Alone in the Dark Plot Summary and Details

Plot

This is a very enjoyable tongue-in-cheek horror film about some homicidal maniacs who break out of an asylum and terrorize a psychiatrist's family on a dark and stormy night. Martin Landau and Jack Palance are particularly funny, but there are some genuine scares as well. One scene, in which a frightened woman is menaced on her bed by a maniac thrusting a butcher-knife up through the mattress, is a clever send-up that will nevertheless linger in the memory. The coda, in which the crazy Palance has a bizarre encounter with a spaced-out punk chick in a nightclub, is a real gem. Recommended.

MPAA Rating:

Genre(s):

Drama,Horror,Thriller

Run Time:

92min.

DVD Release Date:

09/13/2005

Director(s):

Jack Sholder

Starring:

Jack Palance , Donald Pleasence , Martin Landau , Dwight Schultz , Erland Van Lidth

Themes:

Hostage Situations,Out For Revenge

Tone:

Disturbing,Humorous,Satirical,Wry

Keywords:

asylum [mental hospital],blackout [power loss],escape,family,family-in-danger,homicidal-maniac,killing-spree,mental-institution,nightclub,psychiatrist,psychopath,punk-rock,rampage,revenge,sanitarium

Language:

English