#AtoZChallenge Dark Times

For this one I decided to highlight a few Rifftrax movies that all have "Dark" in the title.

The Dark Power:  This was made by Phil Smoot, the writer/director of Alien Outlaw from the "A" entry.  This actually was made before that and it also "stars" the geriatric hero Lash Larue and takes place in North Carolina.  Only instead of aliens, it involves evil Native American spirits who terrorize a bunch of college kids who have moved into a house that was made on a burial ground or some damned thing.

The four evil spirits are all clearly guys in rubber masks and crappy makeup and the rest of the movie is about that good.  Lash LaRue proves that a whip is a really, really useless weapon.  One of the college girls dispatches three of the bad guys with a holy knife in a couple of minutes while Lash needs like 10 minutes to kill just one bad guy with the stupid whip.

Dark Future:  Made in 1994 in Eastern Europe on the cheap, I described this once as a reverse Westworld as in this humans are being used as workers in a theme park of various time periods to amuse cyborgs.  Why?  I don't know, it's a Greydon Clark film so don't ask.

Anyway, it's also sort of like Children of Men as there haven't been any babies born--until finally a woman gives birth to one.  Then one of the humans working in the park has to protect her and overthrow the cyborgs and their masters:  a bunch of old guys who I guess aren't cyborgs.

Like I said, this was made in the 90s but it looks like an 80s movie.  It's definitely not the worst Greydon Clark movie ever (that's Star Games) but it's not really good either.

The Dark:  In the dark, there's something killing people for...some reason.  Then...whatever it is...kills the daughter of an ex-con played by William Devane who started writing horror novels under an assumed name while in prison.  He teams with a reporter to track down whatever it is, which turns out to be an alien...or something.

How did the alien get there?  Why is it killing people?  Yeah, who knows.  Like one of the riffers says the end is like the screenwriter's little brother wrote it as all the sudden the alien starts shooting lasers in a big shootout with soldiers and cops.

Most of the movie is so murky-looking that you can barely tell what's going on.  This was made in the 70s and you can really tell from the clothes, hairstyles, and cars.  It's pretty corny all around.