Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011)

Did you people see the same film I saw?

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

To be fair, if this film had been released twenty years earlier, I'd be quite fond of it. But that's the point - it's nearly 30 years past its sell-by date. Wikipedia informs me that the comic book upon which it is based was published in 1986 - i.e. a few years after the iconic 'American Werewolf In London' movie, and 6 years before Joss Whedon's seminal'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. As such, the characterisation, plot twists etc are very much of its time.Unfortunately, this movie was released in 2010. That means its audience is liable to be familiar with not just Buffy and AWIL but also more recent iterations of the comedy/horror/drama genre such as 'Blade', 'True Blood', 'Scream', 'The Vampire Diaries', 'Supernatural' etc etc. If you want to use a source text that's several decades out of date, in a genre that has thrived in the intervening time, then you need to bring your A Game as a writer, and demonstrate that you're aware of what's gone before, and that you've got something fresh to bring to the table.I cannot help thinking that this film was purely churned out because the rights holder, whoever they may be, realised that they'd got the rights to something involving vampires and was hoping to jump on the Twilight bandwagon. (Not that this has anything in common with Twilight beyond vampires, but for the life of me I can't imagine what possessed anyone to cough up the money to make this movie other than that faint hope of cashing in on the zeitgeist.) Alas, the comedy is leaden, the writing is witless, stilted and painfully out of date, and the entire premise (I'm trying to be cagey but this bit might be countered a trifle SPOILERY) is ultimately bogged down in tired misogynistic tropes.The one good think I can say about it is that Sam Huntingdon, in a supporting role, makes the most of the shoddy material he's given. That's always the sign of a good actor - when they can take duff writing and still make it enjoyable to watch. I felt really quite sorry for him, being stuck in such a lacklustre production, when he's evidently a pretty capable actor.If you stumble across this late at night on TV, you may find it cheesily enjoyable. If, on the other hand, you've paid cold hard cash for it in a movie theatre, you would be forgiven for feeling that you're due a refund.

This is a review of a film. This is a review of the film Dylan Doggy.It was good. I liked it many much. Excuse my English, am I not first language speaker. Overall the film/movie was good, but the other review make it seem bad. I liked it. It was good I think. Thank you for enjoying this review. I enjoyed making a review of a film called Dylan Dog. It was fun. And good. I have to add more lines, so here they are. It was great! NICE FILM EVERYONE!Furthermore, I would like to add that the overall tone of the film was somewhat underwhelming at times due to the unpolished acting, and possibly flawed script/storyboard. With greater actors, and writers, this film could have been excellent, however, it was not. On the other hand, the final scene with the demonic like creature seemed almost tacky, or gimmicky, and spoiled an otherwise pleasant and quirky film. More lines? Well, here they are!

There are few films these days that surprise the viewer, and Dylan Dog Dead of Night pulls no separate punches that would elude you into thinking any the less. With a mixed bag of various 'Similarities' to Buffy, Angel, Blade, Moonlight, Fright Night, Lost Boys and Underworld, Dylan Dog packs them all – and more besides – as from simple Go Between of the Pure Bloods and The Werewolves, his journey unfolds into an array of great entertainment.Dylan Dog (Brandon Routh of Superman Returns) and his trusted side kick Marcus (Sam Huntingon) take on a case that leads to a fatality – or two fatalities including that of the original victim – which also sets off a sequence of events set around the young and beautiful client Elizabeth (Anita Briem) who Dylan tries to protect from what he believes to be some Blood Feud war between old Monster rivals The Pure Bloods (Vampires) and The Lycans (The Werewolves), while right in the middle are the Zombies and Dylan Dog. The build up to the story is fast paced, it is also truly informative of the story lines, the characters basis, the not so linear flashbacks show previous history with the main set characters and last but not least, the killings and blood spattering's are not over the top gore-horror-violence scenes.The parts played by Vargas (Taye Diggs of House on Haunted Hill) and Gabriel (Peter Stormare of Constantine) made worthy adversary choices by the casting director, while Wolfgang (Kurt Angle) slots in nicely to appraise the finishing touches that really get the film lifted off the ground for a Non-Stop ride of the Highs and the Lows from which the whole cast play their parts perfectly.The deception between the characters throw red herrings out on occasion, but not enough to stop you watching as Dylan gets to grips and unravels the mysteries surrounding a particularly strange artifact of extremely unnatural power. With the assistance of little needed special effects than in most other films, the last forty minutes of Dead of Night gives a display of absolute mayhem which has any Horror fan updating their Twitter status to share the awesome battle scene ending.Giving this film a 7* Rating seems a little unfair, to say the least, as it really has shown more promise than some other viewers have let on over the past couple of weeks. The whole picture was not as low budget as we were led to believe, or the acting that of an amateur gathering of semi-skilled players looking for stardom. In our belief, Dylan Dog Dead of Night was very much as enjoyable to watch as Lost Boys and Blade combined.DVD Archive Rating: 8.3/10 (9/10 if Sean William-Scott was starring alongside Sam Huntington)

I have never read any Dylan the dog or anything like that , but i think this film was quite terrible . Dylan was played by some sort of a B-movie actor who looks like he might just be gay .And the ending That was appalling , why didn't he give a sh*t about that girl any other man would have gone back and try to revive her in some f***ing way ! I completely hated the film , i tried to give it a chance but i can only hope the comic book was better and that this is the fault of the director.Oliver