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Directed by John Newland Written by Nigel McKeand Kim DarbyJim Hutton Barbara Anderson William Demarest
A remake of the 1973 made-for-TV movie. Lonely and introverted, young Sally ... Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ultimately fails to deliver the skin-crawling chills of the original.
Although unavailable for decades, DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK has to be one of the best remembered US TV movie horrors of the 1970s, up there with the likes of DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW. Nowadays an insipid remake hasn't put off the scores of fans who were traumatised by this film's scares when they first saw it as kids back in the day.
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A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband move into Sally's family house, a spooky two story Victorian mansion. When Sally starts the redecorating along with her pompous decorator she comes across a locked room in the house.
There are times in a horror fans youth that a certain film will leave an impression that will be carried forward for ever more. In my case one such film is "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark". A cheaply made for TV picture starring Kim Darby, Jim Hutton and William Demarest. The plot on the surface is standard.
Aug 25, 2011 · Bailee Madison in “Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,” a reimagining of the 1973 TV movie that terrified Guillermo del Toro as a boy. Credit... Carolyn Johns/Miramax Film Corp.
