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DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL aka Scorpio / Black Opium Graveyard Man / Night of the Philosopher
Starring: John Brodie, Michelle Cantwell, Marq Withers, Helena Vaughn, Dan Resha, James Eisenlohr, Anibal Perez
Special FX Make-up by Jason Wallach
Director of Photography by Dan Resha
Music by The Unquiet Void
Written and Produced by John Brodie
Edited and Directed by Ron Atkins
Dark Night of the Soul is an experimental occult film that was shot in South Florida in May of 1998. The film is about an exiled cult leader who has lost his way and bascially doesn't know who he is any longer. He hangs out in graveyards and smokes black opium in which enables him to communicate with sex and drug crazed zombies.
4 college kids find their way into his domain and are kidnapped and educated into the arts of mental expansion. The film is very esoteric and no one can watch the film without having their mind challenged in one way or another. It is now known as a Midnight movie among the underground film community and college drug parties have been held with a viewing of Dark Night of the Soul as the initiation for newbies to watch.
Scorpio (aka Dark Night of the Soul) is available on DVD from:

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL: TEASER

My Interests

Quotes from Writer/Producer/Actor John Brodie:

"Dark Night of the Soul is a film that is meant to awaken and make people think more so than to entertain. It is truly an occult film which came out looking much more dark & demonic than I originally intended. Because of time and budget restraints, I could not do my complete vision for this film. All in all the film is a groundbreaker because of the consistent "in your head" dialog that everyone who watches the film must confront within the depths of their own mind and soul."

"Dark Night doesn't need blood or gore. It gets under your skin by getting into your head, where there is nowhere to hide."

"Dark Night is a film one must attempt to decipher within the depths of their own inner being. Some things in the film appear one way, but in reality are the exact opposite and sometimes are something else altogether."

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REVIEWS:

(4 stars) "Dark Night of the Soul ranks up there with the great oddity films of the 70's and 80's" - Eric Campos, Film Threat

"A metaphysical acid trip, I've never seen anything quite like it" - Alan Ormsby, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Deranged, Deathdream

"The themes this film explores in an hour are extremely compelling" - Sam Gaines, Eye Magazine

"It's not often you see a skeleton faced ghoul talking about the raptures of satanic worship, but you don't see too many movies like Dark Night of the Soul either" - Nathaniel Thompson, Mondo Digital

Music:

Scorpio ( Soundtrack: out-of-print and quantity is limited)

$14 - Price includes S&H

Movies:

Available:

Dark Night of the Soul Contains heavy adult themes so you must be at least 18 to order... Region 1 NTSC DVD release contains feature, behind the scenes featurette, 3 trailers and director Ron Atkins interview. Inside of cover signed by writer/producer/actor John Brodie... $10

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My Blog

Recollections from shooting "Dark Night of the Soul" by Ron Atkins

This project was very different from my other work everything from the subject matter to the writing to how it was made. John Brodie and I had been talking and doing business for years before "DNOTS...
Posted by Dark Night of the Soul on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:01:00 PST

On the set "Scorpio" recollection from Jason Wallach

Hello there, many of you are familliar with me being the sole member of The Unquiet Void. I wanted to post an on-the-set recollection from making this film with John and Ron. Before that let me just ...
Posted by Dark Night of the Soul on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:15:00 PST

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL aka Scorpio ON DVD!!!

The special edition DVD release of "Dark Night of the Soul" aka Scorpio can be found at: Only $10 postage paid and signed by writer/actor/producer John Brodie. Only 1000 copies worldwide and this will...
Posted by Dark Night of the Soul on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:36:00 PST