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Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Tango and Cash One of the worst horror/horror-comedies I've ever seen. So bad it's bad. Marin Landau laughing and walking slowly isn't scary. Neither is Jack.....*long pause*..........Palance. Also not scary whatsoever is the fat guy from The Running Man. You know the opera guy.This movie can't decide if it wants to be a full out horror movie or a horror/comedy. It's really, really, really bad. I think a 3/10 score is being kind. It's not scary at all but also not funny at all. It's cool to see Murdock from the A-Team in the movie. I'm amazed they were able to convince Donald Pleasance to be in it. And how did they get Martin Landau? His performance in this movie is one of cinema's all time worst, it's laughable (not in a good way though). Martin Landau: "Hahahahaha! *smile*." How hard can that be? Not very creative. Avoid, there's no reason to see this turkey (I saw it to see Jack Palance).

Wizard-8 With a trash movie fan's dream cast - including Donald Pleasence, Jack Palance, and Martin Landau - it's a little odd that "Alone In The Dark" has remained still fairly unknown more than thirty years after it was first released. Actually, I think there is a reason why it hasn't found a substantial audience, and that reason is that the movie is admittedly quite slow. The movie really takes a long time to unfold from one main plot turn to another. And in the climatic sequence - the doctor and his family finding themselves under siege from the psychos in their home - it takes a long time to sink in for the protagonists that they are in serious trouble. Despite these major faults, the movie is still enjoyable. The aforementioned stars and the rest of the cast give pretty amusing performances (no one is taking things completely seriously), and while the core plot unfolds slowly, the movie moves from scene to scene at a brisk pace so things never get boring. Good production values and a sprinkling of black humor contribute further to making the movie in the end an enjoyable romp for horror fans with a sense of humor.

stevenjlowe82 What a superb little treat of a film, I only heard of it through watching some horror documentary. First off this isn't strictly just a slasher flick!!! It is also in fact a very tense psychological thriller which truly had me gripped, here's why. The scenes between the young daughter (a truly remarkable and precocious little character) and the child rapist are very unnerving. When the babysitter arrives and finds her napping I truly believed the child was dead and the babysitter had just assumed she sleeping. My heart was in my mouth the whole time up until I discovered she really was just napping. Also a lot of good scares. One of my faves being the scene where the boyfriend of the babysitter was killed. From the moment he arrived there was like a million red herrings right up until he was actually killed, bravo. I should say the unbalanced sister's one hallucination made me jump out of my seat. I wish they had played with that more, would have been good to see her really lose it in the midst of all the chaos. Solid enough performances all round. My two faves being the little girl and Dwight Schultz of STNG fame. Although I truly loathed him as Barclay I did enjoy him in this. A truly underrated film indeed.

TheLittleSongbird After hearing many things about Alone in the Dark, good and bad, I saw it as someone who has a lot of admiration for most of the cast and liked a lot of things they've done. And it was an hour and a half well worth spent, it is not flawless of course but it was most effective, a lot of fun and handles the horror and suspense elements surprisingly well.The film does get off to a rather pedestrian start, aside from a wonderfully weird opening dream sequence, with a lot of talk and not a lot happening(or at least not a lot particularly interesting). It ends a touch too conveniently outside of the reveal and the bizarre gem that is the nightclub encounter, Lyla for my tastes is an annoying character nonchalantly played by Elizabeth Ward and while they all did a fine job the big names could have done with a little more screen time, Jack Palance especially is underused.However, once the psychopaths escape Alone in the Dark really gets going and boasts some great offbeat dialogue, Donald Pleasance's speech in his last scene is deliciously nuts and Palance has two of the film's most memorable lines(one being "There are no crazy people, doctor, we're all just on vacation" and "So... it's not just us crazy folk that kill. We all kill... when we must") and some genuinely scary, stylishly shot and well-timed shocks, the knife through the mattress, the heart-in-your-mouth moment with the fleeting apparition and the clever reveal with The Bleeder(did not see that coming at all) being the standouts.Alone in the Dark is well-made with tight editing and photography that's stylish and moody, I for one didn't find it dated at all, and efficiently directed(hard to believe this was just a debut, Jack Sholder mentioned that it was his personal favourite of his films and it shows here, personally do agree with him). The music score is very spooky and quite refreshing for a horror and apart from Ward the cast are uniformly good. Dwight Schultz's role is very atypical and he does a good job playing it straight, even if a couple of Dr. Potter's decisions are a little dumb, and Donald Pleasance is great fun as Bain. Erland van Lidt intimidates from his appearance alone and Jack Palance is both very funny and menacing, but especially good is Martin Landau, who has seldom been creepier and he looked as though he was having a lot of fun with his role.Overall, very effective and well done film and one of the 80s' most under-appreciated films. 8/10 Bethany Cox