10 Movies That Prove Pod People Run Hollywood

If ever a filmmaker gave the impression of being in league with Pod People, it's Uwe Boll, and in that respect, Alone In The Dark is his masterpiece. Even his attitude towards the writers suggests he has little time for human beings.

In a 2005 interview, screenwriter Blair Erickson explained that Boll wanted an action film with a mysterious central character not unlike Blade or The Crow, but after expressing his disappointment at Erickson’s draft in a harshly-worded e-mail (“your story is an author’s piece, a drama, where we SPEND TIME WITH PEOPLE!!!”), the writer dropped out.

Boll eventually handed writing duties to producers Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer (who also scripted the in-name-only sequel), but they were unable to lick the central problem: rather than tell an origin story, the film had to follow on from Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare, the fourth entry in the videogame franchise. In other words, the movie was only ever going to appeal (or make sense) to hardcore gamers. It was setting itself up to fail.