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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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Laughably bad.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
01/27/05
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

This horror film, spun off from an old Atari video game, is so inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn't release it straight to video, or better, toss it directly into the trash.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/27/05
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge than Alone in the Dark.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
01/27/05
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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If nothing else, Alone in the Dark proves that it's possible to 'dumb down' a video game.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
01/27/05
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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As video game adaptations go, even Pong: The Movie would have a lot more personality.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
01/27/05
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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None of it hangs together enough to make a coherent narrative.

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
01/27/05
Pamela Troy
Pamela Troy
culturevulture.net

There are some stupid films that rock, if you turn your brain off and enjoy them. Alone in the Dark isn't one of these, though it is very stupid.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
01/27/05
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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Alone in the Dark co-stars perpetual party-girl Tara Reid as an archeologist. That alone should give you some clue as to how bad this movie is.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
01/27/05
Bob Townsend
Bob Townsend
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Reid delivers her lines as though she is calling for another round of Mai Tais for the house.

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
01/27/05
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

so far off the scale bad that the only possible reaction is to laugh at it -- and I do mean at it and not with it.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
01/27/05
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Saying Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark is better than his 2003 American debut House of the Dead is akin to praising syphilis for not being HIV.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
01/27/05
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

...films like "Battlefield Earth" and "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" await a film of this magnitude because it gets awfully lonely on the island of misfit movies.

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment Comment
01/27/05
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)

Alone In The Dark isn't going to set the world on fire, but it largely succeeds with what it has to work with. Just don't take it seriously and you'll have a fun time.

Full Review Source: Eclipse Magazine | comment 26 Comments
01/27/05
Michelle Alexandria
Michelle Alexandria
Eclipse Magazine

Obvious dry humping to inappropriate music doesn’t cut it in a horror flick – at least give us some skin.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
01/27/05
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

Terrible beyond belief, like the worst 1940s serial ever made. As for Slater and Dorff...well, they've been in worse movies--wait a minute, no they haven't.

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01/27/05
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

you need an actor who can make the words SOUND smart, and Reid won't be winning a Nobel Prize anytime soon (she's proof that alcohol kills brain cells … with a vengeance).

Full Review Source: WaffleMovies.com | comment Comment
01/26/05
Willie Waffle
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com

Director Uwe Boll (is) a latter-day Ed Wood who fancies himself a cross between action-sytlish John Woo and B-movie horror-ific John Carpenter.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
01/26/05
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

as predictable as watching a bag of microwave popcorn pop and as terrifying as a herd of dust bunnies

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/26/05
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

If anyone were pondering what Ed Wood would be like today if he were armed with foreign financing and computer effects, look no further than Uwe Boll.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
01/26/05
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

This is jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, 'I-can't- believe-someone- made-this-crap' badness we're dealing with.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
01/26/05
Dustin Putman
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DustinPutman.com
 
 
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