Alone in the Dark 2

Written and Directed by Michael Roesch and Peter Sheerer. Starring Michael Pare, Lance Henriksen, Rick Yune, and Bill Moseley.

HJB Filmproduktion - 2008

Three Stars of Review! ***

The thing about this Uwe Bowell produced sequel to his masterfully bad 2005 film is that it only gets better the more familiar you are with its source material. Inasmuch as the more you know the less sense it makes.

Ethereal detective Edward Carnby has spent so much time dabbling in the occult that he got turned Asian. There's some stuff about a smoke witch, a magic knife, and a devilish pact, but you try and make any sense of it. In fact Alone in the Dark 2 makes less sense than any film I can recall in the sum of my movie watching experience. Not one single plot point, line of dialogue, camera angle, or facial expression makes a single lick of sense. It's as if the special FX and sets assembled themselves and the cast was left to improvise a film around them. God bless you Dr. Bowell.