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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
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Lonely and introverted, young Sally (Bailee Madison) has just arrived at the 19th-century mansion that her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) are restoring. There Sally believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.
Lonely and introverted, young Sally (Bailee Madison) has just arrived at the 19th-century mansion that her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) are restoring. There Sally believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.
Actors:
Alan Dale,
Grant Piro,
Trudy Hellier,
Guillermo del Toro,
Emilia Burns,
Lance Drisdale,
Jack Thompson
Alan Dale
6 May 1947, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Grant Piro
Trudy Hellier
Guillermo del Toro
9 October 1964, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Emilia Burns
18 February 1982, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lance Drisdale
Jack Thompson
31 August 1940, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Director:
Troy Nixey
Troy Nixey
Country:
United States, Australia, Mexico
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July 10, 2013
Completists of del Toro will want to check it out as a curio but it's hard to imagine general audiences or even horror fans finding anything here they haven't seen before.
August 26, 2015
There's a simple sense of old-fashioned restraint that makes Sally's dark journey a little bit quiet, but also subtly satisfying.
August 26, 2011
A welcome alternative to the current genre offerings, steeped in old-fashioned atmosphere and faithful to haunted house routine, albeit to a fault.
February 28, 2013
Guillermo del Toro's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is as murky and ill-conceived as its multitude of dimly-lit corners,
August 26, 2011
This is still a seriously entertaining horror movie, one that will please newcomers as well as fans of the original oddity.
October 07, 2015
The thoroughly unsympathetic protagonist aside, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" just isn't that frightening.
October 05, 2011
There is so much here that one admires, one wishes that there was more to love.
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May 03, 2015
Straddled uncomfortably between its modest premise and reckless CGI abandon.
August 26, 2011
Despite all the care that has been put into it, the film doesn't transcend its dime-store horror roots.
September 08, 2013
If the scares aren't all quite as effective as the rest of the film, then there's still plenty to tickle the nerves of a less jaded horror fan.
September 01, 2011
The film looks good, it sounds great (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders' score is full of darkly murmuring woodwinds), and Madison is a pip of a lead.
August 26, 2011
The season's scariest horror film - and, depending on what the next few months bring, perhaps the year's.