"Alone in the Dark" is one of those movies that always shows up on the "best movies you've never heard of" lists.
By those who have heard of it, it is thoroughly overrated.
You might ask how a movie with Jack Palance, Martin Landau and Donald Pleasence could go wrong, and well you might. But here we are.
I think the problem was something at the screenplay or direction level. The movie just doesn't come together properly. It feels loose and disjointed, which is anathema to a thriller. Pleasence and Landau do what they can in their roles but they are at sea in a baggy and pointless film.
By those who have heard of it, it is thoroughly overrated.
You might ask how a movie with Jack Palance, Martin Landau and Donald Pleasence could go wrong, and well you might. But here we are.
I think the problem was something at the screenplay or direction level. The movie just doesn't come together properly. It feels loose and disjointed, which is anathema to a thriller. Pleasence and Landau do what they can in their roles but they are at sea in a baggy and pointless film.