There's little to like in Alone in the Dark. Its killers are blanks, never fleshed out; they're reduced to being dumb maniacs. While I appreciate the idea that they needed no real reason to mount a lousy seige upon doctor Dwight Schultz--that their madness was enough to convince them such an action was necessary--we don't get to know them at all. Jack Palance's acting is acceptable; he even stretches from his popular persona by playing a somewhat hesitant character. The rest of the castmembers are either forgettable or wasted, especially Martin Landau, who falls into the latter category. In fact, the only interesting scene in Alone in the Dark, a piece that involves a mailman (and his hat) seems to have come from another movie.