Dark Dungeons

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.

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.

Such a hilarious and self aware movie that parodies the comic but also comes off as a love letter to dad. I've seen this movie several times and its a joyous experience.

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!

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.