Dark Moon Rising (2015) User Reviews

Do not trust the glowing reviews for this movie

[harry-kyles · 2/10 · 4 August 2015]

**UPDATE 7th August*** So it looks like someone involved with the movie got upset with the negative reviews from real viewers and felt the need to post even MORE positive fake reviews on the 6th August under the following usernames......

AlvinJEllis AlvinJShort AlvinAScott AlvinaMGrace AltonJJames AlonzoEPuckett AlmaFSampson AllenNThompson AllenJRawlins AllenJGalvin AllanAHallam AlissaPVillarreal AlisonCChavez AlishiaPGonzales

I guess it could be just a coincidence that all 14 users who posted reviews that day had names that started with AL?

***Original review****

31 positive reviews for this movie (at the time of writing), 24 of them all joined IMDb on the same date 2 years and 6 months ago, and all 31 positive reviews were written on the same day, 9th June 2015. Obviously cast & crew were reviewing themselves and thought pretty highly of their work, they shouldn't have....

So the movie starts with 2 women dressed in skin tight black leather and Lycra fighting each other, with no explanation as to why or who is who, making the entire fight scene pointless because I don't care who wins or loses, and then a guy..... appears...... who..... talks...... so...... slow ...... overacting ..... that you immediately hope that he dies in the next scene. Then some more stuff happens and a character walks towards the camera and it goes out of focus briefly because whoever was meant to keep the character in focus didn't, they made a mistake and somehow the director and editor let it make it into the final cut. This is BEFORE the opening credits start.

The effects - When I saw the first werewolf in the opening scene I couldn't tell if it was bad stop motion or bad CGI, either way it looked bad. There are so many CGI effect shots in this that it gives the impression that a bunch of students from the local film school were all promised if they each did a CGI effect of their choice it would be written into the movie. There are too many effects, all of them are bad, and most of them are pointless and only serve to distract from....

The story - I lost interest. It's obviously meant to be one of these teen Mortal Instruments or Twilight type films, it just wasn't written very well. It ended up a muddled and confusing mess with no clear direction and things happening for seemingly no reason other than the writer thought "this would be cool" so he put it in the script, this is especially true for most of the sequences that involve effects, they're pointless and add nothing to the story. Characters do things that you don't understand because their motivations are unclear. You can't empathize with the characters because they aren't written well enough to feel like real people so you just don't end up caring about them. The story came across as an amateur attempt by a writer/director who lacked focus. It was not helped by....

The acting - Just not good. Eric Roberts is the best actor in this movie by a country mile, that should give you all the information that you need to know. There is one guy who sounds like Christian Bale doing his Batman voice whenever he talks, it's really funny to watch even though I think it's meant to be scary or intimidating, the rest of the cast are unbelievable at best, annoying and distracting at worst. I think the only thing we can blame for this is....

The directing - Where to begin? The director of this movie is also the writer, and his weaknesses in one compound the weaknesses in the other. For example, he writes weak dialogue for his actors and gets such bad performances from them as a director that in some scenes he has us hearing what the characters are thinking so they can explain what just happened. "did I really just say that?" thinks a girl who has just said something embarrassing to a guy she's flirting with, and then "nice save Amy!" when she says something cool in the next sentence to him, it reminded me of the type of thing that would happen in the TV show Scrubs. Remember that this is supposed to be a serious horror/fantasy movie, not a light hearted comedy. I can't say anything good about the directing in this movie, I've touched on a couple of the things already, the bad acting, the over reliance on cheap CGI effects, the technical issues like shots going out of focus, an incohesive story, conflicting tones, the list could go on, and at the end of the day these problems fall squarly on the directors shoulders. Someone should tell the director that filmmaking is about getting the basics right, to use a well known saying "you have to crawl before you can walk", this director tried to come out sprinting and fell flat on his face.

The final verdict - In case you haven't guessed, I don't rate this movie very highly. If you want a werewolf fix I suggest you watch Ginger Snaps or American Werewolf in London, and I can't believe I would ever write these words, go watch Twilight. That is how bad this movie is, I just recommended Twilight over it.

Lows - Acting, directing, story, effects, all worse than most low budget TV shows.

Highs - The bad guy who sounds like Christian Bale doing Batman, he really is funny to listen to, by the end of the movie we were in tears laughing every time he spoke.

