While it doesn’t really bring anything new to the table, it is entertaining and features a variety of great performances from all of its leads. It is definitely worth a look for genre film fans. His script is a tad generic but with a very talented cast bringing the characters to life and a no holds barred kind of finale the viewer almost forgets that a lot of things about the film are just average.Īlone in the Dark is a mostly solid horror film that has moments of greatness and moments of mediocrity. It starred Jack Palance, Donald Pleasance, and Martin Landau, and it focused on how an unfortunate psychiatrist has to defend his home from a pack of escaped lunatics. Dan Potter is assigned to work as a new doctor at The Haven, a mental institution. Back in 1982 there was a very cool horror ensemble flick called Alone in the Dark. He shows proficiency at using lighting, camera angles, and audio cues to build tension but loses some of his momentum in the film’s second act. Alone in the Dark centers on a small New Jersey community, where Dr. Jack Sholder ( A Nightmare on Elm Street II: Freddy’s Revenge) is the cowriter of the film’s screenplay and also serves as the director. It finds its footing by the end but the tug of war that seems to be going on is distracting. A lot of the slasher film tropes are abandoned in an attempt to fall into the thriller sub-genre but the deaths are much too violent for Alone in the Dark not to be classified as a horror film. In the process of trying to pander to both crowds, the film sometimes misses out on pleasing either. It wanders back and forth between attempting to be a slasher film and trying to be a thriller. The other problematic aspect to Alone in the Dark is that it appears to have a bit of an identity crisis. The finale is grand by design and will not disappoint. Fortunately, the last 30 minutes really reward the viewer’s patience. The ups and downs make the film play out as a little bit uneven and off kilter. Tension is established throughout the first act and then things really drop off in the second, only to pick up again in the third.
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In the few years preceding 1982, the slasher movie craze made these movies so commonplace and in some cases cookie cutter that by the tail end of the era, the form had. The biggest problem with Alone in the Dark is the pacing. : Alone in the Dark VHS : Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, Erland van Lidth, Deborah Hedwall, Lee Taylor-Allan, Phillip Clark. Whether or not there is a correlation, it’s an interesting bit of trivia, to say the least. It’s often been speculated that this picture served as inspiration for Jason’s iconic hockey mask and The Town that Dreaded Sundown provided inspiration for bag-head Jason. In addition to boasting a great cast, Alone in the Dark is also noteworthy for having one of its killers don a hockey mask before Jason ever did so in a Friday the 13 thfilm.
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