Halloween is just around the corner, pumpkin spice-flavoured everything adorns the restaurants and stores, and both horror games and horror movies are crawling out of their respective purgatories to try to spook you in the night.  Aside from the collection of horror games that we’ve been playing for Game Usagi Plays, we were given the opportunity to watch a horror movie (from Canada no less) before it hits theatres next Wednesday, Oct. 30th.  Boasting intriguing actors like Christopher Lloyd (from Back to the Future, but also more recently from the likes of The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure and Piranha 3DD) and Kevin McDonald (from Kids in the Hall) in addition to credentials like “Canada’s first stereoscopic live-action 3D feature film” and that it “confirms April Mullen as the youngest and first female to direct a live action fully stereoscopic 3D feature film”.  Does Dead Before Dawn 3D enjoy a place among the finer horror/comedy movies or does it ironically fall victim to the seeming curse on Canadian productions that has long kept them in the land of painful mediocrity?  Read on to see whether or not this movie left us dead before dawn.

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