Is there anyone here who played RPGs and is old enough to remember things like "Mazes and Monsters" (a role that Tom Hanks should open his wrists over) and the old "a guy went into the sewers and killed himself because his character died" stories? Well the latter was born out of a one page comic, known as a "Chick Tract", that was produced by fundamentalist Christian Jack Chick back in the mid-1980s.
So along comes 2013 and a guy wins something like a thousand bucks in his State's lottery, and decides that he's going to make a movie. He's a gamer, from way back, and remembers the Chick Tracts. He gets the rights from Jack Chick to produce a movie based on the one page comic "Dark Dungeons", originally published back around 1985. He teams up with Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, who are well known for doing game based comedy movies and series. Then comes the twist; they play the whole thing completely straight up and true to the original source material, rather than mocking it. Trust me; if you're an old school gamer, it mocks itself well enough.
Why am I mentioning this? Because, right now, the movie is available for download for less than the price of a Timmie's coffee and muffin:
http://www.gog.com/movie/dark_dungeons
So along comes 2013 and a guy wins something like a thousand bucks in his State's lottery, and decides that he's going to make a movie. He's a gamer, from way back, and remembers the Chick Tracts. He gets the rights from Jack Chick to produce a movie based on the one page comic "Dark Dungeons", originally published back around 1985. He teams up with Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, who are well known for doing game based comedy movies and series. Then comes the twist; they play the whole thing completely straight up and true to the original source material, rather than mocking it. Trust me; if you're an old school gamer, it mocks itself well enough.
Why am I mentioning this? Because, right now, the movie is available for download for less than the price of a Timmie's coffee and muffin:
http://www.gog.com/movie/dark_dungeons