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Dead Before Dawn

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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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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 Full Review Chuck Wilson Village Voice Overlong but amusing ... Sep 3, 2013 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Oaklee D I mean the clothing and way some of the characters talk instantly make this film dated and it could of done with a bit bigger of a budget but overall it is a serviceable horror comedy. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/19/24 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member I should know better than to watch low budget Canadian horror/comedies. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Tim Doiron, April Mullen
Screenwriter
Tim Doiron
Production Co
WANGO Films
Rating
R (Violence|Some Sexual References)
Genre
Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
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