Just Before Dawn

Director Jeff Lieberman followed his horror-science fiction film Blue Sunshine with this effort, which rehashes many of the themes explored in Wes Craven's seminal horror work The Hills Have Eyes. The plot concerns a teenage land owner who heads for the mountains of Oregon with a deed to his new ...more

It's no wonder that among the tidal wave of Friday the 13th inspired early 80s slasher flicks a few gems would drown in the flood, and anyone lucky enough to fish out a copy of director Jeff Lieberman's Just Before Dawn will certainly find themselves richly rewarded. Those familiar with such lost-in-unfamiliar-territory nail-biters as The Hills Have Eyes (1977) will likely have some idea what a heedless group of teens are in for when a wild-eyed George Kennedy nervously delivers the obligatory ...more