Bloody Disgusting reports Disturbia director D.J. Caruso is in talks to helm Paramount’s feature adaptation of Are You Afraid of the Dark?. IT co-writer Gary Dauberman will produce alongside Matt Kaplan. The horror film is slated to be release on October 11, 2019.
Caruso’s other credits include I Am Number Four starring Alex Pettyfer, Teresa Palmer and Callan McAulliffe; Vin Diesel’s xXx: Return of Xander Cage; and the 2016 psychological horror film The Disappointments Room.
Dauberman (IT: Chapter 2, The Nun) previously has revealed that the forthcoming film will not be adapting any episodes from the series but instead will feature a completely new original story that will still be told by The Midnight Society. Further details about the film’s plot are still being kept under wraps.
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? is based on the Canadian horror anthology series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1992-1996. The series featured a group of teenagers who called themselves “The Midnight Society” who would gather around a campfire at the beginning of each episode to tell a scary story ranging from abandoned houses to vampires and killer clowns to witches.
Both series featured a group of teenagers who called themselves “The Midnight Society.” The group would gather around a campfire at the beginning of each episode and one of the teens would say, “Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story [name of episode].” Then they’d toss “midnight dust” on the campfire. The audience would then see the story unfold. The stories were all scary, from abandoned houses to vampires to witches.
