 Welcome to another episode of Fredfully Forgotten Horror Movies. What are we drinking today, Adam? Today, we are drinking May Day offerings. It is a smoked Scottish ale in conjunction with May Day. And burning Sergeant Howey, too. Yeah. In the wicker man. Today, we're going to bring to you 1982's Alone in the Dark, directed by Jack Shoulder. He did a movie that we reviewed start of season two, which was Nightmare in Elm Street 2. Jesse! He stars Jack Palance, Donald Pleasance is in this and Martin Landau is also in this, too. It starts off with a dream sequence. Martin Landau's character goes to this kind of diner. Donald Pleasance is there and he's like the cook and he's got this big fucking meat cleaver type thing and he gets served this kind of raw fish, propelled upside down and there's all these flames and Donald Pleasance comes with this big cleaver in his mouth like chop him down the middle, down the groin and then that's it. Dr. Potter, he's going to this mental asylum run by Leo Bain, thinks he's talking to the front desk secretary and it ends up being a patient. So he can tell that Leo runs things a bit differently. He kind of lets the inmates run the asylum to a degree. Potter's taken to the third floor and the third floor is where they keep the worst introduced to four main psychopaths in this movie. Frank Hawks, he's an ex-P.O.W. Dr. Potter! Happy Trills! Pyromaniac Preacher, played by Martin Landau, an obese child molester and a homicidal maniac who's known as the Bleeder because before he makes a kill he starts bleeding from his nose. You don't actually see his face, he's always hiding his face, he's either got his back turned to the camera or there's like somebody standing in front of him. Find out that every night Frank Hawks tests the security to make sure it's working, he's always trying to get out and they come up with this idea where Dr. Potter has actually killed the old doctor and replaced him and they want to get out to kill him. There's a great big power outage. Frank Hawks, she goes and tests the windows, no security alarm, they don't shut on their own. They get out of their cells, there's the one kind of guy that sort of runs the floor I guess. The one child molester guy picks him up and just crunch right down on his knee and just breaks him in half. They end up escaping out of the hospital, join all of the looting that's going on because of this power outage, rioting, everything, killing people. I guess there's a power outage. It's a little extreme. They end up grabbing a whole bunch of weapons. The bleeder actually gets himself a hockey mask, takes off on his own and kind of leaves the three of them. They're following this poor bastard mailman trying to wave him by and they just back right into him and he all goes flying for his hat because they want his hat. Mr. Potter and his wife they leave and they leave their little girl at home. There's a babysitter that's supposed to be coming by and the child molester comes by and he poses as the babysitter. He gets very unsettling because he's like, why don't we go upstairs and we can draw pictures together. The real babysitter ends up showing up, checks on the kid. It appears that she's sleeping. Well, she's got a bit of time, so she'll phone her boyfriend right and maybe get a little busy here, get a little bit of action going. Of course. It's the 80s, it's a horror movie. They hear a noise in the closet, so he gets up and he goes and checks it out and nothing. As he gets closer to the bed, bring, something grabs his leg and pulls him right under the bed. A big knife, a big blade comes up from underneath the bed. So now she's on top of this bed with his knife coming up. Dr. Potter's sister and his wife are at this protest. They end up getting arrested. This one nice guy who ends up giving them his phone call. The sister and the wife, they take this man back to their house. Psychopaths end up sieging the house and sort of trapping them in. Dr. Leo has to come by and sort of try and use his psychology to try and rear them in and get them into their space. You guys out there, this is Leo. And that's where we're going to end it. You want to see what happens to the Potter family and Leo and all the escaped mental patients? Keep watching Alone in the Dark. One of the great things about this movie is the music. Again, we always got to mention the music. 80s synth feel, right? But it also has like a big orchestral score too, so it's a good blend between the two. Of course the cast and the characters really make this movie. Jack Palantz, Donald Pleasant, Martin Landau, they're all great. The actor who plays the child molester, he's really creepy. Jack Palantz is great in this. He plays such a good psychopath, but not in a crazy way, in kind of like a composed psychopath way. In a normal sense. And on the other hand, Martin Landau plays a great kind of outlandish psychopath with a crazy laugh. And he even asks Leo, can I have some matches? Oh, here you go. Yeah, why would you give a pyromaniac matches, you know? This movie has a lot of unsettling scenes in it too. That scene with him and the child when they're alone in the kitchen, it's really kind of unsettling and unnerving, just knowing what he is and the way he speaks to her and his intentions. It's like, oh man. There's another cool scene, the whole bed scene. It's very tense. It's a long time of them kind of kissing in this kind of sex scene and you know something is going to happen. It has to. Because you know that guy is in the house and they do a real good job of dragging you along and just waiting for that to happen and you don't expect the guy to be dragged under the bed. Dragging under the bed is more of like a supernatural thing as opposed to like a slasher type thing. Naif is coming through the bed. I kept thinking, what would I do? And you're watching her think the same thing. She doesn't know what to do. It's a really cool scene because like do you stay on the bed and try to void her? Do you run? I love that tough decision that she has on the bed. It's really cool. The kills are great. They're really good. I think the first one is when they snap that poor guy's back in half. That's rare to see that. How can you beat that? You know, the meat cleaver. There's a scene where the bleeder puts on the hockey mask and I immediately knew the year the movie took place, right? I'm like, what came first? I looked it up and the movies were shot at the same time. But Friday the 13th part three came out like two or three months before this one. This movie didn't know about the hockey mask. So they both kind of did the hockey mask thing at the same time, which is kind of neat. It's a very original plot in Halloween. Halloween is about a menstrual patient escaping and terrorizing someone in the house. This is kind of the same plot, but it's done in such a different way. There's not just one person. It's a whole group of them who escape. They're not wearing masks. They're not really hiding in shadows. We know who they are. We know who they look like pulled off in a really new way. Because you follow them throughout the whole movie, even though they do these bad things and stuff, you still sort of sympathize with them. Because you know they're nuts. Yeah. You know they're crazy and they're crazy. They think that they're completely in the right. The ending to this movie too, not that we're going to give anything away. There's kind of two endings to it. All the mayhem. It's wrapped up. After that, there's an extra scene shows how kind of the story can continue even a little bit, right? You're going to have to watch to see how it all comes together and wraps up. An old classic 80s movie with a bunch of veterans, Jack Palimps at probably one of his better performances. Not Dracula, you mean? No. I'm Dracula. Kind of a different take on the escaped mental patient slasher. Check out All in the Dark. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. Memorable moments and lines and a lot of good tension. Check it out. Keep drinking and happy trails.