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Bittersweet Ending: Stella manages to save herself and Ramón by promising to tell the world about how Sarah Bellows was not the monster that the stories about her painted her as, but rather a victim of her own family, with Sarah then stopping the stories from coming true.

The older sibling instinct returns at the end of the film, as Ruth teams up with Stella to find a way to bring Chuck and Auggie back from the dead. When Tommy doesn't listen to her she opens the door herself, which results in Tommy throwing her down to the basement and locking her in too. She seems nervous to stand up to Tommy but insists that she has to help Chuck because he's her little brother.

Big Sister Instinct: Ruth and Chuck fight like siblings tend to do, but when Tommy locks Chuck in the basement of the Bellows house, Ruth immediately tells him to let him go.

Being Tortured Makes You Evil: It was the various inhumane medicinal practices her brother inflicted on her and the imprisonment by her family that eventually led to Sarah becoming a Vengeful Ghost, taking out her rage on anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in her curse.

Ruth survives but her experience with the spiders leaves her with a massive scar on her cheek.

Batter Up!: Tommy routinely smacks Harold the scarecrow with a baseball bat.

Domestic Abuser: Tommy is heavily implied to abuse Ruth.

Being stuffed with straw, he is literally a 'bale'ful polymorph.

Baleful Polymorph: Almost literally, in this case, when Tommy is forcibly turned into a scarecrow after being stabbed by Harold.

The Bad Guy Wins: Chief Turner successfully forces Ramon to join the draft.

The racist, Jerkass Dirty Cop Chief Turner gets his neck snapped by the Jangly Man.

Most of Sarah's evil family are killed by monsters Sarah summoned.

Shortly after intentionally locking his own date and four teenagers in the basement of an abandoned house, Tommy gets impaled by a pitchfork and turned into a scarecrow by Harold.

This is justified though since the parasitic spiders are supernatural monsters summoned by a ghost, not real ones.

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Artistic Licence Biology: Ruth has spider eggs laid under her skin despite that no species of spider lays eggs in humans.

Arc Words: 'Stories heal, stories hurt.'.

Ankle Drag: Big Toe sneaks underneath Auggie's bed and drags him into what appears to be a pocket dimension in the wall, ostensibly killing him.

Chuck is cornered by the Pale Lady, who takes him into her arms and absorbs him before vanishing, leaving nothing but his pen behind.

Auggie is dragged into the darkness from under his bed by Big Toe, leaving nothing but scratch marks on the floor.

The next day, the only trace of his is his jock-coat over Harold (which may or may not be a case of Clone by Conversion).

Tommy Milner was stabbed by his scarecrow Harold and was slowly turning into a scarecrow.

Stella thinks they are all still alive and can be brought back.

And I Must Scream: With the exception of Chief Turner, whose neck was snapped by the Jangly Man when he got in his way, the fate of nearly every victim of Sarah's curse is left ambiguous.

As a spirit, Sarah embraces everything her family thought her to be, and terrorizes the town in the present. Sarah's family successfully convinced the townspeople that Sarah was a witch who was responsible for the deaths of several children, making them see her as evil and burning her at the stake. In life, she was a hero who tried to save the town from her family, as their mill operations were poisoning the water supply.

Albinos Are Freaks: Sarah Bellows was persecuted by her own family and locked away from the world because she was born albino.

The film changes this to a hospital and has the Pale Lady herself as the villain.

The setting of 'The Dream' was a mysterious inn run by a shady, possibly murderous landlord the Pale Lady is cryptically warning of.

In the 'Harold' story, he was antagonized by two farmers, Thomas/Tommy and Alfred.

Adapted Out: Several elements from the original stories were removed to condense them into one narrative.

In the film, she stalks Chuck through the hospital and eventually pulls him inside her body.even after having allegedly warned him that the place is evil in his dreams. In the original story, she warns the protagonist that the apartment she's staying in is evil.

Adaptational Villainy: The Pale Lady from 'The Dream'.

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The '60s: The movie is set in 1968, against the backdrop of Richard Nixon's presidential bid.Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark contains examples of: Teasers: 'Big Toe', 'Red Spot', 'Pale Lady', 'Jangly Man'.