I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

Boll is offering a retrospective critique of his own film adaptation, suggesting it leaned too heavily into action set-pieces and “creature feature” mechanics at the expense of sustained horror—atmosphere, dread, and suspense. The remark implies an awareness of genre expectations attached to the Alone in the Dark name (especially from game audiences) and acknowledges a mismatch between what viewers likely wanted (horror-forward storytelling) and what the film delivered (combat-driven spectacle). Read this way, the quote functions as a self-diagnosis of tonal imbalance: when a horror premise is staged primarily as action, the emotional register shifts from fear to adrenaline, which can undercut the intended experience.