Present for the Don't be Afraid of the Dark panel are director Troy Nixey and Guillermo del Toro who produced and co-wrote the film.

Del Toro talked about the original pic, which was a flick that scared the heck out of him as a child, and he's wanted to brand this film for a while. Brand it gimmicky simply don't touch what made it work. They showed the trailer for the motion-picture show, which honestly was pretty damned scary. It opens with a black screen and just the creepiest whispering voice I've ever heard saying there's no reason to be afraid of the dark. A lot of quick cuts of people being terrified and it ends with a little girl crawling under the covers - and then yous know she's going to find something at the end of her bed, and BAM! in that location it is for a split up 2nd: some gnarly, pale  looking creature.

Del Toro encourage filmmakers to send him scripts and videos - he said it may take a while only he Will become back to you lot.

He likewise said they shot for a PG-13 by avoiding sexual content and linguistic communication, but the MPAA came back and gave the film an R to pervasive scariness. Instead of being angry, Del Toro took that every bit a badge of honour and was quite pleased. When he asked if anything could be done, they asked him why would he want to water downwards such a perfectly good horror moving-picture show? He dropped a lot of f-bomb (said if there are withal any kids in here, it's besides tardily) and he went on to say:"Horror has to accept assurance and those balls have to be sweaty and wrinkled."

They also showed the prologue opening of the moving-picture show, which takes place in Victorian era 1819. The scene was very rich, visually and effectively dark and scary. His goal was to only make a genuinely scary, scary moving picture.

He will be working with HBO to make a horror story anthology for cable that doesn't depend on gore, only will even so exist truly scary. He said he grew up with Dark Gallery and there isn't really anything like that on telly right now.

He's about to announce a horror film very soon which he will direct that he'due south actually looking forward to doing. He's actually into making really, intense, truly scary movies - nothing half style.

He said that if you bring something artistic to a remake, it'southward OK to practise it. If it comes from a marketing decision, it's f-ed up. He said a problem with remakes is they're bigger budget than the foreign films they've based on, so they have to be "safer." With the original films, they're low budget so there's not every bit much of an investment and they tin can take more chances with the story and presentation.

According to Del Toro, the reason a lot of movies are so awful is fear - the fear of pushing the envelope or doing something unlike because the picture might non exercise likewise.

Regarding The Hobbit, he had over xc % of the start film designed and 50% of the second film. He hopes Peter Jackson does it and does information technology shortly considering he's eager to see it washed.

Don't be Agape of the Dark opens on Jan 21, 2011.

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