# Alone in the Dark (1982)

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**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Horror, Thriller
**Directed by**: Jack Sholder
**Written by**: Robert Shaye, Jack Sholder, Michael Harrpster
**Starring**: Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, Erland van Lidth, Deborah Hedwall

> *When the lights go out, the terror begins.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Blackout at Willowbrook Asylum. A wheelchair rolls down a pitch-black corridor. Three shadows converge outside the barred window of an empty house.

Closer. Jack Sholder’s early-80s slasher leans on sudden sirens and sweat.

**Mood tags**: dread, raw

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