Dark Match is a 2024 Canadian slasher film written and directed by Lowell Dean, starring Ayisha Issa, Steven Ogg, Sara Canning, and Chris Jericho.

Nicky’s pro wrestling “heel” (I.e. bad guy) persona is Miss Behave and she is a headliner/main event talent.

One night at a small local event, Miss Behave shoots on Kate and punches her, breaking her nose.

SAW has a scumbag promoter who somehow books a lucrative one-night show in some remote village that ultimately is a town of cultists whose leader is The Prophet (Y2J/Jericho).

In the eve of the matches at the big party, we meet The Prophet who gives a very 1997 Don Callis-esque promo and the people clearly are his subjects.

We later learn The Prophet was also once a pro wrestler that took on a dogmatic, religious persona that evidently bled into his “real life” and he actually became a cult leader after disappearing for years.

Things go askance when Nicky sees members carrying guns, SAW wrestlers (Ogg) claim to have been drugged, lame dudes are getting women, and Kate the Great seems to be lapping up every second of it.

Participants from the first Wind Match (Thick n Thin tag team) do not return to the Heel locker room and Joe becomes seriously alarmed now too.

After some scuffling and a “false kill finish”, Behave snaps Kate’s neck while crying and confused beyond comprehension.

Back up in the ring area, The Prophet (Jericho) begins to weep over Kate’s dead body and it’s revealed she was his daughter.

We also begin to see video cameras and clips of The Leader taking to an audience and demanding they remember Kate the Great.

In a private conversation with his top lieutenant, The Leader/Prophet reveals his motivations are based on a years-long resentment towards SAW for taking “everything from me, even my own daughter”.

Meanwhile upstairs, Enigma hits his opponent with a Lawler-style flying punch off the top rope (broken glass still on fists).

We cut back up to the ring and see Enigma killed by his opponent with a broken glass-punch to the stomach, which he drives in further to close the deal.

Back upstairs, we have chaos as the crowd disperses among gunfire and there’s a showdown with Joe and Nicky vs. Leader/Prophet and his top right hand guy (Eklund).

After some back and forth fighting, with Nicky more than holding her own, Enigma joins the fray and kills the ltnt with a missile dropkick that forces Mr.

While limping away, Nicky grabs the “Undisputed Champion” title belt from the ring as Rusty swings by in a truck to gather Behave and Joe.

While they make their escape, the surviving cult lady dragging Enigma back to the Pentagram room to complete “the ritual”.

It appears to be conjuring something while she laughs maniacally, but we then cut to a wintry daytime scene of the 3 SAW survivors seemingly driving away and making a safe escape.

[3] Richard Crouse gave the film three stars and wrote, "Director Lowell Dean embraces the grindhouse aesthetic, bringing dynamic camerawork and inventive lighting to create energy and suspense.