Comic-Con 2010: DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Panel Footage Description

 

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark looks awesome! I’m a huge fan of horror films, and this movie is going to fulfill all our horror movie nightmares!

The movie is a remake of a TV movie, and it was a childhood film of Guillermo del Toro’s. He explained it was one of his favorite movies as a kid, and he wanted to reinvent the story. It’s been a long road to getting it made, he tracked down the rights to the film and had a script written up way back in 1987! Now the film is finally going to come out and it looks incredible!

Del Toro calls the film “hard hitting, scary, classy, they aren’t chickening out, it’s a mixture of fairy tale and horror... and the ending hits you like a mother fucker.” Seriously, he said the ending to this movie is just absolutely insane and dark. They actually wanted to make the movie independently so a studio wouldn’t be able to tell them they had to change the ending. They wanted to ending to remain dark as hell.

Del Toro seems like such an incredible guy! He’s not allowed to take scripts from people , but he told everyone in Hall H that if they saw him, if they had some art or a short film to give it to him! He said he would watch it, and that he would respond to it via e-mail. He promised he would get back to those people! How great is that!

They actually got an ‘R’ rating for pervasive scariness! That was the reason the MPAA gave it a ‘R’ rating! How freakin’ cool is that!  A movie so scary that it got an ‘R’ rating. Not because, of language, nudity, or violence. This should prove to you that this movie is going to mess you up. And the trailer and footage they showed at Comic-Con proved it! This movie looks bone chillingly scary! The footage gave me major goosebumps and was extremely scary. 

The footage they showed was the first part of the film that Del Toro wrote:

The footage they showed began with a maid cleaning a dark creepy victorian mansion. She hears a sound in the basement and leaves what she was doing to see what was going on. She walks down to the basement opens the door and calls out the name for Mr. Blackwood, the master of the house. There is a creepy voice that tells here to come down so she does. Mr. Blackwell set up a trip wire and as she walks down she trips and falls down the stairs. Mr. Blackwell comes out of the shadows with mouth full of jacked up teeth. He grabs a chisel and a hammer and sits on top of the maids chest, and says something to the effect that he has to do this if he wants to see his son again. He puts the chisel to the maids teeth and brings the hammer down with full force smashing her face and teeth.

Cut to - Blackwell on the floor collecting the teeth off the floor and placing it on a little bloody plate. He hears his sons voice come out of a furnace in the basement as he is doing this. He takes the plate of teeth to the furnace opens it up and places it in, saying something to the effect “I did what you asked, here’s what you asked for, can I have back my son?” There is a evil voices that talks back, that tell Blackwell to reach for his son. Blackwell does and some kind of evil being from hell floods up the depths of the furnace and sucks Blackwell in. - End

As for the trailer of the film, it started out with darkness, and an evil ass voice saying, “I see you there sitting in the dark, don’t be afraid we wont harm you.” It did a few little flashes of some scary details, and cuts to a little girl under the sheets of a bed crawling, looking for something and from out of nowhere the scariest freakin’ monster you’ve ever seen pops out, and the crowd in Hall H screams with delight!

This footage and trailer was incredibly scary and Hall H was was freaking out! I can’t wait until you actually get to see this stuff! This is seriously one of the scariest trailers and footage from a film I’ve seen in a long time, and there’s no doubt in my mind that Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is going be insanely scary!

Del Toro also confirmed at the panel that he is working on a new Pinocchio film that will be based on the original Pinocchio fairy tale designs.