A group of students take a college credit course about indigenous cultures at a rural retreat. But, when darkness falls, they find out that the curriculum also included their bloody deaths. ... Read allA group of students take a college credit course about indigenous cultures at a rural retreat. But, when darkness falls, they find out that the curriculum also included their bloody deaths. Survival depends on staying alive until The Dawn.A group of students take a college credit course about indigenous cultures at a rural retreat. But, when darkness falls, they find out that the curriculum also included their bloody deaths. Survival depends on staying alive until The Dawn.
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I'm not big on reviews, but, for a horror movie it wasn't all that bad, from the beginning, to the end, I got a sense that college students were studying indigenous cultures, and wanted, to get a little more involved, with the class and went, to a farm out, of town nothing wrong with the plot, could've went through the scenes slower, and built in a little more suspense, it seemed like the scenes were rushed through, need to use the five senses going through the scenes, would've made the scenes seen more believable, besides that a tipikle low budget horror movie with actors, in their first movie roll. Good luck!
This movie spent way too much time on horrible music filler and crappy dialogue. It was a terrible exploitation of urban vernacular and stereotypical racial norms. Do NOT waste your time.
When I first read up on this film I thought it might be something interesting to watch well I was completely wrong. The introduction to the movie alone was far too long and with the constant flicker of the slide projector was enough to send people into epileptic seizures. The individual that directed this picture really could've use some assistance. You have a scene with a dead body at the beginning and everybody's pushing their way into see this body even after they screen which that is it natural and then two individuals are outside talking like nothing happened. The girl talks about oh so and so and so just pulled up and in the next scene he standing outside leaning against the car. And the acting is below subpar I know these people are not professional actors but I believe they could've had an acting coach available to assist them. Even though I only read it to stars I always watch the film to the end to make sure that I get the full impact of the story and if it possibly improves compared to others that just stop like halfway through but even watching this movie all the way through not worth the time
'The Dawn' didn't have an awful lot to go for it, other than the cool and creepy-looking cover. Being not completely grabbed by the concept and not being a fan of the style of camera-work employed in the film, a feeling made worse when officially diagnosed as an epileptic six years ago. Watched it anyway as someone out of curiosity and who is oddly intrigued by low budget horror and didn't want to watch it with any bias. Have seen a lot of rubbish ones for a while now, but there are those that do overcome their budget limitations and are watchable films.
It is sad to say that 'The Dawn' is not one of those. Don't be fooled by the creepiness of the cover, this is a dreadful film in every way in my opinion. Saw no redeeming qualities at all and the flaws were more terrible than bad. Of the low budget horrors and film seen recently, 'The Dawn' is a strong contender for the worst. It is among the worst films of its type. It is also down there as one of the worst films overall again recently seen, as well as ever. Have seen some awful films in my life but there are not many of those that made me wonder what was going on the entire duration of the film or wonder whether there is even any kind of plot. Felt both of those things watching 'The Dawn', which is one of the worst examples for both.
Hard to know where to begin criticising 'The Dawn'. The camera work is nauseating throughout and completely lacks slickness, often it makes what is going on on screen very confusing and sometimes incomprehensible. Am not a fan of rap, which has never felt like music to me, and 'The Dawn' did nothing to make me change my mind, actually found myself hating it even more after the film finished.
Cannot say much better about the script. Consider it one of the worst assets actually, being one of the most non-existent and incoherently structured scripts known to mankind and that is when you can actually hear it. Detected very little story here in 'The Dawn' and felt misled when reading the concept in the summary here. The film is just so uneventful and the pace is deadly dull throughout, due to having pointless scenes going on for too long. It felt like the film was being made up on the spot, except everyone involved had no experience in it and executed it terribly.
Did not find myself investing in the characters at all, very little personality and another thing that distracted me throughout was the way the characters behaved in either decision making or towards each other, made them near-detestable. The chemistry between them is very stilted and the acting gave off the vibe that the actors were picked up from the street and co-erced into doing the film. Yet not knowing what to do and constantly forgetting lines.
Overall, dreadful in every way. 1/10
It is sad to say that 'The Dawn' is not one of those. Don't be fooled by the creepiness of the cover, this is a dreadful film in every way in my opinion. Saw no redeeming qualities at all and the flaws were more terrible than bad. Of the low budget horrors and film seen recently, 'The Dawn' is a strong contender for the worst. It is among the worst films of its type. It is also down there as one of the worst films overall again recently seen, as well as ever. Have seen some awful films in my life but there are not many of those that made me wonder what was going on the entire duration of the film or wonder whether there is even any kind of plot. Felt both of those things watching 'The Dawn', which is one of the worst examples for both.
Hard to know where to begin criticising 'The Dawn'. The camera work is nauseating throughout and completely lacks slickness, often it makes what is going on on screen very confusing and sometimes incomprehensible. Am not a fan of rap, which has never felt like music to me, and 'The Dawn' did nothing to make me change my mind, actually found myself hating it even more after the film finished.
Cannot say much better about the script. Consider it one of the worst assets actually, being one of the most non-existent and incoherently structured scripts known to mankind and that is when you can actually hear it. Detected very little story here in 'The Dawn' and felt misled when reading the concept in the summary here. The film is just so uneventful and the pace is deadly dull throughout, due to having pointless scenes going on for too long. It felt like the film was being made up on the spot, except everyone involved had no experience in it and executed it terribly.
Did not find myself investing in the characters at all, very little personality and another thing that distracted me throughout was the way the characters behaved in either decision making or towards each other, made them near-detestable. The chemistry between them is very stilted and the acting gave off the vibe that the actors were picked up from the street and co-erced into doing the film. Yet not knowing what to do and constantly forgetting lines.
Overall, dreadful in every way. 1/10
The movie wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be. I Mean i went in thinking it was going to be the worst thing ever but the cast was pretty entertaining. It was just so damn boring and there was nothing scary about it. It could have been such a better movie if they didn't do anything but talk and scream the whole damn time. And you never quite know what they are screaming about! They didn't even show how anyone died. And the ending....so what exactly happened to Carmen? Are we supposed to guess? I can't believe i even watched it to the end. I seriously fast forwarded through the scenes to actually see where it was going and it seemed like i was fast forwarding through the same thing over and over. All they did was scream and shout which was pretty annoying! And the lesbians were driving me nuts! They kept touching each other.It was so annoying. I mean don't get me wrong i have nothing against lesbians since i myself am bi, but you don't have to be touching your girlfriend every 5 secs. And it wasn't even like sexual or anything. Plus one of the girls Spanish was so thick you could hardly understand her. Not to mention the only time they didn't touch was when you wanted them to! It was a waste of time but it just irks me that this had potential if you actually had a plot.
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- ConnectionsFeatures Les enquêtes extraordinaires (1987)
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