Dead Before Dawn

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2012

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College students accidentally break an evil urn, unleashing a curse that causes everyone who makes eye contact with them to kill themselves and turn into zombies.

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Honestly i watched this movie when I was 13 and i have loved it forever and now I'm 15 still watching this movie 29 times cause of it's awesome humor and acting it's all very hilarious if you ask me but I love this movie no matter what anybody thinks. I hope they get to make a sequel of Dead Before Dawn and I hope it comes out soon. But honestly all the actors/characters are all deeply loved by my heart and if anyone asks me what my first favorite horror/Zombie movie is... it's this one

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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So awkward to watch. Everything is bad in Dead Before Dawn, but the performances are so bad it stands out, even in something like this.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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A group of college students enter a witchcraft store, inadvertently breaking an item. They mock the idea of a curse, invoking a number of horror tropes. In doing so, they unleash zemons (zombie-demons) and several other terrors. A very funny film starring Kevin McDonald and Christopher Lloyd.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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I should know better than to watch low budget Canadian horror/comedies.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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matthew b

Awful has expected. The only reason I saw it is because I thought it will be funny like most films like this, but I didn't even laugh or have a good time. Stuff this movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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I will take three testicles please. Casper Galloway had a horrible accident happen to him in his grandfather's shop while he was a kid. He never enjoys trips back to the shop. One unfortunate day, his grandfather asks him to work in the shop so he can go on vacation. He reluctantly works at the shop. His friends visit him, break a cursed skull, and unleash a curse. The kids will have to work together to reverse the curse by dawn or everyone they ever look at will turn into zombies. "Are you on the weed?" "No! I'm not on the weed." April Mullen, director of 88; Gravy Train, and Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Way of the Tosser, delivers Dead Before Dawn. The storyline for this picture is a zombie parody movie with a mixture of kill sequences and comedy. The writing was kind of bland and the comedic content was bad. The cast delivers mediocre performances and includes Christopher Lloyd, Devon Bostic, April Mullen, Brittany Allen, and Kevin McDonald. "So I grabbed the bitch's titties and threw her as far as I could." Dead before Dawn was a new movie added to Netflix that I thought looked interesting and added to the queue. This was a campy movie with below average comedic content and acting and the special effects were just okay. Overall, this is a disappointing film that really isn't worth your time. "Is that a pump action shotgun?" Grade: F

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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April Mullen

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Devon Bostick

Casper Galloway

Christopher Lloyd

Horus Galloway

Martha MacIsaac

Charlotte Baker

Brandon Jay McLaren

Dazzle Darlington

Brittany Allen

Lucy Winthrop

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

The game cast commits to the lame-o material but it's a losing battle from the jump.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 5, 2013

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Chuck Wilson

Village Voice

Overlong but amusing ...

Sep 3, 2013

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

For fans in the mood for a movie that proudly delivers silly humor, and some great direction, it's serviceable.

Oct 1, 2013

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Matt Donato

We Got This Covered

Dead Before Dawn 3D is a fun concept that embraces the comedic side of horror, but relies too heavily on quirky silliness to actually balance the comedy and horror properly.

Rated: 5/10

Aug 21, 2013

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Synopsis

College students accidentally break an evil urn, unleashing a curse that causes everyone who makes eye contact with them to kill themselves and turn into zombies.

Director: April Mullen
Executive Producer: Avi Federgreen
Screenwriter: Tim Doiron
Rating: R (Violence|Some Sexual References)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016

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