If it isnt a rule of horror movies already, it should be: Dont smack a spooky scarecrow with a baseball bat.

A kid does that in a goosebump-raising trailer for Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, which dropped Monday. Lets just say the scarecrow doesnt like being treated like a hanging curveball.

The movie is scheduled to open in August, the perfect time for campers to scare themselves silly watching this adaptation of the 1980s to 1990s childrens horror series .

Do you wanna see a haunted house? asks one of the kids, apparently leading to the opening of a book in the house that portends no good. You hear me? No good.

Guillermo del Toro , the Oscar-winning director who produced the film, has said its a single cogent story rather than the books anthology of tales.

So now theres no break from the terror. When the heck can we open our eyes?