Three stories that are at best loosely connected: Margaret (Sofe
Cote), a girl with supernatural powers who has enslaved her own father
(Robert Prichard) by mere willpower, somehow falls for nerdy Caleb (Max
Husten), a boy she had sworn herself she'd never date ... but then she
does, and kills him in the process. But nobody could have expected in the
slightest the chaos that ensues ... May West (Sara Kaiser) is the
biggest star of the 1940s when her competition for that crown, Marli
Deetrich (Dylan Greenberg), hires her for her directorial debut, the first
totally immersive movie, in which May is to play the Virgin Mary - but
soon she has to realize she isn't in a movie at all, but Marli wants to
pluck her and Jesus Christ (Chandani Smith) out of history. The two escape
through an increasingly labyrinthine and nonsensical complex and
eventually May seems to actually become Virgin Mary. Mary (Stephanie
Domini) and the President (Jurgen Azazel Munster) are on the run from some
sort of electrical storm that might have been caused by Margaret from
story one and end up in a bizarre run down TV studio run by weird Barnaby
(Fritz Donnelly), and there might be no escape from there - unless
something really bizarre happens ... Ok, words do little
justice to the madness that is Dark Prism, in trying to sum the
movie up I've probably not even hit the tip of the iceberg - but that's
ok, Dark Prism isn't as much a narrative movie as it is a trip into
batshit craziness, spun together in a dreamlike narrative that twists and
turns in all directions, no matter whether it makes perfect sense or not.
But what makes the film really enjoyable is that no matter how
non-sensical it is, it's totally entertaining, it's just cock-full of fun
and often refreshingly silly ideas, and the directorial effort really
keeps up with the madness of the story and adds a deliciously weird
imagery to the mix to ultimately amount to ... pure madness, in the best
possible way! This just has to be seen to be believed!
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