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    Alone in the Dark (1982)

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    Four dangerous and delusional psychopaths escape from ‘The Haven’ – a maximum-security psychiatric hospital – when the electric doors fail during a power blackout.

    Paranoid sociopath Frank Hawkes (Jack Palance) has convinced his fellow patients – deranged pyromaniac Byron ‘Preacher’ Sutcliff (Martin Landau), brutally strong child molester Ronald ‘Fatty’ Elster (Erland Van Lidth) and John “The Bleeder” Skagg (Phillip Clarke), a killing machine who bleeds from the nose when he kills – that their new doctor, Dr Dan Potter (Dwight Schultz) killed their previous doctor, Dr Harry Merton (Larry Pine). Merton has actually moved to another hospital in Philadelphia.

    The psych patients subsequently lay siege to Dr Potter’s home.

    With him in his remote and isolated house are his wife Nell (Deborah Hedwall) and daughter Lyla (Elizabeth Ward), babysitter Bunky (Carol Levy) and Dr Potter’s visiting punk rock-loving, post-nervous breakdown sister Toni (Lee Taylor-Allan).

    Donald Pleasence co-stars as Dr Leo Bain, the revolutionary doctor in charge of The Haven who is determined not to stigmatise the inmates at his asylum. He calls them “Voyagers” who are simply on a journey back to sanity.

    The film was banned in the UK for a time.

    Frank Hawkes
    Jack Palance
    Dr Leo Bain
    Donald Pleasence
    Byron ‘Preacher’ Sutcliff
    Martin Landau
    Dr Dan Potter
    Dwight Schultz
    Ronald ‘Fatty’ Elster
    Erland van Lidth
    Nell Potter
    Deborah Hedwall
    Toni Potter
    Lee Taylor-Allan
    Tom Smith/Skaggs/The Bleeder
    Phillip Clark
    Lyla Potter
    Elizabeth Ward
    Ray Curtis
    Brent Jennings
    Detective Burnett
    Gordon Watkins
    Bunky
    Carol Levy
    Billy
    Keith Reddin
    Marissa Hall
    Annie Korzen
    Mom
    Dorothy Dorian James
    Dr Harry Merton
    Larry Pine
    Jim Gable
    Frederick Coffin
    Dr Barkin
    Steve Dash
    The Sic Fucks
    Themselves

    Director
    Jack Sholder

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