If a tween in the house forces you to watch it I suggest alcohol to lessen the pain and increase the humour of the Batman voice guy - 2/10

Why?

[d_orkgiallombardo · 1/10 · 7 August 2015]

"A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years. She holds the key to their survival and all will die who stand in their way."

Read the above summary, because that is the ONLY explanation that you will get this ENTIRE movie. I wish I could give this a 0.

I have no clue what this movie was even about. Apparently some Werewolves with Gypsy powers are camped out in the woods, and occasionally eating people? The main character looks like he was plucked out of Final Fantasy 8 and thrown into a werewolf movie with 0 plot.

And then the main female role "Le Dawn" is in his imagination? Or she's a werewolf? Or she's a fairy? I don't even know. And then the main character gets teleported all over the place, and wakes up drooling. Is he a werewolf or something too? I don't know. Then he gets recruited by werewolf hunters? Who knows what the hell they were. The main character even asked for an explanation. And some drunk is like "I was in Vietnam, here have a flashback".

And mixed into all of this "movie" are scenes of a poorly CGI'ed werewolf randomly eating people. The werewolf is clearly arthritic, and no explanation is given as to how an old, arthritic werewolf is able to catch people.

And better still, why did they pick a cameraman who has cerebral palsy? Why didn't the main character buy a shirt that isn't ripped down the front? Why didn't the person who made this movie take 10 minutes to come up with an actual plot? Why did they superimpose the person's thoughts into dialect that was as equally incoherent as the rest of the movie? Why is everyone dressed emo? Why do werewolves have Gypsy powers?

Unmitigated garbage

[gothicsoldier · 1/10 · 24 July 2015]

This film is awful. This film is beyond all descriptors or adjectives that could be used to imply how awful it is.

The dialogue is garbage. The plot is garbage. The CGI is garbage. The acting is garbage. The Music is garbage. The execution is garbage.

Nothing in this movie makes any sense. It has no internal logic. It neither sets any internal rules for how its universe is supposed to work, nor would it follow them if it did.

This film is the living incarnation of a 15-year old Goth kid's notebook sketches being realized with a budget enough to put CGI in.

The main cast dress like anime characters in a world populated by people dressed like normal human beings. They speak hokey garbage dialogue that sounds like it was intended to be deep. Garbage Nu- Metal-Lite plays throughout it constantly. If you like shoddy Linkin Park knockoffs, maybe the music is for you.

Everything about this movie was garbage, from beginning to end.

Don't let the myriad positive reviews previously here fool you - pure astroturfing by a marketing firm or the cast and crew themselves. Dozens of accounts created years ago with one review: Dark Moon Rising, using common talking points, and mentioning renting it on DVD in reviews all submitted the same day, long before the DVD is set to be released.

So not only is this movie the work of hacks, but also frauds.

Every part of this is garbage, do not debase yourself by watching it.

If you care about yourself, you will never watch this piece of garbage

[sike-tb · 1/10 · 5 August 2015]

I had great expectations from this flick. It was announced like a very good wolf movie. When I saw 8,8 rate on IMDb,my happiness was over the top. It took me 2 minutes to realize what piece of garbage is this. CGI, acting, directing, script everything is terrible. The worst movie I have watch for a long time. I keep asking my self who can give money for something like this. How can someone sign himself as a director and writer for something terrible as this. And acting, what can I say. It's not B movie it is Z movie category. So if you care about yourself and about your time, skip this insult to the movie and save your nerves and time.

Can you trust any low budget film with an 8.8 BEFORE it's released and every review is glowing?

[planktonrules · 1/10 · 23 July 2015]

I am not going to give this film a score, as I have to admit I couldn't finish watching it. It's a pretty bad film and I felt like I was wasting my time and had no intention of reviewing it here on IMDb. Imagine my surprise when I checked the IMDb page and found it has an overall rating of 8.8 (higher than GONE WITH THE WIND or CASABLANCA) and NOTHING but very, very glowing reviews....even though the film hasn't even come out yet. While I would hesitate to say it in most cases, it does make you question the voracity of the reviews--especially since many of these reviewers have watched and reviewed the exact same small group of films. What are the odds?!

