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| Title: | Alone in the Dark |
| Directed by: | Uwe Boll |
| Written by: | Elan Mastai; Michael Roesch; Peter Scheerer |
| Produced by: | Uwe Boll; Bruno Bonnell; Wolfgang Herold; Harry Rubin; Shawn Williamson |
| Music by: | Reinhard Besser; Oliver Lieb; Bernd Wendlandt; Peter Zweier |
| Cinematography: | Mathias Neumann |
| Edited by: | Richard Schwadel |
| Production | |
| Distributors: | Boll KG AITD Productions Herold Productions Brightlight Pictures Infogrames Entertainment |
| Released: | January 28th, 2005 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 96 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
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Alone in the Dark is an American feature film of the monster horror genre. It is loosely based on the Alone in the Dark survival horror video game series developed by Infogrames Entertainment in 1992. The film was directed by Uwe Boll with a screenplay written by Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, and Peter Scheerer. It was produced by Boll KG in association with Herold Productions & Brightlight Pictures. It premiered theatrically in the United States on January 28th, 2005.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Christian Slater | Edward Carnby |
| Tara Reid | Aline Cedrac |
| Stephen Dorff | Richard Burke |
| Frank C. Turner | Sam Fischer |
| Matthew Walker | Professor Lionel Hudgens |
| Mark Atcheson | Captain Chernick |
| Darren Shahlavi | John Dillon |
| Karin Konoval | Sister Clara |
| Craig Brunanski | 80's sheriff |
| Kwesi Ameyaw | Deputy Adams |
| Dustyn Arthurs | Young Edward |
| Catherine Lough Haggquist | Krash |
| Ed Anders | James Pinkerton |
| Brad Turner | Beat cop |
| Michael P. Northey | Guard |
| Michael Scott | Delivery guy |
| Ryan Drescher | Young boy |
| Sean Campbell | First mate |
| Sarah Deakins | Linda |
| Daniel Cudmore | Agent Barr |
| Françoise Yip | Agent Cheung |
| Ho-Sung Pak | Agent Marko |
| Mike Dopud | Agent Turner |
| Brendan Fletcher | Cabbie |
| Donna Lysell | Sarah Fischer |
| Ona Grauer | Agent Feenstra |
| John Fallon | Agent Yonek |
| Rebekah Postey | Sophie |
| Dean Redman | Agent Richards |
| Antonio Mairuano | Agent Tony |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The tagline to this film is "Can mankind defeat the army of darkness unleashed by an ancient evil cult?"
- There are a total of thirty-two credited cast members in this film.
- This movie is not to be confused with the 1982 feature film Alone in the Dark, which was a psycho-thriller directed by Jack Sholder.
- Production on Alone in the Dark began on July 14th, 2003. The movie was shot in parts of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as well as parts of Montréal in Québec.
- Alone in the Dark was made on a budget of $20,000,000. It grossed $5,178,569 in the United States and $7,515,076 in the international market, which made up 59.2% of its total market share. Its worldwide cumulative gross is $12,693,645.
- Alone in the Dark was made available on DVD in Region 1 format by Lions Gate Entertainment on May 10th. 2005.
- Test audiences were confused by the plot of the film, so Uwe Boll inserted a lengthy text crawl in the beginning of the film for the theatrical release.
- On the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), Alone in the Dark has a rating of 2.4 out of 10 Stars based on 41,718 votes.
- On the movie review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Alone in the Dark has a Tomatometer rating of 1% based on 123 reviews, which is hysterical. It has an audience score of 11% based on 50,000+ ratings.
- Alone in the Dark has a rating of 1.1 on Letterboxd.
- Rex Reed of the Observer said that Alone in the Dark was "A violent and inomprehensible piece of gibberish".
- Alone in the Dark was named the worst film of 2005 by the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.
- Despite its critical and financial failure, Alone in the Dark writers Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer managed to churn out a sequel, Alone in the Dark II.
- Actors Christian Bale and Jessica Alba were considered for the leads in the film before the casting of Christian Slater and Tara Reid. Director Uwe Boll has commented that he regretted casting Tara Reid.
- Actor Mark Acheson is credited as Mark Atcheson in this film.
- Actor Craig Bruhnanski is credited as Craig Brunanski in this film.
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