At Dawn They Sleep

What exactly is so impossible to understand about At Dawn They Sleep? It's not that incoherent, and the editing is not that terrible. Wanna know what I think? I think you people have been so completely brain-washed by the dazzling special effects of The Transformers, and the sweet-natured tomfoolery of The High School Musical trilogy, that you couldn't possibly tell what makes sense and what doesn't. So, next time you try out some independent art, and decide to not pay attention, keep your simple-minded, Mainstream-loving opinions to yourselves.

Did I just call a Brian Paulin movie "art"? Wow, I've been watching these movies for far too long. Nonetheless, At Dawn They Sleep is a totally underrated, ambitious, shot-on-video, apocalyptic gore-fest about two drug dealers who are unknowingly transformed into Vampires by a couple of Angels, in an attempt to wipe out the Human race so that the Angels can have Earth all to themselves. How these two new Vampires are supposed to take out the entire world is beyond me, but just go with it, I guess. Assuming the undead drug dealers are at all capable of the task at hand, the Demon world now has a thing or two to say about the situation, yet, their role in this isn't what you might expect.

How bout it? Spiteful Angels plotting on Humans? Helpful Demons offering their demonic support. A bit blasphemous, in deed, but I just can't deny quality horror when I see it. All kidding aside, Brian Paulin has a gift, and this day in age, underground film-making, done the right way, isn't as easy to come by as it once was, although, things still aren't quite as bad as they were in the 90's. With that said, At Dawn They Sleep kinda reminds me of a shot-on-video horror movie from the early 90's, called Shatter Dead, although, At Dawn They Sleep is obviously much more professional, as well as entertaining and action-packed, not to mention, interesting. The idea of Angels sabotaging Humans out of jealousy , because they feel God has favored us over them, is quite intriguing. If you don't hate low-budget horror with absolutely no socially redeeming values, and doesn't follow "the safe pattern", then you've found a new addition to your collection. This is real horror for real horror fans. 8/10

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.

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.

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.

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.