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Viewer Score

88
Viewer score based on 295 votes.

Critic Score

56
Critics' score based on 35 reviews.
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Your Reviews

Average.

March 26,2012
ms00000000117042

not even scary

January 14,2012
aq00000000110171

Failed attempt at a horror movie, or thriller, or much of anything else !

October 21,2011
jmedeiros62

That was no horror movie.

October 07,2011
isang1234

Average. Could have been a lot scarier.

September 30,2011
scottw4171
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Critic Reviews

This is a very good haunted house film. It milks our frustration deliciously.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Feels retro in all the right ways; it's a bump-in-the-night tale that, if not for the occasional glimpse of a cellphone or reference to Adderall, could have been told decades ago.Full Review

Washington Post

Entirely too literal, but it still manages to be a literally hair-raising piece of modern-style old school Gothic horror.Full Review

Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Curled up at home with the lights off and DVD player running, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark might be passable fun. Spread over a movie screen, the film's modest ambition gets dwarfed by expectations, especially after paying for a ticket.Full Review

Steve Persall
St. Petersburg Times

This insipid wannabe frightener features a checklist of derivative conventions.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today
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