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WALT DISNEY HAD a cunning formula: use the highest illustrative art to make horror movies for kids. Next to Pinocchio (play hooky and you will morph into a donkey), Bambi is the most artful and potent--and the scariest--of Walt's early features. After the youngsters have watched a movie in which a child sees its mother shot and killed, the grownups can stay around to see deleted scenes and ancient storyboards. Later, the kids can play the eight interactive games...
Following typical horror film logic, David and Emily leave their New York City apartment for a big creepy house in a desolate upstate New York town. Relocating away from the city is supposed to help Emily purge her memories of the tragedy. Lo and behold, shortly after arriving at their new place, things start to get worse...
Director John Polson manages to create a sense of foreboding, though in the end a payoff never quite comes. While he and the other filmmakers have fine control over the technical elements of horror filmmaking, their story is not gripping. I was somewhat amused by all of the fuss over who Charlie really was, but I am also somewhat amused by Keanu Reeve’s oeuvre—that is not enough to recommend a movie to general audiences...
...course, Alone in the Dark isn’t exactly Sophie’s Choice. A B-grade horror film based on an Atari video game, the film resembles a clumsy remake of Tomb Raider, minus the budget. Still, the movie – with its strong (and, supposedly, smart) female protagonist – could have been ripe territory for an actress who says she wants to be known more for her dramatic chops than her off-screen antics...
...Comedies are actually a lot harder to shoot than a horror movie or a drama,” Reid explains. “It's harder to tell a joke, it’s harder to be funny than it is to be mad or scared.” Which means the grueling process of filming My Boss’s Daughter took more of a toll on the starlet than the shoot-’em-up antics of Alone in the Dark...