At Dawn They Sleep

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.

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.

I am not ashamed to admit this. I had no idea what was going on for half of this movie. It is one of the most incoherent, confusing things i've ever seen in my life. (I am not saying worst horror movie ever, because that award still goes to "The Maize: The Movie".) Which is sad, because if you look at the general plot of this movie, it actually sounds pretty cool. if it had some better.....well everything, this could have been a pretty cool movie. and that's where my compliments end. To start off with, there are NO likable characters in this movie. AT ALL. Every character is either a demon, a murderous drug-lord, or a revenge seeking angel. You're sitting there wondering who you're supposed to root for in this confusing crap fest.

Speaking of confusing, this movie's editor must have had ADD or something because there are so many scenes where things just skip and jump and you could have sworn you pushed a button on your DVD remote that you shouldn't have. Half the time you don't know who's fighting who, who's where and what's what. The camera jiggling around also doesn't help. The acting by the angel women and the Ian are all pretty laughable not to mention that in the first 5 minutes they must drop the F bomb at least 25 times. classy. The gore is pretty decent but overused to the point of ridiculousness for no reason.

I'm not going to give away the ending, because in all honestly, i CAN'T. i have NO idea how this movie ended. This is one of the most confusing things i've ever seen to end a movie. i wish i knew how the movie ended, but i really don't. i know what happens to the two main characters, but the last 5 minutes are like someone slipped in a soft core porn by mistake. There's another person on this site who left a similar question and i repeat it. WHAT HAPPENED at the end of this movie? i REALLY don't know. see it for yourself and you'll know what we're talking about. With incredible continuity, visual, editing, scripting, and acting errors, this movie gets 1 Angel creating vampires. (i know. don't ask) out of 10.

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??!

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.