13 Kewlest Kills, #7
#7: Reverse Heimlich in Just Before Dawn
This Kewlest Kill has the distinction of being bloodless, gutless, and pretty much ooze-less.
What?!, you say, Are you crazy, Screamstress? A kewl kill with no gore? How can that be?!
Well, be quiet for a minute and I’ll tell you. First, I am truly horrified by how few people have seen this movie. Just Before Dawn kicks major butt. Go rent it today. That is an order.
A group of wild young folk is off to a trip into the mountains, to drink, swim, climb, and be butchered by crazy hillbillies. Yeah, baby!
The first clue that something’s off is the unusual number of twins in the town…creepy, and of course, this suggests incest, because what would a crazy murdering mountain man slasher be without it?
Connie, the Main Girl, and her pals have no idea what kind of fun they’re in for, but it includes stabbings, beatings, near-drownings, and of course, castration by saw blade.
So a bunch of weird stuff happens and a bunch of people get killed in nifty ways. Then Connie must face off with the killer! She’s finally gained the courage to fight after being tortured all weekend. But oh no, Connie doesn’t have a weapon! Whatever will she do? Run away and twist her ankle? Scream and faint like a little girl? Back up against a tree, whimpering, with her hands held out while the killer makes mincemeat out of her?
Heck, NO! This goes down as the Kewlest heroine-maneuvered kill in all of slasher history: if you only have your bare hands, what do you do? That’s right…use them. Connie makes a FIST and SHOVES IT DOWN the killer’s THROAT up to her ELBOW, until he suffocates and dies.
Didn’t I tell you it was cool?! That Connie, she’s got style.
