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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

2010

Troy Nixey

Guy Pearce, Katie Holmes, Bailee Madison, Alan Dale ...

4.6

6,245

Horror. Fantasy Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison) is a young girl who is sent to live with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes). In her new home she discovers creatures who want to claim her as one of their own.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"This is only the second film by the director, Troy Nixey, but he shows a firm hold on atmosphere (...) very good haunted house film (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A scary movie that is genuinely scary in parts (...) What the film does best is to build up an atmosphere, richly detailed and mysterious, where anything evil is possible"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"This insipid wannabe frightener features a checklist of derivative conventions (...) The most fear-inducing aspect of the plodding Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is this blatant bid for a sequel (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The film never takes hold emotionally, despite strong work from Holmes and young Madison. With Del Toro's name in the credits, standard chills aren't enough (...) Rating:★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"As a horror film should be, it's gruesome, tension-filled and you can't tear your eyes from the screen. But it's also cruel, quite depressing and utterly sad"	NEU

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