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OF THE DARK |
Year: 2010
USA: FilmDistrict
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack
Thompson, Edwina Ritchard, Garry McDonald, Julia Blake, Nicholas
Bell, Bruce Gleeson, Libby Gott, James Mackay, Emelia Burns, Alan
Dale, Trudy Hellier, Terry Kenwrick
Director: Troy Nixey
Countries: USA / Australia / Mexico
USA: 100 mins
UK: 99 mins
USA Rated: R for violence and terror
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong horror and sustained
threat
USA Release Date: 26 August 2011
UK Release Date: 7 October 2011
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Synopsis
Guillermo Del Toro presents DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK...
Blackwood Manor has new tenants. While architect Alex Hurst (Guy
Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) restore their
Gothic mansion's period interiors, Alex’s young daughter Sally (Bailee
Madison), neglected by her real mother and brushed aside by the
careerist father, can investigate the macabre history and dark
corners of the estate.
Spurring on Sally's investigation are the voices, more like rasping
whispers, who call out to her from the basement, promising her
understanding and friendship, but are also very hungry and would
like to be set free.
Sally finally gives in to her curiosity and opens a gateway into a
hellish underworld from which an army of beady-eyed, sharp-clawed
monsters emerge. Despite being small in size, they are endless in
number: the homunculi have been set free at last!
Confronted with the horror that now threatens to taker her life and
destroy her family, Sally desperately tries to warn the whole house,
but there's just one problem: no one believes her. Will she make
them understand in time, or will they become another chapter in the
centuries-long horror story of Blackwood Manor?
Based on the 1973 scary TV production, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
was co-written and co-produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by
Troy Nixey. Akin to PAN’S LABYRINTH, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
focuses on a young girl’s struggle against menacing and terrifying
forces.
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