Terrible acting, hard to follow plot, large sections of nothing happening. At the beginning of the movie I literally thought to myself "this must be some B movie footage that the characters in the real movie are watching. They'll cut to the actual movie soon" ...but the cut never came. The movie remained bad for another 90 minutes. I'd avoid this one
48 Reviews
Some reviews here seem false
kategrina19 January 2020
Um, this wasn't that great. Like not terrible, but I saw the "reviews"and was expecting a lot more. The timeline didn't make a lot of sense, the acting wasn't that great, no good effects. Pretty blah overall. I've seen worse, but I would recommend not wasting your time.
What? Good? Huh....?
awells-7639014 January 2020
I don't know what you guys were watching but this was just horrible. I watch indie movies constantly and this is one of the worst I've ever seen. Awful script, wooden performances and slow as F. Just skip this one, seriously.
Surprisingly Bad
sandyhorvath19 February 2020
It looks like someone got a camera for Christmas and decided to make a film. I always give independent horror movies a chance and too often I'm dealt a mess like this. Some effort in the editing room might have helped but this thing has so many issues that it wouldn't have helped much. Better luck next time.
absolutely terrible
BileBroth18 February 2020
Wow, what an amateurish attempt at a genre movie. Terrible screenplay, terrible actiing, so-so cinematography, no payoff for time invested. There's really nothing compelling to grip the viewer. This is a typical supernatural horror excursion with really nothing interesting to say.
Meaningless movie, wasted 90 minutes of my precious time
Movie_Freak_201922 April 2020
I have no issues if the actors are armature/unknown and the movie is low budget. But when the movie has no meaning and has no plot and when the actors perform so badly and when the movie is boring and dragging until the end, what more can I say.. Sadly I wasted 90 minutes of my life and can never get it back.
Very Amateurish With Very Poor Acting! Just Bad!
zac-6827419 February 2020
A god awful mess!
ferdmalenfant19 February 2020
Do not watch this. It is dreadful.
connorosborne16 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
An absolute waste of time. Have been binge watching horror films in lockdown and we thought we would give this one a go. We were wrong. Absolutely terrible acting, so so wooden it was cringe. The entire film looks like it was shot on a camcorder they got for Christmas. I honestly wanted to give up and turn it off after the first 5 minutes of bad sound quality, iffy cinematography, horribly written dialogue and poor acting. All these things continued for 90 more minutes. It's a shame because the premise, however predictable for the genre, a girl's father murders his entire family, she is the sole survivor, she becomes a Nun, the demons are still with her, seemed promising. There are no jump scares, long periods of nothing happening, we never see the Demon, only in the form of a completely un-scary black hand behind her. The biggest on screen "scary" visual is some damp suddenly appearing on the walls. Wow. We gave up on it in the last 15 minutes and just sat and chatted til it was over, not paying attention, it was that bad. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS FILM.
I've been in love with Stacey Dash my whole life but I have no tolerance for B movies.
tkaine319 February 2020
2/10 🌠🌠 = SACRIFICE
From the start hearing the cheesy opening music over the credits and the first scenes audio sounding like the actors were speaking into a bottle was enough for me to cringe and realize I wouldn't be watching the totality of this film, Combined with the lack of Sfx and the horrible acting skills of the guy who plays the psychotic father with PTSD in the first 10 mins. was just too overwhelming to overcome. Stacey Dash or not this one is a hard pass.
Tame but strong female led paranormal horror
supernovathinkitover4 March 2020
As usual with indie films the reviews here seem polarizing, so of course I wasn't sure what to expect. I'm pretty sure a handful of these are from people who illegally downloaded the movie, so I decided to give it a chance.
The Dawn begins shortly after World War 1. Rose's (Teilor Grubbs, Hawaii-Five 0, the new one) father William (Jonathan Bennett) is showing early signs of PTSD after returning from the war, which he can only relinquish by beating down a mailbox. His proverbial demons get the best of him, forcing him to kill his family sans Rose, who is sent to live in a convent with no other living family.
Flash forward ten years. Rose has grown into an adult (Devanny Pinn, who also produced). She admits in confessionals that her father's demons haunt her and she feels that because of this she cannot take her final vows to become a postulant nun (sorry if my understanding of the steps of nunnery are incorrect).
Whether during dreams or actual events, we see that Rose is also experiencing what appears to be a violent exorcism conducted by a Priest who had been assigned with watching over her as a child. Two fellow Nuns (Stacey Dash and Amanda Day) attempt to offer their advice, as does the unusually good-hearted (for these types of movies) Reverend Mother Agnes (Heather Wynters, who I'd recognized from American Horror Story) and the calm-demeanored Father Theodore (David Goryl, one of the slacker friends of Young Ben Stiller in There's Something About Mary).
Rose continues to see visions of this exorcism, as well as visions of chaos coming about in her real world. I don't want to spoil the last third of the movie, but it turns everything you've seen thus far on its head, unless you've been paying really close attention.
