DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK comes out in less than two months, which still seems like a long wait for those of us who are incredibly anxious to see it. However, we’re lucky enough to get an early glimpse at the Guillermo del Toro-produced spookfest with three clips, which you can watch below. They aren’t particularly frightening (although the second one has a pretty decent jump-scare), but they set the appropriate gloomy atmosphere.
The movie’s synopsis: Blackwood Manor has new tenants. While architect Alex Hurst (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) restore their Gothic mansion’s period interiors, Alex’s young daughter Sally (Bailee Madison)—neglected by her real mother and brushed aside by the careerist father—can investigate the macabre history and dark corners of the estate. Spurring Sally’s investigation are the voices—rasping whispers who call out to her from the basement, who promise her understanding and friendship, who are so very hungry and would like to be set free. When Sally gives in to her curiosity, she opens a gateway into a hellish underworld from which an army of beady-eyed, sharp-clawed monsters emerge, small in size but endless in number: the homunculi. Confronted with the horror that now threatens to taker her life and destroy her family, Sally desperately tries to warn the whole house, but there’s just one problem: no one believes her. Will she make them understand in time, or will they become another chapter in the centuries-long horror story of Blackwood Manor?
Starring Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK hits theaters on AUGUST 26th.
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