An entertaining blend of noir, weird fiction, and horror, Mark of the Damned was a fun watch! It had touches of Lovecraft's eeriness with a whiff of Sherlock Holmes, plus the adventure and glamour of old Hollywood and monster movies. Certainly worth watching for it's wild characters and great camera work.
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What...my head hurts
StylesBiRite27 February 2014
Shouldn't have watched this hungover because it was really terrible and gave me a hangover I should cut it a little slack because it looks like it might have been made over a weekend but ugh. I think it was trying to be campy but it wasn't even like Ed Wood good. If I wanted to watch a Mexican wrestler film I would have watched one of the Santos films which were actually campy and fun. I guess it is a fan video so why did I find this on DVD. It was meh, I can't. It looks like from the producers that the directors parents or grandparents gave the money to have this movie made which kind is really depressing because the previous review stated it took 8 years to make.
A promising first film.
MKHFromHollywood29 July 2020
A modern-day Noir horror film, with liberal borrowings from Mexican wrestling movie lore, the arcane horror of HP Lovecraft and later Lovecraftians, and explorer films like The Lost World and King Kong. A scientific/archaeological expedition goes to deepest darkest Mexico and accidentally unleashes Hell on Earth. Old gods, revived rituals, and an awakened Queen who hungers for blood. Will humanity survive?
Warning: this was shot MOS, then dubbed. The creators of the "Amplified Universe" wanted this movie to seem like a Mexican wrestling film from the 1950s or early 1960s. It's very disorienting, but you eventually settle into it and it's just one of the many high weirdnesses on tap.
The black-and-white cinematography, shot with consumer-grade video cameras, is strikingly good considering everything. Someone paid attention in film history class when they were talking about German Expressionism and Noir horror. (original Cat People, The Black Cat, The Seventh Victim, etc.)
All in all, give it a chance. It's difficult, but fun, and there are bits of humor pitched to horror fans that will give you a few chuckles while you follow the many bloody threads in the film.
Warning: this was shot MOS, then dubbed. The creators of the "Amplified Universe" wanted this movie to seem like a Mexican wrestling film from the 1950s or early 1960s. It's very disorienting, but you eventually settle into it and it's just one of the many high weirdnesses on tap.
The black-and-white cinematography, shot with consumer-grade video cameras, is strikingly good considering everything. Someone paid attention in film history class when they were talking about German Expressionism and Noir horror. (original Cat People, The Black Cat, The Seventh Victim, etc.)
All in all, give it a chance. It's difficult, but fun, and there are bits of humor pitched to horror fans that will give you a few chuckles while you follow the many bloody threads in the film.
A terribly confusing film
oscar-3515 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
*Spoiler/plot- Mark of the Damned, 2006. A secret society is rising to take over the Earth with unholy spirits, zombies and mad scientists.
*Special Stars- Jeff Bostic, Rob Burns, Amy Kruger.
*Theme- The worldly plane is fragile to spirits.
*Trivia/location/goofs- fan video, shot over 8 years, horror spoof video.
*Emotion- A terribly confusing film to watch. No redeeming value at all. The story is hard to follow, the production values are nil and the acting is comic book. Pass it by.
*Based On- Horror film genres
*Special Stars- Jeff Bostic, Rob Burns, Amy Kruger.
*Theme- The worldly plane is fragile to spirits.
*Trivia/location/goofs- fan video, shot over 8 years, horror spoof video.
*Emotion- A terribly confusing film to watch. No redeeming value at all. The story is hard to follow, the production values are nil and the acting is comic book. Pass it by.
*Based On- Horror film genres
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