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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ With Katie Holmes
CHICAGO – In our latest horror/thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce!
“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” also stars Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson, Julia Blake, Nicholas Bell, Libby Gott, Garry McDonald, Edwina Ritchard, Bruce Gleeson, Trudy Hellier, Alan Dale, Emelia Burns and James Mackay from writer Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy”) and director Troy Nixey. The film hits theaters on Aug. 26, 2011.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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Here is the plot description for “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”:
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 take her life and destroy her family, Sally desperately tries to warn the whole house. 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?
Based on the 1973 telefilm that Guillermo del Toro believes to be the scariest TV production ever made, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” was co-written and co-produced by del Toro and directed by Troy Nixey. Akin to “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” focuses on a young girl’s struggle against menacing and terrifying forces.
The movie trailer for “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” can be watched now below.
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By ADAM FENDELMAN |
amityville horror to this
amityville horror to this day when i see houses with those windows i automatic think of the red eyes in the window
scariest movie
” the exorcist” cus for the first time a movie gave a face to evil thru linda blair’s charater. it gave me nightmares weeks after i first saw it.
Scariest movie?
Patch Adams. Would you go to a doctor like him?
Scariest movie of all time
The exorcist without a doubt. Why a older sister would let a 6 year old watch that movie is beyond me..It has stuck with me to this day!
Scariest movie
There isn’t one
Scariest movie off all time
The ring is still the scariest film i’ve ever seen. To this day I don’t go near wells.
Scariest movie!
Blair Witch Project is the scariest movie because even though it is fictional, they made you believe it was a true event. The movie studio even had a website with people’s testimonies & all.
scariest movie ever?
The Ring. Incredibly twisted and sick, I cant imagine the storyline conversations that went along into making this film… it just makes my skin crawl
Scariest Movie
The scariest movie is Final Destination. Just for the fact that everyday circumstances vs some off the wall monster or alien crap. The littlest thing or simplest thing can be troubling. This movie to me is more reality than the other scary movies.
scariest movie
i have to say Halloween. its so true as far as the aspect of being watched and stalked and getting killed. The music makes it even more scarier.