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->"''In 1967, mine workers discovered the first remnants of a long lost Native American civilization - The Abkani. The Abkani believed that there are two worlds on this planet, a world of light and a world of darkness. 10,000 years ago the Abkani opened a gate between these worlds. Before they could close it, something evil slipped through. The Abkani mysteriously vanished from the Earth. Only a few artifacts remained, hidden in the world's most remote places. These artifacts speak of terrifying creatures that thrive in the darkness, waiting for the day when the gate can be opened again. Bureau 713, the government's paranormal research agency, was established to uncover the dark secrets of this lost civilization. Under the direction of archaeologist Lionel Hudgens, Bureau 713 began collecting Abkani artifacts. When the government shut down his controversial research, Hudgens built a laboratory hidden within an abandoned gold mine. There, he conducted savage experiments on orphaned children in an attempt to merge man with creature. Hudgens victims survived as "sleepers" - lost souls awaiting the moment of their calling.''"
-->-- A ''small snippet'' of the [[ProlongedPrologue overly-long]] OpeningScroll[[hottip:*: That spoils pretty much the entire plot of the film, including WhatCouldHaveBeen good plot twists.]]
''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by Uwe Boll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[TropeMaker kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
The film begins with an extended opening text crawl (narrated!) that tries to shed some light on the story, which involves [[{{Precursors}} an ancient race called the Abkani]], an experiment by a MadScientist named Lionel Hudgens, and an orphanage from which he took many of his test subjects. One of these orphans, paranormal investigator Edward Carnby, is called upon to investigate the remnants of the Abkani, hoping to find out how that's connected to his past ([[EasyAmnesia since he can't remember it at all]]).
What follows is a disjointed and {{plot hole}}-laden chain of events that brings Edward back to his old girlfriend, Aline Cedrac ([[PromotedToLoveInterest who, in the original games, was not romantically linked to him]]). Eventually, the two of them run into members of Bureau 713 (of which Edward is coincidentally a former member), fight off hordes of aliens, and engage Hudgens in a final showdown.
Much like Boll's previous film adaptation of ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'', ''Alone in the Dark'' was met with a tremendously negative reaction both from filmgoers and movie critics. [[{{InNameOnly}} There is very little connection to the games the movie is purported to be based on]], and the film itself is full of bad special effects, mediocre acting, {{plot hole}}s, and lots of {{padding}} to attempt to cover up the plot holes.
Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since the in-universe TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
Despite the movie's critical and commercial failure, a direct-to-video sequel entitled ''Alone in the Dark II'' was released in 2008. Uwe Boll produced, but did not direct, the second movie (the actual directors, Peter Scheerer and Michael Roesch, were also the directors for the ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' sequel).
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!!Tropes associated with this film:
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: So where exactly is "New-FOUND-land", Dr. Cedrac?
* ActorAllusion: Perhaps by coincidence, but a character falls to his death in a pit of spikes. Said character is played by Ho Sung Pak, who'd portrayed Liu Kang in the first two ''MortalKombat'' games.
* CaptainErsatz: If their appearance wasn't obvious enough, the monsters are even called "[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenos]]".
* ChewingTheScenery: Stephen Dorff as Richard Burke.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu
* CoitusEnsues
* DarkenedBuildingShootout
* EveryBulletIsATracer: For about the first half hour no bullets can be seen outside of Carnby's (pointless) bullet time sequence. Then during a frantic firefight the lights go out and suddenly all bullets can be seen, shining brighter than Time Square, and magically able to take down enemies in very few hits, even though prior scenes depicted them as nigh invulnerable.
** A particularly egregious scene shows a CG tracer bullet fly ''CLEARLY'' over the intended target by a good ''three feet'' and the enemy still falls over dead.
* FlippingTheTable: Burke gets mad and tosses a table over when he finds out [[spoiler:Bureau 713, his employers, are the ones responsible for the monster outbreak]].
* FollowTheLeader: A late follower, no less. It may be [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on a video game, but the monsters, the action scenes, and much of the plot are blatant ripoffs of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', which came out a good 18 years before this movie.
* HotScientist: Aline Cedrac, played by, oddly enough, Tara Reid (better known for her roles in ''AmericanPie'' and ''Film/TheBigLebowski''). Boll actually says in the commentary that ''the glasses and her hair in a bun make her look really intelligent''. One critic remarked that this would be "like casting Dame JudiDench as a crack whore".