The bottom line is that this is a cheapo horror film with some rather poor CGI ...so how can it get nothing but 7, 8, 9 and 10 scores as well as accolades such as GREAT, GREAT MIX, FORGET THE BAD REVIEWS (even though as of today, no negative reviews have been posted and mine will be the first) and AMAZING. It's also very odd that when you read through the reviews chronologically, they mostly are in alphabetical order--and the Cs come in bunches as well as the Bs. It's also strange that the film has been rated over 4500 times...yet it hasn't yet debuted! Caveat Emptor--buyer beware!

UPDATE: As of 8/11, the score has dropped to 6.6. This is still WAY out of proportion to the quality of the movie but I suspect as times passes and more folks see it that the score will continue to drop.

UPDATE: A year and a half later, it's 5.2. Still WAY too high (because it's inflated due to the fake reviews) but getting closer to where it should be.

This movie is by far the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE!

[tickerpop · 1/10 · 4 August 2015]

This movie is by far the worst movie that I have ever had the disastrous pleasure of viewing. In fact, it was so bad I couldn't finish all of it. The rating that this movie has gotten could not have come from REAL people who actually "watched" the movie because no one in their right mind would rate this movie above a 1.

An example of how bad this movie is can be viewed in the make out scene that takes place by the railroad tracks. While they are in the back seat of the car you can clearly see the boom mike right behind the actor, and then watch as it follows him out of the car. How does this happen when there's not one but two editor's for the movie.

Another thing that really makes this movie terrible is the acting from not one, or even a couple of the star's but ALL of the actor's. While I am sure that the director was the reason for most of the utterly poor performances, I can honestly say that these kids can not act at all. Hence the reason you will have NEVER heard of any of them and after this movie bomb, will probably never hear from any of them again.

I don't normally write reviews, but when I noticed that this movie was given an 8.8 out of 10 with over 5,000 people voting, I couldn't keep to myself. In all honesty, the people who voted for this pile of steaming . . . Are better actor's than the people who were cast in the movie because in the beginning at least they were believable or I would not have even wasted my time on this twisted train wreck of a movie.

If you are sitting up one night and you have nothing to do, keep doing that because it's more entertaining than watching this movie. I wish IMDb had decimal points in their rating system because this movie doesn't even deserve the "1" that I Gave it. Oh well, time to go "ralph".

this movie is so bad it made me want to cry that IMDb allowed such fraudulent false up voting... shame on you IMDb.. shame on you...

[pmsharp-59624 · 1/10 · 4 August 2015]

utter rubbish. this movie is SO bad that you can't even enjoy or get a kick out of it for being so sh***y ( unlike other awful movies like "trucks" or "birds" which are at least fun to watch for how bad they are) this movie on the other hand quite literally could not have been any less entertaining, could not have had any poorer amateurish quality "actors" (lol) and had the production value of an illiterate 7 year old's you tube video. I read these reviews and see all kinds of people b****ng and moaning about other people giving this steaming pile of crap a poor rating saying things such as "don't watch it then" or "ohh people only give 1's and 10s on IMDb for 'bad' and 'good' and nothing in between" to which i would respond by saying number one, this is a f*cking movie review site, so yes anyone that suffered through this painfully crappy movie is of course going to at least come and bash it here, because it may be literally THE ONLY hing in relation to that piece of garbage film that doesn't make you want to attack the producers for having wasted valuable time in your life by having falsely created hundreds if not thousands of fake profiles to falsely and fraudulently up rate this movie so far that it has a review so out of touch with the films actual content as to make you just want to laugh. so yes of course we re going to bash it here, that's what review sites are for, reviewing. The second thing i will say is that my score of one star is fully thought out, and in fact it would be a 1/2 or a 1/10 of a star if they allowed such, not just because i can only think it terms of good and bad but because this movie was so god awful that the idea of giving it ANY credit at all just sees like a sick bad joke.

Also this movie needs about 10,000 one or zero star reviews to balance it score out to something actually at least semi representative of its absolutely terrible content, ya know, to balance out the 5000 fraudulent fake votes created before this movie was even available to watch, fraudulently up rated by the very unskilled worthless human beings who wasted their self-important talentless time trying to make something that ended up being quite possibly the actual worst 'film' ever created. its f***ing terrible guys really.

