Super Dark Times

Welcome to Satanists on Cinema. We are your hosts Satanist Cameron John and Reverend Campbell. Satanists on Cinema is a film review and commentary series that confiscates your katana, because it’s about time you admit to yourself that you are not a ninja turtle. We’ll also be taking that old-ass bag of weed from you, for your own good…. And ours, as we watch the scrambled cinemax channel hunting for boobies. Welcome to our spoiler filled review of Super Dark Times.

Discussion

Log Line: Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
Director: Kevin Phillips (first full length film to direct)
Writers: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski
Release date – September 29, 2017
Box office – $33,109
Takes place 1994-1995 at the earliest due to True Lies reference.
Was it weird that his mom was reading a romance novel after she sent his girl to her bedroom?
The dream sequence was bonkers
Email: I saw this on opening weekend in a local theater. When the unexpected “inciting incident” happened, the entire row I was seated in got up and walked out. As a couple shuffled past me, a woman sounded like she was hyperventilating while her partner was physically supporting her. And the last 10 or so minutes of the film had me on the edge of my seat, having to remind myself to breathe. You’re in for a treat!
Awards
- won the best feature film award at the 17th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival.
- winner of Best Sound Design in a Feature Film at the 2017 Music+Sound Awards,
- received a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Independent Film at the 44th Saturn Awards.
- At the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards, Kevin Phillips was nominated for the Someone to Watch Award.