Product Details

• Actors: Jay Reel, Kacie Young
• Directors: Ray Boucher
• Format: Black & White, Collector's Edition, Color, Digital Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Fat Cat DVD (Tempe DVD)
• DVD Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FQJ6TK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #63,416 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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DVD BONUS FEATURES: Audio commentary with the cast & crew, Gag reel (17 mins.), Tempe DVD trailers

Product Description

Dawn is a special little girl with special needs. Born from a human father and a vampire mother who died while giving birth, Dawn requires blood to survive. She and her father travel across the country, assuming new identities and never staying in one place for very long — until a small-town detective with psychic abilities pays extra attention to the murder of one of his townsfolk. DAWN is a fresh take on the vampire mythos, expertly written & directed by Jay Reel with stirring performances by a cast of newcomers you won’t soon forget!

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie!, September 9, 2006

By	Melinda Hoover (Myerstown, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really loved "Dawn." The writers/actors did a great job. The way it ended though was a shame. That poor girl. She couldn't help what was happening to her. I actually felt bad for her.
Also, going along with the previous review, the fangs weren't false--they were real. It was the teeth her father had made to put over the fangs so people wouldn't know she was a vampire that were real. Whenever she needed to "feed", she'd remove the fake teeth. Otherwise, she would wear them to fit in and look "normal." (Which is why, when the cop was ordering them out of the car, she reached for her fake teeth but the cop stopped her...and well, then there were the results...)
Oh and by the way, that was pretty good the way she killed that boy's hand in the store because he was teasing her. Can't say he didn't ask for that one!!!!!

:o)

*~Melinda~*

4.0 out of 5 stars Inspired low-budget surprise., August 19, 2008

By	Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Dawn (Jay Reel, 2003)

Five minutes into this movie, I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like it; the acting is forced, the plot didn't seem to be coming into focus at all, and the script was banal. Ten minutes later, I was slowly coming round to a grudging sort of appreciation; by the time the movie came to its "oh, he's not going to do this!" ending, I was a convert. Dawn is an off-off-indie production, with almost no budget, amateur actors, and even black and white film stock, but it's also got a huge heart.

Dawn (Kacie Young) is a half-human, half-vampire ten-year-old girl. Her father John (Ray Boucher) and she live a nomadic life, for if they settle in one place, the police are sure to come after her. Dawn feeds, as her mother Sarah (Mindy Raymond) did, by finding the infirm-- those who are close to dying anyway-- and offering them a release from their suffering. Eventually, Dawn wants to go and see her mother's grave, which takes her and John back to Laramie, Oklahoma, where Sarah died in childbirth. Unfortunately, her most recent victim was found, and the police have called in a psychic named Carlton Reed (played by director Jay Reel), who happens to live in Laramie-- and whose mother was one of Sarah's victims.

The vampire bit is almost extraneous in this picture, as it's an allegory for the outcast; the movie is really about fitting in in society and what happens to those who have a chronic inability to do so. Once Boucher and Young get over what seems a bout of camera-shyness at the beginning of the movie and start really getting into their roles, Dawn also becomes a tale of familial love, and how far a father will go to protect his daughter, no matter how society sees her. By halfway through the movie, Young seems to be a natural for the camera, and it's her performance that truly lets this movie take off, and gives the climax its emotional resonance.

This is one that you probably haven't seen (as I wrote this, I just cast the forty-third rating vote for it at IMDB). It's well worth hunting down; in the tradition of Clean, Shaven but, in my opinion, a much better movie. *** ½

5.0 out of 5 stars Showing Up the Market Forces with Dawn!, September 28, 2006

By	Mark Sawyer "Sparkles" (Mexia, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A firm premise this film has - it's basic concept is inventing and refreshing. These strong points more than make up for the micro-budgeted production, and if corporate filmmakers ever would put this type of originality into their multi-million dollar movies, they'd have a critically successful "product" - Director/writer Reel pulled it off with little money which should teach the market forces a small original vision can out shine anything they create in a major way. Dawn compares to other Texas independent filmmakers of the past, like Andy Anderson (Learning Curve) and Eagel Pennell (Last Night at the Alamo), the comparison being a small independent movie vision that would most likely never get made any other way because corporate filmmakers are too focused on marketing and profits.......