Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1982 Wide
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This is a very enjoyable tongue-in-cheek horror film about some homicidal maniacs who break out of an asylum and terrorize a psychiatrist's family on a dark and stormy night. Martin Landau and Jack Palance are particularly funny, but there are some genuine scares as well. One scene, in which a frightened woman is menaced on her bed by a maniac thrusting a butcher-knife up through the mattress, is a clever send-up that will nevertheless linger in the memory. The coda, in which the crazy Palance
Jan 1, 1982 Wide
Sep 13, 2005
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The movie's tongue-in-bloody-cheek satire of psychobabble sets it apart.
The premise isn't plausible and Palance, Landau and Pleasence deserve more screen time, but this has enough off-beat and darkly comic moments to make it passable. And the final scene is a hoot.
Palance, Pleasance, and Landau ensure that, while it might get a little dry and silly at times, Alone in the Dark sure isn't boring.
Probably the best movie I've seen during this marathon. 'Alone in the Dark' is trenchant, intelligent and gleefully pulpy with Oscar-winning actors at their scenery-chewing maximum. Martin Landau, with glassy eyes and a Grinch-like smile, quotes scriptures as if he were on high and the simple task of wishing someone
October 21, 2011Super Reviewer
It began with potential it ended very dissapointing. What a shame
December 12, 2009
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