billcr12
Deep Dark has the feel of an extended (79 minute) Twilight Zone episode without the genius of Rod Serling. A twenty something, no talent artist creates They are garbage. He winds up at an apartment with a hole in the wall. Behind it, he hears the voice of a woman. She is lonely, and in exchange for companionship will provide him with objects which seem to mesmerize gallery patrons. The Faustian bargain is successful and the artist must satisfy the hole in the wall in a most unusual manner. The premise was o.k. but it just sputters out in the end.
dylanpowers-45125
i am disturbed, I'm going back to therapy for this. Honestly whoever made this movie deserves to be in prison for life or at the least needs to be put in a mental institution for a WHILE. he put his PENIS in the wall, he F%$#ING the wall. anyways cool I have depression do not watch this please.
Lady Persephone
I'm blown away by the glowing reviews given by some of the viewers of this film. (People who are part of the production team perhaps?) This movie has no redeemable qualities. The characters are incredibly one dimensional and unlikable. I believe this movie is making an attempt at being a horror comedy, however, it just ends up being extremely awkward for the viewer. No humorous moments. No scary moments. No thrilling moments. Just scene after scene of: When will we get to the point? SPOILER: It never comes. There is no explanation for why the wall talks, where it gets the items for the mobiles, what the finished mobiles even look like, why the wall bleeds, why the artist's uncle send him there... I could go on and on with the unanswered and pointless questions that arise in this movie. My suggestion: Save yourself some time and skip this movie.
haute-horreur
Spoilers ahead!!I never intended to write a review over Michael Medaglia's Deep Dark til I meditated more on the film and read some other peoples' reviews. IMDb's synopsis for the film is as follows, "A failed sculptor discovers a strange, talking hole in the wall. It has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams...and become his worst nightmare." Sounds like a bizarre and possibly hilarious premise, right? What it turned out to be was a strange sort of experience that left the viewer feeling more uncomfortable than titillated.The real reason I was spurred to write the review was seeing other reviewers citing the film's originality and dark humor as high points. I even saw a user on IMDb state that this was the best film they had ever seen. I take issue with that statement, but I am at least glad someone found wonder in this mess of a film. Deep Dark is a sort of Faustian story at the bare bones of it, but it seems to take some cues from a long time favorite of mine, Little Shop of Horrors (both the original film and the musical). While normally a decidedly Little Shop premise with dark humor would excite me, Deep Dark did the opposite. It has the kind of frame work Little Shop does. A run of the mill guy strikes luck by happening across a possibly alien being, guy is also in love with a pretty girl who is his colleague, guy strikes a deal with the possibly alien being and finds success, and disaster ensues for all involved. So, in the end the film isn't too original as some reviews would lead you to believe, and what Medaglia does with this familiar premise isn't too original either. Ever heard of a little novel called The Cipher? It was published in 1991 and was written by Kathe Koja, who won a Bram Stoker award for it. Want to take a guess what The Cipher is about? If you said magical strange wonder hole in the wall you are one hundred percent correct. That sounds pretty familiar right now, doesn't it? Barnes and Noble's synopsis of The Cipher is as follows, "Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall. "Black. Not darkness, not the absence of light but living black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Something we haven't tried before," Nakota says. But she and Nicholas aren't in control, not from the first moment, so they free fall as the Funhole leads to obsession, darkness, and transformation." I think that synopsis speak volumes in the context of this review. So, in short this movie isn't as original or mind blowing to people who are fairly well versed in horror genre or just literature and movies in general. I'm not saying a premise has to be 100% original to be effective, but Deep Dark is less original than other reviews might lead you to believe.Now, here's the nitty gritty about the movie. The weird mishmash of Little Shop and The Cipher does not do this movie any favors. The writing is bland. There are moments where the dark humor is supposed to be there, but you just don't laugh. The humor feels forced and in many ways not natural to Medaglia as a screenwriter. The characters don't feel real either. They're caricatures, there is no real development, and in the end they are just as forced and odd as the humor. (I realize not all horror movies can be You're Next in the dark humor department, but sheesh this movie was pitiful.) The acting, was well, not good, but I assume that might have had a lot to do with how the script and the characters were sparse and uninteresting. Actors can't really work with unimaginative characters and in the end it shows through the labored and uninspired performances. The plot arises a few questions that I wish the movie had addressed. I am okay when a movie or a book leaves questions unanswered, but there was some connective tissue that did not come full circle, regarded protagonist Hermann and his Uncle Felix who owns the apartment building that the infamous wall. The best I can infer is that the hole is the source of Uncle Felix's success and possibly why he bought the building, and why he told Hermann to go stay in the apartment for inspiration. My question is why did Hermann never call his uncle and ask about his experiences with this hole or if he even knew anything about it. It seemed like it should have came to a point where the nephew and uncle conversed about the hole, but it never came to be. Not to mention I felt extremely uncomfortable watching a man be coerced into sex by a wall. But wait! There's more! A jealous art rival of Hermann's is playing voyeur and watching him stick his penis into this magical artist making hole and proceed to make love to it. I laughed, but it was because I was freaked out and could not understand why anyone would write a scene like that. At least Seymour never had to have sex with the plant. Goodness. There are moments where perverse meets compelling, and this was not one of them.Overall this is just not a great movie, nor is it funny or original. Don't be deceived by any other reviews that you read.
