 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies. What are we drinking today? We are drinking title shot made it specifically for a WrestleMania this past year So it is my title shot WrestleMania lager today. We're gonna bring to you 1981's just before dawn 81 was a great year for horror movies sure this movie was directed by Jeff Lieberman at stars George Kennedy He's been in a gazillion things. He was in cool hand Luke. He's in the naked gun movies the Iger's sanction That's why I told you to take the sanction we see two hunters They're at this church this old church they go inside the church and they're kind of you know pissing around one of them Is actually kind of drunk. Yeah, I got the Holy Spirit here You see somebody looking at them they're kind of watching the one guy goes outside You see a machete you go right through them. It goes out his ass The killer comes out and puts on his like vest and hat and it scares the shit out of him And he just takes off running he runs into this group of kids They're driving in an RV and they're going to camp at a spot in the woods. He's all drunk Mumbling a bunch of stuff that there's somebody out there The kids don't believe him and they also don't want him around As the RV is driving away He sees the killer latch on to the back of the RV then the next morning they go exploring and they hear this real Creepy singing in the woods. They follow it to this river Waterfall area and weird woman in the woods She gets frightened and she takes off and a couple of them head out to go skinny-dipping of course and you see the figure slowly wade into the water and just kind of Disappeared she could feel this kind of ticklings And she sees the boyfriend She's like freaks out and gets out of the water one of the guys comes across this rope bridge. It looks really terrifying It does. I wouldn't want to cross the fucking thing. He starts crossing it The killer comes out and starts chopping the ropes in the rope bridge Yeah, and the rope bridge fucking collapses and it looks great for a movie. That's kind of considered low budge like this part Is fantastic. He survives and he's able to climb up the rope bridge gets to what he thinks is the safe side He gets up and the killer is there on the other side kicks him down First of the kids to bite the dust Yeah, and it kind of took a while to get there But it was a worthwhile trek for that first kill There's another couple going roaming around and they're taking pictures in the forest posing They come across this old church the same from the beginning one of them loses his glasses and Sees his figure in the distance and he assumes it's one of his friends and he's coming closer and closer We know that it's not She runs into the church and is now cornered in this church by the killer And there's a big reveal at this point that we're not going to spoil for you Warren and Constance and they're kind of waiting down this kind of river area and their buddy ends up floating downstream The body when there was a debate whether it was an accident like he fell in the water or whether he was killed And she thinks that he was killed and Warren you don't know that Ty the drunken guy from the beginning and he runs into the park ranger Unlike the kids the park ranger actually believes him and sets out on his horse To go off to the rescue in the meantime night has fallen And Warren has to go back to Jonathan's body because he realized he has the keys for the rv And she's chased up a tree and he's chopping down the tree Just with this machete time is on his side. He's got all night If you want to see how the movie ends Keep watching and there are a few twists along the way that's really worth Waiting for it's kind of a difficult movie to explain. So yeah without giving too much away Yeah, exactly. So we tried to keep the the plot pretty pretty scant There are a lot of really redeeming qualities about this movie and the first one really is probably the music Brad fiddle did the music too and he did the terminator and he also did serpent in the rainbow And it's really good. It's nice and ominous and it fits the setting perfectly setting of this movie is really good And there's so many horror movies that take place in the woods But there's something special about this set of woods, which is really cool and that is the big canyon It's got the the rope bridge and there's like waterfalls and stuff. So it's a very like majestic feeling It's actually a very very Beautiful setting in a lot of horror movies They make the setting so that you don't really want to ever be there. Yeah, but in this movie It's like, um, uh, I kind of want to go there actually I kind of want to camp out by that waterfall and if there's a guy in the woods Maybe not that big a deal You know The framing of a lot of the shots is just really good. It's just really stunning and for a kind of A low budget movie that wasn't made by a big studio or anything. It looks really good. It looks beautiful The use of misdirection in this movie is is one of the hallmarks I think you see the guy following them and you know that the guy's behind them It's not like typical horror movies. Yeah, like most horror movies when they're in the woods and you hear the Crackling in the background. There's always the question or is that the killer or is it just something else? But in this movie, you know, it's the killer because you're told right off the bat that he's there He's on that rv the whole time. There's no jump scares in this movie. No, which is a rarity too Like usually in those older kinds of movies, there's at least one in this There's nothing they show you everything and they use that to their advantage Yeah, you don't need the jump scare because they really take their time to build Towards like that first kill, right? Yeah, you always see the killer there And you know that he's gonna make his move at some point and you think it's gonna happen in the water Nothing happens, right? Yeah, it's there. They're always teasing you They use a lot of noises in this movie too, which is cool You don't have to see the killer, but you hear the noises that they make kills one guy steals his whistle Yeah, and then you hear the whistling in the woods Yeah, so and again like You know that he stole the whistle from him. So you know that it's the killer there Yeah, you don't exactly know where he is and you don't know if he's gonna pop out or not Now this movie has a few things going for it And one of the biggest things is something that we're not gonna completely go into detail with because it's a huge Spoiler if you haven't seen it it did something scream took some credit for this movie did it way before that But there's also a kind of another twist at the end, which is not so much a twist, but It's something that happens completely out of left field Which is like you'd never see in any other movie And there's a neat kind of flip at the end where the male character Warren turns into a complete sobbing bumbling Moron he doesn't do anything. Yeah completely useless You know if you like movies, of course like any woodsy movie deliverance Um the canadian classic rituals. Yeah, you'll find the 13th, of course Then you totally love just before dawn great movie He takes a lot of elements from other horror movies and really kind of i'd say does some some things a lot better Yeah, and they kind of pioneer a few things too, you know, and uh, they sort of Flip the whole typical horror movie thing on its head without you even noticing it You kind of analyze it later right check out just before dawn and of course keep drinking