Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Dawn (2006)

A professor invites his class to a weekend field trip to his house.  Since they have to provide their own transportation, it must not be officially sanctioned.  It's a three hour drive and in the middle of nowhere.  Most of the class love the peaceful, isolated house. But others, like as Osiris who took the class for an easy A, hates that they aren't in the city.

The kids sit around, talk,  and smoke while the lesbians get busy upstairs.  But things are not what they seem as the house has an alter for rituals and the kids start getting killed.  Well, it's more accurate to say after an hour of nothing happening, some of the  kids die off camera.

The movie is incredibly lame and contrived.  There is a twist ending, but no real resolution and no background or exposition on why this occurred.

Issues with the film include:
  • filming on the street using a mic and no ADR so background noise often drowns out dialogue
  • it's the third time there's been a dead girl in the college hallway but classes continue as usual 
  • while the professor prays at the alter - you can see a shadow of someone walking up and standing right outside of view,but no one ever steps into the scene
  • hysterical girl screaming gets super annoying
  • during class, students ignore the teacher, talk, put their feet up on desk - this is high school behavior. I've never seen a college professor put up with this.  More importantly, it's college - if you don't want to go to class, then don't go.
  • After the first death, a student declares that it must be one of them because "only someone in our class would know how to cut somebody up like that."  Really?  Because there are only two students who actually pay attention in class and study for tests, so it's either one of them or someone else who has an interest in the subject.
  • professor tells them to stay with dead body in middle of woods while he goes back to house to call for help. No freakin' way!  There's a killer in the woods, a dead body at a ritual sacrifice site, and you want me to stay there?
  • the lesbians are right out of cliche lesbian movie scenes 101
Also the cover is the best thing about the movie and nothing resembling that takes place.

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