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Alone in the Dark

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Alone in the Dark (2005)

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Reviews Counted:115

Fresh:1

Rotten:114

Average Rating:1.7/10

Consensus: Inept on almost every level, Alone in the Dark may not work as a thriller, but it's good for some head-slapping, incredulous laughter.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: You wake up in the middle of the night with the feeling someone is in the room with you. You get a flash of panic as you fumble for your bedside lamp. But when you turn on the light, no one is... You wake up in the middle of the night with the feeling someone is in the room with you. You get a flash of panic as you fumble for your bedside lamp. But when you turn on the light, no one is there. You might feel safe…but just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. Watching. Waiting. Existing at the fragile boundaries of our perception. There is a world around us, a world most of us never see - or never want to see. As a child, Edward Carnby was given irrefutable proof of that world. He hasn't slept well since. Now, twenty years later, Edward is a paranormal investigator. When the irrational and the inexplicable become undeniable, he is there. He is not out to change your mind. But he may be the only one who can save your life. Now, the greatest mystery of Edward's past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced. Nineteen people have disappeared, and they have only one thing in common - each one grew up in the same orphanage as Edward. Looking for answers, Edward learns that an ancient artifact of considerable power has been discovered in a long-lost shipwreck. Amidst mounting danger, he turns to Aline Cedrac, a brilliant anthropologist who's also his ex-flame - and the only person he really trusts. In a world of ancient evils, lost civilizations, shadowy government conspiracies, and deadly paranormal threats, Edward and Aline come together to confront a supernatural enemy unlike anything they've ever seen before…one whose very existence could threaten all of humankind. -- © Lions Gate Films [More]

Starring: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, William Sanderson

Starring: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, William Sanderson, Robert C. Bruce, Ed Anders, Daniel Cudmore, Darren Shahlavi, Francoise Yip

Director: Uwe Boll

Director: Uwe Boll
Screenwriter: Michael Roesch, Elan Mastai, Peter Scheerer
Producer: Shawn Williamson, Wolfgang Herold
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Any chance for suspense is thwarted by gratuitous violence, heavy-metal–propelled action sequences and laughably flat dialogue between characters who are barely more developed than in the Atari version.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
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The horror. The hor-ror!

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Lame monster movies like this adaptation of the popular Atari video game are scary for all the wrong reasons.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review

The late Gene Siskel once devised a simple method of measuring a film's worth: 'Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?' 'Alone in the Dark' doesn't come close to matching that standard.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment 1 Comment
05/29/08
Rossiter Drake
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

There's nothing even remotely entertaining about this film -- audiences should stay home and play the original (or one of its numerous sequels) on Playstation instead.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

Christian Slater and Stephen Dorff, the reigning princes of Hollywood schlock, join forces in this brain-dead adaptation of a popular video game.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/05/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

better than expected, but, considering the reputation of its author, this isn't much of an achievement

Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/06/05
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
Draxblog Movie Reviews

Alone in the Dark pourrait figurer dans un dictionnaire en exemple frappant de ce que signifie «insipide».

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
07/27/05
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama

Eu devia ter suspeitado de algo quando meu aparelho de DVD pareceu se recusar a rodar este filme. E posso jurar que ele pediu um Cepacol depois que a tortura chegou ao fim.

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07/16/05
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

This is pretty close to one of the worse movies that I've ever seen and having to recap it is making my brain bleed..

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
06/25/05
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

As long as director Uwe Boll is given money to make films, we are guaranteed at least one unintentionally uproarious gut-buster a year.

Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony | comment Comment
06/15/05
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony

Boll’s vague X-Files rip-off isn’t scary or exciting, but inadvertently he’s made a movie funnier than a lot of the purported comedies Hollywood cranks out.

Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | comment Comment
04/13/05
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

How Uwe Boll manages to scrape together enough investment money to give wing to this type of overblown, amateurish gibberish is truly a mystery of the cosmos...

Full Review Source: Rue Morgue Magazine | comment Comment
03/30/05
Jovanka Vuckovic
Jovanka Vuckovic
Rue Morgue Magazine

Little of Alone in the Dark makes Earthly sense, but it at least knows how to be bad in original ways.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
03/01/05
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Has just about everything a snarky bad movie lover could want--that is, except a guy and two robots sitting in the bottom right hand corner.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
02/27/05
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Remember to get your bets in early as the Razzie winner for 2005.

Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page | comment Comment
02/10/05
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page

You start hoping that Ashton Kutcher is going to come out and tell them they’re punk’d, because you just can’t believe this is for real. You feel sorry for these actors...

Full Review Source: CHUD | comment Comment
02/08/05
Devin Faraci
Devin Faraci
CHUD

It's never good when the audience starts laughing as soon as the movie begins -- and nothing has happened.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
02/07/05
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies

For as busy as this movie is, you'd think it would have more going on. Instead, it's just a big, chewy wad of badness.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
02/07/05
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

It's just the most inept filmmaking you can catch in theatres right now, or probably all year long.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
02/06/05
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
 
 
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