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.

Fading Of The Cries was never made to be an intellectual Oscar winning film. Its not meant to evoke discussion on a booker prize level. What it is in fact is a great action film. A whirlwind from start to finish. I admit I had heard bad things about it and i really wasn't looking forward to watching it. I am however very glad I did, this is no kids film as i thought it would be, but what it did do was make me feel like a kid again. If you want to watch a emotive film with content that instills thought and conversation...... go watch Gandhi or Syriana..... if you want and easy to watch fast paced fun action film... watch Fading Of The Cries!! There were some small issues with continuity but i always find them a fun part of watching any film. I saw the movie tonight and enjoyed it a lot so here's my take: Pro's: Good special effects (even though there not all done) Excellent hour and a half (the movie is probably 90 minutes in length if I had to estimate the pacing in that time period was spot on) Good combination of horror and action (I'd say more horror though say in the vein of PAn's Labyrinth, which had a good mix of horror and action). Jordan Matthews nails the swordplay...and there is a lot of it (like probably about 70 percent of the movie). Cons: There wasn't much story or character development and there wasn't a ton of dialogue (we didn't get to know the characters as much as I wanted too). The chemistry was also a bit off between the two leads, but you can't have everything (like I said, it's a popcorn movie, not an Academy Award Film). The last 25 minutes shifted more into a action (it had a nice climatic ending that I won't spoil, and it ;eaves me wanting to see more).Overall I'd give the film an 8.5/10 because it was an innovative look at a superhero other then all the Batman's and Supermen we're given a truly conflicted character who isn't fully invincible. There are many quotable scenes, funny moments, and good special effects that you haven't seen in other movies before. I expect this film to make a lot of money at the box office this summer and please many fans or people who are looking for a solid popcorn flick.

I saw the movie tonight and enjoyed it a lot so here's my take: Pro's: Good special effects (especially for a horror movie). Excellent hour and and a half and more more specifically, great pacing (especially the last 20 or so minutes, which are "rewind material."). Good combination of humor, action, and gore (I'd say there's far more action though (the vfx and action sequences alone are some of the most ambitious I have seen in years and there are some momentary comedic relief scenes, like Makenzie Rosman's use of "adult language" (such a contrast to seeing her as Ruthie in Seventh Heaven)). The use of gore in this movie is just enough to wet the palate of any true genre fan (the last scenes with Sarah killing her own mother when she "turns" is freakishly impossible not to watch. The new actor, Jordan Matthews is beyond convincing as one of the next possible action heroes, as there are far better and more convincing action sequences here than even a movie like Blade. For once, we have a young actor who isn't afraid to get hurt, beat up, and bloodied. Great performance, by genre fave, Brad Dourif (as to be expected). Cons: There could have been stronger story, plot, and character development, so that we got to know a more in depth storyline (maybe it's set up as though we are to discover this in the sequels as the ending most definitely lends itself to insinuating a continued storyline). Also, we basically jump right into the action within the first five minutes of the film, so there isn't much time to set up the storyline (some of this is made up for in the flash back sequences). Also, some of the scenes are so epic, that they make an unusual contrast to some of the "day" scenes in the town. Overall, this is a great popcorn flick.

This is possibly the worst movie ever made. 105 minutes of my life that I can never get back.The plot - there is no plot or story worth talking about. No explanation even to people with a great imagination where anything comes from. e.g. young boy's family were slaughtered years ago but he is suddenly some sort of super hero - why? Where has he been all this time; squatting, hiding?Acting - Even worse than the plot. I thought it was a parody at first like Scary Movie but then I realised they were actually trying to act. The direction - The scenes are fragmented and have no link to each other and thus make no sense at all. Continuity is non existent."Special" effects - LaughableRepetition - stupid boy with sword easily kills several thousand even more stupid zombies again and again and again..... Silly young girl screams a lot. Eveil guy looks like and old Dr Who and ...............well thats it.Scareyness - I only became very afraid for the cast when I realised that they didn't realise the movie was really a comedy. Verdict - Don't waste your time.