The Cast of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Is Ready to Scare the Sh*t Out of You

Up-and-coming actress Zoe Colette — best known for playing Tessie in 2014's Annie and Ruth-Ann in the 2018 drama Wildlife alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan — will star in the film as Stella Nicholls, a teen haunted by her mother's disappearance who gets caught up in a terrifying town curse on Halloween.

Michael Garza plays Ramón, a sweet kid with a mysterious past who gets involved with Stella after their Halloween prank gone wrong. Later they work together to solve the mystery surrounding the sudden, gruesome deaths in their small town.

The hilarious Fist Fight star plays Chuck, the prank-loving BFF of Stella's who begins to realize that they crossed a line by breaking into a haunted house in town.

Better known as Ron Anderson in seasons five and six of The Walking Dead and Ethan in Euphoria, Austin Abrams appears as Tommy Milner, a popular football player at Stella's school who suffers a gruesome fate.

Natalie Ganzhorn, who previously appeared in The Stanley Dynamic, plays Chuck's sister, Ruth, whose plans of becoming an actress are dashed by a deeply unfortunate run-in with a few spiders.

Gabriel Rush, who made his film debut in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom as Skotak and later worked with Anderson again in The Grand Budapest Hotel, plays Auggie Hilderbrandt, a close friend of Stella's.

Best known for his role as DEA agent Hank Schrader in AMC's Breaking Bad, Dean Norris has a small role in the film as Roy Nicholls, Stella's father, whom she believes to know more about her mother's disappearance than he lets on.

Gil Bellows — best known for playing Tommy Williams in 1994's The Shawshank Redemption and Billy Thomas in the legal drama series Ally McBeal — appears as Police Chief Turner, a massive jerk who presides over the law in the small Pennsylvania town.

Lorraine Toussaint — whom you might recognize as Orange is the New Black's scheming Yvonne "Vee" Parker from the second season — will play Lou Lou, a woman who has connections to the real-life horror that Stella stumbles upon.

Spanish actor Javier Botet — who was diagnosed as a child with Marfan syndrome, a condition that gave Botet his extremely tall, thin build — pops up in the movie as the Jangly Man, a Slender Man-esque creature who appeared in one of the four Super Bowl teasers released for the film earlier this year. The role was originally supposed to be played by del Toro's longtime collaborator, Doug Jones, but Botet officially took on the part.