bowmanblue One factor for any good horror movie is that is must be atmospheric. However, the makers of Damned by Dawn take the word 'atmospheric' to mean 'foggy.' The film is about a young couple who return to their family home in the foggiest part of Australia to see a dying relative. However, a banshee pops out of the fog and causes brutal havoc.Now, I read some of the other reviews before I watched this and, I have to say, they kind of lower your expectations. But, for the first third of the movie, I had to wonder whether they were talking about the same film. I thought it was actually quite good. It had a nice (foggy) set-up and some potential.Then came the CGI. Not only are CGI baddies imposed on us, but also, if the cast happen to be running through a non-foggy area, CGI fog is added (and it's really bad CGI fog too!).The one dimensional characters just about manage to act their parts and the banshee's screaming is pretty creepy, plus there's some good gore (when you can see it through the fog), but, overall, I found myself eventually agreeing with the other reviews.It may not be the worst film ever made (not while Michael Bay's Transformers franchise is still on a roll), but it's definitely not the best. Unless it happens to be on and you feel like a so-so horror flick, don't bother paying to watch this.

atinder Damned by Dawn (2009)I like the first half of the movie better , then the second half .for a low budget movie, it has some really good spooky scenes in the first 40 minutes, Ruby did not take long to get started.After the halfway mark that's when the movie changed, , with a number of dreams and in this movie which are annoying.I just could not get warmed to the main lead , I found him somewhat annoying also I don't think the script with all that perfect for some scenes.And the effect at the end were really badI am going to give this movie 4 out of 10

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.

markowitzh The first thirty minutes or so of this movie are genuinely frightening with a murderous creature roaming through a house as several of the main characters desperately try to avoid her detection. But then it takes a nosedive into predictability and banality with amateurish computer generated images of banshees, skeletons,corpses, and, oh yes, thousands of centipedes and cockroaches pouring out of victims' mouths and other natural and human made orifices. If the director and screenwriter had jettisoned the low grade technology and focused on developing some of the intriguing possibilities introduced in the opening sequences, the movie would probably have been a whole lot satisfying. As it is, however, it ends up being just a tad better than the run-of-the-mill slasher movie. One hopes that future efforts by the director will yield better results.