‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’ the scary-for-kids show from 90’s Nickelodeon is getting a big screen movie adaption!
Screenwriter Gary Dauberman spoke with Slash Film about how the throwback 90’s spooky show will get revamped for a movie:
“That show is so important to me. I didn’t want to age it down too much because for it’s time, it had some really disturbing episodes and some really dark episodes. Not every story the Midnight Society told ended with happily ever after or a person learning their lesson and it will never happen again. I really embraced that side of things and I think it’s been a long time. I think fear is healthy for kids. I don’t think we have to always sand down the edges of things and that’s something I really wanted to do with Are You Afraid of the Dark. I think it is scary and I think kids will be scared watching it at times, and also they’ll laugh at times. I think it’s got a great message. I think it’s got a great heart to it but it is still scary. I think that’s great. I think it’s going to open it up to a wider audience. It is a completely original story I came up with, but it still has the Midnight Society and it still has the campfire. It’s still a story being told.”
If that is not enough Nickelodeon nostalgia, they are launching a streaming on-demand service.
