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The Darkest Dawn

  • 2016
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  • 1h 16m
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4.1/10
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Bethan Leadley in The Darkest Dawn (2016)
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The story of two sisters, as Britain descends into an alien apocalypse.The story of two sisters, as Britain descends into an alien apocalypse.The story of two sisters, as Britain descends into an alien apocalypse.

  • Director
    • Drew Casson
  • Writers
    • Drew Casson
    • Jess Cleverly
  • Stars
    • Bethan Leadley
    • Cherry Wallis
    • Jess Cleverly
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  • IMDb RATING
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    2.2K
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    • Director
      • Drew Casson
    • Writers
      • Drew Casson
      • Jess Cleverly
    • Stars
      • Bethan Leadley
      • Cherry Wallis
      • Jess Cleverly
    • 49User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Bethan Leadley
    • Chloe Murdock
    Cherry Wallis
    • Sam Murdock
    Jess Cleverly
    • Mr. Murdock
    • (as Jesse Cleverly)
    Sarah Perugia
    • Mrs. Murdock
    Stuart Ashen
    Stuart Ashen
    • Bob
    Drew Casson
    Drew Casson
    • Cowen Rosewell
    Tom Scarlett
    • Adam Martell
    Sam Carter
    Sam Carter
    • Kipper
    Ginny Avery
    • Dr. Helen Walker
    Stu Weetman
    • The Old Man
    Fran Weetman
    • The Old Woman
    Toby Quinn
    • The Kid
    Colin Murtagh
    • River Henchman 1
    Nigel Morgan
    • River Henchman 2
    Paul Neafcy
    • Brian
    India Casson
    • Dying Girl
    Jamie Christofersen
    Jamie Christofersen
    • Hopper
    • (as Jamie Paul)
    Mawaan Rizwan
    Mawaan Rizwan
    • Ricky
    • Director
      • Drew Casson
    • Writers
      • Drew Casson
      • Jess Cleverly
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    3RockChildRock

    Boring!

    I think that 20 years of POV films is enough. The human race is about to disappear and the girl has cold blood to record every single passage of her day. On the other hand the script is nothing new and the film is too dark. It's difficult to say anything good about this dull movie.
    2CARLbutwithaK

    I wanted to love it!

    I must admit, I'm a sucker for most found footage films. So whenever I come across one I've not seen (or even heard of) before, I have to give it a try.

    Almost immediately I wanted to give up. The acting isn't great, but that's expected from these low budget films. My issue was how quickly everyone gives up. The mum goes to work and before it even gets dark, the rest of the family are sobbing for her and the main character is saying her goodbyes to her on the camera. Also, on the second day, the government announcement says that the world would surrender right now if they knew how.

    The CGI is pretty good to be fair, other than the plane crash scene ... the perspective was horribly wrong. The plane crashed on the road a few meters from the camera.

    Ashens was definitely unexpected. I've watched him for years on Youtube, so seeing him in a film other than The Proxy or the Gamechild was a nice surprise.

    I tried to finish it, I really did, but I couldn't. It's not even a full length film and although there were fast action shots every 30 seconds, it felt agonisingly slow.
    4trashgang

    beginning and ending is great, in between boring

    So many positive reviews here on IMDb I thought I have to give it a try but I was sceptic because most positive reviews came from the UK. And the trailer looked promising too so I tried to watch this low budget flick.

    London has fallen into the hands of aliens so it's up to two sisters to survive the attack. The first 10 minutes looked great and even as it shows that the effects were CGI due the shaky cams and the attack it looked rather above mediocre. But once they ran from London they go out into the countryside. And from there on this flick falls like London just did.

    It's waiting until the last 15 a 20 minutes before the real action comes back in with another space ship coming around. Being a bit of a found-footage I can understand the use of shaky cams and distorted images due the alien signals. But what the hell was that in between the two attacks. The fast forward was close in hands.

    Promising beginning, rather boring and a great ending makes it simply hard to watch. Even as you could see it was made with addiction and dedication to the genre the limited budget destroyed the flick.

    Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 1,5/5 Comedy 0/5
    1HotFuzz

    Awful

    Genuinely one of the worst films I have ever seen. No logic, awful script, terrible acting, horrible direction.

    Normally I'm down for a B movie sci-fi but this film has no redeeming factors. Just awful. 1/10 because I can't vote zero.
    2ambientlinestudio

    Worse acting than Hungerford

    Absolutely some of the worst acting ever. It's just too distracting from what could have been a somewhat enjoyable movie. The dialog is simple-minded and completely unrealistic, bordline art school cheesiness.

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      This is the sequel to Hungerford (2014).

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    • Release date
      • April 15, 2018 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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    • Also known as
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      • 1h 16m(76 min)
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