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Alone in the Dark
Edward Carnby is a private investigator specializing in unexplainable supernatural phenomena. His cases delve into the dark corners of the world, searching for truth in the occult remnants of ancient civilizations. Now, the greatest mystery of his past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced.
2005 · Directed by Uwe Boll · 98 min · Action · Fantasy · Horror · Screenplay in the scene database · 6 frames
Tagline
Can mankind defeat the army of darkness unleashed by an ancient evil cult?
Plot
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 Cedrac, 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 supernatural strength, but the man dies after many escape attempts by Carnby. Simultaneously, a ship recovers a gold coffin from the ocean floor. After docking, the captain locks up the curator of the museum, Prof. Hudgens, while his crew opens the coffin. Hudgens escapes to find everyone killed by a mysterious creature and the coffin empty. Hudgens finds a secret compartment, collects an artifact from the coffin, and goes ashore.
Several people across the western US and Canada walk off into the night after hearing an ear-splitting screech, and Carnby passes out while studying his artifact. Bureau 713, where Carnby used to work, becomes aware of evidence of electromagnetic waves by a surveillance team. Carnby thinks it is related to the Abkani because everyone who disappeared was from the same location. Carnby arrives that evening at the museum with the artifact, and Cedrac shows him another recently arrived Abkani artifact that she has been studying since Hudgens' absence. The mysterious creature from the ship attacks them inside the museum, killing a security guard. Carnby and Cedrac hide in a storage closet until troopers from Bureau 713 arrive, and the creature retreats. Carnby attempts to relay information to their team leader, Commander Burke, but Burke tells him to stay out of it. Carnby asks his former co-workers, including staff surgeon and pathologist Sam Fischer, about the creature.
Hudgens returns to the museum with a captured creature and uses a syringe to draw fluid from the creature to study it as part of his research in combining the DNA of man and beast. Carnby investigates his past by visiting his former orphanage to learn more about Hudgens' research.
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Crew
- Written by: Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer
- Cinematography: Mathias Neumann
- Edited by: Richard Schwadel
- Music: Oliver Lieb, Reinhard Besser, Peter Zweier, Bernd Wendlandt
- Production design: Tink
- Produced by: Shawn Williamson
Cast
- Christian Slater as Edward Carnby
- Tara Reid as Aline Cedrac
- Stephen Dorff as Richard Burke
- Will Sanderson as Agent Miles
- Ona Grauer as Agent Feenstra
- Pak Ho-Sung as Agent Marko
- Sarah Deakins as Linda
- Françoise Yip as Agent Cheung
- Daniel Cudmore as Agent Barr
- Frank C. Turner as Sam Fischer
Production
- Country: Canada, Germany, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, Brightlight Pictures, Herold Productions, Infogrames Entertainment
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $12,693,645
- Themes: island, monster, darkness, professor, detective, museum, paranormal phenomena, alien life-form, paranormal, artifact
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