Dark Moon Rising

DO NOT BELIEVE THE FALSE REVIEWS. This film was awful from the start. The acting was dreadful, the effects were utter pants, it was like watching a very cheap version of Twilight with a little blood in it. If you are going to watch this film because of the rating like i did, don't. No spoiler's in this review, i was just glad the film wasn't on for that long, i couldn't wait for it to finish. If you want to see a great werewolf film, go and watch such films as Wer, An American Werewolf In London, any one f these two will make you happy that you have watched them unlike this film. I would only give this film, a 2 rating maybe a 3 if pushed for it.

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.

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 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.

"A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years. She holds the key to their survival and all will die who stand in their way."

Read the above summary, because that is the ONLY explanation that you will get this ENTIRE movie. I wish I could give this a 0.

I have no clue what this movie was even about. Apparently some Werewolves with Gypsy powers are camped out in the woods, and occasionally eating people? The main character looks like he was plucked out of Final Fantasy 8 and thrown into a werewolf movie with 0 plot.

And then the main female role "Le Dawn" is in his imagination? Or she's a werewolf? Or she's a fairy? I don't even know. And then the main character gets teleported all over the place, and wakes up drooling. Is he a werewolf or something too? I don't know. Then he gets recruited by werewolf hunters? Who knows what the hell they were. The main character even asked for an explanation. And some drunk is like "I was in Vietnam, here have a flashback".

And mixed into all of this "movie" are scenes of a poorly CGI'ed werewolf randomly eating people. The werewolf is clearly arthritic, and no explanation is given as to how an old, arthritic werewolf is able to catch people.

And better still, why did they pick a cameraman who has cerebral palsy? Why didn't the main character buy a shirt that isn't ripped down the front? Why didn't the person who made this movie take 10 minutes to come up with an actual plot? Why did they superimpose the person's thoughts into dialect that was as equally incoherent as the rest of the movie? Why is everyone dressed emo? Why do werewolves have Gypsy powers?