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“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” TV Spots, Featurettes, Trailers and Posters

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Directed by André Øvredal, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is inspired by one of the most horrific and terrifying children’s book series of the same name authored by Alvin Schwartz. The movie follows a group of young teens. Each teen must try and solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town.

The ensemble cast includes Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn.

Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman hold top billing as screenwriters of the movie, and four more screenwriters worked on the script, including Guillermo del Toro, one of the producers. Øvredal directing credits include Trollhunter and The Autopsy of Jane Doe, both scary and creepy movies.

The four TV spots that arrived during the Super Bowl commercials were being touted. Keep in mind these TV spots are short and quick to the scare.

The TV spots arrived before the trailer, and now, the trailer is here. Scary Stories is a horror movie with different related stories as the movie. The public will flock to the box office when it comes to horror movies. This movie will be no different.

The trailer presentation featurette tells us how the movie idea started with
Guillermo del Toro. He talks about collaborating with Øvredal.

The next trailer tells us more about the book of scary stories and promotes the director and producer of the horror movie.

The next movie trailer shows us more of the horrific aspects of the movie. Each scary story is told as a lesson learned.

The featurette is creepy and sets up a conceptual understanding of what to expect from the movie in general. The idea that these are old and simple horror stories told over a campfire is intriguing.

The next three featurettes are scary and creepy.

The interview with the producer and director is worth watching.

“Puzzle” Trailer, Poster, & Movie Clips

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Directed by Marc Turtletaub, Puzzle follows Agnes, whose life is a puzzle she is trying to assemble. If you watch the trailer, you will agree with me. The movie is a metaphor for putting one’s life in order by mastering jigsaw puzzles. 

Agnes, played by Kelly Macdonald, does that same thing every day, and her family takes her for granted. She discovers a love for solving jigsaw puzzles. She finds a new world of solving jigsaw puzzles. Her self-esteem builds until her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.

The movie clip shows the similarities of each character, which explains why they are drawn to each other and puzzles.

The movie clip below says about what puzzles can do for a person.

Watch the trailer, and you will see a beautiful story unfold. Turteltaub directed Little Miss Sunshine, which launched his career and several others. The Puzzle looks like a sleeper hit.

“Brad’s Status” Trailer

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Written and Directed by Mike White, Brad’s Status follows Brad Sloan, played by Ben Stiller. He accompanies his college-bound son, Troy, played by Austin Abrams, to the East Coast.

The college scene sets off a crisis of confidence in Brad’s status. He starts contemplating whether he has a satisfying career and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, where he lives with his sweet-natured wife, Melanie, Jenna Fischer, and their musical prodigy son. Still, it is not what Brad imagined during his college glory days.

Showing Troy around Boston, where Brad went to university, he can’t help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends: a Hollywood bigshot, played by White), a hedge fund founder played by Luke Wilson, a tech entrepreneur, played by Jemaine Clement, and a political pundit and bestselling author, played by Michael Sheen.

Obviously, the movie’s message is about defining success, as the film follows Brad’s dilemma on whether he is successful or not.