Wrestling fans who want to taste the Indian Islands or foreign performances are on pirated tapes before uploading every video known to humans to the internet. Someone knows someone who has a Japanese death match videotape on it or has a ring exploded. The entire business makes you feel like it’s its own sin in the hands of one of these videotapes. It’s like you’re handed to a snuff movie. This is the extreme thing, blood flows freely, and a fracture of the bone is guaranteed.
Many myths and legends developed from it, which made Independent Wrestling show a different, darker identity. Lowell DeanThe wrestling horror movie Dark match It feels a lot like watching one of these elusive VHS videos, a violent and cruel experience that plays with real and fake ideas inside the ring. And, it does do a great job when showing off the weirdness around wrestling ideas.
Dark match Following a very small independent promotion called SAW in the 1980s. They recorded their own show in hopes of getting enough money to keep their few wrestlers dreaming. Promotion Manager Rusty (Jonathan Cherry), get the phone from the blue phone with a profitable quote through a private show. As his main activist leads, the Miss’s behavior (What) and mean Joe Lean (Steven Ogg), rusty acceptance.
Upon arrival, they soon realize that their audiences act like cults in a classic hail Satanic way. Their leader is here (Chris Jericho), a cowboy hat in a black jacket with a hat that obviously surrenders to the darkness. Then, the wrestling begins. But these rules have a fatal twist on them, and they can saw off at the end of the night.
The first thing needed to make a movie successful is wrestling, which does it in many ways. Often, the method of wrestling in movies falls on the “Saturday Morning Cartoon” style, first diving into nostalgia to find a simple excuse to get things off proportions and wear out the more ridiculous aspects. Director Lowell Dean avoids all these tired cliches to observe the lifestyle of wrestling with honest and complexity, embracing its culture completely.
Wrestlers live in Kayfabe, in a hypothetical state that requires them to have personality every second in public. This means that in private moments, there are a lot of roles to do. Dean sets it apart, focusing on how these performers protect their heads (the characters inside the ring) while legally fighting for their lives. In a sense, despite the mysterious themes, Dark match It’s about Kayfabe and how wrestling creates its own reality. The question is not about what is real and what is fake. You just have to accept that all of this is built in the rules in that world, which is what wrestling fans keep in mind.
The show sold the idea very well. In a sense, every actor has to perform dual duties. They have to play wrestlers and their real characters outside the ring. Ayisha Issa and Steven Ogg are outstanding, balancing strength and vulnerability even if normal and in-ring characters are required to switch back and forth in a single sequence. Therefore, it becomes very easy to take care of these roles. The same remaining saw lineup extends to it. Every performer gets a lot of attention because you can see them constantly realizing that destroying Kaifabe is life-and-death, a divine protection at all costs.
A wrestler like this, called Enigma (played by Swa Alum Mo Jabari), don’t speak. He is a high-flying Luchador-style wrestler who enters the ring with a cape and Lucha mask. His whole head was that he was a mysterious man who kicked the butt, and then left without saying a word. He lets his battles and acrobatics speak. This is very cute. For someone who has not betrayed the long tradition of his career, you can’t help feeling it even while fighting Satanists.
The horror aspects of things complement this concern for Kefabe. Thanks to the violence that makes people worry about the way wrestlers work hard on the ring. This is a pretty considerable approach. The blood is freely overflowing, but it is by no means impractical. This is to keep things miserable rather than exploitative, making us afraid of the security of the characters and potential death (which makes Jeremy Saulnier‘ Green room Such an excellent movie).
Few other stabs pull it away so gracefully when wrestling in novels, TV, books or comics. Two good examples that come to mind are John Les and Alex CormackComics Crimson cage and Joe Keatinge and Nick BarberComics circus. The two mix terror and crime separately to study how wrestling requires its people to live within the scope of Kayfabe, even if the situation gets worse. Chris Condon and Francesco Biagini‘ Hell is a square circle This has also been achieved Joanne Starer and Elena bites‘ head.
Dark match It is equivalent to a five-star competition. Director Lowell Dean wrestled with a fine-toothed comb, creating a story that treats it with the respect it deserves. He landed in a rare genre fusion that allowed viewers to immerse themselves in a culture of violent entertainment without holding hands. You should be involved in the movie and catch up with it. Those who manage to do this are a fair show, the kind you’ll record on the VHS tape that used to be a repeat view.
