Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Synopsis:
The movie started off in olden days in a house called Blackwood Manor where famous painter, Lord Blackwood is seen killing her servant with a hammer and removes her teeth to be offered to creatures in an ash pit. It is indicated that Blackwood's son has been kidnapped by the creatures and in return, Lord Blackwood offers them teeth in return for the safe return of his son. However, the creatures demanded children's teeth instead and proceed to attack Blackwood and drag him down too. Then, the movie is panned to present day where Alex (Guy Pierce), Kim (Katie Holmes) and Kim's stepdaughter, Sally (Bailee Madison) who moves in to the Blackwood Manor temporary since Alex is an interior who helps to restore the Manor to be sold to the market. However, the creatures began to sense the presence of Sally and began making contact and befriended her. In the beginning, everything seems fine but the creatures began to create trouble by purposely tearing Kim's clothing, and then attacking her and Alex's servants. At first, Alex and Kim didn't believe her and thought that Sally is making stories because of missing her mom but after more and more incident seems to happen around Sally, Kim started to investigate and chance upon Blackwood's unpublished artwork that shows creatures attacking human child and changing them into creatures. When Kim and Alex decided to finally moves out, the creatures started their attack on all 3 of them and it was shown that one of the creature looks like Blackwood. Due to Kim's intervention in the final moments, Sally was saved from being dragged down but Kim instead is the one dragged down the ash hole like Blackwood. After some time later, Kim voice is heard inside the ash hole telling the other creatures to wait for other potential victims.
Review:
I decided to watch this film with high anticipation that this film is almost as scary as another of Film District production, "Insidious" and with Guillermo Del Toro at helm as writer and producer to boot with. But after watching this movie, i can say that this is not Insidious. It is not scary, the editing is also not so well done, and it can be said as practically boring and predictable movie. First of all, the creatures are shown almost immediately after 15 mins in the movie and they look more adorable, funny and a nuisance tooth fairy than scary creatures that they are suppose to be depicted in the movie. Of course the creatures get maniac in the end but somehow it doesn't shows the scariness of it. Once the creatures are shown, the whole movie goes down because of their looney character. It almost felt like the whole movie is a fantasy movie rather than a reality and present moment. The human character is secondary especially for Guy Pierce but Bailee Madison did a good job as a small girl with mature thinking and character. This is a forgettable movie in comparison with another of Film District movie, Insidious where there is genuine scare, jump, good editing and non-stop entertaining. Now that's what i called a scary movie and after watching that movie, i am indeed afraid of the dark.
Verdict:
A 1.5 star of out 5.
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