Dark Moon Rising
Dark Moon Rising
| 04 August 2015 (USA)
Dark Moon Rising Trailers

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.

Reviews
Lancoor

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

... View More
Grimossfer

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

... View More
Rio Hayward

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

... View More
Fulke

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

... View More
sigmacademy

This movie is hardly the worst movie ever made, but it does have quite a few things that can be improved in it. The love story angle is also way too emphasized, to extent that it tries to overpower even the action sequences at some points in the movie. It tries too hard to be a Twilight clone with only werewolves, rather than taking a risk and standing on its own with its own narrative and story arc. The sequences that feature the werewolves going on a rampage also seemed forced, and it hardly felt as if it was connected to the rest of the storyline (as if added as an afterthought). Characters are also trying too hard to explain every single aspect in far too great detail, like Gecko's explanation of his Venom Strike technique. Giving it a name and brief description would have more than adequate. There is also a werewolf hunter, but she is the daughter of a person who was scratched by a werewolf, yet isn't a werewolf herself?The CGI was a bit basic, but there were quite a few sequences that do carry merit, like the big werewolf sneaking up from behind the smaller cop (in typical ninja mode), or the wolf approaching the fairgrounds, that in my opinion were the better visual parts of the movie, or the sensory overload in the classroom of one of the main characters in the story. I do believe that if the movie had more such elements in it, the critics would have had a lot less to complain about. The music felt slightly out of touch with what what going on in the movie itself, as if there was an effort to let the music carry some of the burden of making the movie better, even when there was already issues like the CGI and the acting that should have been addressed right at the start of the movie. If felt as if the acting was either deliberately muted or that there was a lack of depth within the acting itself, which is strange in itself as you had Eric Roberts in this movie as well. With that being said, I do believe the movie still has promise in its sequel(s)? There is a role reversal, with the woman being the apex predator, and the guy being "the damsel in distress", or at the very least a guy that hardly knows what he is letting himself in for. There are some interesting elements that other werewolf movies haven't explored to any extent yet, like the dream world, the powers that some werewolves have, superhuman speed, X-ray type of vision and supernatural hearing of the werewolves (hearing a butterfly in the woods). I would love to see some further elaboration of the different types of werewolves as well, as it seems the main villains seems to come from different werewolf packs/tribes. This movie reminds me a lot of the World of Darkness' Garou franchise, more so than other werewolf movies. I am cautiously awaiting part 2 of this movie series, considering the plot twist during the last 10 minutes of the original movie's open ending. I am giving this movie an average score, because I believe that the storyline, CGI and acting can be improved in sequel(s), and due to its obvious potential, it can still be a great movie series.

... View More
Whitetygrr

I found it humorous how many of the reviews who gave low scores questioned the reviewers who thought highly of it, well i didn't see any high marks i didn't search enough i did see one mention the several reviews with obvious similarities i mean how many alvins allens alvinas who all joined the same time actually liked this? I call bullshit. Anyway i love a good movie and from the beginning when the whisper dark moon rising accompanied the name on screen i knew this would be no howling or silver bullet....hell not even the level of howling 3 and thats sad. Though i probably shouldn't say that simply cos i just give it enough of my evening. Decided to watch a family guy rerun. Cant go wrong with watching peter act like an ass and stewie condescending remarks while dressed in drag.

... View More
Jacob Taylor

I got a hold of a copy of this movie based solely on how bad the reviews were. I thought to myself that it must be impossible for a movie to truly be that bad. This movie was that bad. One hour, twenty five minutes and 34 seconds.****may include spoilers**** so the movie starts with scenes that almost to black to make out anything that is happening. Partial face, blurry movement, filmed at night. I honestly have no clue what is going on at the beginning. Just random "werewolf" sounds. ends up with two women......and a man somewhere in the darkness who is reading his lines.....VERY SLOWLY. We were laughing.....but it is not comedy....it really is that bad. The whisper growl man was ridiculous. The scenes seem to be randomly put together. I have to agree that this may be one of the worst movies I have ever seen....and I have watched some of horrendous Lorenzo lamas films....try and make it through UNSEEN EVIL 2 (alien 3000) without breaking a rib laughing at the helicopter scenes (lorenzo standing in obvious cardboard box with some person making helicopter sounds)....anyway.....random scenes, horrible music, idiotic script that is nonsense, actors or random people off the street interacting with each other..I could not tell. Shaky, out of focus, garbage camera work. This is easily in the top 5 worse movies I have ever seen . the movie "ends" three times, in a row. Then cuts to a scene that is out of focus with horrible cgi to finish it off. No idea what the point of this film was.

... View More
fredthehatter

I shouldn't have put it 1 out of 10 but the score of that movie is so high it is a scam for sure, i think it should be around 3.Where is the report abuse link ? Someone has found a way to create or to pirate a lot of accounts in order to increase the score of a movie, that's lame but i guess it's just obvious for this one, we should have seen that coming, when we see average movies or commercial movies which aren't exceptional with too high reviews, we just blame the taste of average reviewers.Well, don't watch this crap for the sake of your free time. There isn't anything interesting about this movie, i won't even elaborate, many people did it already, just trust us or prepare yourself to waste your time. ;-)

... View More