Alone In The Dark

Four killers (Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Erland Van Lidth, and Phillip Clark) escape from an asylum during a statewide blackout and join looters who have broken into a sporting-goods store. Armed with a variety of weapons from the store, the psychos proceed to the home of doctor Dwight Schultz, the hated staff psychologist of the asylum, to terrorize him and his family. This was the promising directorial debut of Jack Sholder, who would go on to helm A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE (1985) and the excellent science-fiction film THE HIDDEN (1987). Sholder, who wrote the script as well, sees his psychopaths as no better or worse than supposedly sa...