

Alone in the Dark
When the lights go out, the terror begins.
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1M
- Box office
- $1.4M
- Language
- English
- escape
- blackout
- siege
- revenge
- murder
- mental institution
- slasher
- maniac
- mental illness
- meat cleaver
- escaped mental patient
- mailman
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR12 Nov 1982
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical187 Dec 1982
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM21 Jul 1983
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical10 Jun 1983
GermanyDE
- Theatrical186 Jan 1984
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVM141 Oct 1983
JapanJP
- Theatrical2 Jul 1988
MexicoMX
- Theatrical1 Oct 1985
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical18 Oct 1984
NorwayNO
- Theatrical184 Nov 1983
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Alone in the Dark was released on 12 November 1982.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
JPV852
10/4/2021
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**
- W6/10
Wuchak
6/13/2022
**_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 fai…
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