I know which one was worse…the kidnapping made more sense. I have to tell you, two horrible things happened in the late '90s: my father was kidnapped and I worked with the Weinsteins.

My first American experience was almost my last because it was with the Weinsteins and Miramax. Of his first American film, del Toro had this to say to a crowd at London's BFI Film Festival in 2017: 'I really hated the experience. If you loved Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, you might also enjoy: Intruders (2011), streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Tubi, Peacock, Pluto TV, and Vudu.ĭirected, written, and produced by Guillermo del Toro Madison makes for a peculiar heroine her performance as a realistically stroppy adolescent, in possession of a weariness and cynicism far beyond her years, recalls Karen Kilgariff playing a child in an improv scene. It burns a great deal of its slim 99-minute running time as a proto- Conjuring flick, with characters wandering dark corridors while things LOUDLY bump in the night, until a climax arrives that promises both increased action and sound effects but little else. Troy Nixey directs this passable remake of the stellar 1973 TV movie of the same name (available to rent on Google Play and YouTube, and well worth it), about a young girl (Bailee Madison) who travels to Rhode Island to live with her estranged father ( Guy Pearce, on his way to cash the check) and his new girlfriend ( Katie Holmes, nicely understated here) in the dank mansion they unknowingly share with light-averse gremlins.ĭon't Be Afraid of the Dark isn't so much a poor film as it is an incredibly standard one. Written and produced by Guillermo del Toro

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