Alone in the Dark Movie Review 2005

If there's any justice, Tim Burton's grandson will one day film a lovingly campy biopic about director Uwe Boll. Heir apparent to Ed Wood, Boll follows up 2003's "House of the Dead" with yet another incoherent video game adaptation. Paranormal detective Edward Carnby (Slater) represses memories of an orphanage trauma as he travels the globe collecting mystical chotchkies and fighting poorly-lit bad guys. When his fellow orphans start disappearing, Carnby and his scientist girlfriend (Reid) team up to battle bargain-basement CGI terror dogs. The monsters are somehow tied to an extinct Indian tribe, but you'll be too busy groaning at Reid's phonetically sounded-out science talk or the ridiculously inane opening crawl to care.

Distribution

CinemaNow, 4553 Glencoe Ave., Ste. 200, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, URL: http://www.cinemanow.com, Remarks: Formerly known as Lions Gate Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 96 minutes.
Originally from United States, United States, Canadian, German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Supernatural Horror, Private Eyes, Action-Thriller, Adapted from a Game, Mad Scientists, Adoption & Orphans, Occult

Screenplay

Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer

Cast

Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Matthew (Matt) Walker, Will Sanderson, Darren Shahlavi, Karin Konoval, Ed Anders, Frank C. Turner, Mark Acheson, Craig Bruhnanski, Kwesi Ameyaw, Catherine Lough Haggquist

Cinematography

Mathias Neumann

Director

Uwe Boll

Music

Bernd Wendlandt

Other

Tim Richardson, Richard Schwadel, Tania Richard, Martha Livingstone, Tink

Producer

Shawn Williamson, Boll KG Prods., Lions Gate Films