Before Sunday night’s L.A. Film Fest premiere of the August horror pic Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark succumbed to an unfortunate series of annoyances — a fire alarm temporarily evacuated the theater midway through, while chaos reigned at the post-screening cell phone check — producer and co-writer Guillermo del Toro emphasized what, hopefully, will make Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark memorable: Its ” pervasive scariness ,” so terrifying that the MPAA deemed it too frightening for its intended rating.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Too Scary for the MPAA?