The Dawn has flaws, but every movie does. I don't live in the black or white land of movie reviews so many people do these days. There are some good, if subdued, performances. I can't decide if it needed to be brisker, or if it needed to be longer. However the cinematography is stylish and quite gorgeous at times and watching the movie in surround sound bore a few nice surprises.
Do yourself a favor and ignore the trollish torrent-spawned reviews and ignore the reviews of blind praise and watch it for yourself.
The Dawn begins shortly after World War 1. Rose's (Teilor Grubbs, Hawaii-Five 0, the new one) father William (Jonathan Bennett) is showing early signs of PTSD after returning from the war, which he can only relinquish by beating down a mailbox. His proverbial demons get the best of him, forcing him to kill his family sans Rose, who is sent to live in a convent with no other living family.
Flash forward ten years. Rose has grown into an adult (Devanny Pinn, who also produced). She admits in confessionals that her father's demons haunt her and she feels that because of this she cannot take her final vows to become a postulant nun (sorry if my understanding of the steps of nunnery are incorrect).
Whether during dreams or actual events, we see that Rose is also experiencing what appears to be a violent exorcism conducted by a Priest who had been assigned with watching over her as a child. Two fellow Nuns (Stacey Dash and Amanda Day) attempt to offer their advice, as does the unusually good-hearted (for these types of movies) Reverend Mother Agnes (Heather Wynters, who I'd recognized from American Horror Story) and the calm-demeanored Father Theodore (David Goryl, one of the slacker friends of Young Ben Stiller in There's Something About Mary).
Rose continues to see visions of this exorcism, as well as visions of chaos coming about in her real world. I don't want to spoil the last third of the movie, but it turns everything you've seen thus far on its head, unless you've been paying really close attention.
The Dawn has flaws, but every movie does. I don't live in the black or white land of movie reviews so many people do these days. There are some good, if subdued, performances. I can't decide if it needed to be brisker, or if it needed to be longer. However the cinematography is stylish and quite gorgeous at times and watching the movie in surround sound bore a few nice surprises.
Do yourself a favor and ignore the trollish torrent-spawned reviews and ignore the reviews of blind praise and watch it for yourself.
The Dawn
Playball100-119 February 2020
Starts in 1922 in rural PA. we find a family about to have dinner. the Father (Jonathan Bennett) appears off in thought. Something unforeseen occurs moving the setting forward 10 years. Daughter Rose (Devanny Pinn) has the spotlight shining on her in a bravo performance ! Director Brandon Slagle also co-wrote with supporting cast including Ryan Kiser,Stacy Dash,David Goryl . All taking this journey check this one out!
A giant serving of terribleness
FckVwls26 February 2020
Recipe for The Dawn, 2019:
Take lackluster to downright outrageously poor acting (across an entire cast), toss in a highly mediocre script and badly conceived plot, and season liberally with a soundtrack that is supposed to make everything feel epic, but only serves to make it comical. Mix in a few overdone horror tropes, but be sure to do them badly. Ta-da! Serve cold and don't expect a tip. One of the worst horror movies in the religion horror genre ever made. (And this is coming from someone who enjoys B horror movies, especially when they feature a creepy nun or evil church theme.) The only saving grace in this movie was a few scenes with the ageless and beautiful Stacy Dash (she still looks 25 - now THERE'S a story worth telling!). Skip this movie and watch literally ANYTHING else. By the way, the positive reviews here are shills.
Take lackluster to downright outrageously poor acting (across an entire cast), toss in a highly mediocre script and badly conceived plot, and season liberally with a soundtrack that is supposed to make everything feel epic, but only serves to make it comical. Mix in a few overdone horror tropes, but be sure to do them badly. Ta-da! Serve cold and don't expect a tip. One of the worst horror movies in the religion horror genre ever made. (And this is coming from someone who enjoys B horror movies, especially when they feature a creepy nun or evil church theme.) The only saving grace in this movie was a few scenes with the ageless and beautiful Stacy Dash (she still looks 25 - now THERE'S a story worth telling!). Skip this movie and watch literally ANYTHING else. By the way, the positive reviews here are shills.
Really bad
windsorenquirer24 February 2020
bad,,,just baddd
ravageiskevin21 February 2020
Don't wast your time!!!
analisajayne19 February 2020
This is a horrible movie. A complete waste of time. Where do I even start? Maybe it was the fact that nothing was scary. Or maybe it was the bad acting. The lead female character's best scene was when she was crying with no tears, just smudged eye pencil under her eyes... Gosh, they couldn't even give her running mascara. And what was up with the young male priest? I can't believe that Stacey Dash went from lead roles in "Single Ladies" to this crapfest. And again, just in case you missed it, it is not scary or thrilling in any way.
