Afraid of the Dark Movie Review
Afraid of the Dark Review
"Afraid of the Dark" Overview

Rating: R
1991
Cast and Crew
Director : Mark PeploeProducer : Simon Bosanquet
Screenwiter : Mark Peploe,Frederick Seidel
Starring : James Fox,Fanny Ardant,Paul McGann,Clare Holman,Robert Stephens,Susan Wooldridge,David Thewlis,Ben Keyworth
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.
Reviewer: Christopher Null





