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

Chuck’s story is the only one which isn’t titled in the film, though he does describe a dream in which a heavy pale woman in a red room chases him while moaning. The story from the original collection of short stories is named The Dream and the illustration is near identical to the interpretation the director brought to the big screen.

The hallway chuck’s in turns a deep red, and he and his friends know what’s about to go down. In a It Follows sort of way, the creature never moves faster than a slow amble as it closes in on Chuck. The comic relief does his best to escape, but at every turn there’s another creature and he soon realizes there’s no escape. Four creatures enclose around him as one gives him a surprisingly tender looking hug, then absorbs him into herself.

Now the situation is scary in itself, but that’s not what earned The Dream the number one spot. In the last few years there are only a few images I feel confident in saying are absolutely horrifying to a near inexplicable degree: the nightmare-bear from Annihilation, every single cat-human hybrid from the new Cats trailer, and now the creature of The Dream. Her wet hair, her beady eyes, that nightmarish smirk, the way she waddles instead of walks, her inhuman; there is no a feature that isn’t terrifying about her. At some point Chuck sort of accepts his fate and gives into her, and to be honest, he lasted longer against her than most would’ve.

Which of the six stories from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark did you find the scariest? Let us know in the comments!