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Blair Erickson came up with the first drafts of the script for Alone in the Dark. According to Erickson, Uwe Boll suggested through various e-mails changes that would turn it from a thriller into an action film.
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Edward Carnby, a paranormal investigator, has a nightmare in which he hides from alien-like creatures as a child. Carnby flies to an urban museum where his girlfriend, Aline Cedric, is an assistant curator. Carnby holds an artifact-puzzle piece of the Abkani, an extinct Native American tribe. A strange man follows Carnby and attacks him with supern...
Tara Reid as Aline Cedrac, an archaeologistand museum curator; Edward's girlfriend who knows about the Abkani and their culture.Blair Erickson came up with the first drafts of the script for Alone in the Dark. According to Erickson, Uwe Boll suggested through various e-mails changes that would turn it from a thriller into an action film. Erickson stated his disgust at the treatment and spoke negatively of his working relationship with Boll on Something Awful: As a result, t...
Alone in the Dark was released in Canada and the United States on January 28, 2005.It was released in Germany on February 3, 2005. The film was released on VHS and DVD on 10 May 2005. An unrated director's cut was released in Germany, France, and Australia and was #1 on the German DVD market for three weeks. It was released on DVD in North America ...
Originally, the film version of Alone in the Dark was to be released with Alone in the Dark (2008); however, the developers of the game, Eden Games, delayed and reworked it entirely from scratch. Boll stated his disappointment on the region 1 DVD commentary but also said that Atari had face shots of Christian Slater for Alone in the Dark, which was...
Box office
Alone in the Darkgrossed $2.8 million in its opening weekend, ranking at #12; by the end of its run, the film had grossed $12.7 million worldwide.
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The site's critical consensus reads: "Inept on almost every level, Alone in the Dark may not work as a thriller, but it's good for some head-slapping, incredulous laughter". Metacritic gave the film a 9 out of 100 based on 25 reviews, meaning "overwhelming dislike". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScoregave the film an F grade. Scott Brown of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an F grade, commenting that the f...
The 2-disc soundtrack was released by Nuclear Blast, with Wolfgang Herold as executive producer. The German band Agathodaimon's contribution was the title song. Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish had a music video of "Wish I Had an Angel" directed by Uwe Boll, with clips from the film.
Web site: Alone in the Dark (2005). Library and Archives Canada. 12 May 2015 . 14 November 2021.Web site: Alone in the Dark II . Rotten Tomatoes . 2012-10-15.Web site: Game over, Uwe Boll . . 27 March 2017 .News: Tara Reid. Variety. July 23, 2021.- Mathias Neumann
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Feb 2, 2005 · For those of you who actually give a shit, the original script took the "Alone In the Dark" premise and depicted it as if it was a actually based on a true story of a private investigator in the northeastern U.S. whose missing persons cases begin to uncover a disturbing paranormal secret.
Feb 2, 2005 · He kept asking us why the character in our script "Alone in the Dark," Edward Carnby, didn't have any special powers to battle monsters. We explained that the story revolved around suspense and a believable detective, based off the game.
Pinkerton leaps up, scrambling right up the side of the Wall. He hauls himself up the Billboard, until he's standing at the top of the Billboard itself. Pinkerton looks down below and spots Carnby running into the loading dock of the Ice Factory.
The original writer of the script eventually worked on Alan Wake Blair Erickson, who was trying to write the original screenplay for Alone in the Dark before Uwe Boll did it mentioned that the perspective of the story would be told from " the eyes of a writer following Edward Carnby and his co-worker for a novel ".
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Mar 15, 2024 · However, when Boll became attached to the project, Blair Erickson’s original script was unceremoniously discarded in favor of something featuring “more car chases” and fewer references to ...
