Fear is never just Make Believe
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Alan Dale, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson, Dylan Young, Julia Blake, Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Emelia Burns, Garry McDonald |
Director |
Troy Nixey |
Screenplay | Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, from the teleplay by Nigel McKeand |
Music | Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders |
Cinematography | Oliver Stapleton |
Editing | Jill Bilcock |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2011 |
Produced by | Gran Via, Miramax Films, Tequila Gang |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Horror |
Language | None |
Nudity | None |
Sex | Discreetly implied, once |
Violence | Fairly intense psychological, emotional violence and fairly strong horror violence, bloody, gory, graphic. |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Kirk Honeycutt Dark runs in the light on scares | 10 | |
Die Burger François Bloemhof Skrik kom van skêe en spykers | 10 | |
Cape Times Scary? Afraid not | 5 | |
Box Office Pete Hammond Things that go Yawn in the night | 8 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert This is a very good haunted house film. It milks our frustration deliciously. | 18 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli This is a flawed yet haunting motion picture whose forceful sense of creepiness is difficult to shake. | 15 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Decent, but not consistently strong | 11 | |
Metacritic.com 35 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 155 critics | 12 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While it's pleasantly atmospheric and initially quite scary, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ultimately fails to deliver the skin-crawling chills of the original. | 12 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 12 | |
Movie Review Intelligence 44 critics | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 7775 Netizens Not much need to be afraid of this remake | 12 | |
Average .. 56% | 11 |