Really, to anyone in or involved in any way with this film i will say this: please spare us all the wasted time of any of you ever doing anything entertainment related again, because this was so bad that there is just literally no recovering from, you guys all suck a big fat giant bag of d*cks.... really, you guys are just f***ing awful please never even approach a video camera again, this movie was so bad i wouldn't even tell someone i hate to watch it... in fact so bad, that the idiots who made and are in it deserve to be locked in a room and watch it on a loop for a couple years as their punishments. If ware-wolfs were real they would definitely come and f***ing kill and eat you for making such an embarrassingly awful movie about them.

Needs a silver bullet

[freqeteq · 1/10 · 5 August 2015]

Never have I felt like writing the words 'Do Not Watch This Movie' over and over again in a review, until now.

If you can make it to the opening credits and still have optimism that this movie might be good, then well done, you did better than we did.

This movie is infuriatingly bad in places and laugh out loud in others. I don't even know where to start with this, there are just so many things wrong with this movie that my head is feeling sore trying to think of them all. I'll stick to the main problems. The story is convoluted, the acting is terrible, the cgi effects are not only bad but also overused as if the director thought we'd want to see more of these rubbish effects than we needed to. It's just one big mess full of characters you don't care about doing things you just want them to finish with so the movie will end.

I watch low budget scifi, horror, fantasy movies and I enjoy lots of them, but this movie is an exercise into how not to approach budget filmmaking. Instead of trying to make some grand fantasy movie full of amazing effects and cool looking leather clad people who look like they've just walked out of The Matrix, and failing at all of those things, the writer/director should of focused on the basics, like getting decent performances from his actors, writing dialogue that sounds like humans might actually say it so we care about what they're saying, and giving us a focused story that made sense.

You can have good movies with bad acting, you can have entertaining movies that have bad stories, you can have engrossing movies that have sub-par CGI effects, what you can't have is bad acting, bad writing and bad effects in one movie and expect people to like it, no matter how many people you get to give fake reviews and vote it a 9 on IMDb.

There are fan made films on Youtube that are free to watch and 100x more enjoyable than this piece of garbage.

This isn't budget or even micro budget filmmaking, it is amateur filmmaking, and not a very good example of it either.

Stay away, Do Not Watch This Movie.

One to avoid

[JerichoGX · 2/10 · 4 August 2015]

Im a big fan of werewolf films, since there has been no really good werewolf films out for a while I had high hopes for this movie. The first half of the movie was passable but then it just turned into a drawn out, boring, bland mess of a movie. This film had a horrible script, poor acting, terrible CGI - I felt myself forcing myself to watch this one and in the end I turned it off 15 minutes before it was finished as I could not put myself through the rest of it. I gave this film 2 stars instead of one as it was never going to be a Hollywood blockbuster but it could have been so much better. As for the pages of fake reviews clearly made by cast and crew - we all know you had a limited budget, I think we would all respect you a little more if you had just been honest and said "Its a basic werewolf film, nothing thats going to blow you away" instead of "Its one of the best films ever made" - shame on you

don't waste your time!

[luxatis · 1/10 · 7 August 2015]

i don't want to wasting your time any more ...this movie not even worth it ...talking about this garbage!!!!!!! i just want to say please don't wast your time with watching this awful movie..

in my opinion , this movie will go to top 10 of worst movie in the world...

so obviously watching this movie just will give you a very bad feeling about wasting time ,(like me in this moment) .. you cant understand any thing about this movie ..from beginning to ..i really i cant understand producer of this garbage!!!

what he wants??

so please choose another movie ..

horri-awful, just terrible

[ohiosrr · 5 August 2015]

Most have already said it better than me by now, wow this cgi. I would guess when a werewolf is going to attack, they probably don't stop and say "venom punch" or whatever the hell it was the lame actor says. LMAO at this, what i can only assume was a rejected school project, wow it is bad. It was kinda like the old Mortal Kombat game where the characters announce their next fighting attack(anybody else get that vibe?), oh my! Or maybe I am thinking of the Wolfman crossed with Power Rangers. What's with all the Lycra???? oh man, too many things to mention. One question to the fellow reviewers who have somehow been able to regain consciousness after watching even 5 minutes of this movie, was the lead male character still in character from the disappointment of not getting cast as an extra/stand-in "brooding vamp/goth/artist/literary critic in the Twilight Series? I can't be the only one that gets that impression... it was quite possibly the worst werewolf movie i have seen, and there are some BAD ones out there(The Big Bad, The Feeding, Werewolf Rising, etc). Anyways, this film is laughable in my opinion. Power Rangers meet Wolfman meet Double Dragon.. I was waiting for Van Damme to make a cameo but I guess his agent talked him out of it