* InNameOnly
* JumpCut: Abused to hell and back.
* NippleAndDimed: Reid doesn't get nude for the sex scene. In the DVD commentary, Boll says he tried like hell to convince Tara to do just that but she refused. Boll then proceeds to bitch for quite a while how [[ValuesDissonance actresses in Europe wouldn't be so "uptight" about it]] and all but blaming the failure of the film on Tara Reid not taking her top off.
* TheOtherDarrin: ChristianSlater is replaced by Korean-American actor Rick Yune in the sequel.
* {{Padding}}
* ProlongedPrologue: The film [[OpeningScroll opens]] with a long text crawl describing the backstory, while at the same time lazily narrated by...someone.
* RetCanon: Lots of ideas from this movie were reused in the 2008 game. An odd factoid is that they may have staved the 2008 game off for three years to try and let the bad publicity die down, yet include ideas from this film, this ''critically panned'' film.
* RuleOfCool: Tries on so many levels, and ''fails'' on several more.
* SealedEvilInACan
* SequelHook: Subverted. While the obvious ''EvilDead'' rip-off ending is meant to tell the audience that Carnby and Cedrac's battle isn't over yet, the actual sequel takes a far different turn.
* ShakyPOVCam: Right at the end. They don't even pretend they're being original.
* SlapSlapKiss: Carnby and Cedrac's relationship is portrayed as this right up until their sex scene, but isn't touched upon again when the aliens show up.
* SoundtrackDissonance[=/=]IsntItIronic : During the sex scene, a Neneh Cherry song called "''7 Seconds''" plays. This would have been fine, had it not been for the fact "''7 Seconds''" is a song about ''racism''.
** Although this certainly isn't justifiable, it is at least explainable: Boll's English is reportedly very poor, and it's quite likely he had no idea what the lyrics were actually saying and just picked a song he thought sounded cool.
* ThereWasADoor: Twice within a couple of minutes.
* WallOfText: The opening.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Blair Erickson's script was ''much'' closer to the games, [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/behind-scenes-uwe.php?page=1 detailed in this article]], on the second page.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Be afraid...be very afraid (but not for reasons you might expect).]]
->"''In 1967, mine workers discovered the first remnants of a long lost Native American civilization - The Abkani. The Abkani believed that there are two worlds on this planet, a world of light and a world of darkness. 10,000 years ago the Abkani opened a gate between these worlds. Before they could close it, something evil slipped through. The Abkani mysteriously vanished from the Earth. Only a few artifacts remained, hidden in the world's most remote places. These artifacts speak of terrifying creatures that thrive in the darkness, waiting for the day when the gate can be opened again. Bureau 713, the government's paranormal research agency, was established to uncover the dark secrets of this lost civilization. Under the direction of archaeologist Lionel Hudgens, Bureau 713 began collecting Abkani artifacts. When the government shut down his controversial research, Hudgens built a laboratory hidden within an abandoned gold mine. There, he conducted savage experiments on orphaned children in an attempt to merge man with creature. Hudgens victims survived as "sleepers" - lost souls awaiting the moment of their calling.''"
-->-- A ''small snippet'' of the [[ProlongedPrologue overly-long]] OpeningScroll[[hottip:*: That spoils pretty much the entire plot of the film, including WhatCouldHaveBeen good plot twists.]]
''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by Uwe Boll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[TropeMaker kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
The film begins with an extended opening text crawl (narrated!) that tries to shed some light on the story, which involves [[{{Precursors}} an ancient race called the Abkani]], an experiment by a MadScientist named Lionel Hudgens, and an orphanage from which he took many of his test subjects. One of these orphans, paranormal investigator Edward Carnby, is called upon to investigate the remnants of the Abkani, hoping to find out how that's connected to his past ([[EasyAmnesia since he can't remember it at all]]).
What follows is a disjointed and {{plot hole}}-laden chain of events that brings Edward back to his old girlfriend, Aline Cedrac ([[PromotedToLoveInterest who, in the original games, was not romantically linked to him]]). Eventually, the two of them run into members of Bureau 713 (of which Edward is coincidentally a former member), fight off hordes of aliens, and engage Hudgens in a final showdown.
