Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark Soundtrack

As another entry in the video-game-to-movie genre, Alone in the Dark certainly delivers in terms of its splattering gore and number of things that get shot or blown up with the kind of arsenal familiar to any fan of games that allow the player to shoot or blow things up. You could argue that some game-based movies have been big successes--gauged either by audience appeal or box office scores. Even though a lot of hardcore gamers probably won't care, Alone in the Dark is not of that ilk. At least the Resident Evil and Tomb Raider series had some interesting characters and locations (not to mention sexy stars). But Alone in the Dark is crippled from the first by a mundane setting of caves, laboratories, and street-fighting backgrounds as well as a cast (including Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, and Tara Reid) that couldn't be less interested in the overly complex plot. The absurdity starts right away with a long expository pre-title text crawl that carries all the gravitas of a "Monty Python" sketch intro. The gist of the plot has a group of scientists, special-ops military guys, and paranormal freaks and geeks investigating evil creatures that were once harnessed by an extinct subset race of Native Americans. Unleashed again, the creatures must be destroyed, which is where the video game blasting and attendant gore comes into play. Considering the cult following the game series carries (the first installment is over a decade old), Alone in the Dark could find a nice little life on DVD, but theater-goers might discover the title's a little too literal. --Ted Fry

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Uwe Boll
Stars: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner, Matthew Walker
Production: Lions Gate
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
2.3
Metacritic:
9
Rotten Tomatoes:
1%
R (Restricted)
Year:
2005
96
$5,132,655
Website
877 Views
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2What Drives the Weak 
3Cyberwaste 
4Touch of Red 
5Devour 
6Peace 
7Gone Forever 
8Down Again 
9Lost to Apathy 
10Blacklist 
11Imperium 
12Stabbing the Drama 
13Daylight Dancer 
14Panasonic Youth 
15Rational Gaze 
16Wish I Had an Angel 
17Mother of Abominations 
18Dead Eyes See No Future 
19Medieval 
20Daughter of the Damned 
21Weapon They Fear 
22Eraser 
23Blood and Thunder 
24Great Depression 
25Ghost 
26Souls to Deny 
27Watch Out 
28As I Slither 
29Outnumbering the Day 
30Deconstruction 
31Minion 
32On Earth 
33One Shot, One Kill 
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