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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

cricket crockett . . . health care system up to the level where it is today. Before the wide release of ALONE IN THE DARK, U.S. taxpayers were footing the bill for hundreds of spacious "state hospitals" within which millions of "voyagers" enjoyed basking amid their own private I-Don't-Knows. However, as the ill-fated orderly "Ray Curtis" observes during ALONE IN THE DARK, the American General Population always was just a power blackout away from these facilities' electric barriers failing, allowing the voyaging hordes to run rampant throughout the darkness conducting looting, raping, and killing sprees. Thanks to the detailed depiction of just such a calamity during ALONE IN THE DARK, America was forced to come to Her senses. Within months of this film's release, convoys of bull-dozers razed or plowed under most if not all of the never lucrative white elephant state asylums. Corporate taxes no longer go toward supporting such money losers. Righteous families blessed with the corresponding means still have a wide range of private sector mental health care options in the rare instances when such needs arise. Those frowned upon by Fortune, however, are now mostly "free-range" out-patients. If they lack the job skills to earn their meds, Today's well-armed militia of private citizens are doing a fine job of keeping them in check, thanks largely to the timely warning of ALONE IN THE DARK.

TheBlueHairedLawyer I was blown-away by the acting in this low-budget film. Jack Palance and Martin Landau steal the show in every scene they're in, just like the other film they starred together in, 'Without Warning' (1980). Whereas many slasher films are hokey and predictable, this one is actually filled with odd plot twists and intense scenes that keep you at the edge of your seat. Instead of just striving to be scary, it's filled with hilarious scenes as well that make it one heck of a great film to watch.The group of crazy "voyagers" were all very different: there's Ronald 'Fatty' Elster, a pedophile who thank god didn't actually do any on-screen child molesting (he made paper birds instead). There's Byron 'Preacher' Sutcliff, a pyromaniac and a sharp dresser who sets a number of traps throughout the film. There's Frank Hawkes, who's more depressed and paranoid than crazy and who I kind of felt sorry for. And there's the enigmatic and creepy "bleeder", a man who hates to show his face and who ends up being the most scary of the group.Of course, Potter's family is just as quirky and well-acted too, especially Lee Taylor Allan with the punk new wave look and the wild colors in her hair. As they're pursued by creeps from all directions, this film becomes an unforgettable experience.

skybrick736 Synopsis:Dr. Dan Potter is assigned as a lead psychologist to four dangerous madmen at an alternative psychiatric facility. When a blackout knocks out the electricity at the facility, the lunatics are loose and are out for Dr. Potter and his family. Review: What is impressionable about Alone in the Dark (1882) is how much it had going for it even before the filming even started. This is Jack Sholder's first feature film, while he may not be a household name, he went on to contribute a great deal to the horror genre. Sholder wrote a rather simple but desirable script about four locked-up murderous psychopaths who escape and are out for blood. To top off the script, Sholder managed to hook an incredible line-up of leading men and a horror icon. These actors include the likes of Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Donald Pleasence and Dwight Schultz. As it came together on film, the script and cast were so profound and entertaining, it lives up to any pre-anticipated thoughts. With all that being said, Alone in the Dark is by no means a perfect movie, with its share of plot holes, bad dialog and predictableness. Actors were also limited as a typecast only to their known strengths, example Donald Pleasence plays an eccentric psychologist, no way, we have never seen that before… Tying up some of these loose ends would have established Alone in the Dark as one of the most prominent slasher movies of the 1980's. This little horror gym is very entertaining without a dull moment and doesn't nearly get the credit it deserves.

kclipper Jack Sholder constructed this ambitious addition to the slasher genre with such a wonderfully demented sense of humor by combining off-beat dialog with the standard body count formula. Donald Pleasence runs a liberal home for the insane where the patients are "free" to walk about with very little restraint except for the walls and doors themselves. Dr. Dan Potter (Dwight Shultz) is a new doctor who's hired as a replacement for the last head-shrinker who moved to Philadelphia. The patients of the 3rd floor (Martin Landau in a hilarious performance as Boyd The Preacher, who set fire to churches, Jack Palance as a paranoid schizophrenic ex-colonel, and Erland van Lidth as an obese child molester), believe that Potter murdered his predecessor, and after a full-scale power-outage ensues, the wackos take advantage of their opportunity to escape and launch an assault on Potter's family. The first half of this twisted tale is played out for laughs as we're introduced to the patients at the institute by Donald Pleasence (who's character is as crazy as they are). Landau, Palance and Lidth are great as the murderous band of nut cases, but then this becomes just another "trapped-in-the-house" slasher film that effortlessly lags, at least until the power comes back on, and then the film meets an unsatisfying and abrupt cut-off ending. Nonetheless, this is funny and entertaining for genre fans as well as Landau and Palance completists.