Dark Moon Rising

**UPDATE 7th August*** So it looks like someone involved with the movie got upset with the negative reviews from real viewers and felt the need to post even MORE positive fake reviews on the 6th August under the following usernames......

AlvinJEllis AlvinJShort AlvinAScott AlvinaMGrace AltonJJames AlonzoEPuckett AlmaFSampson AllenNThompson AllenJRawlins AllenJGalvin AllanAHallam AlissaPVillarreal AlisonCChavez AlishiaPGonzales

I guess it could be just a coincidence that all 14 users who posted reviews that day had names that started with AL?

***Original review****

31 positive reviews for this movie (at the time of writing), 24 of them all joined IMDb on the same date 2 years and 6 months ago, and all 31 positive reviews were written on the same day, 9th June 2015. Obviously cast & crew were reviewing themselves and thought pretty highly of their work, they shouldn't have....

So the movie starts with 2 women dressed in skin tight black leather and Lycra fighting each other, with no explanation as to why or who is who, making the entire fight scene pointless because I don't care who wins or loses, and then a guy..... appears...... who..... talks...... so...... slow ...... overacting ..... that you immediately hope that he dies in the next scene. Then some more stuff happens and a character walks towards the camera and it goes out of focus briefly because whoever was meant to keep the character in focus didn't, they made a mistake and somehow the director and editor let it make it into the final cut. This is BEFORE the opening credits start.

The effects - When I saw the first werewolf in the opening scene I couldn't tell if it was bad stop motion or bad CGI, either way it looked bad. There are so many CGI effect shots in this that it gives the impression that a bunch of students from the local film school were all promised if they each did a CGI effect of their choice it would be written into the movie. There are too many effects, all of them are bad, and most of them are pointless and only serve to distract from....

The story - I lost interest. It's obviously meant to be one of these teen Mortal Instruments or Twilight type films, it just wasn't written very well. It ended up a muddled and confusing mess with no clear direction and things happening for seemingly no reason other than the writer thought "this would be cool" so he put it in the script, this is especially true for most of the sequences that involve effects, they're pointless and add nothing to the story. Characters do things that you don't understand because their motivations are unclear. You can't empathize with the characters because they aren't written well enough to feel like real people so you just don't end up caring about them. The story came across as an amateur attempt by a writer/director who lacked focus. It was not helped by....

The acting - Just not good. Eric Roberts is the best actor in this movie by a country mile, that should give you all the information that you need to know. There is one guy who sounds like Christian Bale doing his Batman voice whenever he talks, it's really funny to watch even though I think it's meant to be scary or intimidating, the rest of the cast are unbelievable at best, annoying and distracting at worst. I think the only thing we can blame for this is....

The directing - Where to begin? The director of this movie is also the writer, and his weaknesses in one compound the weaknesses in the other. For example, he writes weak dialogue for his actors and gets such bad performances from them as a director that in some scenes he has us hearing what the characters are thinking so they can explain what just happened. "did I really just say that?" thinks a girl who has just said something embarrassing to a guy she's flirting with, and then "nice save Amy!" when she says something cool in the next sentence to him, it reminded me of the type of thing that would happen in the TV show Scrubs. Remember that this is supposed to be a serious horror/fantasy movie, not a light hearted comedy. I can't say anything good about the directing in this movie, I've touched on a couple of the things already, the bad acting, the over reliance on cheap CGI effects, the technical issues like shots going out of focus, an incohesive story, conflicting tones, the list could go on, and at the end of the day these problems fall squarly on the directors shoulders. Someone should tell the director that filmmaking is about getting the basics right, to use a well known saying "you have to crawl before you can walk", this director tried to come out sprinting and fell flat on his face.

The final verdict - In case you haven't guessed, I don't rate this movie very highly. If you want a werewolf fix I suggest you watch Ginger Snaps or American Werewolf in London, and I can't believe I would ever write these words, go watch Twilight. That is how bad this movie is, I just recommended Twilight over it.

Lows - Acting, directing, story, effects, all worse than most low budget TV shows.

Highs - The bad guy who sounds like Christian Bale doing Batman, he really is funny to listen to, by the end of the movie we were in tears laughing every time he spoke.

