Just Before Dawn
The Nightmare Has Begun
Five youths set out for a weekend camping excursion, to drink, frolic and skinny-dip on an isolated piece of land one of them has inherited. Despite ominous warnings from local forest rangers, strange backwoods families and a hollering drunken hunter claiming to have witnessed his friends' evisceration by the hands of "Demons", they trek further into the foliage.
Beautifully shot, extremely eerie, featuring the most demented murderer since Jason Voorhees, and a horrifying twist that will make you wonder...Will any of them survive those dark hours Just Before Dawn?
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More like YAWN - Dognip
Utterly boring movie that tries to mimic so many cookie cutter films of the same genre.
Kids on a trip that goes bad...
If you are going to bother making a movie like this, at least have characters that are interesting/unknown but good actors, make the gory scenes well....gory, and try not to make your audience fall asleep in boredom.
As for Zip to count this snooze fest as TWO DVD rentals when the "Part 2" is nothing more than pictures and useless stuff about the movie:
PATHETICMorning hangover - eoguy
If horror movies were food, this would be a loaf of Wonder Bread. It's a bland, textureless, flavorless knock-off about a bunch of 20-somethings from the big city who go into some mountain woods and get offed by a pair of big, mildly deformed products of incest. The kills are banal as they come, the ending a foregone conclusion, the acting amateur and the story practically non-existent. There's almost no blood and certainly nothing clever about the big guy with the big knife. Most people are sleeping just before dawn. This movie can help you do that, too.Bad. But yet something to enjoy - douber
Grainy, old film transfered to DVD. Bad colors, bad sound. The DVD isn't of a great use here (no Blu-ray?).
The movie isn't a mashup of Texas Chain Saw, or Friday the 13th, as it stands by itself on some original story lines that are fun to discover along the way.
But for some horror geek who liked, let's say, Texas Chain Saw only for the gore and never got into Hooper's real intentions, this movie will not be enjoyable.
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More like YAWN - Dognip
Utterly boring movie that tries to mimic so many cookie cutter films of the same genre.
Kids on a trip that goes bad...
If you are going to bother making a movie like this, at least have characters that are interesting/unknown but good actors, make the ...Morning hangover - eoguy
If horror movies were food, this would be a loaf of Wonder Bread. It's a bland, textureless, flavorless knock-off about a bunch of 20-somethings from the big city who go into some mountain woods and get offed by a pair of big, mildly deformed products of incest. ...Bad. But yet something to enjoy - douber
Grainy, old film transfered to DVD. Bad colors, bad sound. The DVD isn't of a great use here (no Blu-ray?).
The movie isn't a mashup of Texas Chain Saw, or Friday the 13th, as it stands by itself on some original story lines that are fun to discover ...