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!
I loved Paranormal Activity 1 and 2 but I never got to the movies to see PA3 because it came out right in the middle of haunted house season. As much as I love scary movies, I couldn't give up a night of haunting. FINALLY it came out on DVD last week and my buddies Sharon and Theresa and I watched it on Saturday. It was quite good! We all agreed that we'd like to see all three in the order in which they "happened" so that we can get the whole story. There's no gore in the PA series, but there is a lot of suspense and a lot of impending and full-on terror! This movie gives the back story to the first and second PAs, and explains why the demon(s) haunt these two, otherwise normal, sisters. A must-see if you enjoyed the first two movies. If you haven't seen them, I do think it would be cool to watch this one first, then 2, then the first, because then you'll be truly surprised. Not that knowing what is to come takes anything away from the scare-factor of the series, it is scary enough not matter what!
