Dark Dungeons

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.

If you know the source material for this movie you probably found this movie to be hysterical and over the top, and that was intended. If you didn't know the source material this movie probably just seemed weird, this movie is definitely one of those things that's made for a specific group of people. And everyone that I know that plays role playing games and has read the short little comic/religious tract that this is based on has love this movie. I am no exception, I don't want to talk about anything coming up in the movie but most of what's in it is in the source material it was updated a little bit for a more modern time, adding LARP to the mix, but the addition doesn't detract from the story.

Definitely worth watching once, but I recommend you read the comic first.

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 ?

If you go into this expecting a great film, you're going to be disappointed. This is based off of a Jack Chick pamphlet, so you know that it's not going to be serious business.

What makes this film is that everyone tries to play their roles as straight as possible. There's no Leslie Nielsen-esque romping or Jim Carey mugging for the camera. Calling this a parody isn't entirely accurate, however it's not entirely *inaccurate* either. The source material here is so absurdly ridiculous that there's no need to lampoon the fact that some religious groups are over the top ridiculous when it comes to "demonic" material because they do it for you. It's like petting a cat: you just put your hand down and it does all the work for you.

The end result is a film that can arguably be called "bad", but bad in all of the right ways. The acting is decent and the script, while ridiculous, is pretty hilarious. So far there are only two avenues for getting this film, either a DVD via Amazon or a direct purchase from the official website. It's absolutely worth purchasing at least via the website and it's a shame that it's not more well known than it it currently is.

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.