10 Most Pointless Films Since 2000

3. Alone In The Dark II

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When is a movie starring Lance Henriksen, Danny Trejo, Bill Moseley and PJ Soles totally unwatchable? When it’s a DVD sequel to an Uwe Boll film.

Eschewing the scale of its predecessor, Part 2 takes place mostly inside a rustic cabin where Edward Carnby (Rick Yune, standing in for Christian Slater) is being haunted by a witch that wants to suck out his soul. Which, come to think of it, makes her no better than directors Michael Roesch and Paul Scheerer.

Anyway, Henriksen plays the go-to ghostbuster, but he’s in so little of the finished film that he must’ve refused to participate in the boring chase scenes and the not-very-special effects sequences. In fact, if you edited the picture down to his scenes, you’d still have a coherent narrative, plus you’d save others the trauma of sitting through the entire thing.   

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'