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RabbanTheBeast
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Disappointing TV fare; if you're seeing it for the first time now, you certainly won't get the nostalgic fuss it causes.
25 January 2005 - 7 out of 16 users found this review helpful.
I've heard about this for a while, and wanted to see it after all the praises it got. Now that I did, I'm extremely disappointed. It certainly wasn't the supposed "masterpiece" it's made out to be on its board - in fact, it turned out to be a cheaply made (the puppets were really ridiculous), dull TV fare with bad attempts at creating ambiance and too many obvious "scares" that could have been effective in 1973, but definitely not today. Actually, I doubt it was even effective in 1973 - "The Exorcist" still holds as the best tension-keeping movie of all time, and it was made in the same year. I guess those who praise this mediocre TV flick as "great" only do that because of nostalgia.
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