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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010
· Movie
· 99 min
D
MEANRANK
55/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4658
- IMDb #5277
- Rotten Tomatoes #3882
- Metacritic #3538
- Letterboxd #4792
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3266
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4828
- Metacritic Critics #2817
- Metacritic Audience #4254
- Kinopoisk #5036
- AlloCiné #4906
- Trakt #4717
Every rating
34–70
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 34, highest is Google on 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young girl moves into her father's girlfriend's ancient restored mansion. She discovers a hidden basement sealed by a bricked-up ash pit and is warned by a voice from within not to open it. She unleashes tiny, vicious creatures that dwell in the darkness of the house, who want to claim her as one of their own.
Details
- Director
- Troy Nixey
- Writers
- Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, Nigel McKeand
- Based on
- Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
- Released
- 6 November 2010
- Country
- Australia, Mexico, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $37.0M
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