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Box office. $1,441,000 [1] Alone in the Dark is a 1982 American slasher film co-written and directed by Jack Sholder in his directorial debut, and starring Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Donald Pleasence, Dwight Schultz, and Erland Van Lidth. The plot follows a psychiatrist's family who are besieged by four escaped mental patients during a power ...
- November 19, 1982
- Robert Shaye, Benni Korzen
Nov 19, 1982 · Alone in the Dark: Directed by Jack Sholder. With Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz. A few dangerous and delusional mental patients break out of a mental asylum during a power blackout, and lay siege to their new doctor's house, who, they believe, killed their previous doctor.
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- 1982-11-19
Alone in the Dark is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Jack Sholder and starring Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau. It was the directo...
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Kevin Carr Fat Guys at the Movies A fun little non-slasher slasher movie that works as a horror film. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 25, 2021 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy This Alone in the Dark only ...
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- 1982
- 93 min
- Jack Sholder
A man named Preacher (Martin Landau) walks into Mom's Diner on a snowy evening, sits at the counter, and orders "the usual". An unattractive fish on a platter is brought to him and Leo Bain (Donald Pleasence) the chef, comes out from the back and begins talking to him. It starts to rain right inside the diner.
Jack Sholder's Alone in the Dark was never a great movie. But 23 years after its release, it continues to be a very good one. Most definitely not to be confused with the 2005 Christian Slater-Tara Reid stinker of the same name, the 1982 Alone in the Dark has a characters-trapped-by-fiends-who've-cut-the-phone-line second half that wouldn't work in today's cell phone era, but that last half is ...
