Concerns that a new movie depicting a dark event in Mormon history could hurt the presidential campaign of Mormon Mitt Romney turned out to be ill-founded — for the simple reason that almost nobody has seen the film.
“September Dawn” opened last weekend in 857 theaters, but took in only $615,000, according to Deadline Hollywood Daily.
The movie, which stars John Voight, is historical fiction based on a real event — the Mountain Meadows massacre in 1857, when renegade Mormons slaughtered 120 pioneers from an Arkansas wagon train traveling through Utah on their way to California.
Director Christopher Cain brushed off suggestions that the movie has anything to do with the Romney campaign, saying he had never heard of Romney when he began working on the movie, The Politico reported.
The reviews of the movie were savage. The New York Daily News said it “may be the worst historical drama ever made.”
The San Francisco Examiner said the movie is “predictable, obvious, often silly, with a painfully poor script.”
And Utah’s Deseret Morning News said: “The filmmaking here is so incompetent and laughably awful that it recalls the work of schlockmeister Ed Wood (‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’).”
- NewsMax.com
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