Damned by Dawn

Film 18 - (Sunday)

Next up an Ausralian film, in the vein of Evil Dead.

During a violent thunderstorm, a family is awoken by piercing shrieks which summon the dead to rise again. Their lives explode in a blood soaked fury as they battle malevolent spirits, whilst fighting to save their souls from eternal torment with... the Banshee.

That may sound a great film idea...................but...........

Cast: Renee Willner - Claire, Bridget Neval - The Banshee, Tayn Eva - Jen and Danny Alder - Claire.

Written by Brett Anstey

Soundtrack by Phil Lambert

Directed by Brett Anstey

What I liked? The Banshee!

What I didn't like? Renee Willner, the CGI reaper and skeletons.

Summary:

The replacement for Kaboom, I wish we had kept Kaboom!

Ok, that’s a little unfair, this is ultra low budget film making. It had some good ideas, well one the Banshee this was pretty good, and she looked pretty good as well. But the rest of the CGI looked horrible! It just stuck out like a sore thumb.

They were on the verge of having an Evil dead-esq film here, but completely missed the mark by simply trying to keep it all too serious, plus adding the terrible CGI reaper and skeletons, which kept flying through the air!

This film so needed some funny lines, some gore and no flying skeletons! Even if the script hadn’t hit the mark but attempted to be funny I might have enjoyed it more than I did.

In the end it didn’t really have anything going for it, the story was ok. The script was terrible along with some very stiff acting. Even at just over an hour it seemed to drag!

And I can’t for the life of me remember the ending!

Overall not very good and can’t blame the budget! (3/10)