Damned by Dawn (2009)

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Originally Posted by wayfarer

Likening DBD as something akin to an Evil Dead 4 is shockingly stupid. There's not even much in the way of a parallel to an Evil Dead movie in the first place.

Well, you've got a possessed Nana who actually says "Join us."

Some of the foggy wood exteriors do occasionally recall the first film.

Some of the graves with the stick crosses recall either the first or the second film (I forget which).

Some of the wide angles close up on the kyro-syrup splattered heroine recall some shots of Bruce Campbell in the first film (as do some shots of Nana's supposedly dead body late in the film).

The St. Christopher's medal also seems to reference the tacky necklace in the first EVIL DEAD film (although it is not put to use in the climax).

Some of the roaming force shots through the woods would have recalled the Raimi film had they not been rendered or augmented with CGI.

There is some parallel, just not anything that is remotely imaginative. It seems like the director might have written the script around these elements rather than doing anything new with them. The use of the banshee seems arbitrary, considering that a lot of the interesting folklore around it is not explored. They probably could have inserted any other supernatural being but they chose the banshee because there have not been a lot of films in which it is featured.

DAMNED BY DAWN isn't a very good film, but the EVIL DEAD 4 blurb really did it no favors (kind of like drawing comparison of other films to LET THE RIGHT ONE IN).