Dead Before Dawn

2012 "Half Zombie. Half Demon. All Zemon!"
Dead Before Dawn
4.6| 1h28m| R| en| More Info
Released: 10 October 2012 Released
Producted By: Wango Films
Country: United States of America
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A bunch of college kids accidentally unleash an evil curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into Zombie Demons, aka ZEMONS!

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suite92 Casper has a traumatic experience as a child at his grandfather's curio shop. He still has nightmares during college. A particular vessel drops, his father catches it, and his father is transformed for the worse by it.Casper is more than a bit on the wimpish side. He agrees to mind the curio shop "Occult Barn" for his grandfather while the grandfather receives a lifetime award. His friends drop by, and he lets them handle the vessel; this is something his grandfather explicitly forbid. One of his friends drops the vessel and it breaks.The lights go out. The group makes up a curse, in great detail, then say they are done with the curse's rules. The lights come back on. The group agree to meet later to test it out.So, if someone in the group looks directly into someone else's eyes after 10 pm, the targets kills themselves, then return as a mixture of demon and zombie, or zemon. Unless they reverse the curse before dawn, the group itself will be cursed.That evening, the number of mysterious deaths mount, but many of the 'dead' do not stay dead. The group re-assembles, realises that they are in deep trouble, then arm themselves. They go back to the Occult Barn, and tell Horus about the incident and the curse. Unfortunately, they look Horus in the eyes, and he kills himself.Will the group be able to use Horus' book to reverse the curse? Will anybody in town be left as a normal human? -----Scores-----Cinematography: 5/10 Better than VHS quality, but not by much. The SFX vary from mediocre to poor.Sound: 6/10 I could hear the actors' voices and the incidental music, some of which was appropriate for a zombie comedy.Acting: 3/10 Weak. The three is mostly for Christopher Lloyd's short performance.Screenplay: 2/10 Boring, not funny, not engaging. The central idea of the curse was beyond stupid.
Sam Dales I saw this terrible movie for two reasons...Reason #1... Christopher Lloyd. I have loved the guy since the first time I saw him on TV. His is the real deal for funny.Reason #2... I LOVE ZOMBIE MOVIES! I am one of those zombie movie nuts. No matter how stupid or cheap a movie looks I will see it.Well I actually had my hopes up for this one and it turned out to be a real awful flick. Christopher Lloyd is actually really good as always but his part is super small. I don't want to ruin it but he is only in it for a short while and is the only entertaining character and only really good actor.Avoid this movie! It is very poorly written. Not badly produced but the effects are pretty stupid and the story is REALLY stupid with a lot of terrible over the top acting that is trying so hard to be funny that it is just sad.
Gorge Holger Found this film at the Stereo Media Film Festival in Liege, Belgium.  Everyone should have the opportunity to see this film in 3D.  I heard it was an independent production, but the 3D and the film really blew me away.  It's not a studio picture, but it has all the elements needed to make it truly entertaining.   It was fun, fast and new.  What they did with the 3D was impressive and really unique.  I've never seen a film like this before.  Of course, it being an indy film, there were less special effects and blood shots than I originally thought there would be, but when I realized the type of movie I was watching I just sat back and enjoyed the ride.  Well done.  Again, being a huge fan of 3D it was exciting to see 3D being made in the independent world.  Hopefully this is just the beginning of a new wave of independent 3D films to come.
Paul Magne Haakonsen Being the big zombie aficionado that I am, I had to watch this one as well, even though I knew it was most likely not going to be a great experience. And true enough, it didn't really turn out to be anything interesting. Perhaps if you were a kid and watched this, you would find it to be interesting.There is something very Nickelodeon to this movie, but then the movie does make use of some inappropriate language which had me at a loss here, because I thought this movie was meant to be for kids.The acting performances were as to be expected from a movie of this sort. Most memorable in my opinion was, without a doubt of course, Christopher Lloyd, despite only having a small role in the movie.It should be said that for a movie of this type, then the movie did make good use of effects without being gory and extreme. The zombies, well zemons (half zombies, half demons), as they call them, were more hilarious than then were scary.This movie is a kids movie and doesn't offer much for an adult audience. As for the 3D effects, well that is a subject better left untouched.