Still, a doctorate does little to excuse Alone in the Dark, the most offensively awful video game adaptation to date even if the video game series itself is quite hit-and-miss. This film's worst offence is that it is horribly boring, rather than the litany of other reasons to despise it; the also-ran central performance by Christian Slater as protagonist Edward Carnby, or the absurd casting of Tara Reid as a scientist and Carnby's love interest. Apparently, putting glasses and a lab coat on a gal is enough to make her seem intelligent, but not in Ms. Reid's case. Throw in some awkward and hilariously forced sex scenes, offensively contrived dialogue, and a roster of characters whose quest and whose safety we don't care about one bit, and you have a film not simply bad, but dull, too. It's a film so stupefyingly inert that writing these few lines actually took a fair amount of research; I saw the film upon release and the relevant brain cells apparently committed Hara-Kiri soon thereafter. Are there any others you particularly hate? Or were we wrong; are some of Boll's works underrated gems (try saying that with a straight face)? Let us know in the comments below.