Much like Boll's previous film adaptation of ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'', ''Alone in the Dark'' was met with a tremendously negative reaction both from filmgoers and movie critics. [[{{InNameOnly}} There is very little connection to the games the movie is purported to be based on]], and the film itself is full of bad special effects, mediocre acting, {{plot hole}}s, and lots of {{padding}} to attempt to cover up the plot holes.
Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since the in-universe TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
Despite the movie's critical and commercial failure, a direct-to-video sequel entitled ''Alone in the Dark II'' was released in 2008. Uwe Boll produced, but did not direct, the second movie (the actual directors, Peter Scheerer and Michael Roesch, were also the directors for the ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' sequel).
----
!!Tropes associated with this film:
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: So where exactly is "New-FOUND-land", Dr. Cedrac?
* ActorAllusion: Perhaps by coincidence, but a character falls to his death in a pit of spikes. Said character is played by Ho Sung Pak, who'd portrayed Liu Kang in the first two ''MortalKombat'' games.
* CaptainErsatz: If their appearance wasn't obvious enough, the monsters are even called "[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenos]]".
* ChewingTheScenery: Stephen Dorff as Richard Burke.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu
* CoitusEnsues
* DarkenedBuildingShootout
* EveryBulletIsATracer: For about the first half hour no bullets can be seen outside of Carnby's (pointless) bullet time sequence. Then during a frantic firefight the lights go out and suddenly all bullets can be seen, shining brighter than Time Square, and magically able to take down enemies in very few hits, even though prior scenes depicted them as nigh invulnerable.
** A particularly egregious scene shows a CG tracer bullet fly ''CLEARLY'' over the intended target by a good ''three feet'' and the enemy still falls over dead.
* FlippingTheTable: Burke gets mad and tosses a table over when he finds out [[spoiler:Bureau 713, his employers, are the ones responsible for the monster outbreak]].
* FollowTheLeader: A late follower, no less. It may be [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on a video game, but the monsters, the action scenes, and much of the plot are blatant ripoffs of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', which came out a good 18 years before this movie.
* HotScientist: Aline Cedrac, played by, oddly enough, Tara Reid (better known for her roles in ''AmericanPie'' and ''Film/TheBigLebowski''). Boll actually says in the commentary that ''the glasses and her hair in a bun make her look really intelligent''. One critic remarked that this would be "like casting Dame JudiDench as a crack whore".
* InNameOnly
* JumpCut: Abused to hell and back.
* NippleAndDimed: Reid doesn't get nude for the sex scene. In the DVD commentary, Boll says he tried like hell to convince Tara to do just that but she refused. Boll then proceeds to bitch for quite a while how [[ValuesDissonance actresses in Europe wouldn't be so "uptight" about it]] and all but blaming the failure of the film on Tara Reid not taking her top off.
* TheOtherDarrin: ChristianSlater is replaced by Korean-American actor Rick Yune in the sequel.
* {{Padding}}
* ProlongedPrologue: The film [[OpeningScroll opens]] with a long text crawl describing the backstory, while at the same time lazily narrated by...someone.
* RetCanon: Lots of ideas from this movie were reused in the 2008 game. An odd factoid is that they may have staved the 2008 game off for three years to try and let the bad publicity die down, yet include ideas from this film, this ''critically panned'' film.
* RuleOfCool: Tries on so many levels, and ''fails'' on several more.
* SealedEvilInACan
* SequelHook: Subverted. While the obvious ''EvilDead'' rip-off ending is meant to tell the audience that Carnby and Cedrac's battle isn't over yet, the actual sequel takes a far different turn.
* ShakyPOVCam: Right at the end. They don't even pretend they're being original.
* SlapSlapKiss: Carnby and Cedrac's relationship is portrayed as this right up until their sex scene, but isn't touched upon again when the aliens show up.
* SoundtrackDissonance[=/=]IsntItIronic : During the sex scene, a Neneh Cherry song called "''7 Seconds''" plays. This would have been fine, had it not been for the fact "''7 Seconds''" is a song about ''racism''.
** Although this certainly isn't justifiable, it is at least explainable: Boll's English is reportedly very poor, and it's quite likely he had no idea what the lyrics were actually saying and just picked a song he thought sounded cool.
