Our movie starts out with a group of kids throwing snowballs at each other in a cemetery! Here they come across a snowman. But this snowman has a secret. You'll know what I'm talking about if you've watch The Tenement. After this several months pass by and we're introduced to several dead bodies. All the work of The Black Rose Killer. One night while the killer is doing his dirty deeds, he gets interrupted before he can slay everybody in this particular house. The house belongs to the Walkers' and their little girl, Alice, is fortunately left unarmed when a neighbor comes over and interrupts the killer before he can chop her into little pieces.

Flash forward twenty years and we find Alice having bad nightmares about that terrible night. She's been suffering from these nightmares and hallucinations all this time. Now the time is closing in on the twentieth anniversary of her parents murders and she fears that the killer is coming for her. Now she can see the killer murdering people that she's had contact with during the day.

Is this all just in Alice's head or is this some sort of sick, demented reality?

Comments:

I really wanted to like this movie. It takes up where the 'Black Rose Killer' segment ended in the movie The Tenement. This was my favorite segment of that movie and so I had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately there were a few things that I just didn't care all that much for.

Although I did like the story I thought it could have been done just a little bit better. I thought that some of the scenes lagged a bit. If they could have cut some of those scenes down just a tad it might have flowed better. I found myself trailing off and thinking about other things during the slow moving parts of the movie. Some of the acting was pretty decent. I thought that Mike Lane did a better job in this movie than he did in The Tenement. As for the actress playing Alice, Rosemary Gore, I really didn't like her. The way she portrayed Alice annoyed me. I was hoping the killer would hurry up and kill her!

I did like the music on this movie. I felt like in some scenes the choice of music help heighten the tension in the scene. So good job goes out to the people that helped out on the music.

There are a couple of cool kill scenes in this movie. First off, almost near the beginning of the movie we are treated with cool looking disembowelment scene! You can't go wrong with that. Then there is an awesome scene where Alice does something...not so humane, to a poor little gerbil! There are a couple of other kills in this flick but those two really stand out! I think there could have been a lot more blood. But then again I like lots of blood in my movies.

Overall, Fear of the Dark is a decent flick. I liked the story and there is an interesting twist near the end that you need to watch out for. My only real complaint is that some of the scenes lag a bit. But that's just my opinion. If you want to watch it for yourself, head on over to the Light and Dark Productions website at www.lightanddark.net and you can order your own copy. You can also learn more about this film and all the other films there.

Also at the end of the credits, you're shown some behind the scenes footage and some lessons on film making. Plus a trailer and a music video.