afraid of the dark leave me with the impression that several different screenplay be write and all too short for a feature length film and then splice together clumsily into this frankenstein monster . at his best and the protagonist and lucas and be creepy . as hard a it be to draw a bead on the secondary character and theyre far more sympathetic . afraid of the dark could have achieve mediocrity have it take just one approach and see it through and have it make lucas simply psychotic and confused instead of ghoulish and off put . i want to see him pack off into an asylum so the rest of the character could have a normal life .