Turd alert!
When a film has not even one visually interesting moment that might've been put on the DVD box, it's wise to use a painting instead of a still. There is nothing in Alone in the Dark that is as appealing as the box in comes in, because looks like one of Giger's designs for Ridley Scott's Alien instead of the awful film we actually get.
Alone in the Darkstarted out as a so-so cheapy horror film cribbing from X-Files & what-not, with Christian Slater playing a Fox Mulder type investigating the supernatural. Ex-child star Tara Reid as the Dana Scully character unfortunately comes off like a porn star who mistook Z-horror as a step upward from her usual roles.
As soon as the incoherent story added the military element, it was all just shooting cartoony CGI monster-dogs & their zombie cohorts, pure video-game movie with no story getting in the way. This was very soon boring as all get-out & remained so to the end. Watching some ten year kid old playing the actual video game for an hour & a half would undoubtedly be more entertaining.
Christian Slater must have been getting desperate for work, having had some serious problems with drugs, sabotaging his own career.
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