A humble housewife unwittingly unleashes a horde of evil creatures from beneath her new home in the 1973 made-for-TV movie DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK! Fear and paranoia reign supreme in this twisted tale that recently received the remake treatment thanks to Guillermo del Toro and director Troy Nixey. Kim Darby plays the unassuming Sally Farnham, whose curiosity gets the best of her when she betrays the handyman's warnings and opens the bolted furnace found in a secret study. We watch as she slowly begins to lose her mind as the small, rat-like creatures terrorize her in an attempt to steal her soul. Darby is fantastic in the role, truly selling her fear and anxiety while her husband dismisses her pleas for help as childish fantasy. The set designs and optical effects used to scale the monsters down to their miniature size are completely convincing, but the most frightening moments of the film come when the creatures beckon Sally with their wicked chants from deep within the darkness. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK is one of the finest made-for-TV movies in the history of Horror, and a hidden gem for modern audiences to rediscover and fall in love with!
Rating: 9/10.
Movies like DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK:
THE GATE, THE BOOGENS, GREMLINS, DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW, GARGOYLES, THE PIT, THE INNOCENTS.
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