Story: A group of adults head out to a rave in the middle of the desert.  The same desert where an archeologist just found an artifact linked to some horrible, hideous demon.  What could go wrong?

Scares: Only the most predictable things happen here, so the only real scares come when you think of the time you’ve wasted watching this dreck.

Splat Factor: There’s plenty of splat, but since this production is so very low budget it’s more funny than fear-inducing.  Cheesy homemade blood, ravers eating “body organs”, flashes of “gory things” shot in negative. Wow, awesome! Except that it’s not.

Closing Scene “Shocker”?:  In a movie this crappy, of course there is.  And it’s just as stupid and pointless as the movie.  Wow, that wasn’t as harsh in my head.  It’s still true, but wow.

Remake, Sequel or “OG” (Original Ghoul)?: It’s an OG, and let’s hope nobody wants to make a sequel.

Trick or Treat?:  It’s rip-off candy.  Y’know, the “crisped rice covered in chocolate flavoring!” that someone tries to pass off as a Nestle Crunch.  But in this case The Awakening was better when it was called Fallen, and even then it wasn’t that great.  I get trying to figure out how to get a group of folks out to an isolated location so you can pick ’em off.  It’s gotta be tough for screenwriters to come up with a new twist.  But the folks that worked on this movie didn’t even bother to try to be original.  When twentysomethings head out to the middle of nowhere to some burning man lite type rave? It’s silly but understandable; typical genre stuff.  But when its thirtysomethings (and in the case of the instagator, someone who looks like he’s over 40)? It’s just sad.  The ending credits’ montage is this film’s only high point. Pity nobody in this film is worth remembering for this piece of dreck. Director Vince Rotonda should never quit his reality tv day job.  Not ever.  Supposed to be a thinking man’s horror film, with a focus on characters instead of gore?  Go on, pull the other one.  The lack of any decent FX, set design or, well anything really, only serves to focus on the horrifyingly bad acting and the obvious use of scene padding to turn The Awakening into more than a short film.  So now it feels like a film student’s feature film submission.  That earned someone an F.

Score:  out of 5 pumpkins.  Yep, zero.  Anything more would be an insult to pumpkins.