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... [More]
Starring: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, William Sanderson
Director: Uwe Boll
Reviews for Alone in the Dark
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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 |
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0.5/4 |
The horror. The hor-ror! Full Review |
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1/5 |
Lame monster movies like this adaptation of the popular Atari video game are scary for all the wrong reasons. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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3/10 |
better than expected, but, considering the reputation of its author, this isn't much of an achievement Full Review |
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D |
Alone in the Dark pourrait figurer dans un dictionnaire en exemple frappant de ce que signifie «insipide». Full Review |
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1/5 |
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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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 |
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F |
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 |
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F |
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 |
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0/5 |
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 |
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Little of Alone in the Dark makes Earthly sense, but it at least knows how to be bad in original ways. Full Review |
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0/4 |
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 |
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Remember to get your bets in early as the Razzie winner for 2005. Full Review |
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2/10 |
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 |
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1/5 |
It's never good when the audience starts laughing as soon as the movie begins -- and nothing has happened. Full Review |
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F |
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 |
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0/5 |
It's just the most inept filmmaking you can catch in theatres right now, or probably all year long. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Alone in the Dark
May 23, 2008:
Interview: Uwe Boll Talks Postal, Kevin Costner, and Answers Reader Mail
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January 15, 2008:
Has Uwe Boll Directed His Final Big-Budget Flop?
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