whiteowl1 so last night a friend is over and we're at the point where we decide to watch a movie. we are perusing through Showtime On Demand and we stop at this charming little production because she recognizes her favorite wrestler of all time is in it. i had never heard of it. before the movie even started, based on the incredibly cheap looking title sequence, i thought i knew what we were in for. a movie you KNOW is going to be cheesy but maybe so bad its at least a little entertaining, so you give it a try.oh boy, was i wrong.the first and only time i laughed was when the little girl interrupts her bedtime story with "daddy, the female characters are coming off a little superficial". after that, i thought we would be getting ridiculous one liners and lots of red karo syrup but that never happened - or maybe it did, we had enough and shut it off about halfway in. i am really amazed we made it that far.everything takes forever in this movie and most of the first half is all montages. people driving and enjoying a sunroof = five minute montage. mean-spirited clichéd lesbians making out = = ten minute montage (side note - every time they used their tongues it seemed the camera cut away... but they both get topless later, and of course the scene takes forever). the demon attacked us & wants to finish us off = 15 minutes of slow paced decision making. virtually every scene could have been cut in half and the point would still have gotten across. and the soundtrack is as bad as they come.once the "demon" (pretty shoddily-made robotic thing) shows up with the now scantily clad, sword-wielding, demon slaying heroine, she kills it then leaves only to be later found doing some moonlit bathing in a creek. but it was too late for me to care.it leads to a confusing jumbled mess with characters you do not care about. the acting is terrible and even though they were trying to make a campy typical horror-comedy, you will not be scared and you will not laugh, you will only end up getting really annoyed.

commonwealthofcanada Dark Rising is your typical bad, obviously quickly produced horror/sci-fi/fantasy movie. It has a strange, unexplained plot with holes so big you could fit an elephant through them. Most of the time I didn't know what the hell was going on but it didn't really matter, it was a simple demon hunter returns from hell dimension to save campers story with confusing stuff added on about witches and a book of evil with plot elements and characters who make no sense or disappear totally for no reason. The acting is bad but there honestly is not much they can do with this script I am guessing. There is a couple topless scenes which is probably the only reason this bad movie got made (like so many other bad movies). Give this one a pass unless there is nothing else on T.V.

wolfshead56 This movie kept me up one night not because it was scary but because it fell into that category of movie that is so bad in that way that you can't tear yourself away. Cheesy is the word. Bare bones plot, bad FX, guys and girls on a camping trip, skin shots and some gratuitous sex(that means it has nothing to do with the plot, just there because it's sex) and, because it's the 2000's and not the 70's said sex is between girls. They make many more like this they are going to have to start building drive-ins again.The plot isn't difficult to follow being on the thin side not to mention one doesn't know if it is supposed to be horror or comedy. Father accidentally opens portal to other dimension. Daughter gets sucked in and is converted to be a demon fighter. 20 years later guy having problems with letting go former girlfriend organizes camping trip with former gf and friends. Would be witch recites the portal again and little girl, now all grown up, springs through, followed by a demon who starts killing the friends. Standard horror plot though there is a bit of a twist on the guy gets girl usual ending. It's so bad it's good though no who, why or wherefore is given as to why this girl is kidnapped and trained as a demon fighter other than the fact that there is a demon. Also the training scenes are so disjointed and quick cut that one might not figure out what the hell is going on.Citizen Kane it ain't but for good, cheesy can't stop watching, it more than fits the bill.

Karen Bellis This movie is lame and not funny at all. The plot doesn't even make sense. Some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension (maybe hell???) and his daughter gets sucked through it or something, then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit (I guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her?) The main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she's more interested in her new girlfriend, and they stumble upon this witch spell book (they want to be witches or something???) and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently. There is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary, obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie. I'm sure the topless girls doesn't hurt there either. The extra features on the DVD were even more confusing than the rest of the movie, I thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing. Who are these people and what are they doing? Basically this is a go-camping-to-make-out-then-fight-a-monster movie but there are a bunch of things (like the other dimension and book seller) than make it confusing. I didn't like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal. I don't recommend watching it though it was just too stupid, I can't think of any part of the movie that was good.