Just Before Dawn

  • Horror
  • Thriller
10/14/1981
90
R

Will Anyone Survive Those Hours Just Before Dawn?

In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.

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  • Wuchak

    Friday the 13th meets Deliverance

    Five friends take a trip out to Silver Lake in the Great Northwest because one of them has inherited property in the remote hills, but the ranger warns them of ambiguous dangers (George Kennedy) and there are questionable inbred locals. Will any make it out alive?

    "Just Before Dawn" (1981) came out a year and a half after "Friday the 13th" and mixes the basics of that movie with Deliverance. The underrated "Trapped, aka "Baker County, USA" came out the next year and was no doubt influenced by it. I suppose this is the least of these four movies, but its very effective and far superior to the contemporaneous Dont Go in the Woods, which is a lousy example of the genre. It surely inspired "The Fina...

    November 20, 2024

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