At Dawn They Sleep

This is a very good movie to see if you want to fall asleep, because it makes no sense at all storywise, the soundtrack isn't much and the camera movements seem to have made from the backdoor of your grandmother's toilet. The montage isn't much better, as it goes constantly out of image like they didn't have time, money or want (or talent) to shoot certain scenes -if not all of them- over again. The total movie is so bad it should be seen as a way of relaxation like some sort of wellness center to close your eyes, fall asleep and wake up feeling all better; but this is not why we go to the movies... or is it??!

At dawn They Sleep is song about vampires on Slayer's classic album Hell Awaits. It is also a film, most certainly named after the song. The film was made on the cheap, but looks good for the resources they had. The film, of anything is totally metal. There is a soundtrack with Usurper, War, Dawn and others (all appearing courtesy of the legendary defunct Necropolis Records). The film is from the same company that produced Ravage and has similar, extremely gory and ultra bloody action scenes. However, this film moves along faster and is more interesting. Our two main heroes are drug dealers turned into vampires and are pawns in a eternal conflict between angels and demons. There is quite a bit of titillating scenes with nude women to compliment the crazy Hong Kong inspired action scenes, blasphemy and sick gore scenes. At Dawn They Sleep is a very entertaining cheap horror flick with great execution and some interesting ideas. Plus I love how metal this movie is. The man down below would certainly approve.

First of all I would like to react to the other comments. Did they watched the movie I saw? Let me say, you have to respect independent movie makers. They have a hell of a time to make their movie, and mostly they have no budget. Okay, the problem Brian (the director) has is that one of his movies, Bone Sickness, was much acclaimed due the reason that zombie flicks were a hype a few years ago. Not only that for a reason, Bone Sickness was distributed by his own label and a few others some with much fame like X Rated Kult. This movie was made a few years earlier then Bone Sickness so you can't compare both. About the editing, all comments are breaking down the editing but hey, did you guys understood the movie, for me there was no problem with editing. To make the movie going they cut out some frames so you don't have to watch the whole acting, but you don't miss anything. Otherwise they use editing to cut away from no existing effects like flying trough the air and having those crazy jumps as vampires like in eastern flicks. Friends of mine on the web gave me the opportunity to make contact with Brian's wife. After a few mails it came clear that we had an agreement that she would send some signed DVD's. As she did, this one was included. It is watchable and the acting for me was better than in Bone Sickness. The red stuff flows frequently and the gore is intact. Of course as in his flicks some girls have their nudity scene's but it never goes XXX like in those German splatters. That's good, if you want more of them watch the short movie included Damnation. The nudity never distract you from the storyline. I don't know if it was meant to be that way but the girls have there 70's tanned body (T&A are white). Funny to see Brian wearing his Buttgereit T shirt Der Todesking. The stop motion used with the corpse did in fact remind you of Evil Dead, and the end, well I got it, weird that most of the viewers didn't got the end. Won't spoil it, watch this flick in confidence. I have seen more then 1000 horrors, and I can tell you, I have seen worser. For one of his first movies it's a big cheer to Brian. And if you want more watch Fetus.

What a mess. It had potential, but lost it somewhere near the beginning.

I'll start with the good points, there were some. There were a few well done visual effects (I really liked the demon and the cocoons) and the acting was alright, especially for an independent film like this.

Unfortunately, that's where the good points end.

The editing was so bad that I spent half of the movie wondering if I missed some very important part that would let me follow the story. I rewound and realized that I didn't miss anything.

There were a few very pretentious dialogue scenes that seemed to be put in for no other reason than to show how "cool" the movie writers are. Although they were the best scripted scenes, they had nothing to do with the plot. Maybe if they had been cut there would have been time for some scenes that explain what is actually going on.

The ending...could someone explain? I have *no* idea what that was about.

I think that the filmmakers have definite potential, but they need to pay more attention to continuity, and less on naked women and heavy metal.

If you dont like this you're someone I never wanna hang with. This movie is so obnoxiously beer fueled, metal, boobs and gore that I frreeaaakin loved it. Throw the goat and get crazy if you grew up listening to Mayhem and watching shot on video hack n slop movies you are my fam from the underground. This movie smells of beer and cigarettes and no Fs given. Angels are the devil and the devil is us baby. Sure normies wont get it but who cares about them anyways. Killa \m/ :p \m/ Im gonna go listen to some WASP now then watch their other film Bone Sickness for all the farty worm filled gut spilled gorey goodness.