SCANNERS (1981) During a scientific demonstration of psychic powers, volunteer Darryl Revok literally blows the mind of the scientist performing the display (in full view of an audience,) and then escapes from security agents. Homeless derelict Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) is detained by agents of th...

Tremors (1990) & Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1995 Tremors: Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon play a pair of drifter-type jacks-of-all-trades in an undisclosed Southwestern U.S. desert area. (Read as Paramount's back lot). Finn Carter plays a geologist that is studying strange underground tremors in the area...

SPLIT SECOND (1992) Let me make something clear: I didn't give this movie a "must see" because it was a great movie, heck, it's not even a good movie. But the setting is so well done, so Dark Conspiracy, you have GOT to see it. In 2008, the greenhouse effect has melted the polar ice caps a...

Dark City (1998) Noir-dark and extremely well-crafted sci-fi yarn starring Rufus Sewell as John Murdoch, a man with no memory, being pursued by the city police (who believe he is carving up prostitutes,) and strange pasty men with bizarre mannerisms and abilities. Also stars William Hurt as Inspecto...

Crossworlds (1996) Wimpish student Joe Talbot (Josh Charles) is woken one morning by the attractive Laura (Andrea Roth) who saves him from a kidnapping attempt by mysterious armed men. Meeting up with freedom fighter A.T. (Rutger Hauer), Talbot soon finds himself drawn into an age-old fight against ...

AKIRA (1988) Groundbreaking anime (Japanese animation) about a biker gang living in Neo-Tokyo after World War 3. One of their own is kidnapped by the government so that his psychic powers could be fully realized, only to the detriment of the city as a whole. The story and characters are very intelli...

PREDATOR 2 (1990) There's a full scale war on the streets of Los Angeles, with heavily armed Colombian drug gangs battling against West Indian Yardies and their voodoo-using leader, King Willie. In the midst of this is LAPD cop Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) and his overworked and woefully overstretch...

THE TRIANGLE (2006 TV miniseries) Whilst interfering with a whaling expedition, a Greenpeace vessel piloted by Meeno (Lou Diamond Phillips) is sunk, along with the whaler, by a strange surge of energy in the sea. Meeno is the only survivor, but when he gets home he becomes convinced that things are ...

VIRTUOSITY (1995) Convict and former cop Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) is a test subject for a virtual reality system designed to help track down serial killers. At the core of the program is SID 6.7, an amalgamation of the personalities of over 150 multiple murderers. Programmed with full self ...

THEY LIVE! (John Carpenter, 1988) Unemployed (and unnamed) construction worker (wrestling's very own Roddy Piper) arrives in the city seeking work, only to find that things are even worse there than where he came from. Eventually he finds some work, and a temporary home among a group of street peopl...

THE SHADOW (1994) Between the First and Second World Wars a rogue American known only as Yingko (Alec Baldwin) becomes a drug overlord somewhere in Tibet. One day he is abducted by Buddhist warrior monks, whose leader informs him that he has been chosen to fight evil rather than dispense it. As he h...

So I have decided to post the original reviews from Chris Carpenter's long-lost DC-IMDB site on this thread as individual posts. Maybe at some point we can put them up in a separate section, but for now here are some of the reviews from way back when. I am missing a bunch of them but hopefully they ...

Latest news on Clockwork's insolvency saga: --- The insolvency administrator has used the last weeks to get familiar with the workings of the company and to look into various projects - of course including this crowdfunding. And so far things are looking well: We are in productive talks with an Engl...

Sad to hear that Rutger Hauer passed away at the age of 75. So many of his movies were inspirational to the Dark Conspiracy world, including of course "Split Second" which really is DC: The Movie! Blade Runner, Crossworlds, The Hitcher, Armageddon (not that one!), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ...

It's actually quite scary but I don't recall why it was decided that the book should be of a certain size, That said, it is possible that I wasn't consulted about such matters - I genuinely don't remember though so I'm not going to cast aspersions. I do remember that we were going to put out a bunch...