Afraid of the Dark (1991)

Director:

Mark Peploe

Writers:

Mark Peploe (written by) &
Frederick Seidel (written by)

Release Date:

22 January 1992 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

You can't escape what you can't see.

Plot:

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

Plot Keywords:

Blindness | Slasher | Chase | Baby | Nightmare

Cast

James Fox	...	Frank
Fanny Ardant	...	Miriam
Paul McGann	...	Tony Dalton
Clare Holman	...	Rose
Robert Stephens	...	Dan Burns
Susan Wooldridge	...	Lucy Trent
David Thewlis	...	Locksmith / Tom Miller
Ben Keyworth	...	Lucas
Catriona MacColl	...	Blind Woman
Hilary Mason	...	Basement Woman
Sheila Burrell	...	Meg
Star Acri	...	1st Girl at Wedding
Niven Boyd	...	Ice-Cream Man
Tiffany Bryant	...	Tess
Frances Cuka	...	Mrs. Dalton

Also Known As:

Double vue (France)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

France | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M | Italy:VM18 | France:-12 | USA:R | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Les Films Ariane

Trivia:

Feature film directing debut for Mark Peploe.

Movie Connections:

References Ghost Busters (1984)

This film made me physically ill. No really, it did.

Absolutely hideous waste of film about a snotty young boy who's going blind (or is he? I couldn't tell) and witnesses a series of razor slashings committed on a group of blind ladies (or were they? Again, I couldn't tell). Not to worry though, we then find out that these were all just delusions that the boy was suffering because of his apprehension towards an eye operation (or was it? Seriously, I couldn't tell). Dreadfully bad and needlessly confusing, the characters aren't convincing or even interesting enough for us to bother following along with the befuddled storyline. What an abomination in filmmaking.