A bright one remembered 1973 TV movie, do not be afraid of the dark was promoted as "Guillermo del Toro not be afraid of the dark," that the evidence here is unique and misleading. Del Toro co-wrote the screenplay (with Matthew Robbins) and served as producer, and there are echoes of earlier works different as Pan's Labyrinth and the backbone of the devil in his eye view of a childhood fear, fantasy universe. However, the strong leadership tend to be the element of achievements or failures of haunted house movies like this. In reality, the atmosphere changes, the stories are more or less the same. Here these functions fall to Troy Nixey, a comic book artist made his first feature film. Nixey and if it takes a little style, a certain intensity, and a little graphic imagination, everything is not the sum of their chromosomes.
After a bad prologue little 'more left-wing promises to take the kind, not afraid of the dark states is relatively simple scenario haunted house, where flashes of Spielbergian whim. Bailee Madison has a child in danger, at age 9, daughter of a divorce that is sent to live with her father, Guy Pearce and his new girlfriend Katie Holmes. Pearce and Holmes have invested their savings and life creepy old building back to its former glory, but an ancient evil threatens to keep it off the pages of Architectural Digest. After discovering the walled basement, in Madison begins to hear voices calling him out of the oven, but the cute monsters in the back of the grid be less friendly when they invade.
Beasties in Do not be afraid of the dark horror-comedy malleability and creatures in Gremlins: sweet and fun to have a single shot, bad the next. (They're so temperamental as Mogwai, even with extreme sensitivity to light and a special appetite for human teeth). Nixey to pull out a terribly frightening sequence, when the Madison hides under the sheets to keep removing the darkness, but often leads the film through the steps provided. If there is no deeper than the surface characteristics, such as history and politics, the problems with Del Toro's best film, not afraid of the dark is a bit 'better half decent scare machine,Watch Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Megavideo.
