All 6 Shorts From Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Ranked

This one starts pretty gross, and then gets increasingly more as it continues. Having the ketchup dribble on Chuck’s shirt was pretty clever for him to think he’s the subject of The Red Spot, but anyone who’s seen the trailer or knows anything about the original books knows what The Red Spot truly is.

In the Bellows’ house Ruth gets knocked back into a spider web and presumably gets bitten by one. Her brother tries his best to persuade her it’s a zit, but soon it begins to swell to an enormous and painful degree. We see Ruth mess with it in the mirror of the girl’s room at school before a spider’s leg pops out, then the whole spider, then a whole litter of spiders.

We’ve all heard folk-tales of people having insects’ nest in their ear or arachnids burrow under their skin, but to watch one come to fruition was much more upsetting than just hearing the lore. Ruth’s one of the first to survive her story, but it still came with lasting consequences. She suffers plentiful spider bites and a stint in the “looney bin” to add literal insult to literal injury.

She eventually gets out and is reunited with Stella as they begin their plan to solve the mysteries of their friend’s disappearances, but Ruth has a pretty gnarly scar from where the red spot was as a reminder of her story. This one may not have the scariest creature or the worst of implications, but as a viewer, it was easily the hardest to watch.