So bad
ioanbutariu23 February 2020
Waste of time
hanistar10120 February 2020
The movie made absolutely no sense. Bad acting, bad music score, a lot of time passed with nothing happening. The 6.1 score tricked me into thinking this show might get better as time pass. It did not. Please don't waste your time.
Not worth watching
faridtaee-8363131 March 2020
It isn't real
nogodnomasters3 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Rose (Devanny Pinn) lives on a farm in Pennsylvania in 1922. Her dad is still fighting WWI in his mind and kills his family even though they don't have German accents. Rose is protected by a Native American charm that looks like a dream catcher. She goes and lives in a convent where it becomes clear over the entire length of the film, she needs an exorcism as she sees things and has nightmares without hitting the communion wine.
At one point she blurts out she has a symbiotic relationship, which was not a very common term and was used strictly in science. Not sure where the farm girl came up with it, must be the Latin classes. The film lets you know in the end it is a prequel for a famous film series.
Guide: Light swearing. No sex or nudity.
At one point she blurts out she has a symbiotic relationship, which was not a very common term and was used strictly in science. Not sure where the farm girl came up with it, must be the Latin classes. The film lets you know in the end it is a prequel for a famous film series.
Guide: Light swearing. No sex or nudity.
Patience patience
BigSammichBob5 March 2020
This movie takes its time to build. This isn't a huge mess of jump scares like the new IT movies that moves like a heavy metal concert. This takes its time to build mood and atmosphere and for the most part succeeds. I'm not sure why certain people want everything to play like a concert. Sometimes horror requires your personal investment and your time. The horror genre doesn't come only in one temperature.
Nuns Is Not Any more creative.
rianreda21 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
A good experience, but not new as usual, the nuns, but the striking thing is the way to tell the story and the circulation of events, the scenario has surprises, and a good director Brandon Slagle has created a complex dilemma to attract the attention of the audience and increases their waiting for the moment of the explosion of the hero, and also created controversy towards the time period that The events took place, causing some to suspect that all of this was fictional, a brilliant performance by the heroine Devanny Pinn, a very beautiful reincarnation, a film not on a huge budget, a balanced movie.
A snoozefest of epic proportions...
paul_haakonsen23 April 2020
I was lured in by this 2019 horror movie's cover/poster. No doubt about it. I mean, the imagery of a nun, with half a serene face and half a demonic possessed face was just very alluring.
When I sat down to watch "The Dawn" from writers Elliot Diviney and Brandon Slagle - whom also directed the movie - I hadn't even heard about the movie. I assumed it to be a horror movie, and that was sufficient enough for me to have an interest in watching it.
And watched it I did. Or well sort of, I suppose. I managed 46 minutes of this ordeal and I got up and quit. It was such a slow paced movie and in those prolonged 46 minutes I endured nothing happened, and I mean that literally. Honestly, my attention on the screen wavered several times to my phone during those 46 minutes. And honestly, I have absolutely no intention of returning to finish watching "The Dawn".
The movie is listed as a horror, but I have to disagree. Nothing scary happened in the 46 minutes that I suffered through.
I wasn't familiar with the cast in the movie, nor can I claim that there was any outstanding performances, because the cast virtually had nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline or character development.
If you enjoy horror movies, give "The Dawn" a wide berth. It simply isn't worth the time, money or effort.
My rating of "The Dawn" lands on a generous two out of ten stars. And the reason for it scoring two and not just one, was simply because of the production level the movie had.
When I sat down to watch "The Dawn" from writers Elliot Diviney and Brandon Slagle - whom also directed the movie - I hadn't even heard about the movie. I assumed it to be a horror movie, and that was sufficient enough for me to have an interest in watching it.
And watched it I did. Or well sort of, I suppose. I managed 46 minutes of this ordeal and I got up and quit. It was such a slow paced movie and in those prolonged 46 minutes I endured nothing happened, and I mean that literally. Honestly, my attention on the screen wavered several times to my phone during those 46 minutes. And honestly, I have absolutely no intention of returning to finish watching "The Dawn".
The movie is listed as a horror, but I have to disagree. Nothing scary happened in the 46 minutes that I suffered through.
I wasn't familiar with the cast in the movie, nor can I claim that there was any outstanding performances, because the cast virtually had nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline or character development.
If you enjoy horror movies, give "The Dawn" a wide berth. It simply isn't worth the time, money or effort.
My rating of "The Dawn" lands on a generous two out of ten stars. And the reason for it scoring two and not just one, was simply because of the production level the movie had.
Sleepy watching this
rezartamevia14 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The idea is actually pretty good. First 10 minutes is quite interesting. Her family die and she alone.
But after that, they are talking too much. The "scary" part is not even good enough.
After 60 minutes watching, I go to sleep.
After 60 minutes watching, I go to sleep.
Don't waste your time terrible movie
pirarepain5 March 2020
This movie was rated very highly and I for the life of me can't understand why it moves so slow and so confusing and just just terrible terrible movie. do yourself a favor and just forward to the very end and it'll answer what you need to know.
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