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Rating: Hello to all friends of DeBaser!!! What I'm about to present to you is a very atypical review (which I hope will pave the way for those REAL ones from you)... Why an atypical review???
POINT 1- Because it's an independent amateur work distributed only in free streaming via the internet.
POINT 2- The director of the film is the very reviewer who is speaking to you.
So... let's start with the necessary premises: "DARK ANGEL-The Son of Satan" is a film I wrote/directed/starred in between September 2005 and April 2010... the crew was composed of friends and various relatives... the camera used was worth about 2 packs of Marlboro Reds + the DVD of "Alex l'ariete". This little gem was certainly not my first amateur feature film, so I was not new to this... but being 19 at the time and having a criminal asylum-like imagination, there was a great possibility of making a colossal blunder (and maybe I did...).
A real and unbiased review (yeah right!): There are various ways of making cinema... like being the brother of Gabriele Muccino... or the nephew of this or that politician over there... or attending a nice screenplay/directing school only to not find a contract even if you paid for it and wishing you were the nephew of this or that politician over there... OR... You can take a camera... squeeze your own imagination... call together all the "actors" available... and go for it without the slightest illusion of making money but the certainty of HAVING A BLAST!
"DARK" was born exactly this way, from the crazy desire to expand on what had already been done... improve it... shake well and see what might happen... and that's what happened! The film is a comedyabsurdsci-ficitational not to be confused with just any banal "Scary movie". The story is simple and direct: A PRIEST IS TASKED BY THE VATICAN TO TRACK DOWN THE SON OF SATAN, SENT TO EARTH TO DESTROY IT AND LET DADDY REIGN ETERNALLY, AN ANGRY AND (AS WILL BE SEEN) UNRESTRAINED EROTOMANIAC! Said like this, it may seem like a hodgepodge without rhyme or reason... something you've already seen (maybe in one of your worst nightmares)... but it isn't...
The film stretches over a nice 100 minutes of pure and simple fun without pretenses, amidst deadly encounters with demons created in post-production (thanks to the film "Cabal" based on Barker's book... thank you, Clive!) and daring twist betrayals: A story that works because it’s realized with the simplicity of the amateur but the commitment of the enthusiast.
The film's characters are all a program: Satan/God (two sides of the same coin)- 2 big kids ready to contest Earth as if they were 2 kids in kindergarten fighting over a ball Father Gian Maria-Ambiguous hero with a mysterious past and a hot mission on his hands The Retard-A mysterious creature halfway between Gandalf and Slot of the Goonies and finally The Son of Satan (whose name will never be revealed)
Protagonist of the film, hero/antagonist always hovering between a heroic act and a colossal blunder. The pace of the story and the special effects (simple but effective) are the film's strong points... everything flows pleasantly and without hitches... all the characters (for better or worse) do their dirty job... the direction is simple with some Aronofskian hints (ok, I said nonsense... perhaps)... humor reigns supreme with hilarious and slightly (yeah right) vulgar sketches). A project without commitments that you watch without commitment, to put it briefly.
Recommended for fans of the most indie indie and lovers of freeing laughter after heavy days of work or goofing off! To be watched and then praised or massacred... there should (not) be any middle ground... in any case, it doesn't leave you indifferent... thereafter... the word to you, my friends from DeBaser... and thanks for listening!!!
P.s The film back then (2006) was distributed in free download with the fake title "The Goonies of the Rings"; After an initial period filled with insults from the poor betrayed downloaders... the film was seen and reviewed around our peninsula accompanied by great compliments... maybe they were all blind... maybe they were right... the word to you!
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