Dead Before Dawn

Dead Before Dawn (also released as Dead Before Dawn 3D) is a 2012 Canadian film that blends adventure, horror, and comedy. Directed by April Mullen from a script by Tim Doiron, it stars Devon Bostick, Martha MacIsaac, and Christopher Lloyd. The movie is recognized as Canada’s first live-action feature shot entirely in stereoscopic 3D, and Mullen became the first woman to direct a fully stereoscopic live-action 3D feature film. It also introduces a creature called a "zemon," a hybrid of a zombie and a demon.

The story follows Casper Galloway, a cautious young man who has been afraid of danger ever since his father died in an accident at the Occult Barn, a shop owned by his grandfather Horus. When Horus receives a lifetime achievement award, Casper agrees to mind the store. Horus warns him not to let anyone near a skull-topped urn on a high shelf, explaining that Casper’s great-grandfather Gilbert trapped a malevolent spirit inside it, and whoever releases it will be cursed. Casper’s crush, Charlotte, visits, and he tries to impress her by offering a free item. More friends arrive, and in an attempt to show off, Casper drops the urn. When he warns them of the danger, they laugh and invent their own curse: anyone they make eye contact with after 10 p.m. will kill themselves and return as a zemon. The infection spreads through hickeys instead of bites, and those infected also kill themselves and become zemons. If someone French-kisses a zemon, that zemon becomes their slave. They have until morning to reverse the curse, but they forget to create an easy way to break it.

Casper spends the evening preparing, worrying his mother, who thinks he is on drugs. At 10 p.m., he decides the curse is fake, makes eye contact with her, and explains what happened at the shop, easing her concerns. At a football game, players and cheerleaders start killing themselves, and Casper and his friends realize their made-up curse has become real. Casper finds his mother dead in a bathtub with a toaster, and she returns as a zemon. He flees, accidentally making eye contact with a car passenger. He meets his best friend Becky, whose boyfriend has already turned, and she now believes him. They rush to the football game, where the field is covered with bodies, and their friends are the only ones left standing. The zemons awaken and chase the group. They find their friend Seth, who ignored