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JUST
BEFORE DAWN
PLOT
Some teens go camping in the mountains, only to find out that a
fat deranged hillbillie madman is killing off everyone that intrudes
on "his" mountain.
REVIEW
Oh what a lovely shot of the teens sitting gazing out at the water-
fall... but hey! whats that? I believe it's the microphone giving
us a visit, but I'm sure that'll never happen again since it was
pretty hard to spot. Look how nice and dark it is by the campfire
while the couple sit and talk... but hey! I believe it's the mic
who's back, and this time he seems to be staying. Believe me people,
you don't have to search for the mic in this movie, it pops up now
and then, I hope that you're ready to overlook that, and the cheesy
ass plot, because this turned out to be quite the entertaining
surprise. However, I do think that they could have made a better
choise of how the killer was going to look, because a fat ugly
hillbillie just ain't to scary for me.
This movie was obviously shot on a zero budget, but this is another
case of a 'so bad it's good' movie. First of all, we have the
local sheriff or whatever the hell he is, who warns them not to
go to those mountains as they are very dangerous. But when the
teens arrive, it doesn't seem very dangerous at all, well according
to me anyway. It's a shame that we don't get movies like this any
longer, and if we do, it's usually some boring terrible movie from
the dead alive people.
The directing is down right terrible, first of all, it's never a
good thing when you see a microphone, that is, when you can see
something at all. A lot of the movie is shot in the night and you
find yourself having problems being able to see what's happening
because of the bad lighting. Although, we actually do know that
they did use lights for this movie as we can see one of the lamps
at the top in a scene where the old guy sits on his horse and looks
out on Silver Lake. The acting is at least a descent effort, they
do the best they can and it's not all that bad. This movie could
have turned out to be a pretty good flick if they removed all these
flaws, and oh god, changed the ending, cause that is just not
believable. If someone noticed any other flaws in this movie, feel
free to contact me as I would be happy to know what I missed.
GORE
We get a lot of knife through the stomach scenes, now, even if we
all love the classic knife through stomach, it does get a little
boring when we see it over 3 times and the killer just can't be a
little original and do something else instead. The scenes are not
very gory either so I don't suggest you watch this for the gore.
SOUNDTRACK
Oh what a terrible, terrible soundtrack, that's what makes this movie
even more enjoyable. We have Blondie singing Heart Of Glass, *shudders*,
some drums in a chase scene, some 80's rock music and a whistling tune
which I think is supposed to be the movies main theme. Oh and let's
not forget the girl sitting on the rocks humming out a melody.
BOTTOM LINE
You'll have to search for a long time before you find a movie as cheesy
as this, but that doesn't make it bad, well it is bad, but that's a
thing you can overlook because it is still highly entertaining.
It's not worth buying or even renting, but if it's going on TV, this is
not one you want to miss... or is it?
Review
By: AnthroFred
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