* ThereWasADoor: Twice within a couple of minutes.
* WallOfText: The opening.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Blair Erickson's script was ''much'' closer to the games, [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/behind-scenes-uwe.php?page=1 detailed in this article]], on the second page.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Be afraid...be very afraid (but not for reasons you might expect).]]
->"''In 1967, mine workers discovered the first remnants of a long lost Native American civilization - The Abkani. The Abkani believed that there are two worlds on this planet, a world of light and a world of darkness. 10,000 years ago the Abkani opened a gate between these worlds. Before they could close it, something evil slipped through. The Abkani mysteriously vanished from the Earth. Only a few artifacts remained, hidden in the world's most remote places. These artifacts speak of terrifying creatures that thrive in the darkness, waiting for the day when the gate can be opened again. Bureau 713, the government's paranormal research agency, was established to uncover the dark secrets of this lost civilization. Under the direction of archaeologist Lionel Hudgens, Bureau 713 began collecting Abkani artifacts. When the government shut down his controversial research, Hudgens built a laboratory hidden within an abandoned gold mine. There, he conducted savage experiments on orphaned children in an attempt to merge man with creature. Hudgens victims survived as "sleepers" - lost souls awaiting the moment of their calling.''"
-->-- A ''small snippet'' of the [[ProlongedPrologue overly-long]] OpeningScroll[[hottip:*: That spoils pretty much the entire plot of the film, including WhatCouldHaveBeen good plot twists.]]
''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by Uwe Boll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[TropeMaker kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
The film begins with an extended opening text crawl (narrated!) that tries to shed some light on the story, which involves [[{{Precursors}} an ancient race called the Abkani]], an experiment by a MadScientist named Lionel Hudgens, and an orphanage from which he took many of his test subjects. One of these orphans, paranormal investigator Edward Carnby, is called upon to investigate the remnants of the Abkani, hoping to find out how that's connected to his past ([[EasyAmnesia since he can't remember it at all]]).
What follows is a disjointed and {{plot hole}}-laden chain of events that brings Edward back to his old girlfriend, Aline Cedrac ([[PromotedToLoveInterest who, in the original games, was not romantically linked to him]]). Eventually, the two of them run into members of Bureau 713 (of which Edward is coincidentally a former member), fight off hordes of aliens, and engage Hudgens in a final showdown.
Much like Boll's previous film adaptation of ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'', ''Alone in the Dark'' was met with a tremendously negative reaction both from filmgoers and movie critics. [[{{InNameOnly}} There is very little connection to the games the movie is purported to be based on]], and the film itself is full of bad special effects, mediocre acting, {{plot hole}}s, and lots of {{padding}} to attempt to cover up the plot holes.
Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since the in-universe TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
Despite the movie's critical and commercial failure, a direct-to-video sequel entitled ''Alone in the Dark II'' was released in 2008. Uwe Boll produced, but did not direct, the second movie (the actual directors, Peter Scheerer and Michael Roesch, were also the directors for the ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' sequel).
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!!Tropes associated with this film:
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: So where exactly is "New-FOUND-land", Dr. Cedrac?
* ActorAllusion: Perhaps by coincidence, but a character falls to his death in a pit of spikes. Said character is played by Ho Sung Pak, who'd portrayed Liu Kang in the first two ''MortalKombat'' games.
* CaptainErsatz: If their appearance wasn't obvious enough, the monsters are even called "[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenos]]".
* ChewingTheScenery: Stephen Dorff as Richard Burke.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu
* CoitusEnsues
* DarkenedBuildingShootout
* EveryBulletIsATracer: For about the first half hour no bullets can be seen outside of Carnby's (pointless) bullet time sequence. Then during a frantic firefight the lights go out and suddenly all bullets can be seen, shining brighter than Time Square, and magically able to take down enemies in very few hits, even though prior scenes depicted them as nigh invulnerable.
** A particularly egregious scene shows a CG tracer bullet fly ''CLEARLY'' over the intended target by a good ''three feet'' and the enemy still falls over dead.
* FlippingTheTable: Burke gets mad and tosses a table over when he finds out [[spoiler:Bureau 713, his employers, are the ones responsible for the monster outbreak]].
