Recently I watched and reviewed The Manson Family directed by Jim Van Bebber and I really loved it. Knowing that Deadbeat At Dawn was his first opus, I was really excited to see it. Notice how I said, was?Deadbeat At Dawn is about Goose a local gang leader who tries to leave the gang life behind but when his girlfriend is beaten to death by a rival gang, he returns to the life to seek his revenge.
So I know Deadbeat was done on a nothing budget so I'm not going to hold its rough and small scale production against it. However I don't really see why the film has achieved such a cult status. Impaled has used clips from the movie for their records so I figured that was pretty good cred. Apparently not. The film is really nothing more then a blaxsploitation film done with white guys. Its fairly entertaining but I couldn't help thinking about Superfly while i was watching it. Beyond its unoriginal script it is fairly well acted and well shot, with some great gunshot gore and it's short run time also helps the film's watchability (yeah, its a word ain't it?) but I was left feeling unimpressed. I suppose it's yet another cult film that's been hyped up a bit too much.
Deadbeat At Dawn is a fun film if a mediocre one. To see Van Bebber's real talent shine, check out his later effort, The Manson Family.
Gore-mild/medium
Nudity-mild
Overall - 6/10
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