![]() But a basic knowledge of the background gives the proceedings a little extra weight. presidential election aren't touched on in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, director André Øvredal's spooky but messy adaptation of the wildly popular tales of terror aimed at younger readers. And nothing would ever be the same again. Nixon would go on to victory (with some big help from the electoral college). Republican candidate Richard Nixon rose higher and higher in the polls, eventually pitted against Humprey. Cut down just as his brother had been a few years before. Hope was in the air.Īnd then Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The younger Kennedy's star was on the rise, and it was beginning to look as if he would cinch the Dem nomination, beating out then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and staunchly anti-Vietnam candidate Eugene McCarthy. Johnson had vowed to not seek a second term – a move that threw the Democratic party into a tailspin and gave rise to Robert Kennedy, brother of the slain JFK. ![]() It's the fall of 1968, and the future is riding on the impending election. Nixon isn't actually a character in the movie – don't worry, there's no character actor here slathered in make-up doing a bad Nixon voice – but he looms large, like America's boogeyman, glimpsed in shadowy black and white on fuzzy TV screens. No, the real big bad of Scary Stories is – believe it or not – Richard Nixon. It's not even Sarah Bellows, the ghostly figure who is behind all the terror that seeps into the narrative. Nor is it the ghoulish specter searching for her missing toe nor the so-called Jangly Man, assembled at odd-angles from dismembered body parts. The true villain of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark isn't the bug-infested scarecrow Harold.
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