Alone in the Dark

Dr. Potter (Dwight Schultz) is the new doctor at the institute run by Dr. Bain (Donald Pleasence), meeting orderly Ray (Brent Jennings), then the convict-inmates of the 3rd floor, Ronald (Erland van Lidth), “Preacher” (Martin Landau) and Hawkes (Jack Palance), in Alone In The Dark, 1982.

Word has not yet gotten around this nameless idyllic town (actually Ridgewood, N.J.) about the big escape at the asylum, especially to the mailman, stalked by resourceful escapees Erland van Lidth, Jack Palance and Martin Landau, in Alone In The Dark, 1982, directed by Jack Sholder.

Outlandish enough opening from director Jack Sholder (now a professor at Western Carolina University), has Martin Landau dropping in at a diner, meeting the proprietor (Dorothy James) and a customer (Robert Pastner), then Donald Pleasence, before some resolution, in the cult-horror favorite Alone In The Dark, 1982.

A vignette, as the new man Dr. Potter (Dwight Schultz) makes conversation with Hawkes (Jack Palance), one of the murderous mental patients entrusted to the care of maybe-bent Dr. Bain (Donald Pleasence, not seen), in the well-regarded horror-slasher yarn Alone In The Dark, 1982.