10 Movies With Unexpectedly Ridiculous Plots
3. Alone In The Dark
The Abkani, a race believed to have developed the ability to move between worlds, inexplicably vanished from the Earth ten thousand years ago. Then in 1969, one Professor Hudgens attempted to breed Abkani creatures with twenty orphans before being shut down by Bureau 713, a government paranormal investigation division.
That’s according to Alone In The Dark’s opening text crawl, and if you found it difficult to follow, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Fast forward to the present and one of those orphans, Edward Carnby (Christian Slater), a former employee of Bureau 713, is attacked by a seemingly unkillable assailant after coming into possession of an Abkani artefact. The thug is of course under orders from Hudgens, who is preparing to unleash Xenos, Abkani creatures that can only exist in darkness.
Got that? Well, never mind. It’s an Uwe Boll adaptation of a videogame and isn’t supposed to make sense.