Checking out a noise in a closet, the boyfriend is pulled under the bed. It involves a babysitter, having a sexual encounter with her boyfriend, unaware that the killers are in the house. You're never really sure just what is going on behind that sinister visage of his.Īside from the chaotic finale, both "Preacher" and the character of "Fatty", the child molester, features in the movies most harrowing scene and possibly the most famous sequence of the film.
Of the others, Hawkes is also the most unpredictable. He obviously had great admiration and affection for his former therapist and firmly believes his replacement did in fact murder Dr. Of the fearsome four, Hawkes actually builds some sympathy for himself in addition to being a scary son of a bitch. Both pretty much play similar characters from that movie, but their acting (especially Landau who horribly hams it up in the other film) is much better here. The real coupe is the terror triumvirate that is Palance, Landau and Pleasence.īoth Palance and Landau had appeared a couple of years prior in the cheese encrusted camp classic, WITHOUT WARNING. The notion of multiple killers with different personalities is also unique for a slasher at this time. This is all the more remarkable in that none of them wear a mask of any kind (there is one brief moment involving a hockey mask a year before Jason would don one for FRIDAY THE 13TH 3-D). He also manages to pull off numerous scenes of suspense and terror with his cast of crazies.
And what a killer cast! Jack Sholder (THE HIDDEN) creates some nifty characters with just enough depth to keep them interesting, and not just the obvious roles. One of the best slasher movies ever, period. Led by Colonel Hawkes, the four crazies including "Preacher", "Fatty" and "The Bleeder" escape into the night and lay siege to Potter's home trapping them inside. A power outage results in the asylums security system being shut down and allowing all the psycho's to leave freely. Believing Potter to have murdered Merton, four of the crazies plot to kill Dr. Replacing Doctor Harry Merton, Potter learns that several of the more dangerous inmates were particularly close to the former physician. Dan Potter and his family move into a new home after he takes a position at the Haven Asylum for the Criminally Insane, an intriguing facility in that it is run entirely on electricity for maximum protection. One of the best horror films/siege pictures of the 1980's plain and simple.ĭr.
Alone in the dark 1982 movie#
The Short Version: Unjustly underrated slasher thriller from 1982 has one of the best horror movie casts ever assembled in this smart, wickedly well written picture about nutty people. There are no.crazy people, doctor, we're all just.on vacation. Leo Bain), Erland van Lidth (Ronald "Fatty" Elster), Phillip Clark (John Skaggs/"The Bleeder"), Lin Shaye Dan Potter), Jack Palance (Colonel Frank Hawkes), Martin Landau (Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff), Donald Pleasence (Dr.
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