Just Before Dawn (1981 film)

Just Before Dawn also known as Survivance in France is an American 1981 independent slasher film directed by Jeff Lieberman, and starring Chris Lemmon, Gregg Henry, Deborah Benson, Jamie Rose, and George Kennedy. The film follows a group of hikers who travel into the Oregon mountains to visit property inherited by one of them, only to be hunted by a ruthless backwoods killer. The film was shot in the Silver Falls State Park in Silverton, Oregon

Two men named Ty and Vachel are hunting in a forest and come across an abandoned church, which they go in to explore. After Ty sees their truck being crashed into a tree, Vachels is stabbed with a serrated machete by a laughing killer, who then dons Vachels hat and jacket. Ty, seeing the murderer come out of the church, Ty quietly flees off into the forest.Meanwhile, forest ranger Roy McLean George Kennedy is at his home, where he encounters a van of five collegeaged adults heading to rural property which one of them has inherited. Despite his insistence that they not venture up the mountain, the five continue along. Among them are Warren Gregg Henry his girlfriend Constance Deborah Benson Jonathan Chris Lemmon, and his girlfriend, Megan Jamie Rose and Daniel, Jonathans brother Ralph Seymour. ........

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