Reviews (11)

Some of the best acting I've ever seen in pornography.
It's porn. It's romantic, it's full of accurate dialogue and character points, but it's pornography. However, Nick Mancuso is a wonderful actor and it's actually a good film. I would imagine that the sort of people who can see the good acting is Showgirls would recognize this movie's appeal.

Dark Prince:Intimate Tales of the Marquis de Sade
Excellent! Deliciously wicked, darkly witty, a masterpiece. Nick Mancuso gives an arousing performance as the "Dark Prince." His treatment of this notorious character is most decadent. Overall this film is poorly directed, and with the exception of a wonderful Nick Mancuso, poorly acted, but that's okay. This film is more fluffy brain candy than anything else. It's just fun to watch. The viewer is hard pressed not to begin feeling compassion for the Marquis, all the while despising him for being such a naughty man. Fortunately there is just enough humour, albeit dry humour, to take the edge off the seriousness of the underlying story. A must see for those with a taste for the different in "candy for the mind". Enjoy.

dirty, dark, twisted, and delicious
This film combines Sade with his fictional world and presents a erotic and comedic rollercoaster. Yes it's low budget, but that just adds to the exploitation experience. Mancuso is superb. I'm fine with Rhys Davies limted screen time and he does what needs to be done, but is not the focus of the film and shouldn't have been given more to do than he does. This film is perfect for what it is and far better than most fims of this type. Exquisite delectable trash with panache is what you will be served and like it. Read if you want something closer to the historical de Sade. Watch if you want to be aroused, disturbed, tickled, and touched.

What is WRONG with hollywood?
Im fed up! I can't rely on the movie industry to put out a reasonable, (purely)fact-based representation of the Marquis' life!I actually had high hopes for this movie bacause it was said to be based on the true story. SORRY! TRY AGAIN! I was apalled!Bad acting, bad directing, horrible story line, and low budget. Thats not even all of it. When are the creators of movies going to realize that enough happened in his life that its not even nessesary to make things up? Theres no way in [heck] that the things that happen in this movie could have happened, so why proclaim it "based on a true story"? It's clear to me this is not so, and that he is merely a character in a line of events (so distorted and rearanged!) based on a loose description of De Sades' life (with some conveinient changes).I'm sorry, but I thought this movie was atrocious, and I once again wait to see a biographical movie worthy to carry his name.

Dark Prince
Althought I like Nick Mancuso and usually movies about the Marquis De Sade, I didn't like this one. Good cast/not so good plot.I bought it/then viewed it. Would not recommend the same. Lisa C, ... Read more

Reviews (11)

Some of the best acting I've ever seen in pornography.
It's porn. It's romantic, it's full of accurate dialogue and character points, but it's pornography. However, Nick Mancuso is a wonderful actor and it's actually a good film. I would imagine that the sort of people who can see the good acting is Showgirls would recognize this movie's appeal.

Dark Prince:Intimate Tales of the Marquis de Sade
Excellent! Deliciously wicked, darkly witty, a masterpiece. Nick Mancuso gives an arousing performance as the "Dark Prince." His treatment of this notorious character is most decadent. Overall this film is poorly directed, and with the exception of a wonderful Nick Mancuso, poorly acted, but that's okay. This film is more fluffy brain candy than anything else. It's just fun to watch. The viewer is hard pressed not to begin feeling compassion for the Marquis, all the while despising him for being such a naughty man. Fortunately there is just enough humour, albeit dry humour, to take the edge off the seriousness of the underlying story. A must see for those with a taste for the different in "candy for the mind". Enjoy.

dirty, dark, twisted, and delicious
This film combines Sade with his fictional world and presents a erotic and comedic rollercoaster. Yes it's low budget, but that just adds to the exploitation experience. Mancuso is superb. I'm fine with Rhys Davies limted screen time and he does what needs to be done, but is not the focus of the film and shouldn't have been given more to do than he does. This film is perfect for what it is and far better than most fims of this type. Exquisite delectable trash with panache is what you will be served and like it. Read if you want something closer to the historical de Sade. Watch if you want to be aroused, disturbed, tickled, and touched.

