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on the gradual horror of the film, and the atmosphere is in place, making the audience chill.
——The horror film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"
produced by horror.com behind the scenes is a
brand new remake of
the horror film in 1973. It tells the bizarre experience of a family living in a haunted house. However, it caused quite a stir at the time. Although this low-cost TV movie filmed by ABC investment is crudely produced, the emotional core of saving the family conveyed in the movie has received widespread resonance. Twenty-eight years later, the film was officially remade as a big movie that landed in theaters. The horror atmosphere has also been upgraded from the all-age level on TV in the past to the R-restricted level. Talking about the original intention of this remake, the screenwriter Gilmour Del Toro said: "When I saw this movie when I was a child, I was deeply impressed by it. At that time, I was very young and watched. There are not too many movies. "Don’t be afraid of the dark" left a very deep impression on me. The despair of the protagonists in the film and the deep sense of fear of the house they live in made me have a long time when I was young. I have been alert to every room in my home for a period of time. I always feel that in a corner after turning off the lights, there will be monsters that I can't imagine. This idea has not been completely eliminated until I grow up. After many years, I re-watched "Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark" again. Of course, the passages that made me scared of my childhood are no longer so scary. Looking at it now, it has indeed become a little outdated. In my mind, the impression left by certain scenes and plots of this movie is really deep. I have been thinking about what would it be like if I re-shoot this movie now? So I started talking to the filming party of the original movie. Contact, my good friends happened to be working there at the time, and they were also very interested in my remake, so everything started step by step."
Troy Nixie can be regarded as a novice in the film industry. Before that, he only shot a short film called "The Sorrow of the Door Lock." Nixie said: "I do have plans for other movies, but the story content of this movie is very interesting to me. First of all, this is a horror movie, and his story extends very long on the timeline. , Is full of fantasy, and I really like this kind of story with a little magic factor. The protagonist of the film is a little girl. Such an image is very common in horror movies, because the little girl is usually thin, helpless, and the audience We will be happy to see how such a little girl fights evil. Although I had a great intention to adapt my short film into a feature feature film, when I read the script of "Don't be afraid of the dark", I immediately decided to pause For all other movie plans, concentrate on making this movie. When Gilmour del Toro told me this story, I could feel what kind of environment and atmosphere the movie should be like, and what happened again in it. What kind of things. I think if you shoot the 19th century manor described by Gilmour del Toro, it will be very interesting in the current environment, plus there is such a powerful story. The background made me decide that, in any case, I must overcome the difficulties and shoot it successfully."
Gilmour del Toro, who has directed famous films such as "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy II", this time served as the screenwriter and producer of "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark", and talked about his views on this film. Gilmour del Toro said: “I thought about directing myself at first, but I later felt that I was actually more suitable to be a screenwriter for this movie, because the whole story has been in my mind for many years, and I can write him Come out and give it to someone who has more ideas about this story to execute. From another angle, maybe he will bring a different feeling to the whole story. After all, I am already very subjective about "Don't be afraid of the dark", and maybe it came out last. The effect, in addition to satisfying themselves, the audience may feel that it is not the same thing. In the process of my cooperation with Troy Nixie, I can feel his enthusiasm for this story. We communicated a lot of ideas. It went well. During the filming process, I didn’t make many comments. In fact, if the film can be recognized by the audience, a large part of the credit should be attributed to the director. We did not let him watch the original version. He created a new Blackwood Manor and a terrifying dark world according to his own imagination and understanding of the story. What I must say is that he did a great job. This proves my original choice. That's right."
The little girl who defended her family was
born in Bailey Madison in 1999. She played the lead role in "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and played her little daughter Sally. She appeared in "The Heart Murder" when she was 6 years old. The big screen, and then performed well in "Bridge to Wonderland" and "Phoebe in Wonderland". Talking about the performance in "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark", Bailey Madison said: "My story about this movie is It feels incredible, because it is very much like a legend in the city that I often hear. In a house where no one lives, some terrifying things happen... The whole story was told to me by my parents. They were still worried at the beginning whether I could act in such a movie, but I told them don’t worry, I know what a brave girl would be like. Thank you the director for trusting me and letting me play Sally, this is a character I have some imaginary characters, I can feel Sally's feeling when facing danger, that is my own real experience. I like the theme of the film, she saved her relatives, this is a very precious belief ."
Although the other protagonist of the film, Katie Holmes, does not have many works, because of her marriage to the Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, she has been walking through the world under the name "A Tang's wife" for many years. Its attention has been rising steadily. Speaking of her performance in "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark", Katie Holmes said: "Before shooting this movie, I thought about how to play a daughter facing a man I like, that kind of complicated My mood in the film is not a bad person, but she will be separated from Sally, after all, she is a quasi-stepmother. So no matter how she gets close to Sally, this layer of separation cannot be removed. Especially when Sally tells her things that sound crazy, the prospective stepmother will feel that her daughter is playing tricks on her, so in this family, the delicate relationship between family affection is more fearful than those from the dark. It also attracts me more.” The
film’s lead actor Guy Pierce has filmed films such as "L.A. Confidential" and "Memory Fragments". He has not made a horror film for many years, and he talked about the new work "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark". Guy Pierce said: "The first time I communicated with the director about this movie was two years ago. He showed me the script and told me that there was a horror movie he wanted to shoot with me, but it won’t be too much, but it’s very important. After reading the script, I told the director that I like this movie very much. I rarely shoot horror movies, because I think horror movies are not actually my favorite type of movies. I hope there can be more storytelling in the movie. Characters can be complex and changeable, but horror movies generally use various scary scenes, supplemented by sound effects to stimulate the audience’s senses, which makes me feel that the technical content is not high. The point of "Don't be afraid of the dark" is very special. It does not rely on these to scare the audience. There are no surprises in the film, but it will make people feel chilling. It depends on the story and atmosphere of the whole movie. The story and atmosphere of the whole movie are very successful. The interaction between the daughters, and the construction of the entire manor, will make people want this movie.
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