Rights Limbo: The Unsettling Delay of Scary Stories 2 The horror movie genre thrives on exploiting our deepest fears, but director André Øvredal's sequel to his 2019 hit Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is stuck in a nightmare of its own making.
The reasons behind this delay are as maddening as they are all too familiar. Øvredal's project has become a cautionary tale about the perils of studio consolidation.
The two production companies behind the original film, CBS Films and eOne, have since shut down, leaving behind a tangled web of rights ownership that even seasoned professionals find daunting to untangle.