Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
Practical Effects
The creatures are practical effects from the Jim Henson Company—gorgeously grotesque.
Production
Every monster ripped straight from Stephen Gammell's nightmare illustrations.
Writing
Guillermo del Toro's touch: fairy-tale logic meets real-world cruelty.
Director
André Øvredal
Zoe Colletti
Stella Nicholls
Dean Norris
Roy Nicholls
Michael Garza
Ramón Morales
Gabriel Rush
Auggie Hilderbrandt
Gil Bellows
Chief Turner
Natalie Ganzhorn
Ruth Steinberg
Austin Abrams
Tommy Milner
Austin Zajur
Chuck Steinberg
Kathleen Pollard
Sarah Bellows
Lorraine Toussaint
Lou Lou
Victoria Fodor
Mrs. Milner
Marie Ward
Mrs. Hilderbrandt
Mark Steger
Harold the Scarecrow / Pale Lady
Javier Botet
Big Toe Corpse
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