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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a american film of genre Horror directed by John Newland released in USA on 10 october 1973 with Kim Darby
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
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Add to a movie listDon't Be Afraid of the Dark is an American made-for-television dark fantasy film directed by John Newland and starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. It was released by Lorimar Productions and was first telecast on ABC on Wednesday October 10, 1973. It has since been shown many times in syndication and was distributed on home video and now on DVD. It is known as Nightmare in certain countries in Europe.
The film focuses on a housewife who unleashes a band of goblin creatures from within a sealed fireplace in the Victorian mansion that she and her husband are restoring. In later years, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark became a cult film, and a theatrical remake of the same name was released in August 2011.
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Sally Farnham and her husband Alex inherit an old mansion from Sally's recently deceased grandmother. Shortly after moving in, she discovers a bricked-up fireplace in the basement den, and asks the estate's handyman, Mr. Harris, about it. He tells her that Sally's grandmother had him seal it up after her grandfather died and that it is better to leave it the way it is. After he leaves for the day and Sally is alone in the room, she uses some of Mr. Harris' tools to try to remove the bricks herself. She is unable to budge the bricks, but is able to pry open a small side door that Mr. Harris had said was used for removing ashes from the fireplace. Inside is not a fireplace at all but a large, dark, deep sub-basement. As Sally leaves the den, several whispering voices are heard coming from behind the fireplace, calling her name, and proclaiming that "she set us free".Actors
Kim Darby
(Sally Farnham)
Jim Hutton
(Alex Farnham)
William Demarest
(Mr. Harris)
Barbara Anderson
(Joan Kahn)
Pedro Armendáriz (fils)
(Francisco Perez)
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