DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, R ( 1 hr & 40 min )

Quickie Review:  A little girl discovers a secret basement in her father's 19th century home and, out of  stupidly preposterous curiosity, unwittingly unleashes a bunch of cold-blooded rat-like, grotesque  mini-humanoids.  She has to convince her father of their existence or their lives will be in danger.

This is not scary at all.  I didn't like it, especially the ending.  And I didn't hear a reaction, good or bad, from the rest of the audience ( about half a dozen people ).

Here are the things that I didn't like about this movie:  A Polaroid Instant Camera from the '80s or '70s!?!?!?  If people saw you carrying that kind of old, clunky camera around today, they'd likely point at you and make fun of you, too!  And where in heck would you go to to buy instant film and flash-bulbs for it, huh?  If I were a little girl down in a dark basement--alone--and I heard voices coming out of a barred and bolted fireplace, one of four  possible things would likely happen:  I'd scream in fright at the top of my lungs; I'd get a heart attack; I'd run out of there right-quick; and/or I'd scream and get a heart attack before I could even run out of there!  A note to directors of  horror movies:  You cannot have your audience Vicariously Experience a frightful scene if  your actor/actress doesn't get scared as easily as the great majority of your target audience does.  If you think about it hard enough, those bolts can only get unscrewed, from the inside, up to a certain point--they're not gonna get unscrewed all the way out and fall off!  ( What a stupid SFX! )  If those critters were really hell-bent on doing "dental work", they'd be able to do a good job of it using pliers instead of a folding shaving knife, screwdrivers, and scissors--obviously, they didn't go to dental school.  Ha, ha, ha.  Why did they keep walking around in the dark when they knew that there were "things that go bump in the night"?  Why did she show her dad pictures when she had a better proof:  A squashed-to-death critter?  Someday, sooner or later, they will need to explain the disappearance as they are the prime suspects in the case.  How are they gonna explain that convincingly enough to the authorities ...?