* FollowTheLeader: A late follower, no less. It may be [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on a video game, but the monsters, the action scenes, and much of the plot are blatant ripoffs of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', which came out a good 18 years before this movie.
* HotScientist: Aline Cedrac, played by, oddly enough, Tara Reid (better known for her roles in ''AmericanPie'' and ''Film/TheBigLebowski''). Boll actually says in the commentary that ''the glasses and her hair in a bun make her look really intelligent''. One critic remarked that this would be "like casting Dame JudiDench as a crack whore".
* InNameOnly
* JumpCut: Abused to hell and back.
* NippleAndDimed: Reid doesn't get nude for the sex scene. In the DVD commentary, Boll says he tried like hell to convince Tara to do just that but she refused. Boll then proceeds to bitch for quite a while how [[ValuesDissonance actresses in Europe wouldn't be so "uptight" about it]] and all but blaming the failure of the film on Tara Reid not taking her top off.
* TheOtherDarrin: ChristianSlater is replaced by Korean-American actor Rick Yune in the sequel.
* {{Padding}}
* ProlongedPrologue: The film [[OpeningScroll opens]] with a long text crawl describing the backstory, while at the same time lazily narrated by...someone.
* RetCanon: Lots of ideas from this movie were reused in the 2008 game. An odd factoid is that they may have staved the 2008 game off for three years to try and let the bad publicity die down, yet include ideas from this film, this ''critically panned'' film.
* RuleOfCool: Tries on so many levels, and ''fails'' on several more.
* SealedEvilInACan
* SequelHook: Subverted. While the obvious ''EvilDead'' rip-off ending is meant to tell the audience that Carnby and Cedrac's battle isn't over yet, the actual sequel takes a far different turn.
* ShakyPOVCam: Right at the end. They don't even pretend they're being original.
* SlapSlapKiss: Carnby and Cedrac's relationship is portrayed as this right up until their sex scene, but isn't touched upon again when the aliens show up.
* SoundtrackDissonance[=/=]IsntItIronic : During the sex scene, a Neneh Cherry song called "''7 Seconds''" plays. This would have been fine, had it not been for the fact "''7 Seconds''" is a song about ''racism''.
** Although this certainly isn't justifiable, it is at least explainable: Boll's English is reportedly very poor, and it's quite likely he had no idea what the lyrics were actually saying and just picked a song he thought sounded cool.
* ThereWasADoor: Twice within a couple of minutes.
* WallOfText: The opening.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Blair Erickson's script was ''much'' closer to the games, [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/behind-scenes-uwe.php?page=1 detailed in this article]], on the second page.
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* FollowTheLeader: A late follower, no less. It may be [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on a video game, but the monsters, the action scenes, and much of the plot are blatant ripoffs of ''Film/{{Alien}}s'', which came out a good 18 years before this movie.
* HotScientist: Aline Cedrac, played by, oddly enough, Tara Reid (better known for her roles in ''AmericanPie'' and ''TheBigLebowski''). Boll actually says in the commentary that ''the glasses and her hair in a bun make her look really intelligent''. One critic remarked that this would be "like casting Dame JudiDench as a crack whore".
* HotScientist: Aline Cedrac, played by, oddly enough, Tara Reid (better known for her roles in ''AmericanPie'' and ''TheBigLebowski''). Boll actually says in the commentary that ''the glasses and her hair in a bun make her look really intelligent''. One critic remarked that this would be "like casting Dame JudiDench as a crack whore".
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* FollowTheLeader: A late follower, no less. It may be [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on a video game, but the monsters, the action scenes, and much of the plot are blatant ripoffs of ''Film/{{Alien}}s'', ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', which came out a good 18 years before this movie.
* HotScientist: Aline Cedrac, played by, oddly enough, Tara Reid (better known for her roles in ''AmericanPie'' and''TheBigLebowski'').''Film/TheBigLebowski''). Boll actually says in the commentary that ''the glasses and her hair in a bun make her look really intelligent''. One critic remarked that this would be "like casting Dame JudiDench as a crack whore".
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** A particularly egregious scene shows a CG tracer bullet fly ''CLEARLY'' over the intended target by a good ''three feet'' and the enemy still falls over dead.
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Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since the in-universe TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
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Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
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The WebOriginal/AgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
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* ChewingTheScenery: Stephen Dorff as Richard Burke.
