A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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
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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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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