'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' kicks off weekend box office with $2.3M on Thursday

[masterofmystery]

Box Office: #ScaryStories scares up $2.3 million on Thursday night https://t.co/3FpJRmz2sW
- Variety (@Variety) August 9, 2019
The new horror release 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' started off this busy box office weekend with a take of $2.3 million from Thursday night previews. It's expected to make somewhere between $15 million and $19

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[truelasher]

Scary Stories was one of the worst movie choices I've made in my life. It has more teens talking, than it has jumps or scares and a wasted ending. So disappointing as a fan of the books, when I was a kid.

[of_baron]

Isn't it supposed to basically be a kids' movie? Just with traumatic nightmare imagery that will hook them on horror for life?

[truelasher]

Saw it in a huge theater and everyone was an adult. I don't know any kid that could sit through it though, boring as it was.

[of_baron]

Hmm, a lot of the reactions I've read have been wildly different.

[peasantings]

I saw The Art of Racing in the Rain, and like things happened but it felt so oddly plotless. Plus it’s the upteenth movie a year to include a bit where a dog can sniff out cancer. Yawn.

I don’t know why there’s a billion movies coming out this week. I have no idea how I’m going to plan out my A-List showings.

[masterofmystery]

i dunno how they went from one big release last week to like a million this week. what kind of weird ass august pacing

[peasantings]

And Angry Birds 2/Blinded By the Light are getting released mid-week this week too! Ridiculous. Why couldn’t some of these been dumped in July???

[masterofmystery]

i saw dora which was cute and i love all the treasure hunt type movies, though it was perhaps way too cutesy and PG. i kind of hope they keep going with them, i do miss the genre

[of_baron]

The nostalgia is strong, I kinda want to see this shit!

btw the scariest story was The Bride. I'll brook no argument.

[scriptedending]

I honestly don't know what to go see this week. I (obviously) love going to the movies, and there are a ton of things I'd see at Landmark/Arclight/Laemmle, but AMC's offerings in LA are so weak right now. I was going to see The Kitchen, but the reviews are terrible (21% on Rotten Tomatoes?!), and I am not the kind of person who needs to sit through a movie with that kind of unanimous critical rejection just to say I saw it. The reviews for Scary Stories are mixed to bad, and I have no interest in seeing cancer dog movie or falsely accused football player movie.

What's good is that I have a couple of free Arclight tickets & some Fandango gift cards, so I'll probably use those to go see The Nightingale or Luce or Them That Follow.

I'm very excited for Blinded by the Light next week!

[eveofrevolution]

[scriptedending]

oh, hard same!

[bsfan]

21% Damn. I wanted to see it. Hopefully the audience score is higher. I haven't checked.