Alone in the Dark

ALONE IN THE DARK (18)

D: Jack Sholder

New Line/Masada (Robert Shaye)

USA 🇺🇸 1982

93 mins

Horror

W: Jack Sholder

DP: Joe Mangine

Ed: Arline Garson

Mus: Renato Serio

Jack Palance (Frank Hawkes), Donald Pleasance (Dr. Leo Bain), Martin Landau (Byron 'Preacher' Sutcliff), Dwight Schultz (Dr. Dan Potter)

Maximum security prisoners are freed during a power outage at a mental asylum.

A rather average horror which borrows heavily from the plot of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound and practically follows the same formula as Halloween, throwing in a villain in a Jason-style hockey mask for good measure (although it wins points for having this novelty before Friday the 13th, which didn't introduce the mask until the 3rd movie). It's not a terrible horror-shocker, but not worth going out of your way for.

Another film titled Alone In The Dark was released in 2005, but has no relation at all to this.

4/10

Did You Know:

This was the first feature film produced by distributor New Line Cinema.

Award Wins & Nominations:

MILSTEAD MOVIE AWARDS:

Wins: none

Nominations: none

Worst of the Year: 2 nominations (Worst Horror Movie; Worst Original Score)

OSCARS:

Wins: none

Nominations: none

BAFTAS

Wins: none

Nominations: none

OTHER WINS:

none