After the unexceptional reviews for DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK started pouring in, the flick screamed “wait for home video” to me. The opportunity to check it out isn’t far off – it hits the street on JANUARY 3rd – and the artwork has just been revealed to the public. Frankly, I’m unimpressed; it’s just another crummy photoshop job if we’re being honest. At least the first teaser poster had some eerie personality.
In any event, both the Blu-ray and DVD releases will contain 3 featurettes (“The Story”, “Blackwood’s Mansion”, “The Creatures”), while the Blu-ray release will also include a Conceptual Art Gallery, and an UltraViolet digital copy of the film.
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK follows Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison), a lonely, withdrawn child, who has just arrived in Rhode Island to live with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) at the 19th-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the sprawling estate, the young girl discovers a hidden basement, undisturbed since the strange disappearance of the mansion’s builder a century ago. When Sally unwittingly lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house’s bottomless depths, she must convince Alex and Kim that it’s not a fantasy—before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all.
Pre-oder the Blu-ray HERE or the DVD HERE.
Katie Holmes
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