Afraid of the Dark (1991) [R]

Featuring:
James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann

Written by:
Mark Peploe
Frederick Seidel

Directed by:
Mark Peploe


Release Date:
October 10, 1991

Original Title:
Afraid of the Dark

Alternate Titles:
Double vue
Medo de Escuro

Genres:
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Production Companies:
Les Films Ariane
Telescope Films

Production Countries:
France | United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: 18  US: R 

Runtime: 91

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

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

Lucas is a little boy who's going blind. The only thing that could save his eyesight is a risky eye operation that could either fix his eyes or blind him for good. Scared, lonely and half-blind, he lets his subconscious fears and desires and grim imagination run loose. He spends a lot of his time spying on people and visiting the local graveyard and the mausoleum. He starts seeing a creepy serial killer everywhere in town, who goes after blind women and stabs them in the eyes. Lucas doesn't tell anyone about this, not even his police officer father. He also starts seeing other people, who are not blind, as if they were blind. Lucas also develops an unhealthy interest in his much older stepsister, who is about to get married and leave their family home, and becomes jealous of her husband to be. Things culminate when he sees a dog he believes to be rabid, and when his pregnant mother finally gives birth to his baby sister. Can Lucas return from the brink of sanity and what, if anything, of the things he sees is real?

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Rankings and Honors

Afraid of the Dark (1991) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.8/10
Awards Won: 1 nomination

ADR Editor:
Shirley Shaw

Art Department Assistant:
Sophia Müller

Art Direction:
Stephen Scott

Assistant Accountant:
Val Farmer

Assistant Art Director:
Dominic Masters

Assistant Sound Editor:
Jeremy Child

Boom Operator:
Paul Cridlin

Camera Operator:
Dominique Pinto

Carpenter:
David Ned Kelly
Peter Duffy
Martin Duffy
Ciaran Donnelly

Casting:
Caitlin Rhodes
Lucy Boulting

Clapper Loader:
Nikki Williams
Nigel Seal

Construction Manager:
Alan Chesters

Costume Designer:
Louise Stjernsward

Dialogue Coach:
Jennifer Patrick

Dialogue Editor:
Richard Fettes

Director:
Mark Peploe

Director of Photography:
Bruno de Keyzer

Dressing Prop:
Les Benson
Barry Arnold

Editor:
Scott Thomas

Electrician:
Peter Wing
Terry Townsend
Graham Holley

Executive Producer:
Sylvaine Sainderichin
Laurie Parker
Jean Nachbaur

First Assistant Director:
Jonathan Benson

First Assistant Editor:
Jeremy Gibbs

Floor Runner:
Trevor Wright

Focus Puller:
Angus Hudson
Jean-Hugues Oppel

Gaffer:
Jack Collins

Grip:
Gary Hutchings
Richard Broome

Key Hair Stylist:
Joan Carpenter

Location Manager:
Nick Daubeny

Makeup Artist:
Sallie Evans

Makeup Supervisor:
Tommie Manderson

Music Editor:
Andrew Glen

Musician:
Mark Berrow

Original Music Composer:
Richard Hartley

Painter:
Michael Hersey
John Hersey
Charles Cottrell

Producer:
Simon Bosanquet

Producer's Assistant:
Sue Richards

Production Accountant:
Michele Tandy

Production Coordinator:
Patsy de Lord

Production Design:
Caroline Amies

Production Manager:
Mary Richards

Property Master:
Maxie McDonald

Publicist:
Dennis Davidson

Script Supervisor:
Julie Robinson

Second Assistant Director:
Melvin Lind

Sound Mixer:
Robin O'Donoghue

Special Effects Supervisor:
John Markwell

Still Photographer:
Simon Mein

Stunt Coordinator:
Martin Grace

Supervising Carpenter:
Jim Foran

Supervising Sound Editor:
Mark Auguste

Third Assistant Director:
Antony Ford

Unit Publicist:
Kate Barton

Wardrobe Assistant:
Renee Heimer

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Patrick Wheatley

Writer:
Mark Peploe
Frederick Seidel

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