#45-#46

Just Before Dawn (1981)

• A good "kids go in the woods and get terrorized by who they find there" movie.
• Some really good performances by the likes of George Kennedy of The Naked Gun fame, Chris Lemmon, and Gregg Henry.
• The movie is heavily influenced by Deliverance and a character in this movie has a similar transformation as Jon Voigt's character.
• The gore is not excessive, but they are still effective. The last kill is very good.
• The setting of this movie is really great. Very majestic. It really adds to the atmosphere.

Nightmare City (1980)

• This is another Italian movie, but it is the first one I have seen by director Umberto Lenzi
• The main character is played by Hugo Stiglitz. I think it is awesome that a guy with this name actually existed (and not just in Inglourious Basterds). Also, the director didn't want him as the lead and thinks he did a crappy job, but was contractually obligated to cast him.
• The producers wanted a zombie movie in the vein of Romero or Fulci, but the director wanted to stand apart from those films with his monsters. He did so very well, to great effect.
• The story between the action scenes can get a little boring, but the gore is great when it is on screen.
• I had mixed feeling about this one. Mainly because it can drag, but over all I really liked it.