The nicest thing I can think about "Dark Moon Rising" is that some plucky kids got together and through grit, determination and hard work managed to make a movie and get it out there in some limited way so that the world could experience writer/director Justin Price's vision. (He also appears in the film, as do numerous groups people with the same surnames, suggesting that this was in no small measure and family & friends production.) They even managed to land two actors who once had some name recognition -- hey, look, it's Eric Roberts, as an addled Vietnam veteran, and Billy Blanks as a sheriff -- and got them to show up in the small-town Texas locations where they filmed this thing. Maybe the most intriguing credit, "Special On-Set Services," had something to do with that.It's more fun and interesting speculating about how this came together than about the movie itself, which is mostly dull when it isn't ridiculous. The idea of some kind of werewolf family or curse or something brought back stateside from Vietnam has some potential, but whatever ended up on screen doesn't explore it. Instead we get a lot of hipster-emo-goth types running around to raves in thrift- store attire with silly haircuts that dated the film the day after the scenes were shot. We get bad lighting that renders some of the night scenes almost invisible. We get dialogue that doesn't make any sense or resemble in any way the manner in which a person might want to have what we generally call a "conversation." We get poor sound recording and mixing that renders some of that dialogue inaudible, especially when the ear-splitting music (also bad) drowns it out. We get a lot of actors not skilled enough to convey what the story needs them to convey, so there are numerous voice-over inserts in which they tell us what they're thinking, which turns out to be as dull as rest of the story. The only performer who brings any kind of intriguing energy, not to mention eye candy, to this is Matthew Simmons as a particularly vicious werewolf named Gecko (oh, yeah, the character names are all pretty silly) and who also does the fight choreography, which shows a little promise if only there had been more of it. When he's not on screen, the energy flags. I think the reason handsome lead actor Cameron White's (as "Chase," of course -- what, you were expecting "Bob" or "Jeff"?) emo hair is so often obscuring his eyes is so that we can't tell when he nods off. Unfortunately, we can tell.

OK for starters this movie is so bad that I created an account just to warn you, and to vent.I am a very forgiving viewer. I can put up with bad acting and effects for a good story, but there was NO story! Many of the other reviews complained about the precredits scene but I even let that slide, hoping for improvements as the filming style was so different, but no that didn't help. 10min into it I actually stopped it and did a search for the title plus the word disjointed. It really was that nonsensical. I gave it another 10 min but it just kept getting worse. You have seen the other reviews telling you there is no plot, or you cant follow it, but seriously I wasn't even sure I could make the spoiler button since there was no plot line to spoil. You jump from one scene to the next, never having anything to do with each other, often cutting off in the middle of one to go to the next. The little bit of dialogue that could be pieced together didn't help. Not only did the dialogue not explain what you had been seeing in the previous scene, it didn't explain the scene it was in, and even at times mentioned things...you hadnt seen happen. Furry ppl be getting no love. The only entertainment value attached to this at all...was reading some of these reviews.

The film had promise what with the suspiciously high score on IMDb. Unfortunately anyone giving this abysmal film a high score obviously works for the production company which is borne out by the similar vocabulary and content of the early reviews. What can I say about this awful movie that other's haven't said already. It has terrible CGI that may have been just acceptable on a PC game 20 years ago. The rendering software they used must have come from a cover disk freebie from the 90's such was the basic and unprofessional finish of the 'creatures' and the awful way they tried to move. At one point I laughed such was the poor execution of the CGI as an overlay. It was God awful and absolutely amateurish. The dialogue is trite,contrived,melodramatic and downright hokey. There were protracted and unnecessary monologues as if they were thinking this was a Shakespearean play. Also pointless internal monologues that had absolutely nothing to do with the progression of the film. I was absolutely confused with the choppy and nonsensical scenes as whoever edited this looked like they cut massive chunks out for each scene so the following one never made sense. It went from night to day,location to location and seemed to look like you've missed an important plot line such was the lack of fluidity or sense. To be honest this movie was all over the place and was terribly put together. The director obviously thought they were trying to be arty and clever when in fact they made a complete hash of it. What would have been a low end and barely passable movie ended up looking like a high school project. Please give this terrible film a miss. I watched it so you didn't have to!

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. ;-)