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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0143811641212
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 50649
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Editorial Review:
Description:
Academy Award-winner Mark Peploe delivers a terrifying and haunting psychological tale inw hich all of the frightening circumstances of childhood, both real and imagined, are heightened to extremes. A madman is attacking blind people in their homes, and a small boy with disintegrating eyesight begins his own secret investigation into the brutal assaults. When he finally identifies the monster responsible for the chilling crimes, he finds himself face to face with something that everybody understands... the fear of the unknown. - Starring James Fox (CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, PERFORMANCE), Fanny Ardant (CALLAS FOREVER, 8 WOMEN), Paul McGann (TV''s 'Horatio Hornblower' and 'Doctor Who'), David Thewlis (NAKED, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN), Catriona MacColl (THE BEYOND, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) - 'Chilling!' -Janet Maslin, New York Times - 'One of the nastiest little psychothrillers around.' -Mirabella - 'Genuine terror... Gripping!' -John Anderson, Newsday
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Entertaining, but not REALLY scary...
Modest little film that communicates all of its developments well ahead of time. Well crafted and performers deliver well, but - again - it is not REALLY scary. More of a type of thriller sort is what it is. A passable view, but not overly engrossing.
Rating: - interesting Halloween movie
I saw this movie on Halloween. I was flicking through the channels looking for one of those scary movies that make you scream or turn on all the lights. There was nothing on TV. I came across this movie and settled for it, even though I was not happy. I didn't expect anything from *Afraid of the Dark* because I hadn't heard of it before. However, this movie gradually got my attention and I enjoyed it.
Here, you have a boy who seemed to live in a world where just about everyone ... Read More
Rating: - I'll never pick up my knitting needles again without remembering this movie
This movie was a surprise from start to finish. It definitely kept me off balance and was unpredictable, if not pretty disturbing. I will never pick up my knitting needles again without thinking of this movie. Strange how familiar objects and sounds take on an entirely different meaning in this boy's world.
Rating: - Three Blind Mice
This was a film with a great premise with a first half that showed amazing promise.
Immediately we're told a slasher is targeting the blind and introduced to a strange boy and his sightless mother and rigid policeman father. Though uncertain who the criminal is we get the impression a young repairman working at a blind institute whistling ironic songs can't have good intentions. The parallel between killer and young protagonist is made early on with the boy covering alot of stalker ground: ... Read More
Rating: - Go away, son, you bother me!
Uneven British voyage into bizarre murders--and a
kid who makes viewer want to yank him from the screen and personally introduce him to Jeffrey Dahmer. Nice touch: beautiful blind woman has no clue how incredibly sexy she is.
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