HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ With Katie Holmes

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CHICAGO – In our latest horror/thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce!

“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” also stars Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson, Julia Blake, Nicholas Bell, Libby Gott, Garry McDonald, Edwina Ritchard, Bruce Gleeson, Trudy Hellier, Alan Dale, Emelia Burns and James Mackay from writer Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy”) and director Troy Nixey. The film hits theaters on Aug. 26, 2011.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for Don't Be Afraid of the Dark with Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce
The movie poster for “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” with Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce.
Image credit: FilmDistrict

Here is the plot description for “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”:

Blackwood Manor has new tenants. While architect Alex Hurst (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) restore their Gothic mansion’s period interiors, Alex’s young daughter Sally (Bailee Madison) – neglected by her real mother and brushed aside by the careerist father – can investigate the macabre history and dark corners of the estate.

Spurring Sally’s investigation are the voices: rasping whispers who call out to her from the basement, who promise her understanding and friendship, who are so very hungry and would like to be set free. When Sally gives in to her curiosity, she opens a gateway into a hellish underworld from which an army of beady-eyed, sharp-clawed monsters emerge small in size but endless in number: the homunculi.

Confronted with the horror that now threatens to take her life and destroy her family, Sally desperately tries to warn the whole house. There’s just one problem: no one believes her. Will she make them understand in time or will they become another chapter in the centuries-long horror story of Blackwood Manor?

Based on the 1973 telefilm that Guillermo del Toro believes to be the scariest TV production ever made, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” was co-written and co-produced by del Toro and directed by Troy Nixey. Akin to “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” focuses on a young girl’s struggle against menacing and terrifying forces.

The movie trailer for “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” can be watched now below.

To secure your free tickets now, make sure you’re logged into your HollywoodChicago.com account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having an account with a valid e-mail address is required. Then, simply add a new comment in the form below. In your comment, include an answer to this question:




What is the scariest movie of all time and why?



Like all Hookups here, this Hookup is simple: Just submit your comment below and we will award 40 admit-two tickets randomly via e-mail for our “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” Hookup. Winners need to arrive early as seats are consumed on a first-come, first-served basis. Winners are typically e-mailed our advance-screening passes two days before the screening date. Good luck!

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Anonymous's picture

I am pretty sure i will be

I am pretty sure i will be made fun of but, since not much makes me jump or think. I think the scariest movie I have seen is a recent one in Insidious. The fact that my house is very similar to the first house adds to the creepiness to me

loveveritas's picture

As a kid, I thought

As a kid, I thought “Candyman” was terrifying. Watching it recently, though, I was like “ummm. Not so much.”

mrmovie's picture

Scariest Movie

gaby0407's picture

Scariest Movie

The Omen is the scariest. It’s the first scary movie I ever watched and as a kid, I was traumatized but intrigued by it.

rickyton's picture

Scarriest Movie of all time

I think the original exorcise was madd creepy, when I was a shorty I was freaking scare of chucky

Annesa Lacey's picture

What is the scariest movie of all time and why?

William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist” (any version)

Disturbing on any level imaginable. Revolting. Utter sacrilege. Just…. no.

Anonymous's picture

I want to see this

galongil's picture

Horror film

Paranormal Activity. Why? Because it makes you imagination run crazy when your in your bedroom. After watching a film like that your mind starts making you see and hear things at night.

MediaOracle's picture

I admit to Blair Witch Project

The first of the wave of documentary horror movies, “The Blair Witch Project” terrified me. That last image of the guy standing in the corner still gets me to this day — I recently took a photo of a friend in an old slaughterhouse to replicate that scene. Any of these types of movies get me: from [Rec] to Paranormal Activity. The more realistic the horror, the more I think it could actually happen to me. That’s also why rager zombie movies freak me out: There is a thin line between civility and barbarism in humans, and I could easily see a virus or a drug erasing that line, turning friends and neighbors into murderers.

e's picture

scariest movie

dracula because it scared me when i was little

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