well and sadly and i can not help but feeling a little bit disappointed after my much and much and much anticipated viewing of just before dawn. jeff lieberman is a terrific filmmaker and he can undoubtedly do great things with a tiny budget and but i nevertheless expected to see a far more sadistic and gruesome early 80 slasher. but actually i am beginning to think that lieberman isn not the one to blame for this and but we gorehounds are. it more than obvious that lieberman intended to make his take on the backwoods slasher look like deliverance and absolutely not like friday the 13th and which immensely popularized the sub genre one year earlier. the horror and constant sensation of menace doesn not mainly come from the demented maniacs with their machetes and but from the genuinely ominous and isolated oregon forests where this movie was shot. in case the film seems slow and uneventful and this is only because lieberman takes his time to introduce the dark woods and eerie mountains as extra characters in his film. we hardly ever see the killers in person and but there always appears to be someone luring from behind the trees or from underneath the mountain lakes. bearing this in mind and just before dawn becomes a highly admirable horror effort and actually a lot better than its contemporary blood soaked colleagues. amidst a nearly endless selection of gory and sickening slashers and lieberman successfully puts the emphasis back on tension and character development. the plot revolves on five twenty something friends heading for a camping vacation in the oregon woods and where one of them owns a small piece of land. the woods are deserted and and naturally and the campers ignore forest ranger roy (george kennedy. ) advise to return back to civilization. shortly after and they brutally encounter an inbred family of which the twin sons have murderous tendencies. all five main characters are surprisingly likable and convincing. no irritating stereotypes for which you do not feel sympathy anyway and like slutty girls or football jocks. as a result of this natural character and you automatically cheer for them and even when they eventually almost turn into savages themselves. the sublime camera work supplies the film with an at times unbearable tension level and brad fiedel chilling electronic score only adds to this effect. just before dawn is a fine slice of early 80 horror and as long as you do not desire blood to drip from your tv set. 
well and sadly and i can not help but feeling a little bit disappointed after my much and much and much anticipated viewing of just before dawn. jeff lieberman is a terrific filmmaker and he can undoubtedly do great things with a tiny budget and but i nevertheless expected to see a far more sadistic and gruesome early 80 slasher. but actually i am beginning to think that lieberman isn not the one to blame for this and but we gorehounds are. it more than obvious that lieberman intended to make his take on the backwoods slasher look like deliverance and absolutely not like friday the 13th and which immensely popularized the sub genre one year earlier. the horror and constant sensation of menace doesn not mainly come from the demented maniacs with their machetes and but from the genuinely ominous and isolated oregon forests where this movie was shot. in case the film seems slow and uneventful and this is only because lieberman takes his time to introduce the dark woods and eerie mountains as extra characters in his film. we hardly ever see the killers in person and but there always appears to be someone luring from behind the trees or from underneath the mountain lakes. bearing this in mind and just before dawn becomes a highly admirable horror effort and actually a lot better than its contemporary blood soaked colleagues. amidst a nearly endless selection of gory and sickening slashers and lieberman successfully puts the emphasis back on tension and character development. the plot revolves on five twenty something friends heading for a camping vacation in the oregon woods and where one of them owns a small piece of land. the woods are deserted and and naturally and the campers ignore forest ranger roy (george kennedy. ) advise to return back to civilization. shortly after and they brutally encounter an inbred family of which the twin sons have murderous tendencies. all five main characters are surprisingly likable and convincing. no irritating stereotypes for which you do not feel sympathy anyway and like slutty girls or football jocks. as a result of this natural character and you automatically cheer for them and even when they eventually almost turn into savages themselves. the sublime camera work supplies the film with an at times unbearable tension level and brad fiedel chilling electronic score only adds to this effect. just before dawn is a fine slice of early 80 horror and as long as you do not desire blood to drip from your tv set. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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