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Hide and Seek Starring: Robert De Niro as David Callaway Dakota Fanning as Emily Callaway Famke Janssen as Katherine Elizabeth Shue as Elizabeth Directed by: John Polson Length: 1 Hour 37 Minutes Horror movies have been going through a dry spell in recent years. The genre has been focusing more on the campiness or humor rather than the horror. Some examples of this include the Scream trilogy and I Know What You Did Last Summer. It has become very rare to find a horror movie that is actually scary. A horror movie that is spooky starting very early in the movie is almost non-existent. Hide and Seek is one of those extremely rare movies. This is a movie that is scary from the beginning to end. Robert De Niro stars as David Callaway, a man whose wife committed suicide. It seems to have most affected his daughter, Emily, played by Dakota Fanning, who is cold and unemotional at the start of the movie. In an effort to help her, he decides to move out into the country. Things seem to be going okay until Emily develops a new imaginary friend, "Charlie." While Charlie seems innocent enough in the beginning, things start to take a deadly turn. Messages turn up in blood on the wall above the bathtub and people end up dead. David must find out what secret Emily is hiding and who "Charlie" is. One of the questions that is no doubt to be raised about this movie is the performance of the young actress, Dakota Fanning. Like most child actors or actresses, she has mainly played the "cute kid" role so people will be wondering if she can pull off the "scary child" role. The good news is that she does a great job with it. She uses her great big eyes to show her emotion or lack of. This is a movie full of twists and turns. Just when you think you have figured out, who "Charlie" is, another twist is thrown in to make you think it is someone else. This is not a family movie. Young children will be too scared by this movie. Several scenes show dolls that are disfigured or beheaded. Two women are shown dead in bathtubs full of blood. A man is slashed with a knife. Overall, the movie is just too intense for children. This is a horror movie that is actually scary and full of twists and turns that will leave you guessing. Burton Wray February 13, 2005
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