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RATING |
| 6 |
DIRECTOR |
| Jack Sholder |
CAST |
Jack
Palance
Donald Pleasence
Martin Landau Dwight Schultz
Erland van Lidth
Deborah Hedwall |
YEAR |
| 1982 |
RUNTIME |
| 92 minutes |
DATE REVIEWED |
| 5 /
15 / 02 |
SHOPPING |
| BUY THIS FILM |
| REVIEWER: FrighT MasteR |
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RATE THIS MOVIE:
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RATED BY:
3 FAN(S) |
CURRENT RATING:
6.67 SKULL(S)
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Alone
in the Dark
I heard a lot
of good things about this movie before actually seeing it, so I was glad
to finally catch the movie. It's rare that you see this number of famous
faces like the ones in this film and I thought that was very cool, although
I didn't really like Donald Pleasences character too much. The movie is
about these group of mental patients who despise their new psychiatrist.
They plot to kill him and wait for the right time to break free from the
institution. Since all the security in the prison is electric and thanks
to a power-failure, the patients manage to escape. The whole town experiences
the power-failure, so patients blend in with the many people looting the
stores. After they get a change of clothes and gather up some weapons
they found from a local store, they head to the psych's home.
I really liked
how each patient had their own gimick, where one was called the bleeder
because after he killed someone he would bleed from his nose, and another
was a huge strong fat guy, and another was an ex-preacher, and so on.
The story for the film isn't anything original, but thanks to the good
directing and excellent casting it made the movie stand out from all the
others. It's not loaded
with mindless killings from the mental patients that we usually see in
other horror films. Led by Jack Palances character, these guys really
just have one goal and that's to kill the new psychiatrist. They want
to kill him, because they think that he murdered their previous psych
and took his place. Silly mental patients.
Not much for
gore in this movie, but it does have some suspense now and then. What
I didn't really like about the movie was that it was predictable and somewhat
slow in parts and the ending was a little weird. I expected a little more
towards the end and those reasons are what made me decide on a 6-rating.
OVERALL
A good 80s slasher. Unoriginal and predictable
plot, but has a good cast and an interesting story. Check this out if
you're looking for something to rent.
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