ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Scarecrow-88 Little, no-budget film that looks like it was filmed with a cam-corder and cost about $0.12. But, it has more going for it than most over-bloated Hollywood Asian remakes being churned out ad-nauseum.I think why I liked it was because the story really gripped me. I will say that the flick is made with non-actors in black&white photography. But, director Jay Reel(who portrays the psychic detective seeking the vampire)expertly edits the film to optimum effect despite having little money. This film is inspired and ambitious..a rare quality that I felt in every frame of the movie.The plot is simple enough, but works..Dawn is a 9 year old girl with an insatiable thirst for blood. Her mother was a "vampire"(more on why I have this in quotes in a second)and died giving birth to her. Dawn's father(Ray Boucher)and her are nomadic, journeying all over the midwest hardly ever staying anywhere too long because she feasts on the sick and elderly. Unlike many films which would try to make this some sort of sordid comedy, the film plays this straight. She's a girl who doesn't wish to crave human blood, longs for the company of children and school..she simply wishes to be normal. That is what drew me.Now, explaining just a small bit on the type of vamp Dawn is. She only craves blood, can not eat anything we eat(food is poisonous to them), and can sense suffering and pain which allows them to find those who are near dying(..or living their final stage of life on earth).But, their mistake will be Dawn wishing to see where her mother was buried..to visit a past town that will also have the psychic chasing them.

xperyance I watched the movie without even taking a pee break. The story line was very interesting. I enjoyed it very much. Great work Jay. Best of luck in your future movies. And when you are called to receive your first grammy, I will stand beside you. Thanks.

pokewowplayer1 The first thing that struck me about DAWN was it's originality. Writer/Director Jay Reel crafted a smart tale about a father and daughter who, on the surface, seem normal, but are having to deal with a dark secret. It's a story of a man drifting throughout the land in search of food for his vampiric daughter, and of a young girl coming to grips with her ability and her curse.The movie does show it's small budget in the fact that some of the performances were stiff, and it was obvious that the most of the actors were friends and aquaintances of the filmmaker.But to me the story wins out over this. DAWN has a good story, and it's worth a look if you get a chance.Nick

Talbot-Haynes This is the best independant movie I've seen in nearly a decade. Dawn is proof that great maverick filmmakers do exist and can produce great filmwork outside the coastal machines. It also shows up all the Hollywood "True Gritty" films where overpaid movie and TV actors pretend to be small town dwellers; the casting of real people to represent their communities gives Dawn an unimitatable realism. It is also one of the most thoughtful vampire film ever made.To classify Dawn as a horror movie would be a mistake, though as a horror movie it's very good. This is a return to the purest elements of the Film Noir while employing a vampire metaphor. The film belongs in the same catagory as Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once and Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night, with an outlaw couple on the run for nothing else than who they are. Haunting black and white photography enforces the bleakness of having to run and hide from the world while always remaining in sight. The viewer is shown an emotional landscape filled with alienation from a life constantly desired, as well as the bonds that can be forged despite how grisley the circumstances can get.