Finding the phone lines cut, the family barricade themselves in the house. While investigating a noise outside, Barnett is killed with a crossbow by Frank, which is witnessed by the entire family. Lyla explains that a man named Ronald babysat her Dan recognizes him as one of the Haven patients.ĭan and Nell invite Detective Barnett, to stay for dinner. They find police at the house, and Detective Barnett interviewing Lyla about the missing Bunky and Billy. Dan arrives home with Nell, Toni, and Tom, a fellow protester Nell and Toni met in jail, whom Toni is attracted to. Lyla later awakens unharmed, but Ronald has vanished. Preacher kills Billy by dragging him beneath the bed and stabbing him, while Ronald strangles Bunky. She finds Lyla asleep in her room, and invites her boyfriend Billy there to have sex. After Nell phones Dan from jail explaining what has happened, Dan calls Bunky, who goes to check on Lyla. Lyla arrives home from school and finds Ronald in the house, claiming to be a babysitter. While Lyla is at school, Nell accompanies Toni to a nuclear power protest, where the women are arrested. The next morning, Preacher arrives at the Potter residence, pretending to be delivering a telegram, but Dan is not home. They leave Skagg behind after he kills an innocent bystander. They stop by a local strip mall that is being looted during the blackout and arm themselves with weapons from a sporting goods store. The security system at Haven fails, and the four men on the third floor escape, killing security guard Ray in the process, before killing another doctor and stealing his car. Dan, Nell, and Toni go to a local rock club, while Lyla is left with babysitter Bunky. Bain's office.ĭan's younger sister, Toni, who has recently suffered a nervous breakdown, arrives to visit. The four men make plans to kill Dan, and retrieve his address from Dr. Merton's departure, the third-floor patients irrationally blame Dan, believing he has murdered Merton and taken his place. Alone in the dark 1982 serial#Among them are former POW Frank Hawkes, pyromaniac evangelist Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff, obese child molester Ronald Elster, and a shy serial killer John "the Bleeder" Skagg, who refuses to show his face. Bain uses lenient security methods, except with the third-floor patients, whom he keeps contained with an electric security door. Dan, his wife Nell, and their daughter Lyla, move into a rural home in the area. Merton, has taken a new position in Philadelphia. Leo Bain's experimental psychiatric hospital, known as the Haven, in New Jersey. Psychiatrist Dan Potter is appointed on the staff of Dr. Following Stunts and Polyester, it was one of the first films produced by New Line Cinema. The plot tells about a psychiatrist's family who are besieged by four escaped mental patients during a power blackout. Alone in the Dark is a 1982 American slasher film co-written and directed by Jack Sholder in his directorial debut, and starring Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Donald Pleasence, Dwight Schultz, and Erland Van Lidth.
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