Alone in the Dark
Year: 2005
Director: Uwe Boll
Written by: Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer
Threat: Demons
Weapon of Choice: Gun
Based upon: video game
IMDb page: 
Alone in the DarkYear: 2005 Director: Uwe Boll Written by: Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer Threat: Demons Weapon of Choice: Gun Based upon: video game IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
Why do people make video games into movies? It never really works. And and even bigger
question: why do people keep giving Uwe Boll money to make video games into movies?
There's a gateway between our world and a "world of darkness." Someone is trying to open
it. Evil things will come through. The world will be destroyed. And some other stuff.
I never played this video game, but if it is as exciting as the movie was, I've seen enough.
With and all-star cast like Christian Slater and Tara Reid, you might expect this to be a
top-flight movie, but somehow it falls short. The script is nothing but regurgitated video
game mass. The cinematography seems to have been done by someone overly sensitive
to light. The whole plot, just sort of doesn't make sense. Yup, typical Uwe Boll.
There really wasn't anything to redeem this. It isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but
it isn't even near mediocre. You'd think I would learn to stay away from these, but every
once in a while, I find myself wondering if they've gotten any better. They never have.
There's no reason to sit through this one. Even big fans of Tara Reid (and I know you exist
out there) aren't going to find anything to really latch onto here.
Posted: October 27, 2005
Total Skulls: 16
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup |  |
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| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | |
Christian Slater |
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | |
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| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | |
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| MTV Editing | |
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| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | |
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| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | |
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| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | |
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| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | |
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| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | |
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| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | |
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| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? | |