The creatures
So what were they anyway?
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Nothing much really explained. There were three of them, between fifteen and twenty inches tall. Black monkeysuits, hairless heads shaped like something between a potato and a shriveled up prune, big alien-like eyes and little alien-like mouth -- resembling a skull as much as a shrivelled alien. They mostly spoke in whispers with strange echoes.
They lived in a domain accessible through an ashpit or ash-dump under an old fireplace.
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The characters were played by midgets on stage-sets that were only double normal size -- making the actors appear half the size, in their furry costumes.
The shots of the creatures were minimal -- rarely did we see them more than a second or a second-and-a-half at a time. The longest shot was the staircase sequence when they climbed the stairs and caught sally with a rope. (another scene where we got a fairly good look at them was when they were in the bathroom OR maybe a dressing area and Sally was in the shower)
The staircase was twice normal size and the characters were played by midgets less than four feet tall -- making them appear between 15 and 22 inches, roughly.
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Before I discovered IMDb, I was OBSESSED with this movie.
In fact, wanting to learn about this movie is how I stumbled upon the IMDb.
UPDATE 31 minutes later: THIS INFO CAME FROM www.horrornewsletter.com
February 3, 2006 (Issue 4)
Three separate articles are in this issue.
I merely did a Google Search on "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and several Horror Fanzine type websites came up -- which included interviews, pictures of the movies being made, etc.
This movie was made in a very haphazard sort of way but turned out to be very successful. The three creatures were all played by midgets -- the shortest actors they could find. One of them was a rather elderly lady who I think was only about two feet something. The stage sets in which the creatures were used therefore only had to be double the size of the actual stage sets.
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Egads you are right.
I am BUMPING a thread titled INTERVIEW WITH THE CAST AND AUTHOR which led to the link, which, as you have discovered, is no longer functioning and leads nowhere.
Here is other stuff I have found on the site. It was a damn good article on the movie. Maybe you can contact them another way, by phone, e-mail, or letter.
THE HORROR NEWSLETTER
February 3, 2006 - ISSUE 4
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Special
http://www.horrornewsletter.com
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