Dark Dungeons (2014) Reviews

• Hilariously bad

  SinisterTwist2016-01-11

  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.

• Parody or not, it's hilarious!

  the_wolf_imdb2014-10-20

  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!

• Faithful adaptation of the Chick tract, with easter eggs

  PompeyV2014-09-17

  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.

• Should be named: Plan 9 with 20 Sided Dice

  majmooby2015-01-24

  OK... I just took the time top watch a fan film or real film I don't know based on the CHICK Track Comics called Dark Dungeon... Yeah, someone made a film out of it... If you never read it back in the early 1980s, you know that it's about what every IFB minister was preaching. That Dungeons & Dragons games or any RPG's were of the devil promoting witchcraft & demon worship... For the record I've played D&D, AD&D, Vampire, Mage, Star Wars, Star Trek, Paranoia, Trinity, man list goes on & I personally have never had any dreams or desire of being a witch or even worshiping the devil... They are games that let you use your imagination as if you were part of that universe... True there are those out there that don't know how to separate the fantasy w/ reality.. But then again they must have other mental issues too... Anywho... The movie tries to be serious but modernizing the story to today's youth. Sadly the acting on the evil characters is so one sided & performed badly that it takes a lot to get thru the whole film w/o laughing or shutting it off... To give you an idea here we go... Things You May Learn From Watching This Film.... 1. College jocks are nerds too.... 2. Colleges always show outdated hygiene films to help freshmen get settled into college life. 3. College parties don't just drink, drug, & dance, they play D&D with over 40 year old want-to-be teenagers. 4. The Necronomicon & Cuthulu are real. All they need to enter our world is a make believe teenage elf wizard to enchant them here. 5. When your character dies in the game, it's time to go hang yourself. 6. LARP's are demon possessed interactions to the unknown. 7. When trying to make a point, Bulge out your eyes as much as you can. 8. "Mistress Frost needs acting lessons badly, She's about to die.... Ohhhhhhhhhh..." The only saving grace is that this film only took 40 minutes out of my life to watch it... 1 hour& 15 minutes less than Cabin Boy or Superstar... I give this film.............. 1 mooooo,

• If you didn't know this was a parody, your review was worthless.

  dlcnate2018-11-11

  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.