Afraid of the Dark

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com

Sure, I guess blind people can be scary to a little kid, but this baffling attempt at using that setup as the premise for a horror film goes utterly nowhere. The problems begin with frame one, with a kid (Ben Keyworth) who lives with cop dad (James Fox) and blind mom (Fanny Ardant), who teaches at a school for the blind. There's some kind of serial killer on the loose (preying on blind people), and it ends up being Lucas -- a budding voyeur -- to try to solve the case. Er, sort of. Wandering and overly symbolic, this is one mess of a film that ends up making little sense at any point along the way.

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Rating

2.0 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Mark Peploe
  • Producer: Simon Bosanquet
  • Screenwriter: Mark Peploe, Frederick Seidel
  • Stars: James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens, Susan Wooldridge, David Thewlis, Ben Keyworth
  • MPAA Rating: R