The Dark

See that sounds like some evil Superman zipping around causing mayhem. It’s not even close, people you don’t care about get killed by something you won’t care about on a barely lit screen.

The cops spend a lot of time posturing while the film manages to make an eye-laser-shooting alien into a bland Frankenstein. I couldn't even see the alien for most of the film, so replacing him with a human serial killer would at least have added tension and characterization. The narrative bookends were the most campy cheesy things ever. Fav scenes: decapitation; eye lazers yanking a cop up high into a wall before blowing him up; final scene with a guy just torching the alien.

Like Blood Beach, comes off like a made-for-TV '70's cop drama with a bloodthirsty monster thrown in. More unintentional laughs than Blood Beach though.

410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS

The Dark is dark alright. Murkier than any film has any right to be, like staring into a moss-covered pond in the middle of a black, Cornish night. This was originally intended as a zombie movie & boy does it show. There are obvious attempts to make this sci fi, but the bulk of script & dialogue shouts something supernatural from the grave. Still, the climax almost sells it... and is a highlight really, since we get to see a zombie shoot lasers out of its eyes and blow people up.