Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark 1973 Tribute

A heart felt tribute to one of the best TV Made films ever , do you remember it? please comment Possibly the scariest TV movie ever made Unbelievably creepy Intense, creepy, and terribly scary The most terrifying movie I have ever seen. You will never forget it if you see it! made-for-TV chiller gave nightmares to a generation of youthful TV-movie junkies. Sally Farnham (Darby) inherits a ramshackle mansion from her grandmother and moves in with her workaholic husband, Alex (Hutton). Worried that she’s not a good enough corporate wife, Sally sets about redecorating the house in anticipation of an important business party Alex wants to throw. Sally discovers a small room she thinks would make a nice study and, ignoring the warnings of an elderly handyman (Demarest) who used to work for her grandmother, opens the room’s bricked-up fireplace. Soon she’s being troubled by strange phenomena: An ashtray flies off a night table as though it had been pushed; tiny, shadowy figures scuttle around the periphery of her vision; voices whisper her name in the dark. Alex pooh-poohs Sally’s complaints, and accuses her of playing mind games: She’s the one who wanted to move to this house — he would have preferred an apartment in a modern high rise — so why is she acting as though she wants to leave? Then, at the all-important party, Sally sees a frightening, wizened gremlin hiding in a floral arrangement. She realizes she’s not imagining things: There are creatures in the house and …