I rented Alone in the Dark because I’ve always been a sci-fi and horror movie buff since I was a very young child.  This is one case when I should have kept my curiosity in check.

Alone in the Dark is a mess.  It’s another entry in the video-game-to-movie genre that is crippled by its own use of mundane locations and characters.  There is no character development outside of providing them with names.  In fact, the characters seemed less interested in the movie than I was, and I wasn’t interested at all after the first 15 minutes.

This is truly a movie which should never have been made.  It’s worse than garbage.  I’d rather watch Dreamcatcher over and over again, and you know how much I hated that movie.

With wooden acting and what can only be described as absentee direction, leaden and uneven in every way, this film deserves nothing more than instant oblivion.  The editing is equally bad as we are often left asking how we got to where we are because scenes would simply come out of nowhere.

This is truly one of the worst movies ever made — and I use the term “movie” quite loosely in this regard.  This is more like a freshman high school drama class doing its first reading of a script (even then I feel as though I’m insulting those very same students).

Leave this one on the video store shelf and find something less appalling.  This isn’t worth seeing once even if, like me, you feel compelled to see every new horror movie just in case.