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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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence and language

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Jan 28, 2005 Wide

Box Office: $5,132,655

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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Felix Vasquez Jr.

The horror. The hor-ror!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 29 2009 03:16 AM

Cinema Crazed

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Mark Halverson

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 07 2008 03:16 AM

Sacramento News & Review

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Rossiter Drake

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: | comment 1 Comment | May., 29 2008 05:36 PM

San Francisco Examiner

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Ethan Alter

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: | comment Comment | Mar., 01 2007 03:50 AM

Film Journal International

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J. R. Jones

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 05 2007 09:17 PM

Chicago Reader

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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: | comment Comment | Jun., 24 2006 04:18 AM

Time Out

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Dragan Antulov

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 06 2005 05:36 AM

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Louis-Jérôme Cloutier

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 27 2005 01:50 PM

Panorama

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Pablo Villaca

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.

comment Comment | Jul., 16 2005 11:30 PM

Cinema em Cena

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

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: | comment Comment | Jun., 25 2005 04:03 AM

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Bill Clark

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: | comment Comment | Jun., 15 2005 08:30 AM

FromTheBalcony

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Mark Pfeiffer

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: | comment Comment | Apr., 13 2005 11:30 AM

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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Jovanka Vuckovic

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: | comment Comment | Mar., 30 2005 07:59 AM

Rue Morgue Magazine

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Mark Palermo

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 01 2005 03:58 PM

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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Michael Dequina

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: | comment Comment | Feb., 27 2005 01:48 PM

TheMovieReport.com

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James O'Ehley

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 10 2005 10:15 PM

Sci-Fi Movie Page

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2/10

Devin Faraci

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: | comment Comment | Feb., 08 2005 02:42 PM

CHUD

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Todd Gilchrist

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 07 2005 07:52 PM

IGN Movies

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Eric D. Snider

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: | comment Comment | Feb., 07 2005 12:38 AM

EricDSnider.com

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Marc Savlov

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 06 2005 10:15 PM

Austin Chronicle

 
 
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