Review of Alone in the Small Hours (1978) by Richard B — 16 Feb 2008
At least this movie is better then Uwe Boll's first, House of the Dead, but that's not saying much. It still has a bad script, bad acting from EVERYONE, sorry Slater, you know I love ya, but it's true, and scenes and a plot that make absolutly no sense whatsoever. Also, what was with that scrolling crawl of text at the beginning? It's entire scroll was almost longer then a Star Wars movie. Seriously, it was like book-length. I want to watch a damn movie, not read a fucking book.
Oh and Tara Reid? Fucking learn how to properly pronounce Newfoundland. You're the world's worst fucking scientist.
In every Boll movie, there's a gimmick scene. In House of the Dead it was that atrocious Bullet-time Humans vs Zombie shoot-out run-to-the-house scene. In this one its a shoot out between soldiers and the creatures, completely in the dark, with only flashes of the muzzles on the guns being seen. Different then before, but still horrible. Also, in keeping with tradition of a Uwe Boll movie, there is a complete random, pointless, out-of-no-where sex scene.
Oh and Uwe? Learn fucking proper English grammar. It's not 'An Uwe Boll Film' It's 'A Uwe Boll Film' Go take some fucking English classes. Better yet, go to Wainwright and get into Mr. Payne's English class. Now THAT I'll pay to see.
On the good side of things, the creature effects were decent and Stephen Dorff actually managed to keep his acting half-way decent most of the time. That's about it.
At least House of the Dead was fun in a 'So Bad, let's get drunk and make fun of the movie' kind of way. This wasn't even fun in that kind of way. It was just bad, plain and simple.
This review of Alone in the Small Hours (1978) was written by Richard B on 16 Feb 2008.
Alone in the Small Hours has generally received negative reviews.
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