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Fading of the Cries

Play trailer Poster for Fading of the Cries Released Jul 8, 2011 1h 29m Horror Fantasy Action Play Trailer Watchlist
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A mysterious swordsman saves a teenage girl whose rural town is under attack by a horde of demonic creatures.

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Ronnie Scheib Variety A lumpy melange of supernatural ingredients and distinct genre elements that never cohere. Jul 8, 2011 Full Review Robert Abele Los Angeles Times What are meant to be dazzling, otherworldly images are in fact spit-take ridiculous. Rated: 1/5 Jul 8, 2011 Full Review Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times "How are we going to get out of here?" Sarah squawks at one point, a question that Mr. Dourif ought to have asked his agent long before the cameras began to roll. Rated: 1/5 Jul 8, 2011 Full Review Heather Wixson Dread Central At best, I'd say check Fading of the Cries out once it eventually hits Netflix Instant. Rated: 1.5/5 Aug 10, 2011 Full Review Brent Simon Shockya.com A hobbled sci-fi thriller that doesn't have the money to compete with genre big boys, but also lacks an imagination in presentation or execution that might enable it to escape the downward pull of its limitations. Rated: D Jul 13, 2011 Full Review Vadim Rizov Boxoffice Magazine A lame-brained zombies + evil wizards hybrid. Rated: 1.5/5 Jul 8, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Its not a 4 star movie but was alright in effects but took minute make heads or tales of the story. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member "This convoluted mess sets new lows in underimagined, overplotted narrative." a waste of 93 minutes Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Another B rated attempt of a horror which fails miserably Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member One line summary: Nonsensical mixture of disparate sub-genres of horror; bad screenplay. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael's wife and daughter die in a car crash. Then 14 years go by. However, this point in time is returned to more than once, such as when Maggie introduces very young Sarah to Uncle Michael at Echling Manor. In the present, bad-tempered, ungrateful teenager Sarah steals some booze and a necklace, gives her mother a hard time, then goes to see her friend and fellow drinker Emily. They drink and talk about how creepy Echling Manor is. That does not last long. The zombie apocalypse arrives in the blink of an eye. Emily gets killed right off the bat. A young man (I guess) rescues Sarah, and they make their way through small mobs of zombies. These are fast zombies. The young man is even faster with his sword, but he and Sarah have to run to get away from the remaining zombies. In the past, Michael finds a large, creepy book under a broken floor board in Echling Manor. All this back and forth over 14 years is irritating. Perhaps I'll see the utility later. Sarah and the young man hole up on the 'old church' which looks absolutely nothing like the rest of the town. They have an incredibly inane conversation filled with bald assertions that often make no sense. The young man finally identifies himself as Jacob. With lines such as 'Hey, I need you to trust me,' and 'The sanctuary has been breached,' I'm hoping the zombies get him first. As well as the zombies, we have a gorilla-Predator-Spiderman cross-match, and hordes of low-flying bats. Sigh. In the past, Michael reads the journal or whatever. He's tormented by bumps in the night and feelings of doom. He reads the journal (a spell book) and ignores writing his current novel. Eventually, he starts invoking spells. He shows Maggie and Sarah one of the more elementary ones. Unfortunately, it immediately starts warping his ego and ethical sensibilities. Jacob and Sarah go down the secret exit from the church. The church is one small room, maybe 1000 square feet. Underneath the church is huge, as in hundreds of football fields of area, huge supporting structures, and quite a high ceiling. Sarah meets the necromancer Mathias, who wants the necklace from Sarah's neck. He cannot take it from her, for unknown reasons. Soon Mathias shows up as does an enormous crowd of CGI characters. To escape, they climb a cliff hundreds of feet high. Sure. Maggie and Jill hide in a closet at home. Maggie hears a noise, and goes to see whether it is Sarah returning. It's not; it's the zombies. Maggie and Jill run for it. Jacob and Sarah have more run-ins with zombies. They have some quality time together where they discuss the necromancer, the necklace, the book of spells, and the monsters. Jacob lived at Michael's house a bit after Michael. They discuss Sarah's meeting of the necromancer, and the 'Rune of Syirlan,' which Sarah had been wearing as a necklace. Jacob tells her that they've been trailed because she had skin contact with the Run. Sarah tells Jacob that she inherited the necklace from Uncle Michael after he died in Echling Manor. Jacob relates that his parents died soon after they moved into the house a few years later. Also, Echling Manor used to be the necromancer's house. No one else has been welcome since. In the past, Michael kills the drunk driver who ran down his family. He uses that to bring forth one of the more advanced spells. That is, summoning one of the necromancer's familiars. Then he summons another. Later, when Jacob's family moves into Echling Manor, the servants of the necromancer are all present. In the present, Sarah and Jacob confront the necromancer too early; Jacob loses his sword and they lose Jill. The necromancer invokes night, and the zombies rise. Jacob goes to meet the necromancer in Echling Manor. Will anyone get out alive? ------Scores------ Cinematography: 6/10 Fine most of the time. Occasionally, as in the tombs under the town, the mob made of CGI looks totally fake, which it is. Unfortunately, it's horribly fake. Demerits for shaky camera and out of focus passages. Sound: 8/10 Well recorded at least, with some reasonably creepy incidental music. Acting: 2/10 Brad Dourif has been in some bad films over his 38+ years of acting. He has also had many much, much better roles than this; The Lord of the Rings comes to mind. Veteran character actress Elaine Hendrix has had 20 years of better roles in television, plus some movies. The rest of the cast I do not recognise and expect that I never will recognise, since they seem to be non-actors. Hallee Hirsh is a terribly bad actress, and Jordan Andrews is just as useless. Also, the 24-year-old Hirsh (as of 2011) looks much older than her age, and has no business playing a teenager. Screenplay: 2/10 Yikes. Worse conversation than one would find in a bad original high school play. Bad dialog, horrible exposition, sad logical failures, hundreds of continuity errors. The beginning to middle to end progression goes somewhat well, but the rotten dialog and horrible acting ruin the film. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Quite possibly the worst movie ever made. If not the worst, among the worst. From a terrible, overwrought plotline to disgustingly bad acting, bizarre scene transitions... There isn't a single redeeming thing about this movie. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is so bad that i loved laughing at it. The cliches in the movie are so chessy. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A mysterious swordsman saves a teenage girl whose rural town is under attack by a horde of demonic creatures.
Director
Brian A. Metcalf
Producer
Karoline Kautz, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Brian A. Metcalf
Screenwriter
Brian A. Metcalf
Distributor
Eammon Films
Production Co
Foresight Media Group
Genre
Horror, Fantasy, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 8, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 18, 2016
Runtime
1h 29m
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