Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (3/10)

What a huge disappointment because Guillermo del Toro stuck his name there. I expected more from this. Also because in Brunei, the promotional poster had the words "From the director of Pan's Labyrinth" so naturally I thought del Toro directed this too.

But worse was, he re-wrote it and re-made the 70's movie (which I've never seen) into this rubbish. So whether or not he directed wouldn't have mattered if the storytelling didn't hold up.

This became a typical suspense movie where every thing happened didn't make sense and happened just so the story could be told that way.

The biggest jarring sequence was how the little monsters came at Bailee Madison's character with sharp and pointy little tools only in one attack while the rest from beginning to end they didn't again. So I was confused, did they want to hurt her or not?

And then the first senseless sequence was how the caretaker was attacked and bloodied and yet, the police and doctors and everyone else who apparently were all blind, ruled it as "an accident". Really, all those injuries from "an accident"? What kind of "accident"?

There were more but I'll leave it at that.

Katie Holmes surprisingly was the likeable one here. Guy Pearce looked slightly uneasy and the two adults shared little chemistry.

The little monsters and CGI were enough. And that fantastical feel that always is prevalent from a del Toro production was there. However, the storytelling was just rubbish.

Nothing new to the haunted house routine. A snooze fest, really.