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From the fantastic mind of Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) comes Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a creepy, spine-tingling story, set in modern day but playing up fears from gothic childhood fairy tales - that demons, evil fairies, gnomes and ghouls lurk just outside our range of vision, and we'd better watch out. Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison: Just Go With It), a lonely, withdrawn child moves in with her father (Guy Pearce: The King’s Speech, The Proposition) and his new girlfriend (Katie Holmes: Batman Begins) as they restore the Gothic estate, the sprawling Blackwood Manor. Sally discovers a hidden basement, undisturbed since the strange disappearance of the mansion’s owner a century ago. Voices draw Sally in and she unwittingly opens a gateway into a hellish underworld from which an army of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures emerge – small in size but endless in number. As they conspire to drag her down into the macabre mansion’s bottomless depths, Sally tries to warn everyone it's not make-believe – before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all.
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Directors
Troy NixeyStudio
Momentum Pictures LLCReleased year
2011Age rating
Duration
1 h 39 minGenres
HorrorSci-Fi/Fantasy
Thriller/Mystery
Writers
Guillermo del ToroMatthew Robbins
Nigel McKeand