A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
November 12, 1982
1h 33m
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Frank Hawkes
Leo Bain
Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
Dan Potter
Ronald "Fatty" Elster
Nell Potter
Toni Potter
Tom Smith / Skaggs
Lyla Potter
Ray Curtis
Detective Burnett
Bunky
Billy
Marissa Hall
Receptionist at Haven
Mom
Bicycle Messenger
Spaced-out Girl at Club
Customer in Diner
Harry Merton
JPV852
8.0/10Oct 04, 2021
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**
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Wuchak
6.0/10Jun 13, 2022
**_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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