lukem-52760 This is a BRILLIANTLY made 80s slasher Horror & it has a real scary atmosphere & set deep in the woods with a group of friends who have travelled there for some fun & end up fighting for their lives!!! Scary & creepy & VERY menacing music this is a BRILLIANT movie,The killers are 2 inbred hillbillies & they are terrifying, real actually scary threats that show up with a sense of fear constantly around it's such a fun woods set Horror & EASILY one of the best slasher Horrors of all time!!! The performances of the group of victims are great & believable & you want them to survive. One of my favourite Horror films

phanthinga Just Before Dawn is a slasher movie from the early 80s after the successful of Friday the 13th.There nothing to make this movie stand out from others slasher flick release the same year but it still fine movie if you into the genre.A group of 20 years old looking teenagers go camping on mountain unaware of the locals rumor about devil living up there so now they need to pay the price.The built up to the kills is nice there some good cinematography with the mountain view and some suspenseful moment.The characters not annoying but i still don't care about any of them.The kills not over the top or bloody all that much but the deep throat scene near the end might surprise some people

videorama-759-859391 JBD has something that a lot of other horror films lack. I knew that the first time I saw it. It stands above many others. It's funny to think this when it's scenario here is nothing knew. The film even has better actors for this type of flick, none better than Gregg Henry, and it's great to see him play a good guy. The actress playing his girlfriend, looks like a female version of him. Are they related? Again, despite the warning of an old buzzard (horror icon, George Kennedy, who else) not to venture into these dangerous woods, of course they pay no heed. Henry and co proceed in their R.V. into this elevated terrain, below quite a drop, (kind of has you thinking of RV with Robin Williams). The killer family (cliched) are of course deformed, some of them giants, very much Wrong Turnish 1. As they trek out into the mountains, the movie takes it time to pick off it's victims (I like movies that work this way) they are picked off gradually. JBD, an unhurried frightener flick, maintains much suspense, throughout, which it never loses, some of it truly claustrophobic. This horror is one of those few, I've actually found truly and effectively scary. Some moments, truly jangle the senses. Violence is restrained here too. Although JBD with a lot of instances and happenings which are cliché'd, what it has great suspense, which a lot of other films lack this much in volume, it's story structured with a master disciplined touch. It has a less is more thing going for it. The unrelated ten minute opening too is one of grand suspense, in a movie that pushes all the right buttons. There is a warning, on the cover that the last ten minutes of the movie may be intense or disturbing. What an over exaggeration, you'll see what I'm talking about, when you see that image.

gavin6942 Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean (George Kennedy) that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorizing the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one.What this film has going for it is a decent cast of young actors, some of whom (particularly Gregg Henry) have gone on to do bigger and better things. And we have a pair of older, experienced actors: Kennedy and the amazing Mike Kellin ("Sleepaway Camp"), who really should have done more horror films.Director Jeff Lieberman ("Squirm") claims he never saw "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" or "The Hills Have Eyes" before shooting this film. While this seems very strange for a man working in horror, it really does not matter, as anyone who sees those films as being an influence on this one is just trying too hard. This is a plain old slasher: kids in the woods, guy with a machete.Being released in 1981, Lieberman deserves credit for getting on the slasher wave early. While not the first by a long shot, his film did not get released long after Jason Voorhees hit the screen (there is about a five month difference). Slasher fans will need to see this, but everyone else has better options.For what it is worth, though, this is superior to the similarly-themed "Final Terror" (1983).