20 AWFUL Horror Movie Moments You Wish You Could Forget
16. Alone In The Dark: Opening Crawl
German director Uwe Boll is deservedly recognized as one of the worst directors of all time thanks to his filmography of turkeys and his disturbing ability to make the wrong creative choice pretty much every single time. There's a saying than even a broken clock is right twice a day, but that doesn't seem to be the case with Boll.
This comes through right at the beginning of his 2005 turkey Alone in the Dark, which opens up with this torturously overlong opening crawl, one which completely goes against the rules of good storytelling. Rather than following the rule of 'Show don't tell' this opening crawl vomits out a colossal exposition dump, conveying information that would've been better shown via on-screen world-building.
A narrator also reads the entire thing out, making it feel like the film is being condescending towards its audience, and hearing some of these lines spoken aloud only highlighted just how ridiculous many of them were. Lines such as "The Abkani believed there are two worlds on this planet - a world of light and a world of darkness" don't exactly roll off the tongue.