X
- 1982
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 32 m
- 1982
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 32 m
Summary A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Directed By: Jack Sholder
Written By: Robert Shaye, Michael Harrpster, Jack Sholder
- 1982
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 32 m
- 1982
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 32 m
Alone in the Dark
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6.3
Summary A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Directed By: Jack Sholder
Written By: Robert Shaye, Michael Harrpster, Jack Sholder
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
63
50% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
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2 Reviews
0% Negative
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A surprisingly effective slice-and-dice cheapie; cool, controlled direction by Jack Sholder, who also wrote the script. [31 Oct 2012, p.G27]
Unobjectionable even when it doesn't work, and certainly amusing when it does.
There's a sharp sense of humour at work in this school-of-Carpenter siege movie, even if, for all its ironic observations on madness in American society, it never cuts free of genre routine.
This black sense of humor, combined with the playful performances of its excellent cast (especially Donald Pleasance, as the head of the asylum), raises Alone In The Dark a cut above the average maniacs-on-the-loose entry.
User Score
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6.3
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6.3
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