What you expected

[rheofoscher · 8/10 · 4 August 2015]

I don't understand why there are so many people who found it necessary to go online and bash films and the people who create them. I'm sure the film makers are not getting paid from the bootleg copy you watched from your shady cousin who always has the "hookup" or from the free viewing you received from a friend of a friend who "review movies for a living" aka their blog. Finishing a film is very hard, that's why not everybody does it. In today's age I'm surprised people are so comfortable to voice so much hate and negativity. The film is not the best film ever created, but I didn't expect it to be understanding it was made by a small independent company and not a huge studio in Hollywood. I wasn't blown away by big explosions and crazy gadgets, but I was entertained and that was what I was looking for.

Don't judge the film from the title.

[watsoncornelius56 · 7/10 · 8 June 2015]

Please simply don't. There is so much potential here that is truly a piece of fantasy fun! I think the producers should seriously think about updating the "name" though as they move forward with the franchise. Now Watch and Love!! 1. The story line is pretty much a romantic one at heart! Great potential awaits.

2. Amazing actors/actresses are discovered. Especially Anastasia Antone (Dawn). She is awesome. Wolfpack are great villains.

3. The tension and curiosity manipulations and surprise effects works wonderfully.

4. Characters typically develop through the upcoming films in the series but the chemistry between the leads is established immediately. They become more appealing and sincere.

5. Writers do not bore people with unnecessarily kept secrets.

6. Most importantly, this show makes you want to be a part of it. A part of that world, their world. This is important.

Are you still here? Go and start watching.

mediocre at best

[spamtrap-22341 · 1/10 · 4 August 2015]

not sure what counts as spoilers so the box is checked... My evaluation is that of all around mediocrity... acting, dialogue, and cgi's. At the time of my review, IMDb gives this an 8.2 rating! I'm left stunned, wondering how it can get up past 1.5? I suspect that in order to enjoy this, (dare I say movie?) you either have to be seriously stoned or a brain dead zombie. One would think that with today's editing technology and cgi software, the wolves would walk realistically, instead of like they had braces up and down all four legs. Anyone who has ever seen a dog walk is going to the emergency room after choking with disbelief. The werewolves? Oh no. Another tragedy. I've seen better cgi by amateurs on you tube! So maybe they were making this drivel without the necessary budget?! Word of advice to the producer... your name has now become associated with (ah hell we can't even call this a "B" movie) poor quality. AND, in the description we find that this is too be a trilogy. Please stop!

It looks like a student's high school project

[willwriteforgummies-18610 · 1/10 · 7 August 2015]

As someone else said, the rating on this movie now makes me suspect all other ratings of movies here on IMDb. I can be pretty forgiving when it comes to movies, but this deserves no forgiveness. Everything, just every single thing about this movie is so horribly done. Everyone speaks in a monotone. Nothing fits together. So much is completely illogical. Lighting is awful. CGI is the worst I've EVER seen. Music is SO weird. They chopped out every cliché scene from every B horror movie and strung them together and then made it worse. The whole thing is beyond clumsy. I couldn't stop laughing when they showed one of the first wolves "trotting" by a body. It was HILARIOUS...and it wasn't supposed to be. As I said, the best way I can sum this up is to say it looks like a high school project. In fact, that truly is an insult to many high school videos, as I've seen MUCH better quality in many of those, than in this terrible waste of time and resources. Any good review you see on this movie is surely planted, in other words, fake, or from the movie actors' parents or friends...though if they were true friends, they'd tell anyone involved in the making of this movie, "Just NO."

Someone Needs Their Head(s) Examined

[dcarsonhagy · 1/10 · 5 August 2015]

AWFUL doesn't begin to describe this mess. Have you ever started watching a movie and 30 seconds in you knew you'd made an awful mistake? Such was the case for me.

