Exploring the fantasy world of a stricken child, AFRAID OF THE DARK offers potent testimony that the greatest horrors lurk in the imagination.
Eleven-year-old Lucas (Ben Keyworth) lies in bed listening to his father, Frank (James Fox), and blind mother, Miriam (Fanny Ardant), whisper about a slasher who has been razoring the faces of blind women. The following day, he accompanies his mother to her knitting class at the local clinic for
the blind where everyone is scared about the horrific incidents. Miriam asks him to escort her friend Rose (Clare Holman) to a photographer's (Paul McGann) studio where she is having her engagement portrait taken. After safely dro...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
92 mins