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Afraid of the Dark

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Terror grips the streets of London when an unknown murderer targets the blind, leaving a gruesome calling card. The crimes resonate with 11-year-old Lucas (Ben Keyworth), whose eerie set of circumstances -- his mother is blind; his father is a police officer working on the case -- causes his imagination to unravel dangerously. Is this murderous pattern the product of a boy's tortured, fertile creativity, or are these inexplicable acts actually occurring?
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Mike Davies Birmingham Post 04/13/2022
Credibility is the least of the film's problems. With Edward Fox and Fanny Ardent giving astonishingly wooden performances, it’s a clumsy banal work. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 03/31/2007
C+
Debut of Mark People (co-writer of Bertolucci's Last Emperor) is a borderline pretentious cerebral thriller, aiming at delving into the inner workings of the mind, but acting by young protag Keyworth and James Fox and Fanny Ardant as his parents is good. Go to Full Review
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com 12/06/2005
2/5
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews 12/09/2002
2/10
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Melissa L @Agent99 Oct 12 He should have been called "Damian." I think his parents were far too lenient. The ending wasn't just. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 29 Failure in 1 hour and 31 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $52,700.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more 04/28/2022 Disturbing film . Started out well but fizzled out to a damp squib..two of my fav actors also star paul mcgann and the underated david thewlis See more 07/28/2013 The directorial debut of Mark Peploe, who wrote Antonioni's "The Passenger" and "The Last Emperor" and "The Sheltering Sky" for Bertolucci. It's pretty wonderful at capturing the perspective of a child in a fairly irrationally hostile environment. Then ... partway through, the film pulls the rug out from under you and proceeds to tell a different story with a remarkably different kind of threat. Not an easy film, but one that rewards patience. The excellent cast includes James Fox, Paul McGann, David Thewlis and Catriona MacColl. See more 03/02/2012 Strange if slightly dull psycho thriller. A young lad with poor eyesight and an over active imagination believes he knows the I.d. Of a local serial killer preying on the local blind club. See more 11/23/2011 I was expecting a lot more from the writer of The Last Emperor. The dialogue and the delivery of the dialogue is terrible. The twist in the middle of the movie just didn't make sense to me and it seemed pretentious. Like it thought it was much more clever than it actually was. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Terror grips the streets of London when an unknown murderer targets the blind, leaving a gruesome calling card. The crimes resonate with 11-year-old Lucas (Ben Keyworth), whose eerie set of circumstances -- his mother is blind; his father is a police officer working on the case -- causes his imagination to unravel dangerously. Is this murderous pattern the product of a boy's tortured, fertile creativity, or are these inexplicable acts actually occurring?
Director
Mark Peploe
Producer
Simon Bosanquet
Screenwriter
Mark Peploe, Frederick Seidel
Rating
R
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$52.7K
Runtime
1h 31m
Sound Mix
Surround
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