Comic-Con ’10: DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Panel With Guillermo Del Toro

The panel for DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK by Guillermo Del Toro, screened a footage from the horror movie and I kid you not, it will be the next big disturbing scene in this particular genre. Without giving too much away, let me just say that it still gives me the creeps just thinking about it. The owner of the house smashed his maid’s teeth and gave them as sacrificial food for the demons in the basement. But it’s the kind of creeps that makes me want to see the entire movie. GDT also said he’s going to announce a super secret project soon enough. He also said his last thoughts on THE HOBBIT, which he decided to not do anymore but he wished it well and hoped Peter Jackson would be the director to bring the story to the big screen…

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK

MIRAMAX FILMS

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Genre: Horror

Rating: R (for violence and terror)

U.S. Release Date: January 21, 2011

Cast: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson

Director: Troy Nixey

Producers: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Johnson

Executive Producers: Stephen Jones, William Horberg, Tom Williams

Screenplay by: Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins

Based on the teleplay by: Nigel McKeand

Producers Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Orphanage”) and Mark Johnson (“Chronicles of Narnia”) join forces to deliver “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” a tale of hair-raising, spine-chilling horror.

Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison), a lonely, withdrawn child, has just arrived in Rhode Island to live with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) at the 19th-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the sprawling estate, the young girl discovers a hidden basement, undisturbed since the strange disappearance of the mansion’s builder a century ago. When Sally unwittingly lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house’s bottomless depths, she must convince Alex and Kim that it’s not a fantasy—before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all.

When a little girl (Bailee Madison) is sent to live with her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in the old mansion they are renovating, she unwittingly unleashes malevolent creatures bent on destroying all of them.