While many creditHalloweenfor this boom,it actually began beforeJohn Carpenter’s 1978 film.
Instead,Lieberman was looking to makeJust Before Dawna survivalist film akin toDeliverance.
He failed in the best way possible.
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Backwoods horror chilled audiences because of its setting.
Lieberman didn’t set out to make a slasher movie, instead telling Hysteria Lives thathe usedDeliveranceas his model.
No backwoods film is more famous than this 1972 classic starringBurt Reynolds,Ned Beatty, andJon Voight.
Other backwoods movies may have more gore and kills, butnone could match the shocking nature ofDeliverance.
Leatherface isn’t the scariest character in the franchise.
If she has any brains at all, shes gonna ask why shes going outside.
Thats not the guy you want to direct a movie like this.
I would be bad at making a slasher movie."
That’s why I never really made one."
It allows the film to slow down and breathe rather than just being one kill after another.
It’s notDeliverance, orThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre, orThe Hills Have Eyes, orFriday the 13th.
For better or worse, it’s all of them, while fighting to be something else.
Just Before Dawnis available to watch on Roku in the U.S.
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