adonis98-743-186503 Edward Carnby, detective of the paranormal, investigates a mystery with clues leading to "Shadow Island" that brings him face to face with bizarre horrors that prove both psychologically disturbing and lethal, as he discovers that evil demons worshiped by an ancient culture called the Abskani. Alone in the Dark is another horrible looking and also packed with horrible perfomances Uwe Boll flick that has some big names in it who although some of them quite talented couldn't even handle the word 'I am' without screwing it. Definitely an awful flick. (0/10)

Leon Smoothy I'm a real movie afficionado, as many of you are. I like quality movies, regardless of plot. I'm no snob. But you can't fool me, because I know you've done the same mistakes I have as an adult: Watch complete crap til the bitter end! What's my defence, you ask? Just got Netflix. It just appeared there. I had time to spare.This starts as a standard horror movie, and no spoiler, this is the lines written before the movie starts; about ancient forgotten native Americans nobody remembers but they screwed up and opened a portal they FORGOT to close, to a dimension with horrible being wanting to take over earth. Good job there! But it's got Slater and Dorff in it, it could not be...that bad, right? AND - it's got lots of artefacts! Artefacts are cool, right? (20 Of them!!)About 15-25 minutes in you realise this is just not a sub-par horror flick, it's a punishment, it's actual abuse of adult viewers. I mean, I'm putting my rep on the line here telling you I've seen this. Can I write a best seller about this at least...and get some money? "I saw Alone in the dark - How I got back to life".But...maybe...maybe it will get better? Then the monsters enter the stage, and if you like man-sized dinosaurs, this is your gig! But then they start playing Marilyn Manson and a SWAT team comes into the picture and it's in slow motion and pale weirdos appear too. I didn't want this!! I want to be happily scared a bit.People - we got to fight this kind of abuse of horror film lovers around the globe. Unite!PS. Do not watch this. It may cause serious trauma.

jacobjohntaylor1 This movie has an awful story line. It also has an awful ending. I would call a 2.3. I do not really think it is that bad. But it is still not a good movie. I give 4. Alone in the dark II is better. That has nothing to do with this movie except the title. So your really do not need to see this movie. Do not waste your time. And do not waste your time. Do not see this movie. It is not scary. This movie is pooh pooh. Very stinky. It is one really made horror movie. Good actors wasted there time being in this awful movie. I can understand why people do not like this movie. It is not a good movie at all.

Leofwine_draca It was inevitable that I'd get around to seeing a Uwe Boll film sooner or later. The German director is widely regarded as a modern day Ed Wood, incapable only of churning out a string of god-awful genre flicks packed with bad acting, worse effects and a complete lack of talent. ALONE IN THE DARK is the title of a popular PC game that went on to spawn sequels and remakes on plenty of other computers and consoles, and this is the filmic adaptation. And it's a pile of pants.You know you're off to a bad start when the opening scrolling text begins. And then goes on. And on. And on. Basically there's more story condensed here than in the rest of the film, and that's because test audiences left confused, wondering what the heck the film was about, and the opening scroll was tacked on afterwards. Then, to my surprise, things got cheesy and quite a bit of fun. We meet up with Christian Slater, playing a muscular, vest-wearing hero type, and watch his encounter with a superhuman skinhead who leaps great heights and takes bullets with seemingly no pain or effect. Boll's direction is hyper and wannabe stylish, and this sequence is a hoot.Then things get really bad, with a muddled story about an evil professor, a museum relic that comes to life and a tactical unit of wannabe SWAT guys fighting monsters. The monsters are bad – half the creatures seen in HELLBOY, half THE RELIC – but the slithery worm things that live in people's spines are pretty neat, a nice gross out idea. The film moves on from there with a series of poorly connected set-pieces, all of them predictable and done to death a million times previously. There are explosions, shoot outs and a few mild gore scenes, although one shot of a woman's head split open is pretty near the knuckle.I find it difficult to dislike Slater. He has this nice guy persona in every film I've seen and he seems slick and cool here. Even the bit of crumpet on his shoulder (AMERICAN PIE's Tara Reid) isn't too irritating. Then there's Stephen Dorff, who I last saw in the awful haunted house movie COLD CREEK MANOR, and he isn't bad either, playing a hard-ass commander. Maybe Boll is better at directing actors than he is at directing stories.Anyway, things play out predictably, and it all washes over you with its inanity and pointlessness. Yes, this is a bad film. Is it one of the worst films ever? I doubt that. It's actually on the level of a Sci Fi Original movie, except with a higher budget. 'Pretty trashy' and 'nothing to get excited about' sum up this film nicely for me.