Alone in the Dark/YMMV

The game series contains examples of:

 * Complete Monster -
 * Fan Nickname: For 5 there's Alone In The Park.
 * Follow the Leader - In The New Nightmare, the controls, presentation, and gameplay are a little too similar to Resident Evil to be coincidental ("a little" being a major understatement).
 * Narm - Quite a bit. In the first game, upon walking down to the second floor, the double doors slam, followed by the evil laughter. Said laughter came off... rather goofy sounding.
 * In the second and third game, the Mooks will say something upon spotting you. The things they say? "Morning sir!" "Hi guy!" or "Hey you.", all of them sounding hilarious.
 * From the 2008 reboot we get this gem; "I don't have your stone, and f*ck you anyway!"
 * Also; "I AM THE FUCKING UNIVERSE!"
 * Polished Port: The Updated Rerelease of the 2008 game for Play Station 3, because it fixed glitches from the other releases and even adds a few extra scenes.
 * Porting Disaster: When you thought it couldn't get any worse, the Wii version of the '08 game.
 * Ruined FOREVER - Has Atari put the nail in the coffin for the franchise?
 * Strangled by the Red String - The rather forced relationship that develops between Carnby and female companion/sidekick Sarah Flores in the 2008 Alone in the Dark.
 * ...which almost beats the far more forced relationship between Carnby and Aline in the movie. It wasn't there in The New Nightmare, on which the movie is loosely based.
 * That One Boss - . The only easy way to beat him is with glitches or cheats. Otherwise he's borderline impossible.
 * That One Level - the insanely frustrating driving level down 59th Street in the 2008 Alone in the Dark, because the steering is lousy. Though some believe the look and sound of that level make up for it.
 * And the driving section with the bats, coming soon afterwards, where they drag your car up (possibly to your doom) and/or stop sticking to it completely at random; the black goo, which might or might not react to your flashlight, eating you up; and that final driving section, timed, where it's plenty possible to miss the right turn at the end.

The movie contains examples of:

 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The sex scene comes out of nowhere and has no relevance to anything that happens before or after it.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The soundtrack is a surprisingly decent collection of modern heavy metal artists.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: The 713 sergeant, Miles, who comes across as the only competent character in the entire film and is significantly better-acted than most of the main cast (although that's not saying much). Sadly, he doesn't last long, although he does outlive literally everyone else in his unit.
 * Nightmare Retardant: The creatures that Carnby and the others encounter are meant to evoke terror, but fail thanks to the shoddy CGI.
 * Special Effect Failure: One of the possessed civilians about to attack Burke is killed by a bullet than can clearly be seen zooming two feet above her. As has been noted, the glowing effect was added in post-production, and no effort was made to correct it.
 * They Just Didn't Care:
 * According to a Something Awful interview with Blair Erickson, one of the original script-writers, a first draft of the script would have hewed much closer to the video games on which the film was based, but Boll discarded the idea in favor of turning it into a straight-up action film. At least someone was trying. Too bad he wasn't on the final scripting team.
 * As Spoony, the Nostalgia Critic, and Linkara pointed out in their review, you can clearly see a dead body moving and getting up on camera.
 * In another example a woman gets killed by a gunshot that misses her completely. Because it's a post-production CGI effect, this means that somebody deliberately had to design it to miss that person.
 * What the Hell, Casting Agency?: Tara Reid (best known for playing a Dumb Blonde in the American Pie films) as an archaeologist.
 * Video Game Movies Suck: Arguably the foremost example of all time.