Dead Sunrise



Dead Sunrise is a 2016 Australian horror film produced by Morning Starr Productions and SHH. The film stars Peter Maple (who's also co-writer), Damian Sommerlad, Corinne Furlong, Cloé Fournier, Georgina Neville and Barry French, and co-written and directed by Michal Imielski (who's also executive producer, editor, co-musician and cinematographer).

The film was crowdfunded through Kickstarter raising $15,181 of its $15,000 goal.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The acting is incredibly terrible.
 * 2) Lacking of dialogue to explain anything, and when there is dialogue it's awful.
 * 3) Non-existent character development. We hardly know who these characters are, what's their relationship between each other and whether they're just friends or family.
 * 4) Pointless scenes and montages that don't add much to the plot or character, and are just there for the sake of it.
 * 5) A lot of scenes feel improvised that the tone and energy shifts in comparison to the other seemingly scripted scenes, that any seriousness the film was trying to convey is immediately lost.
 * 6) For a film about zombies, we don't see any for at least 43 minutes in.
 * 7) The music in some scenes feels out of place and doesn't match the mood of the scene.
 * 8) The horror and gore is incredibly boring and lackluster.
 * 9) Why Michael (Peter Maple) can see apparitions of his daughter is not explained. There's nothing that indicates that she's dead, in fact we see her and his wife alive at the beginning.
 * 10) Why the old man has a bunch of children in a building and is turning them into zombies, or what's even happening is never explained, only that they turn into zombies at sunrise.
 * 11) A lot of the zombie kills happen out of shot, making it boring. This is maybe because the zombies are children.
 * 12) One of the girls kills the zombie by choking it to death. How do you choke something to death that's already dead?
 * 13) Terrible lighting, especially during night scenes where it's hard to even make out what's happening.
 * 14) Terrible shots where either the character isn't in full view or we can't see their face.
 * 15) Lizzy (Corinne Furlong) is bitten by a zombie, but at the end of the film she's miraculously fine.

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Trivia

 * In April 2018, the film's director hired a bot to spam Dead Sunrise's IMDb page with thousands of fake reviews praising the movie, in an effort to convince people to watch it.