It really takes some doing to mess up a werewolf movie. I would say this Amateur-Night-at-the-Bijou production went out of its way to be bad, but probably didn't realize it. Horrible effects, people who could not act their way out of a wet paper bag, people who look like they've just been hit in the head with a brick, people who warble about, people who WANT to look menacing but can only look constipated, a rave attended by all of 10 people, and dialogue written by someone in a deep coma-- yep, it's ALL in here. And poor Eric Roberts. He has sunk to an all-time low.

I will not do this movie any more service than has already been done. It doesn't deserve it. I will not make an attempt to discuss the plot because, well, I couldn't tell you what the plot was. This was so painful to watch, I kept repeating "God, this is awful." And, yes, I will say it did not hold my interest until the end. I suffered (and I do mean SUFFERED) through about 40 minutes before I finally said enough is enough and turned this POS off.

This version was unrated AND unwatchable. NOT RECOMMENDED.

IMDb Ratings Scammed so director can make $$ off Red Box & Pay Per View on a total STINKER of a film!

[scottmannen1 · 1/10 · 10 August 2015]

Do you check IMDb's film score before you spend your hard earned money on a rental to make sure that it is worth it? I know I did. I always check IMDb first! It's the only way to make sure you are getting your money's worth. Well what happens when the ratings system can be cheated? I checked the ratings on this movie the day it came out, and it already had 5000 votes giving it a score of 9.2 here on IMDb. a safe rental of an awesome movie? WRONG. The movie itself was HORRIBLE. When I say this movie was bad I mean filmed on an cel phone! Here are my movie complaints:

1. Lighting terrible. I could not tell what was happening in the opening sequence at night time it was so bad

2. Sound abhorrent. I turned it up so I could hear the conversation but when action occurred it blew my ears off!

3. CG: definitely high school quality CG done on someone's home computer- it was a joke.

4. Plot: is there a plot? I could tell there were werewolves and students in the film, and there is a lot of violence, but in the middle of a scene it would all of a sudden flip to these dream sequences or fantasy dimensions or something like that with no discernible connection to the story (that I could tell anyways). What the heck did I just watch, and what is going on!?

5. Direction is there even a director? If so I would want to use a fake name or something because having your name attached to this movie is doing your career a dis-service

I know that the director is the shady culprit behind these "hacked" IMDb ratings for a number of reasons, but I and others KNOW THIS MOVIES IMDb SCORE HAS BEEN HACKED for the following reasons:

• The day before this movie opened the IMDb score went from zero votes and zero score to over 5000 votes and a 9.2 score BEFORE it was even released!

• If you go to the member score reviews and put the view setting to "chronological" the first 6 pages of written reviews are ALL POSITIVE. It is obvious they are ALL written by the same person.

• Those 6 pages off all 10/10 and 9/10 reviews are ALL WRITTEN, SCORED AND POSTED BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE! The fake reviews and scores start in June.

• The very first negative review happens on August 4th the movie release date, after the first person watches and literally despises this terrible movie!

• The user names for many of the accounts go like this: Adam4155, Adam4152, Adam4153

• The hacker then changes it up with usernames like: JohnJames, JasonJohns, JeffreyJonson or ScottSam, SallySure, StephanStooki using the same first letter and last.

• Once IMDb users saw what was going on many became upset like me and started posting honest reviews of 1/10 or 2/10 ratings along with hacker complaints, but that seemed to make the director (our hacker) even more determined so he started new waves of positive reviews!

• it is clear that THE HACKER IS THE DIRECTOR. The reviews he makes put the director on a pedestal and seem to praise a lot of this directors older movies (terrible also). They also post on things only a director could know! Upcoming sequel dates, things that happened on set, explanation of scenes etc.

What is going on here is that the director KNOWS HE MADE A BAD MOVIE, but since it is being released on PPV and Red Box and the director gets a cut of the movies rental success, it is in his interest to illegally boost the movies ratings on IMDb so he can make more money on the rentals. Everyone knows that renters check a movies ratings on their phone before renting to make sure it's money/time well spent. It's a slick and profitable scam he has going here. He needs to be banned along with his bad movies.

Don't settle for this people! Bad movies happen, but hacking ratings and comments like this we shouldn't have to deal with. Help fight back!

Rigged Rating Needs Fixed for this POS

[Daedsikcaj · 1/10 · 5 August 2015]

This film is absolutely unwatchable. Complete garbage.

You know those films that are so bad they're good? Yeah this isn't one of them. It's just plain awful.

