Product Details

• Actors: Stephanie Jones, Muse Watson, Michael McCleery, Anthony Nicosia, Mary Kathleen Gordon
• Directors: Brian Katkin
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: October 23, 2001
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005AAAV
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,053 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars oh so average., December 25, 2002

By A Customer

this movie has been done like a trillion times but this is a little better than other "break in" movies such as the overrated panic room. The actors are suprisingly decent, no names for the most part but that's not always a bad thing as some people would think.

3 men break into this house, only...i forget her name but the teenage girl and her little sister manage to hide out of sight from the robbers, technically they arent even robbers but anyways. They slap around the mom, the dad, and the brother every now and then and eventally kill the brother and the dad...which makes this movie a little more suprising than others who would just give you the same old fairy tale ending. the teenage girl knows she is the only chance to save the rest of her family and plots to save them.

this movie is nothing special but atleast it'll keep your intrest from start to finish.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MOVIE THAT GOT MEE SKEERED?!, March 23, 2002

By	Missy (Cali) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If I Die Before I Wake [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Ok, I've read some of these reviews...And i've never actually written one of these, but i have to STRONGLY disagree with the negative comments. First off, If you like thriller chillers, this is a MUST see! I can SAFELY say i'm a horror movie fan and I've NEVER seen a movie that has actually scared me or made me check the house every night before bed, NONE! And I can safely also say that i've never even yelled at the screen before, but this is one you WILL enjoy! And what makes it MORE enjoyable...Is that you can watch all the stuff that Smart people WOULD do...Not those people that would panic! It's GREAT! Oh...And the reason she didn't use the phone...Gah! Cause the man ripped it out'ta the wall and she saved her sister first People need to pay more attention to what they watch...Watch it twice people and watch how neat it is! Ok i'm done rambling...This is a MUST SEE!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If I Die Before I Wake, August 21, 2002

By	kurlebj "kurlebj" (Hackettstown, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If I Die Before I Wake (DVD)

It seems, from reading the reviews that are written about this film, that people either absolutely loved it or out right hated it. I actually found myself in between while watching this film for the first time yesterday. After reading some of the reviews here, I was browsing through my local dvd store and picked it up on a whim. Here's what I thought:

The plot of the movie couldn't be more simple. A gang of hoodlums break into a family's house while they are home. They begin to terrorize the family while the two daughters (who the thugs didn't know existed yet) try to escape and get help. That's it. There's no backstory on any of the characters and the movie gets under way without and development at all. Most of the violence in the film is done off screen so we really don't get to see much of it, just hear it. And since there are no special effects, no set changes and pretty much no budget, what we are left with is the story, the characters and the acting.

I felt the real winner in this little film was the acting. The girl who layed Loribeth was actually quite good. Coming off as very scared but determined. The main "bad guy" (done in meniacal fashion by the same "bad guy" in "I Know What You Did Last Summer") also was very convincing as the instigator/leader of the group. Most of the supporting cast was acceptable enough.

Overall, the movie successfully comes off with a bit of a scared and tense feeling to it and does the job of making you interested and feel sympathy for Loribeth. I felt with a little more effort and maybe a few more bucks in the budget they could have made it into something much better, but it's a reasonable entry into a genre that doesn't get much attention nowadays....