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Alone in the Dark (2005)

Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Production: 2004
Running Times:
Format: colour     35mm     CinemaScope
Ratio:
Sound: DTS     Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH & Co KG/Brightlight Pictures Inc/Herold Productions/Infogrames Entertainment
Executive Producers: Uwe Boll, Wolfgang Herold
Line Producer: Dan Clarke
Producer: Shawn Williamson
Associate Producers: Dan Sales, Frederic Demey, Jonathan Shore, Max Wanko, Philip Selkirk
Unit Manager: Paul Lukaitis
Reshoots Unit Manager: Dan Lee West
Production Coordinator: Joey Setter
Assistant Production Coordinator: Brendan Rooney

SCRIPT
Script: Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer

DIRECTION
Director: Uwe Boll
2nd Unit Directors: Richard Schwadel, Robert Lee
1st Assistant Director: Bryan C. Knight
2nd Assistant Director: Alexis Hinde

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Mathias Neumann
A Camera Operator: Mark Cohen
Wescam Technician: Steven J. Winslow
1st Assistant Camera: Mark Cohen
2nd Assistant Camera: Carol Macdonald
Stills: Chris Helcermanas-Benge
Playback Coordinator: Byron Drinkle
Telecine Assistant: Rhonda Blewett
Cameras and Lenses: Panavision
Lab: Alpha Cine Service, Vancouver, Canada

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Richard Schwadel
Assistant Editor: Gary Lam
Post Production Supervisor: Heike Zweier
Assistant Post Production Supervisor: Daniela Szentgrothy

MUSIC
Music: Reinhard Besser, Oliver Lieb, Bernd Wendlandt, Peter Zweier
Songs Performed By: In Flames (The Quiet Place); Soilwork (Departure Plan); Mnemic (Ghost); Nightwish (Wish I Had An Angel); Neneh Cherry, Youssou N'Dour (Seven Seconds); The Supernatural Boogies (Ancient Ambience); Deathstars (Synthetic Generation)
Music Supervisor: Wolfgang Herold
Music Editor: Hugo Sanchez

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Wolfgang Herold
Mix Editor: Manuel Karakas
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Jochen Engelke, Tobias Fleig
Sound Editors: Dirk Kurock, F.A. Wollner, Jochen Engelke, Yumiko Konomi
Dialogue Editor: Max Wanko
ADR Recordist: Jose R. Castellon
Foley Supervisor: Roland Platz
Foley Artist: Peter Roigk
Sound Post Assistants: Annika Krieger, Konrad Birnbaum, Phillip Bürger
Re-Recording Projectionist: Manuel Karakas

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Personal Make Up For Tara Reid and Christian Slater: Connie Parker
Hair Department Head: Sanna Seppanen
Costume Designer: Maria Livingstone

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects Designer: Bill Terezakis
Special Make Up Effects: Harlow MacFarlane
Day Checker Make Up: Carole Simcox

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Coordinator: John Sleep
Special Effects 1st Assistant: Ian Korver
Lead Metal Fabricator: Barry Hebein

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisors: Doug Oddy, Geoff D.E. Scott, Max Wanko
Visual Effects Producers: Bodo Keller, Fiona Campbell Westgate, Martin Gessner
Visual Effects Assistant Producer: Christopher Elke
Visual Effects Technical Supervisor: Adrian Graham
Creature Concept Designer: Bojan Zoric
Visual Effects Artists: Christoph Schuhmacher, Daniel Fiegenschuh, Filip Lange, Gerrit Corsmeyer, Helena Fischer, Iris Krause-Mirus, Jan Raimann, Lars Zimmermann, Maria Bückenhoff, Thorsten Schell
Senior Visual Effects Animator: Toybox: Jeremy Dineen
3D Animators: Benjamin J. Wylie, Pete Dionne
Digital Matte Painter: Bojan Zoric
Digital Compositors: Erik Nordby, Joel Tong, John Fukushima, Wendy Whaley
Lighting Technical Directors: Martin Tardif, Michael Alkan

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tink
Art Director: Peter Stratford
Assistant Art Director: Chelsea Yusep
Set Decorator: David Birdsall
Set Dresser: Jeremy Hanen
Sculptor: Gary Young

OTHER CREW
Production Accountant: Anne Jacobsen
Accountant: Madeleine Brettschneider
Payroll Accountant: Suzanne Clements
Office Production Assistant: Lawren Bancroft-Wilson
Assistants to Producers: Samantha Morris, Hsun-Wei David Chang
Publicist: Henry Eshelman
Development: Tracy D. Smith
Legal: Matthias Herold

LOCATIONS
Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Location Manager: Terry Mackay

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinators: Ed Anders, Mike Crestejo
Stunt Double: Rick Moore
Stunt Double For Tara Reid: Laura Lee Connery
Action Wire Coordinator: Scott Leva

CASTING
Casting: Maureen Webb

CAST
Christian Slater (Edward Carnby)
Tara Reid (Aline Cedrac)
Stephen Dorff (Commander Burke)
Will Sanderson (Agent Miles)
Mark Acheson (Captain)
Ed Anders (James Pinkerton)
Robert Bruce (Crewman Barnes)
Daniel Cudmore (Agent Barr)
Mike Dopud (Agent Turner)
John Fallon (Agent Yoneck)
Karin Konoval (Sister Clara)
Catherine Lough Haggquist (Agent 'Krash' Krashinsky)
Ho Sung Pak (Agent Marko)
Malcolm Scott (delivery guy)
Darren Shahlavi (John Houghton)
Frank C. Turner (agent)
Françoise Yip (Agent Cheung)
Caden St Clair (additional voices)

Body Double: Lane Price

PLOT SUMMARY

Detective Edward Carnby, who specialises in cases of the paranormal, the unexplained and the supernatural finds himself on Shadow Island battling a pack of demons unleashed by the locals. Carnby and his ex-lover, anthropologist Aline Cedrac must find a way to stop the demons from taking over the world.

AVAILABILITY

Russia
Theatrical Distributors: Lizard Cinema Trade

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Lions Gate Films Inc

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: R (for violence and language)

TIMELINE

2003
July

14: Canada - filming begins

2005
January

28: USA - theatrical release

February
24: Germany - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Evil awakens.

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Alone in the Dark (1993)

KEYWORDS

computer game into film, demons, detectives, islands, the paranormal, the supernatural

 


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