The camera work is atrocious. I'm wondering, what kind of phone did you use to film this movie?

I can't believe I'm supposed to write ten lines on this pile of dog excrement. I don't want to waste ten words on it. I don't want to think about it for point ten seconds. I'd rather get punched in the face ten times than spend ten seconds watching this thing.

The only reason I'm wasting any time on this is because the day it was released five thousand 9.0 votes suddenly appeared on IMDb. Do you know how many great films there are out there that will never see a cumulative score on IMDb this high? And yet this abortion of a movie has a high rating because of someone's dishonesty, and IMDb is doing nothing to correct it.

The only thing people can really do is try to counter it by putting in as many honest reviews as possible. Yes I did obtain a copy of this film. I watched a little bit, skipped through to see if I could find any redeemable scenes, which I could not, and then I immediately got rid of it. I would have to get paid to watch this movie or even keep it in my possession.

an awful film.

[kjjames81 · 2/10 · 5 August 2015]

DO NOT BELIEVE THE FALSE REVIEWS. This film was awful from the start. The acting was dreadful, the effects were utter pants, it was like watching a very cheap version of Twilight with a little blood in it. If you are going to watch this film because of the rating like i did, don't. No spoiler's in this review, i was just glad the film wasn't on for that long, i couldn't wait for it to finish. If you want to see a great werewolf film, go and watch such films as Wer, An American Werewolf In London, any one f these two will make you happy that you have watched them unlike this film. I would only give this film, a 2 rating maybe a 3 if pushed for it.

It's just awful...

[i-markovic99 · 1/10 · 5 August 2015]

Lets start off with CGI...the budget for the special effects of this film, well heck, who are we kidding, it was most likely outsourced for extra credit to a few undergraduate designers.

Watching the entire movie felt like sitting through a porno film during a family movie night. If I wasn't distracted by the anticipation of the ending of this movie I might have been able to focus on the storyline which was..what is this movie about again? The reason I am reviewing this movie is ONLY for its deception of IMDb rating. There is NO WAY this movie should have been ranked above 8!! The production company most likely paid a promotion company to pump out false ratings-I mean common does this film really belong in the same category as No Country for Old Men, Fargo, There Will Be Blood, Star-wars...etc.

I request that IMDb fully fights these deceptive tactics used by promoters; I devote hours, weeks, months of viewing time based on IMDb reviews and if god-awful movies keeps slipping through the cracks, taking up hours of viewing time I might lose faith in this amazing website and their ability to critic.

Physically Ill

[ateachs · 1/10 · 5 August 2015]

I had no idea a film could make me feel physically sick. I'm not talking about gore. It's just pure crap. I'm ticked that I rented this. I'm trying to decide if it's worth the hold time to call Comcast and get my money back. The CGI is done by an elementary student. Seriously. Lighting is horrible. The thought voice-overs are utterly ridiculous. The camera is all over the place, most of the time it wasn't even pointed at anything. The settings were so incredibly junior high play, it was a joke. I finally just got to Eric Roberts and his lines are so inane that he can't even dig this sh*t out of the pit it should be thrown in. Bottom line, if I got a few friends together and decided to make a werewolf movie, using my camera phone and whatever I can find around my house, I could do better than this.

Dark moon rising review

[fareedimad · 28 August 2015]

One of the worst movies i ever seen, not recommendable at all. It sucks hardcore. I would tell everyone to avoid this movie even if it was the last movie on this earth. The graphics suck , the camera man doesn't know what he is doing. There is no plot at all. They speak to themselves which is a sign that they are idiots.Trust me if they were any good reviews then that person would be ultimately blind. It doesn't even deserve a 0.5 rating.The blood shed, fantasy looks so fake. The music doesn't match the scenes in the movie at all.They jump randomly from each scene.To critic this movie i could just go on and on and still it would never end.My advice avoid this at any cost.

It's mysterious, dark, funny, and sexy

[ortizclifford5 · 8/10 · 9 June 2015]

I think what bugs people about this is that it has a familiar name Dark Moon Rising just sounds like a horror film but when you watch you will know its much better than its title would lead. I get why people are hesistant. But really, this show is not bad. It's mysterious, dark, funny, and sexy. I'm loving it so far.

Yes, it kind of reminds you of Twilight.

