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Are You Afraid of The Dark? - (3 Pack) First, Second and Third Season , (Complete Seasons 1, 2, 3)
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ASIN: B000OE2E6A |
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*NOT A BOOTLEG!* 100% AUTHENTIC!.......2007-06-19
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? - The Complete First Season
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ASIN: B000FNK6EW |
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*NOT A BOOTLEG!* 100% AUTHENTIC!.......2007-06-19
Finally!.......2007-01-28
Holy Flashbacks!.......2007-01-25
Submitted for the approval of the midnight society.......2006-12-26
Can't wait!.......2006-06-25
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Freaky Favorites - REGION 1 DVD ( 2 Disk Set )
Starring: Are You Afraid of the Dark Manufacturer: Direct Source Label ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000IFQLLE Release Date: 2006-10-03 |
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They do have all the seasons for sale...........2007-04-10
A Little Disapointed.......2007-03-01
Buyer Beware........2007-02-12
Buy This Set.......2006-10-11
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Are You Afraid of The Dark ? - The Complete Second Season (Season 2)
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ASIN: B000L99JDO |
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Sufficient Holdover.......2007-02-07
Submitted for the approval of the midnight society I give you the tale of..........2006-12-26
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Are You Afraid of The Dark? - (2 Pack) First and Second Season , (Compleate Seasons 1 and 2)
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ASIN: B000LDED9K |
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One of the best shows..........2007-05-26
Great.......2007-03-19
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Are You Afraid of The Dark? - (4 Pack) Freaky Favorites, First, Second and Third Season
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Afraid of the Dark
Starring: James Fox , Fanny Ardant , Paul McGann , Clare Holman , and Robert Stephens Director: Mark Peploe Manufacturer: Image Entertainment ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AYEIJU Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
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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, NewsdayCustomer Reviews:
I'll never pick up my knitting needles again without remembering this movie.......2006-03-05
Three Blind Mice.......2005-11-19
Go away, son, you bother me!.......2004-11-11
The one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind.......2003-05-30
The basic plot centers on young Frank. Just starting his school holidays, Frank offers to help his blind mother down to walk to the local center for the blind. There he meets her blind friends, listens to the gossip about the local serial killer (who attacks blind people), and then goes about his merry day stalking some of the blind residents who live near the center. Unseen he pries into their lives and, is actually able save one the victims from the serial killer.
Reality check ! It was all in the kid's mind ..
Young Frank has imagined a world in which he is the hero and saves the day. In reality the little boy is the one going blind and his fear has caused an imaginary world in which he is the sighted hero.
The boy's behavior becomes increasingly erratic and dangerous as the movie progresses. Because the adults have so many other things going on it takes a long time before anyone realizes how dangerous Frank has become. By the time they do clue in, it might be too late.
This was confusing and often times dark movie. I like the first part in the boy's fantasy where he silently prowls the neighborhood. I even enjoyed the first part of the 'real' section where half the fun was spotting the people and places from the child's imagination. But every time you get used to something in the film they ratchet it up to a new level of cruelty. That was a little overdone.
Mark Peploe's Afraid of the Dark.......2002-06-05
Ben Keyworth is young Lucas, a morose little boy whose blind mother Miriam (Fanny Ardant) dotes on him. His father, Frank (James Fox), is a cop and Lucas' hero. A madman is running around London slashing the faces of blind women, and the blind community is in a panic. Lucas is a little boy, hardly noticeable, and begins observing prime suspects. The ice cream man, the window washer, the photographer, even the overly helpful locksmith (played by a young David Thewlis), are all under the boy's suspicion. A neighborhood golden retriever is Lucas' only friend and confidant, and eventually Lucas has a showdown with the slasher, stabbing him in the eye with his trusty knitting needle...and then the film does a complete 180!
We find out Lucas was only imagining the first half of the film. The characters from the first half were not blind at all. Instead, it was Lucas who is slowly losing his sight. The day of his older half-sister's wedding, he is shunted aside. His mother goes into labor at the reception, and everyone forgets the poor little boy. Lucas still has the trusty dog Toby along, but his imagination gets the best of him. Toby is killed, and Lucas sets his next target as his new baby sister with the pretty blue eyes everyone comments on.
Ben Keyworth, as Lucas, is incredible. Some might see his delivery as flat and monotonal, but I thought his cold exterior was perfect. You will feel sorry for him, even in the throes of the madness that grips him in the latter part of the film. The beautiful French actress Fanny Ardant is great as his mother, and James Fox is always reliable as the dad.
Peploe's direction is so creepy it becomes uncomfortable often. The graveyard scenes are chilling, as is Lucas' hallucinations. Peploe also co-wrote the screenplay (with Frederick Seidel), so he knows these characters better than anyone. None of them are stupid, or do horror film-stupid things, and this adds to the squirm level. Plus, if you have any sort of phobia about things getting too close to your eyes (like I do), this may not be for you.
The pace is slow, as Peploe builds his characters, and this is actually a relief. The entire cast is good, and Peploe should direct more. All in all, "Afraid of the Dark" is one of those films that you will find bothering you days after you see it. I highly recommend it.
This is rated (R) for physical violence, gore, female nudity, some sexual references, and strong adult situations.
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Alone in the Dark/Afraid of the Dark/Relentless 3/Relentless 4
Starring: Alone in the Dark , Afraid of Dark , Relentless 3 , and Rete Manufacturer: Image Entertainment ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000O77LX8 Release Date: 2007-06-05 |
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Brace yourself for four times the terror! During a power failure, murderous psychopaths break out of a mental institution and lay siege to their doctor's house in Alone in the Dark, one of the most terrifying and memorable cult films of the 1980s. The chilling Afraid of the Dark follows a psychic boy troubled by a razor-toting slasher who preys on defenseless blind women. Detective Sam Dietz pursues a savagely cunning serial killer who carves up young women and taunts police by mailing them pieces of his handiwork in Relentless 3. Then Dietz returns in Rentless 4, hot on the trail of a bloodthirsty murderer with a passion for ritualistic executions.
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Are You Afraid of The Dark ? (3 Pack) The Complete First and Second Season , and Freaky Favorites
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ASIN: B000L99M04 |
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Are You Afraid Of The Dark Memories..........2007-05-30
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Afraid of the Dark
Starring: Marilea Butler , Stephanie Beaton , Ron Haines (II) , Sia A. Moody , and Nancy Adams (VI) Director: Ricardo Islas , Juan López Moctezuma , and Francis Patrick Creighton Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001WTVP2 Release Date: 2004-04-13 |
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This is a set of 4 horror movies.......2006-08-28
This may help.......2006-03-06
How Is this Misleading?.......2005-11-04
Misleading???.......2005-11-03
Its Doug Funnie again!!!.......2005-10-07
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