Alone In The Dark (1982) - (Movie Clip) That's The Bleeder?

Alone In The Dark (1982) -- (Movie Clip) We're All Just On Vacation

A vignette, as the new man Dr. Potter (Dwight Schultz) makes conversation with Hawkes (Jack Palance), one of the murderous mental patients entrusted to the care of maybe-bent Dr. Bain (Donald Pleasence, not seen), in the well-regarded horror-slasher yarn Alone In The Dark, 1982.

Alone In The Dark (1982) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Have The Usual

Outlandish enough opening from director Jack Sholder (now a professor at Western Carolina University), has Martin Landau dropping in at a diner, meeting the proprietor (Dorothy James) and a customer (Robert Pastner), then Donald Pleasence, before some resolution, in the cult-horror favorite Alone In The Dark, 1982.

Alone In The Dark (1982) -- (Movie Clip) I Want That!

Word has not yet gotten around this nameless idyllic town (actually Ridgewood, N.J.) about the big escape at the asylum, especially to the mailman, stalked by resourceful escapees Erland van Lidth, Jack Palance and Martin Landau, in Alone In The Dark, 1982, directed by Jack Sholder.