Jack Palance

Donald Pleasence

Martin Landau

Dwight Schultz

Erland van Lidth

Deborah Hedwall

Lee Taylor-Allan

Phillip Clark

Elizabeth Ward

Brent Jennings

Gordon Watkins

Carol Levy

Keith Reddin

Annie Korzen

Lin Shaye

Dorothy Dorian James

John Weissman

Jana Schneider

Robert Pastner

Larry Pine

Frederick Coffin

Mallory Millet-Jones

Laura Esterman

Michael Earl Reid

Paula Raflo

Steve Dash

Michael Medeiros

E.D. Phillips

Norman Beim

Ken Burns

Ralph Corrado Jr.

Snooky

Tish

Scott MacQueen

David Franco

Greg Zoll

Pino Bernardini

Star Gabrielle

David Beckerman

Joe Masefield

Arline Garson

Tom Brumberger

Adrienne Hamalian-Mangine

Carole Penner

John Foster

Gilles Arnaud

Richard Eliano

Webster Whinery

Tony Farentino

Mel Zelniker

Dee Dee Wehle

Jill Frank

Cliff Cudney

Bill Hale

Mike Christopher

Conrad Fink

Neil Eric Wenger

Barry Wetcher

Alex Livesey

John A. Gallagher

Elisha Birnbaum

William Neumann

William Bellettiere

Peter Spera

Tom Anderson

Suzanne O'Sullivan

Henry Shrady

Robert Maier

David Reale

William Klayer

Matt Vogel

Robert Shaye

Sara Risher

Lyzanne Goodson

Todd Rankin

Marjorie Phillips

Jean Standish

Michael Harrpster

Don Lumpkin

Linda Laias

Nera Bendor

Rachel Talalay

David Goodman

Wendy Hubschman

Richard Williams

Stephen Abramson

Gale Goldberg

Robert Zimmerman

Steven Visscher

Jack Sholder

Tom Savini

Matthew Malach

Anthony Hughes

Joan Brockschmidt

Amy Diaz

Michael Estler

Alexandra De Marande

Lou Kleinman

Benni Korzen

Renato Serio

Jim Bigham

Joshua Harrison

Stephen Marro

Allan Byer

Joseph Mangine

Horror

Thriller

Alone in the Dark

Masada Productions

New Line Cinema

United States of America

English

Simple but entertaining suspense-thriller with a fun cast that includes Jack Palance, Martin Landau and Donald Pleasence. The horror element was decent and acting pretty solid for the most part. The one minor twist in the finale I had an inkling about yet was still effective. Would make for a great viewing on Halloween night. **3.75/5**

**_Inmates escape the loony bin with Pleasence, Palance and Landau_**

During a blackout, several violent patients break out of a progressive asylum in New Jersey (Jack Palance, Martin Landau & Erland Van Lidth) and threaten a new doctor and his family at their farmhouse (Dwight Schultz, Deborah Hedwall, etc.). Donald Pleasence is on hand as the eccentric head of the facility.

"Alone in the Dark" (1982) is a fairly obscure horror flick that borrows from “Silent Night, Bloody Night” (1972), “Halloween” (1978) and “Night of the Living Dead” (1968). Pleasence, Palance and Landau are a highlight; basically veteran actors making some extra cash in their twilight years and having a good time doing it.

Lee Taylor-Allan (Toni) and Carol Levy (Bunky, the babysitter) stand out on the feminine front. The latter is good-looking, but needed to eat some cheeseburgers.

While nothing spectacular, the movie has some welcome quirks and highlights, such as the idea of a “progressive” sanitarium, Toni’s situation (she’s recovering from a recent nervous breakdown), the contrasting of different levels of crazy whether inside or outside of mental institutions and the performance of The Sic F##ks at a local club. Speaking of the latter, a member of the band ran into Palance several years later and informed him who he was. Jack responded, “We were all sick f##ks in that movie.” 

The film runs 1 hour, 32 minutes, and was shot in New Jersey (Ridgewood, Newark, Hillsdale and Englewood).

GRADE: B-/C+

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