Peter Kets
A promising storyline pathetically directed.Also acting is quite bad but it's not the movie's worse problem.At first the title sounded to me very interesting.And indeed the first third of the movie was really good.But when the villain appears it ruins the horror of this film. It's the worst possible villain of all times!Couldn't you think of anything better?After a while the movie becomes quite boring with gaps in storyline concluding with the worst non climax possible.You really can't guess how horrible the final "battle" is and the only possible way to describe it is "WTF just happened?" Overall you are welcome to try and watch it.Honestly I've seen worse films than this one.My suggestion however would be to watch something else.
aloysius_predato
Not bad to begin with, it was set up well, the acting was good, the atmosphere was foreboding and the visuals throughout the film are realistic and scary; however, once things start going awry in the storyline (when the ghouls show up), they begin to go wrong in production. The story seems to be truncated, and the scope of human emotions disappears. I have never understood how one could watch a loved one be slaughtered in front of his or her eyes and all he or she cares about is retrieving the damned ammunition. Not even when the drive of survival lapses and things slow down are any tears shed. Also, I have major qualms with movies where the person responsible for initiating the dire situation in the first place is the only one to survive it a la Jessica Biel in 'The Texas Chainsaw' remake. These 'stupid kids' will never learn anything this way. I leave you with this... 1st 40 min. 9/10.... 2nd 40 min. -1/10 Yep, it's one of those.
katie-morris2010
I LOVED "Damned By Dawn". If Bruce Campbell was in it I'd give it a 10. I am so sick of CGI stuff. The special effects were great. I'm going to watch it several more times, slow it down, so I can really focus in on them. I wish I'd seen this on a big screen, instead of my laptop. I'll find someone with a large TV. Many of the things done also cracked me up! I groaned along with Paul several times. I wish he'd had a chance to say something about the woman on the road before he ..... So, if you liked any of the "Army of Darkness" movies, you've got to see this. Maybe if they'd got a bit about "Army of Darkness" playing on the TV or showed Bruce Campbell on the TV, it would have been a great clue-in, to coming scenes. BUT anyway, a great scary flick & I recommend it. Made me jump more than once :)
poe426
DAMNED BY DAWN is an excellent example of what imaginative filmmakers using high-tech equipment can accomplish over a 3-year period. (That may sound like a knock, but it's not: it's taken me the better part of a year to get my own VHS epic, THE LIVING DEAD, up and running.) As were classics like EQUINOX, DARK STAR and THE EVIL DEAD, DAMNED BY DAWN is an ambitious undertaking, undertaken by ambitious... undertakers... I applaud the sheer imagination that went into this one (and star Renee Willner ain't too hard on the eyes, either). The novelty of the Banshee as monster shouldn't be lost on the no-budget American filmmakers who continue to turn the earth in the embarrassingly unimaginative "slasher" graveyard. DAMNED BY DAWN is an impressive effort all around.
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