10 Films Hollywood Should Have Remade Instead Of Ben Hur

Exhibit A in the case against Uwe Boll, Alone In The Dark squanders some interesting ideas in favor of not particularly well-staged chase sequences and not particularly convincing CG monsters. Before it all begins, a narrator fills in the backstory, and there’s enough material here for a decent movie, so why start in the middle of the story?

A glorified trailer for the video game, the film had to follow on from Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare, the fourth entry in the gaming franchise. In other words, the movie was only ever going to appeal (or make sense) to hardcore gamers and was setting itself up to fail.

There’s an entertaining movie struggling to get out of Alone In The Dark, and in the hands of a filmmaker more concerned with narrative than in making money, a remake could really be something. Just don’t cast Tara Reid as an anthropologist, okay?