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The WebOriginal/AgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
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The WebOriginal/AgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[AtopTheFourthWall [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
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The AgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
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The AgonyBooth WebOriginal/AgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Alone_in_the_Dark.aspx has taken a critical look at it]], as did [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11343-alone The Nostalgia Critic]] (with help from [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], since TNC was so traumatized from watching the film alone that he had a stroke).
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Indeed it was likely to have been something other than the Xenos. And een if it was them, daylight does not kill them instantaneously. Also, there hae been monsters trapped on THIS side of the portal since the last opening.
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* {{Plot Hole}}s: For starters, the "xenos" are explicitly stated earlier in the movie as being unable to survive in sunlight; yet at the end Edward and Aline are attacked by one ''outside in broad daylight''.
** Maybe it wasn't xenos, but a different kind of monster from the same dimension that can survive in sunlight. We never see it outside of its MonsterPOVCam.
** There's also the obvious fact that apparently, the Abkani were apparently festering and plotting for years in the outside world, but the problem is that they were ''sealed away'' at the time.
** We're not going to bother listing any more of them, because it would be a ''very'' long list.
** Maybe it wasn't xenos, but a different kind of monster from the same dimension that can survive in sunlight. We never see it outside of its MonsterPOVCam.
** There's also the obvious fact that apparently, the Abkani were apparently festering and plotting for years in the outside world, but the problem is that they were ''sealed away'' at the time.
** We're not going to bother listing any more of them, because it would be a ''very'' long list.
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* CaptainErsatz: If their appearance wasn't obvious enough, the monsters are even called "[[Film/{{Alien}} Xenos]]".
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* CaptainErsatz: If their appearance wasn't obvious enough, the monsters are even called "[[Film/{{Alien}} Xenos]]". Xenos]]".
* ConservationOfNinjutsu
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* RaimiVision: Right at the end. They don't even pretend they're being original.
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* ShakyPOVCam: Right at the end. They don't even pretend they're being original.
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''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by Uwe Boll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[GenreLaunch kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
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''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by Uwe Boll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[GenreLaunch [[TropeMaker kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
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** Maybe it wasn't xenos, but a different kind of monster from the same dimension that can survive in sunlight. We never see it outside of its MonsterPOVCam.
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No, it dosen\'t contradict the opening narration. \"Sleepers\" are the possessed zombie-like people with the compromised nervous system, not the large Alien-like creatures
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* CaptainErsatz: If their appearance wasn't obvious enough, the monsters are even called "[[Film/{{Alien}} Xenos]]". This already contradicts the opening monologue, wherein the creatures are simply called "sleepers".
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* CaptainErsatz: If their appearance wasn't obvious enough, the monsters are even called "[[Film/{{Alien}} Xenos]]". This already contradicts the opening monologue, wherein the creatures are simply called "sleepers".
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''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by UweBoll, Uwe Boll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[GenreLaunch kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
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''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by Uwe Boll, UweBoll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[GenreLaunch kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
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''Alone in the Dark'', released in 2005 and directed by UweBoll, Uwe Boll, is a [[InNameOnly very]], ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' [[InNameOnly loose]] adaptation of the franchise that popularized and [[GenreLaunch kick-started]] the SurvivalHorror genre of video games. The film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001's ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end.
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* CanonImmigrant: Unfortunately, lots of ideas from this movie were reused in the 2008 game.
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* RetCanon: Lots of ideas from this movie were reused in the 2008 game. An odd factoid is that they may have staved the 2008 game off for three years to try and let the bad publicity die down, yet include ideas from this film, this ''critically panned'' film.
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* {{Plot Hole}}s: For starters, the "xenos" are explicitly stated earlier in the movie as being unable to survive in sunlight; yet at the end Edward and Aline are attacked by one ''outside in broad daylight''.
** There's also the obvious fact that apparently, the Abkani were apparently festering and plotting for years in the outside world, but the problem is that they were ''sealed away'' at the time.
** We're not going to bother listing any more of them, because it would be a ''very'' long list.
** There's also the obvious fact that apparently, the Abkani were apparently festering and plotting for years in the outside world, but the problem is that they were ''sealed away'' at the time.
** We're not going to bother listing any more of them, because it would be a ''very'' long list.
