Dark Dealer

DARK DEALER is a stodgily executed, low-budget film shot entirely in Texas (and mostly indoors) and intended for video release. It features a trio of stories centered around a blackjack game, presumably taking place in purgatory, run by The Dealer (Mark Fickert). The players are three recently deceased men: Pete (Rocky Patterson); Samson Burke (Vincent Gaskins); and the newly arrived Ray (Richard Hull, Jr.), who's been chased into the "game room" in an empty office building by an airborne fireball. In "Cellar Space," hoodlums Pete and Fred (Charles Carroll) kill Jack (Gene Mann) over a gambling debt and hide from the cops in the basement apartment of nebbish scient...