Don't Be Afraid of the Dark confused us at first, but once we realized that Guy Pearce wasn't Mark Wahlberg we were left to just be confused about the rest of the movie. Which was a little confusing, but it was pretty good. The movie title is confusing, though, because I don't know how ANYONE couldn't be afraid of the dark if they were living this movie. The monsters, based on Arthur Machen's fairy creature-types can only be stopped by light and are pretty much free to maim and kill when it is dark. I didn't know who Arthur Machen was before this movie, I just wanted to say that. That last sentence made it seem like EVERYONE should know who Arthur Machen was. Maybe they should. But I didn't know who he was. I just wanted to be honest.
Sally is ten or eight years old and her mom has sent her to live with her dad and his new girlfriend. Dad and girlfriend are renovating the mansion of an artist who disappeared mysteriously many years before, but dad and girlfriend don't know that. Even though they are renovating the whole house, they don't know about the huge, secret basement until Sally finds it on her first full day there.
Once the basement is discovered the evil fairy dudes that feed on the teeth of children are full-on ready to get to Sally. No one believes Sally when she tells them about the dudes, but oh man, they eventually believe!
The movie was a little far-out there but it was beautifully filmed I thought. It was produced by the AMAZING Guillermo del Toro who also wrote the screenplay, so you know it is well worth watching. He's the executive producer of one of the best movies I've ever seen, The Orphanage. If you haven't seen that, you should probably see it right now!
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