With Guillermo del Toro as co-producer and co-writer featured heavily in the promotion, this version of Don't Be Afraid... feels surprisingly and oddly bland and underwritten overall. All the ingredients are fine - good direction, rich visuals, effective CG creatures, strong design, a well-executed Marco Beltrami soundtrack, eerily spacious sound design - yet it never really rises above its old-fashioned TV-movie melodrama roots. Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce are excellent actors and both give good, credible performances here but have little to actually do and little with which to work. This is a good-looking film that does well with its budget, but it leaves little impression.
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