What is WRONG with hollywood?
Im fed up! I can't rely on the movie industry to put out a reasonable, (purely)fact-based representation of the Marquis' life!I actually had high hopes for this movie bacause it was said to be based on the true story. SORRY! TRY AGAIN! I was apalled!Bad acting, bad directing, horrible story line, and low budget. Thats not even all of it. When are the creators of movies going to realize that enough happened in his life that its not even nessesary to make things up? Theres no way in [heck] that the things that happen in this movie could have happened, so why proclaim it "based on a true story"? It's clear to me this is not so, and that he is merely a character in a line of events (so distorted and rearanged!) based on a loose description of De Sades' life (with some conveinient changes).I'm sorry, but I thought this movie was atrocious, and I once again wait to see a biographical movie worthy to carry his name.

Dark Prince
Althought I like Nick Mancuso and usually movies about the Marquis De Sade, I didn't like this one. Good cast/not so good plot.I bought it/then viewed it. Would not recommend the same. Lisa C, ... Read more

Reviews (23)

Not That Bad
No, it is not the classic story written by Asimov. In fact, it seems very loosely based on it. Apart from this fact, the movie is mildly entertaining and NOT the terrible anti-classic that most of the other people writing reviews seemed to think. Overall a decent movie, decently acted.

Zzzzzzzz
This set a record in my life's movie-watching experience: I rented it three times, always willing to give the benefit of the doubt, and three times I couldn't stay awake through the first hour.
Asimov's story is a classic; this is a classic dud.

Asimov's 'Nightfall': A Challenge In Reviewing
When I first read Isaac Asimov's short story "Nightfall", I was stunned and left gasping at its powerhouse of a closing. When I finished watching the filmed version, I was also stunned and left gasping--but for quite different reasons. All the mystery and beauty of the short story that sought to explain a millenia old phenomenon of a planet's first and last nightfall was not only lost in the movie, but even on a technical level of competence, from the wretched directing of Paul Mayersberg to the incompetent acting of David Birney and David Carradine, this movie quite unintentionally presents both a challenge and a dilemma to those whose job it is to pass judgment on its merits. For truly abysmal efforts like ROBOT MONSTER or PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, these efforts nevertheless retain the saving grace of something that clicks with the audience, whether that something be the excessive exuberance of John Barrows waving his arms in a gorilla suit from ROBOT MONSTER or the perversely androgynous heavy-handedness of director Ed Wood in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Even 'bad' movies can have a style of their own that comes into play usually late at night in a marijuana filled college recreation room. But what separates the fun of enjoyable bad movies from the torture of having to sit through garbage like NIGHTFALL is the deadening seriousness of the collective hands of all concerned from director to writer to actor. In such movies as this, there is nowhere to be found any lightness of attitude or just plain old fun. It is as if such films serve only to remind the audience that there are indeed moments in our lives that call for infinite patience while someone drives sharp needles under our fingernails. Yet, I do not want to have to pay for such dubious pleasure. With films like this one, I did.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 1000000 times
I love Asimov. When I wandered the aisles at the local rental yard, I though "cool - Asimov!" and rented it.
I really do want my money back, in fact, I want to be paid for my time wasted. I didn't know a movie could possibly be this bad.
This is THE movie that convinced me to never rent anything without checking online reviews by others beforehand. What a TOTAL INSULT TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SCI-FI WRITERS OF ALL TIME. The man who fanticized positronic brains in the '50s which still exist today in the "Data" character on Star Trek, TNG.

I still go to that video rental store, and when I see it still available on their rack, I feel enraged that someone might get [a bad deal] like I did.
There needs to be a warning label, like what is required on a pack of cigarettes, alerting the buyer or renter of the absolutely dangerously putrid nature of this film.
This is THE film that will convince amazon.com to extend their "star" rating system to not only include zero, but negative stars as well.

If only I could puke in plain text, you would see it here.

Not even worth the ONE STAR
Why was this movie even made? This is the type of movie that Holywood producers see and think "Well, if it was written as a book first, we might as well throw away the script now." It gives a bad name to movies based on books.

I have never read the original book, Nightfall, and have hardly touched any of Asimov's works, but this movie makes me want to keep away from any books by the "Renowned" and "Award Winning" author.

The movie was obviously filmed in India and uses locals as extras. The only people with lines are Caucasian except for the two "villains" who spend more time making faces while speaking than they do making any sense of the lines they have been fed. David Caridine has never been a good actor. The "Kung Fu" series I consider a pathetic excuse for a joke. The only good thing about this movie is the art on the DVD/VHS cover.

