck SteinbergAuggie Hilderbrandt: Who Ordered The Chicken?

  • [repeated line]

    Jangly ManJangly Man: COWARD!