If a tween in the house forces you to watch it I suggest alcohol to lessen the pain and increase the humour of the Batman voice guy - 2/10

utter rubbish. this movie is SO bad that you can't even enjoy or get a kick out of it for being so sh***y ( unlike other awful movies like "trucks" or "birds" which are at least fun to watch for how bad they are) this movie on the other hand quite literally could not have been any less entertaining, could not have had any poorer amateurish quality "actors" (lol) and had the production value of an illiterate 7 year old's you tube video. I read these reviews and see all kinds of people b****ng and moaning about other people giving this steaming pile of crap a poor rating saying things such as "don't watch it then" or "ohh people only give 1's and 10s on IMDb for 'bad' and 'good' and nothing in between" to which i would respond by saying number one, this is a f*cking movie review site, so yes anyone that suffered through this painfully crappy movie is of course going to at least come and bash it here, because it may be literally THE ONLY hing in relation to that piece of garbage film that doesn't make you want to attack the producers for having wasted valuable time in your life by having falsely created hundreds if not thousands of fake profiles to falsely and fraudulently up rate this movie so far that it has a review so out of touch with the films actual content as to make you just want to laugh. so yes of course we re going to bash it here, that's what review sites are for, reviewing. The second thing i will say is that my score of one star is fully thought out, and in fact it would be a 1/2 or a 1/10 of a star if they allowed such, not just because i can only think it terms of good and bad but because this movie was so god awful that the idea of giving it ANY credit at all just sees like a sick bad joke.

Also this movie needs about 10,000 one or zero star reviews to balance it score out to something actually at least semi representative of its absolutely terrible content, ya know, to balance out the 5000 fraudulent fake votes created before this movie was even available to watch, fraudulently up rated by the very unskilled worthless human beings who wasted their self-important talentless time trying to make something that ended up being quite possibly the actual worst 'film' ever created. its f***ing terrible guys really.

Really, to anyone in or involved in any way with this film i will say this: please spare us all the wasted time of any of you ever doing anything entertainment related again, because this was so bad that there is just literally no recovering from, you guys all suck a big fat giant bag of d*cks.... really, you guys are just f***ing awful please never even approach a video camera again, this movie was so bad i wouldn't even tell someone i hate to watch it... in fact so bad, that the idiots who made and are in it deserve to be locked in a room and watch it on a loop for a couple years as their punishments. If ware-wolfs were real they would definitely come and f***ing kill and eat you for making such an embarrassingly awful movie about them.

Im a big fan of werewolf films, since there has been no really good werewolf films out for a while I had high hopes for this movie. The first half of the movie was passable but then it just turned into a drawn out, boring, bland mess of a movie. This film had a horrible script, poor acting, terrible CGI - I felt myself forcing myself to watch this one and in the end I turned it off 15 minutes before it was finished as I could not put myself through the rest of it. I gave this film 2 stars instead of one as it was never going to be a Hollywood blockbuster but it could have been so much better. As for the pages of fake reviews clearly made by cast and crew - we all know you had a limited budget, I think we would all respect you a little more if you had just been honest and said "Its a basic werewolf film, nothing thats going to blow you away" instead of "Its one of the best films ever made" - shame on you

I am not going to give this film a score, as I have to admit I couldn't finish watching it. It's a pretty bad film and I felt like I was wasting my time and had no intention of reviewing it here on IMDb. Imagine my surprise when I checked the IMDb page and found it has an overall rating of 8.8 (higher than GONE WITH THE WIND or CASABLANCA) and NOTHING but very, very glowing reviews....even though the film hasn't even come out yet. While I would hesitate to say it in most cases, it does make you question the voracity of the reviews--especially since many of these reviewers have watched and reviewed the exact same small group of films. What are the odds?!

The bottom line is that this is a cheapo horror film with some rather poor CGI ...so how can it get nothing but 7, 8, 9 and 10 scores as well as accolades such as GREAT, GREAT MIX, FORGET THE BAD REVIEWS (even though as of today, no negative reviews have been posted and mine will be the first) and AMAZING. It's also very odd that when you read through the reviews chronologically, they mostly are in alphabetical order--and the Cs come in bunches as well as the Bs. It's also strange that the film has been rated over 4500 times...yet it hasn't yet debuted! Caveat Emptor--buyer beware!

UPDATE: As of 8/11, the score has dropped to 6.6. This is still WAY out of proportion to the quality of the movie but I suspect as times passes and more folks see it that the score will continue to drop.

UPDATE: A year and a half later, it's 5.2. Still WAY too high (because it's inflated due to the fake reviews) but getting closer to where it should be.

I had great expectations from this flick. It was announced like a very good wolf movie. When I saw 8,8 rate on IMDb,my happiness was over the top. It took me 2 minutes to realize what piece of garbage is this. CGI, acting, directing, script everything is terrible. The worst movie I have watch for a long time. I keep asking my self who can give money for something like this. How can someone sign himself as a director and writer for something terrible as this. And acting, what can I say. It's not B movie it is Z movie category. So if you care about yourself and about your time, skip this insult to the movie and save your nerves and time.