Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)

It takes a poorly executed horror movie to show its creature in full CGI glory only minutes in, but it takes a colossally bad one to not only give away its premise at the outset, but repeat that premise only moments later in writing during the opening credits.  Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a film I’m hoping writer-producer Guillermo del Toro doesn’t consider a high point, does both of these things.  How could a movie developed by one of modern cinema’s finest filmmakers go so horribly wrong?  And how could del Toro have allowed such fatal mistakes?