But think of it this way: it's like Twilight with much better acting and a thrilling plot.

So really if you don't like, don't' watch it or moan about it.

A lot of other people like it, so respect the other people.

I can't wait for the next film they make!!!!

Failed Film makers stop hating!

[jeffweiss2004 · 6/10 · 25 July 2015]

The movie has an 8.8 and thats from 4500 people! I saw a review that asked how can you trust this before its released but yet he gave a "review"? Get back to your computer dude and worry about working Mcdonalds! Everyone doesn't have to agree with your opinion to be right and wrong its a film! I like Inception and some people hated Inception. I loved Avatar and some hated Avatar how about you spend some time reviewing the film and just give an opinion and stop trying to "SAVE" everyone from a film. Its an Indy film that probably you bootlegged or torrented why are you even commenting? It costs 1.00 to rent out a redbox so what if you hated it I am certain there are a million films in big budget studios that you hate as well. Now on tot he film. It was like a long t.v. episode and needed more in it to be as effective. I like the characters and the different take on werewolves by giving them this Bleach Dragon Ball Z feel. I wasn't too fond of the voice overs in the head thing but whatever. bottom line its a nice rental and an okay film and if you think movies are a "1" then you clearly have never made a film and should stop hating! next time you feel like posting a "1" put up a link to your film so we can compare...if not GET THE HE!@ out of here with that "1" and "worst movie ever" crap..worst movie ever is the one u didn't make because u don't have the talent to even pull off that type of film.

No bite to this movie whatsoever

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 12 August 2015]

Werewolf movies can be fun if done right, but Dark Moon Rising is not one of them, if anything it is one of the worst and most amateurishly done werewolf movies there is. And really is as bad as the negative reviewers have said, who are also rightly outraged by one of the most blatant cases of fraudulent ratings and reviews for any film on this site. Don't wish to be ignorant, being someone who is actually more understanding of opinions than most and tries to see good in everything, but it's very obvious and annoying.

Dark Moon Rising is very poorly made even on its limited budget, and directed in a way that is highly suggestive of the director not knowing how to direct it. The movie is lit too darkly a lot of the time, the sets the few times when you can see them look awfully basic and can't even be called sets, the picture has a quite fuzzy look which may have been a deliberate choice but it gives the movie a faded out and unfocused look, editing is sloppy and the camera work is often very chaotic and doesn't always know where and who to focus on (like seeing the back of someone's head if anybody's speaking). The special effects are incredibly slipshod too (some of them used at inappropriate times), and the movie could easily have done with less of them, nobody minds if the budget's limited, they just want to see effort which Dark Moon Rising didn't show at any time. Any creepy parts in the music are far outweighed by the vast majority of times where the music is recorded far too loud to the extent it and any intrusive background noises drown out the dialogue, unfortunately most of the music itself is also not very interesting and too much of one mood or dynamic.

Even worse is how it is written. The script doesn't even feel like a script, sounding more like lots of random and clumsily written lines strung together that are enough to make one lose brain cells just by trying to work out what it all means, it's that poorly structured and doesn't even try to make sense. The story is even more incoherent, goes at such a laborious pace and is near impossible to follow, sometimes it doesn't even feel like there is a story. Everything is either unexplained or half-explained (if even that) and there are so many tone shifts abruptly introduced (jumping on to the next shift even more abruptly), that you're constantly asking, 'just what is this movie trying to be?' The werewolves are not threatening or scary in the slightest, they are very cheaply and unimaginatively made up and sound bored out of their skulls, which seriously undermines any scares, tension or suspense (none of which are in sight in Dark Moon Rising). The acting is embarrassingly bad with the actors having to work with non-developed stereotypes passing for characters. Eric Roberts gives the movie's best performance and even he is not that good, chewing the scenery to so many pieces that there isn't any left, while everybody else just mumbles their lines with any attempts at emotion sounding overwrought (like at the start).

All in all, a werewolf movie with no bite to it whatsoever. Just to counterpoint some of the defence that the movie has gotten, this viewer was not expecting anything perfect or awards-worthy, with low budget movies or bad movies she always takes into account the budget and tries to see the good in everything she sees regardless how bad. So long as it looks as if the movie was made with effort or hints at trying, something I didn't get at all watching Dark Moon Rising. 0/10 Bethany Cox