The leads are two caucasian women in mid-eighties clothing with bulky purses that contain laser-pistols. They use a modern telescopic camera lens on an antique telescope found in a cave; that would be laughable if they bothered to take a moment to exploit it a bit. Good or bad, not one person in this film is even slightly attractive. Whatever the producers of this film were thinking when they made it, or whatever they were on, it was really a huge waste of time and money.

Don't waste your money on this... ... Read more

Reviews (23)

Not That Bad
No, it is not the classic story written by Asimov. In fact, it seems very loosely based on it. Apart from this fact, the movie is mildly entertaining and NOT the terrible anti-classic that most of the other people writing reviews seemed to think. Overall a decent movie, decently acted.

Zzzzzzzz
This set a record in my life's movie-watching experience: I rented it three times, always willing to give the benefit of the doubt, and three times I couldn't stay awake through the first hour.
Asimov's story is a classic; this is a classic dud.

Asimov's 'Nightfall': A Challenge In Reviewing
When I first read Isaac Asimov's short story "Nightfall", I was stunned and left gasping at its powerhouse of a closing. When I finished watching the filmed version, I was also stunned and left gasping--but for quite different reasons. All the mystery and beauty of the short story that sought to explain a millenia old phenomenon of a planet's first and last nightfall was not only lost in the movie, but even on a technical level of competence, from the wretched directing of Paul Mayersberg to the incompetent acting of David Birney and David Carradine, this movie quite unintentionally presents both a challenge and a dilemma to those whose job it is to pass judgment on its merits. For truly abysmal efforts like ROBOT MONSTER or PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, these efforts nevertheless retain the saving grace of something that clicks with the audience, whether that something be the excessive exuberance of John Barrows waving his arms in a gorilla suit from ROBOT MONSTER or the perversely androgynous heavy-handedness of director Ed Wood in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Even 'bad' movies can have a style of their own that comes into play usually late at night in a marijuana filled college recreation room. But what separates the fun of enjoyable bad movies from the torture of having to sit through garbage like NIGHTFALL is the deadening seriousness of the collective hands of all concerned from director to writer to actor. In such movies as this, there is nowhere to be found any lightness of attitude or just plain old fun. It is as if such films serve only to remind the audience that there are indeed moments in our lives that call for infinite patience while someone drives sharp needles under our fingernails. Yet, I do not want to have to pay for such dubious pleasure. With films like this one, I did.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 1000000 times
I love Asimov. When I wandered the aisles at the local rental yard, I though "cool - Asimov!" and rented it.
I really do want my money back, in fact, I want to be paid for my time wasted. I didn't know a movie could possibly be this bad.
This is THE movie that convinced me to never rent anything without checking online reviews by others beforehand. What a TOTAL INSULT TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SCI-FI WRITERS OF ALL TIME. The man who fanticized positronic brains in the '50s which still exist today in the "Data" character on Star Trek, TNG.

I still go to that video rental store, and when I see it still available on their rack, I feel enraged that someone might get [a bad deal] like I did.
There needs to be a warning label, like what is required on a pack of cigarettes, alerting the buyer or renter of the absolutely dangerously putrid nature of this film.
This is THE film that will convince amazon.com to extend their "star" rating system to not only include zero, but negative stars as well.

If only I could puke in plain text, you would see it here.

Not even worth the ONE STAR
Why was this movie even made? This is the type of movie that Holywood producers see and think "Well, if it was written as a book first, we might as well throw away the script now." It gives a bad name to movies based on books.

I have never read the original book, Nightfall, and have hardly touched any of Asimov's works, but this movie makes me want to keep away from any books by the "Renowned" and "Award Winning" author.

The movie was obviously filmed in India and uses locals as extras. The only people with lines are Caucasian except for the two "villains" who spend more time making faces while speaking than they do making any sense of the lines they have been fed. David Caridine has never been a good actor. The "Kung Fu" series I consider a pathetic excuse for a joke. The only good thing about this movie is the art on the DVD/VHS cover.

The leads are two caucasian women in mid-eighties clothing with bulky purses that contain laser-pistols. They use a modern telescopic camera lens on an antique telescope found in a cave; that would be laughable if they bothered to take a moment to exploit it a bit. Good or bad, not one person in this film is even slightly attractive. Whatever the producers of this film were thinking when they made it, or whatever they were on, it was really a huge waste of time and money.

Don't waste your money on this... ... Read more