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Dark Dungeons

  • Video
  • 2014
  • 40m
IMDb RATING
4.6/10
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Dark Dungeons (2014)
DramaFantasyHorrorShort

Two college students are seduced into the evil cult of role playing games.Two college students are seduced into the evil cult of role playing games.Two college students are seduced into the evil cult of role playing games.

  • Director
    • L. Gabriel Gonda
  • Writers
    • Jack Chick
    • JR Ralls
  • Stars
    • Alyssa Kay
    • Anastasia Higham
    • Tracy Hyland
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.6/10
    468
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    • Director
      • L. Gabriel Gonda
    • Writers
      • Jack Chick
      • JR Ralls
    • Stars
      • Alyssa Kay
      • Anastasia Higham
      • Tracy Hyland
    • 15User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Alyssa Kay
    Alyssa Kay
    • Debbie
    Anastasia Higham
    • Marcie
    Tracy Hyland
    • Mistress Frost
    Trevor Cushman
    • Mike
    Jonathan Crimeni
    Jonathan Crimeni
    • Nitro
    Kaleb Hagen-Kerr
    • Preacher
    David Anthony Lewis
    • Professor
    Shane Barnett
    • Tiamet
    • (voice)
    Scott C. Brown
    Scott C. Brown
    • Shadowy Figure
    Troy Butcher
    Troy Butcher
    • Demon
    B Austin Davis
    • Demon
    Christian Doyle
    Christian Doyle
    • Shadowy Figure
    Shani Drake
    Shani Drake
    • Nitro's Entourage
    Bryan Head
    • Demon
    James Herbert
    • Tiamet
    • (voice)
    Jerry Holkins
    • Tiamet
    • (voice)
    Brian S. Lewis
    Brian S. Lewis
    • Shadowy Figure
    • (as Brian Lewis)
    David Anthony Lewis
    David Anthony Lewis
    • Professor
    • Director
      • L. Gabriel Gonda
    • Writers
      • Jack Chick
      • JR Ralls
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    10djnativus

    Perfection. The best comic adaption ever made.

    I do not understand these reviews. Dark Dungeons is a fully accurate portrayal of the famous Jack Chick track. To claim this is bad is blasphemy. This is the highest art and shouldn't be missed. The acting is insanely good and it's all played so straight which is the best part. I also love the lesbian subtext.

    The only bad thing about this movie is it wasn't a full 90 minutes.

    Praise to the unholy dark one for all his gifts.
    9the_wolf_imdb

    Parody or not, it's hilarious!

    When I saw this movie I consider this to be pretty hilarious parody of preaching of some backwoods American religious nuts. (You know, these uneducated folks who consider The Bible and more precisely only some parts of it to be source of Universal Truth.) To my greatest surprise I have discovered this hilarious religious horror comedy is supposed to be an actual seriously meant sermons of one of those nuts. I was really stunned because you usually do not try to write your sermons in a form of self parody. But who knows, these folks have zero self reflection and never to bother to actually check their "facts".

    But whatever! I laughed so hard! This is so great I have to tell about this parody to the folks who play RPG's. I think they will be so amused that they form a help group for these nutcases - you know, to send them some gasoline, matches, maybe a some record of "Deutschlad Deutschland Uber Alles". This song and maybe a little waving of the right hand in the air would match the ending of the movie perfectly!
    10jfgibson73

    Excellent RPGing!

    I enjoyed this. It was very instructive. When I get to college, I will be just like Debby and Marci. I will begin RPGing and immediately outplay everyone who has been doing it for years. My character will be chaotic neutral, and I will not hesitate to vanquish my foes. I will have the true power.
    1kiddingenvelope

    The kind of movie you watch to torture yourself.

    Honestly, this feels more of a poorly written joke made by a couple of people with no idea of board games. Am I supposed to take this movie seriously ?
    9PompeyV

    Faithful adaptation of the Chick tract, with easter eggs

    In the 1980s, Jack Chick Publications produced an extremely fundamentalist Christian tract denouncing the dangers of playing RPGs. This film is hilarious precisely because it is so self-aware in following the fantastical tract, even one-upping it at times(LARP and Cthulhu, anyone?) The story follows two Christian girls, Marcie and Debbie, as they go off to college and become ensnared by the glamorous, underground bacchanal that is Dark Dungeons gaming. But things are even darker than the bags under the girls' eyes after playing all night -- Mistress Frost seeks to use the girls to call forth demons into our world. Watch who lives, who dies, and who falls to their knees to accept Jesus as their personal lord and savior.

    Above all, watch for the references to gaming, to other Zombie Orpheum productions, and to Maven of the Eventide from the That Guy With The Glasses website.

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    • Trivia
      During a role-playing game, Debbie says that she will "cast Magic Missile to attack the darkness." This is a reference to the "Dungeons and Dragons" sketch by comedy group The Dead Alewives, in which an inept player is desperate to cast Magic Missile in a dark cavern even though there is no enemy around to fight; in response, and to the amusement of all other players, he proclaims, "I attack the darkness!" It's notable that this sketch is a parody of the same religious backlash against role-playing games that the Jack Chick tract "Dark Dungeons" was based in.
    • Connections
      Referenced in JonTron: Dark Dungeons (2016)

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    • Release date
      • August 14, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • Rallsfilm
      • Zombie Orpheus Entertainment
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      • 40m
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      • 16:9 HD

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