Tockinit not horrible nor great

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

courtenaymckinnon I rented this movie through my phone one night for something to watch. I never read anything about the movie prior to renting it, just seen the title and decided it was a go. I'm a huge fan of horror movies and I also do like indie films. I liked the plot the movie has. Although, I wish it went in depth a little more when Nan tells her granddaughter what's up. At times it was a little hard to follow but I got the point.Overall I give it a 5/10. Not being mean or disrespectful to the directors, and the actors in this film did a great job and could tell they were committed to the movie.

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.

JenniferBaxter I saw Damned by Dawn on DVD and thought it was a fun horror film and shows what can be achieved by a group of film makers with a great deal of get up and go.Some of the other user reviews here are mean in my opinion. This is clearly a labor of love by a group of film makers who really don't deserve a beat up for wanting to make films like their Hammer House of Horror heroes - which they achieve wonderfully here with all the spooky atmosphere you'd expect.I think Indie film makers in particular will enjoy watching what has been achieved. Watch the behind the scenes, it's fantastic and shows what a fun time making the film must have been. 8 out of 10

Boloxxxi This movie is about a couple, Claire and Paul, who go to visit her relatives outback (it's an Australian movie) somewhere. In the course of their visit, the grandmother, who is very old and ill, tells Claire that she doesn't have much time remaining and entrusts her with a valuable urn. Claire doesn't want to hear such talk but the grandmother continues and tells her we all gotta go sometime (this is true folks) -but that she wasn't worried because "the lady of sorrows" -she who bawls for the dead (actually, they more poetically used "wails" but being a wise-ass I couldn't resist) -would oversee her final journey. As well, she tells Claire that no one should harm the bawling lady (there I go again) or interfere. At this point you can guess what happens: one of them unwittingly did something to the bawling woman and unhappy consequences follow.This movie, in my ever so humble opinion, is overall not a bad movie. The creepiest part unfortunately happens in the first quarter or so of it. So what went wrong after that? "Flying skeletons". Say what???. You heard me, folks. Someone had the bright idea of injecting FLYING SKELETONS in this thing. The effect of this was to make the movie seem a little silly, a little retro, and a little cheap, and therefore to negate or offset a lot of the genuine creepiness it began with. Folks (I think you will agree with me), there is no way in the world flying skeletons are going to freak anyone out; not in this day and age. These days, this is something that you would put in a horror comedy which this was not intended to be.Notwithstanding the above, this is generally not a bad movie. It just lost it's way to further real supernatural creepiness in the early go with the introduction of the skeletons and became more of a "monster" or "creature" movie, of sorts, even though they were supposed to be ghosts. So while much was lost if you wanted to be supernaturally creeped out, there was still creature horror and suspense. And in additional defense of what was not a bad effort, let me say that there are some movies that are today considered cult horror classics that had skeletons in them that looked no better than these, but at least they had the good sense not to make them airborne. Love, Boloxxxi.